Christopher Owens - Lysandre Review

One of last year’s biggest musical casualties was the break-up of Girls. No, not the TV show. No, not the gender itself. Rather, the indie-rock darlings that had the lead singer who sounds like Randy Newman and music that takes more than a fair nod from sixties and seventies’ rock and roll.

A Few Words on... Villagers - {Awayland}

After hearing so many good things regarding their live shows and getting Becoming a Jackal in at, a then, cheap deal, Villagers have never really done it for me. Sure, Connor O'Brien's lyrics have a darkness that doesn't sound cliché and tiresome, but the Becoming a Jackal had the unfortunate circumstance of arriving a bit too late, a few tracks unmemorable and ultimately, the record had been done better years before, but soon after with adulation with Bon Iver's second album (which is surprising, since I found both For Emma, Forever and Bon Iver far, far worse).

Green Day - ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! & ¡Tré! Review

One of the least surprising and least interesting stories of last year was Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong doing a very typical rock and roll thing. After channelling faux rage for being cutshort on a televised show, his publicist’s blamed numerous niggling issues and off to rehab he went. 

Unsurprisingly; this all took place during the release of Green Day’s album trilogy and perhaps most unsurprising of all; no one mentioned that the events which manifested into said breakdown; might explain just why mind-bogglingly average the three records are. 

Originally; I was going to review each album but this proved to be problematic for the simple reason of…I only listened to ¡Uno! just days before ¡Dos! was due for release and it became apparent that all three records could be covered in one review. 

That and I’m lazy, but anyway.