TIme For Some Wussy Music

It’s the end of the day, and I feel exhausted and defeated. That means it’s time for some extremely wussy music.Have a good one.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Yanqui U.X.O.

7/10 Twenty-plus minute long songs can easily become pretentious. The fact that Godspeed largely avoided that on their first three albums is a minor miracle. Somehow, through winding musical passages and pre-recorded, found speeches, everything just worked. This isn’t the case for 2002’s Yanqui U.X.O. For this album, the band cut out all pre-recorded speeches and

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

10/10 When I finished the first disc of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, I was dismayed to hear the exact same music on the second disc. Knowing Godspeed was eccentric, to say the least, I immediately worried that this was some kind of artistic statement on consumerism. Buy

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada

10/10 If I was gonna complain about Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s debut album, F# A# Infinity, I’d say it is more of a bunch of sound collages than actual songs, and it is probably a little bit too long. Except, I wouldn’t complain about that because I just did complain about it, just now. Isn’t the

How In the World Did I Not Know About Epic Rap Battles???!!!….?

These things are awesome!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F# A# Infinity

9/10Considering how badly I dissed Godspeed You! Black Emperor last year, readers might be surprised to hear that they were once one of my favorite bands. These reviews are a great chance to revisit and reevaluate my past, so let’s take a look at Godspeed’s back-catalog to see if it holds up today.I originally got

Favorite Scenes From Movies I’ll Never Watch Again

There are some movies you watch once and know you are never, ever going to watch them again. The most common reason is because the given movie sucked. Why would you want to watch something terrible twice? Then there are boring, vanilla movies that aren’t awful, but give you no reason to ever even want

Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová — Once: Music From the Motion Picture

8/10 The duo in Once are the rare movie musical characters who actually have a reason to be singing. They are musicians working together with little more common tongue than song. Their songs and Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s chemistry carry the simple premise of the film. It’s quite enjoyable, both in its cinematic form, and

The Gaslight Anthem — Handwritten

8/10 The Gaslight Anthem’s Handwritten is a statement of purpose: We’re a throwback rock band. We make verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus rock music heavily indebted to the past. This is what we do. This is all we’re going to do. Over Handwritten‘s eleven tracks, The Gaslight Anthem do this and do it well. Producer, Brendan O’Brien, brings a

The Gaslight Anthem — American Slang

8/10 The Gaslight Anthem are back with, American Slang, an album that streamlines most of the band’s usual punk influence out of the proceedings. What’s left is good, old-fashioned, American rock music. Brian Fallon also cuts out the song quotes and Dickens references from his lyrics, getting more personal and crafting personalities for each song.