Sunday 10 April 2016

Worst to Best Weezer Albums

Weezer have always been a running joke in the music press. A band that had an unbelievable start in the mid-nineties before crashing, trying a more mainstream sound and failing miserable with a sadly accurate period dubbed the decade of decline.

Sure, frontman Rivers Cuomo still sounds like a lovelorn twentysomething fresh off the campus scene over twenty years since the band's debut album and, whilst the band should be applauded for at least trying new things, they're undoubtedly at their strongest when sticking to their formula of killer riffs and nerdy lyrics.

Saturday 2 April 2016

A Few Words on... Animal Collective - Painting With



Whilst Animal Collective's last album did become a grower in the surprising amount of time between it's release and their latest, album ten Painting With sees the band drift further from their experimentation routes to a more formulaic brand of pop (if such a thing was possible with them).