Noise 101: CD Reviews for Feb 11 Reflector
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton When the Pet Shop Boys released their album Behaviour at the dawn of the 1990s, it was clear that the preeminent disco kings were no longer content on making us...
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton When the Pet Shop Boys released their album Behaviour at the dawn of the 1990s, it was clear that the preeminent disco kings were no longer content on making us...
Noise 101 Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton Arts Editor People always say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” But when it comes to albums, sometimes looking at the cover and thinking about the...
Choice Cut God bless the nerds who make beautiful music. From Buddy Holly to Brian Wilson to David Byrne, the musical world has always appreciated educated, uptight bookworms who are also able to lay...
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton Depending on when you’re reading this over the course of the holiday season, you’re either about to be bombarded by familiar Christmas standards being blasted out of every retail...
Choice Cut Them Crooked Vultures by Sean-Paul Boynton The past few years has seen the gap shrink to the point that it’s practically non-existent. Besides younger audiophiles thumbing through their parents’ record collections and...
Choice Cut Tegan and Sara Sainthood Sire It has been exactly one year and three months since Tegan and Sara released The Con, and in the time between then and the recent debut of...
Choice Cut: The Flaming Lips Embryonic Warner Bros. Back in the days of vinyl, when rock bands were becoming more and more ambitious, the idea of a double album was exciting and intriguing. With...
Iron Maiden Flight 666 EMI 4.5/5 Stars Metal-heads Unite!! If you lived through the ’80s and witnessed the genesis of the speed metal genre, then this collection is made for you. What better way...
Eminem Relapse Aftermath, Interscope, Shady, Web 2.5/5 stars Alright we get it, rehab is a joke. That’s the message pounded into your head over and over again during Relapse, the first album from controversial...
Lady Sovereign Jigsaw 3.5/5 stars While Lady Sovereign isn’t the only “midget” I know (there have been few tiny editors at The Reflector in the past), she is the “biggest” as she states on...