Dusted Magazine Features and Reviews

Andrea Belfi - Knots

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Bernardo Rondeau
Knots , the new album from Milanese percussionist Andrea Belfi , is broken into four untitled parts. They are similar in palette, but each has its own discreet gloom and web-work of tactile rhythms. While his last record, 2006's Between Neck & Stomach , boasted diffuse little symphonies... Read More

Quiet Village - Silent Movie

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Doug Mosurock
Producers Joel Martin and Matt Edwards (a.k.a. Radioslave, responsible for extending the shelflife of that goddamn Paul McCartney Temporary Secretary song via gauche re-edit) are Quiet Village, a mellow kinda pastiche act that's stepping up with a full-length after a handful of 12 s on... Read More

Philip Jeck - Sand

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Bill Meyer
Sand is both a measure of and a metaphor for time, which is doubtless why Philip Jeck picked it as the title of his latest recording. Themes of memory, loss and perseverance in the face of obsolescence are central to his art, and the quote in the liner notes from Emily Dickinson's The Chariot ... Read More

Vetiver - Thing of the Past

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Brandon Bussolini
To Find Me Gone , Vetiver's previous LP, didn't generate a lot of buzz when it was released two years ago, but it's insinuated itself into my life in a way that few recent records have. Thing of The Past is Andy Cabic's first release since, and is made up entirely of other people's songs, mostly... Read More

Earl Howard - Clepton

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Marc Medwin
Composer and synthesizer player Earl Howard's discography is small but potent, and Clepton is another worthy addition. Comprising live recordings from 1989 and 2006, it provides yet another portal into Howard's fascinating and constantly invigorating soundworld. Rosebud makes a fine point of... Read More

Earles & Jensen - Just Farr A Laugh Vol. 1 & 2: The Greatest Prank Phone Calls Ever!

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Andy Freivogel
Bleachy is African-American, 4'10 , 250 lbs, and eats two Big Bufords a day. He has a lispy voice that David Cross would refer to as "that gay voice, and it would be hard to rule out some degree of mental retardation. Or at least that's what Earles & Jensen suggest on their re-issued Just Farr... Read More

Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Ben Donnelly
If there's a common thread to what Barry Adamson has brought to music over the last 30 years, it's a sense of drama. Stylistically, he's all over the place Back to the Cat , like the last few, ranges between jazzy IDM and ornate pop productions. His earliest band, Magazine, distinguished... Read More

Nôze - Songs on the Rocks

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Brandon Bussolini
For all the obvious signs of Frenchness they emit, N ze's most French quality is their love of caricature. There's something especially pungent about the way the French exaggerate, and Songs on the Rocks sometimes captures that excess too well. When I first started studying French in high school... Read More

Ersen - Ersen

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Susanna Bolle
In recent years there has been a bevy of excellent reissues from the golden age of Turkish psychedelic music, a remarkably fertile period of musical activity that spanned roughly a decade from the late '60s through to the imposition of martial law in 1978. Each newly unearthed release offers fresh... Read More

Firewater - The Golden Hour

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Emerson Dameron
In 2005, after his marriage collapsed and Jetset Records shit the bed, Firewater braintrust Tod Ashley began a journey through the places my country was bombing, taking along his laptop. Along the way, he recorded songs with groups of local musicians, which often became chaotic improv sessions... Read More

Listed: Cian Nugent + Nathan Salsburg

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Cian Nugent Dublin-based guitarist Cian Nugent turned some heads last fall with his self-released EP of meditative guitar compositions. Recorded to an old reel-to-reel machine, Nugent's originals (plus a cover of Buell Kazee's Anthology of American Music staple The Wagoner's Lad ) were well... Read More

Still Single: Vol. 4, No. 7

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Doug Mosurock
How long does it take to review 100 records? Longer than it takes to listen to them. This is all I could get done this time. Will finish everything else up in the next go-round, including a reissues update. Thanks again to everyone who reads this crud, and to all the bands and labels sending in new... Read More

Listed: Thee Oh Sees + Lexie Mountain Boys

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Thee Oh Sees Though the land may be littered with a number of garage rock throwback outfits, few have established themselves with such a unique and irresistible kick as San Francisco four-piece Thee Oh Sees. The group originally began in the bedroom of Bay Area vet John Dwyer (Coachwhips... Read More

Listed: Sic Alps + David Karsten Daniels

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Sic Alps San Francisco duo Mike Donovan and Matthew Hartman have been bruising the psychedelic scene for a couple years now, channeling the ghost of garage rock through guitar jangle and overloaded amplifiers both in the live context and through limited-edition recordings. Originally formed... Read More

Refurbishing Factory Seconds: The Durutti Column

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Jon Dale
Joy Division may have taken the cult prize, and New Order the mantle of electronica's antecedent, but I've always thought the Durutti Column, Vini Reilly's three-decade long compositional vehicle, were the most affecting outfit in the Factory Records stable. His frail shape channeling mercurial... Read More

Listed: Big Dipper + Pita

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Big Dipper Big Dipper's Top 10 Fave Bands to Share a Bill With Boston's Big Dipper came and went faster than you can look up asterism. The foursome of Embarrassment guitarist Bill Goffrier, former Volcano Suns members Gary Waleik and Steve Michener, and drummer Jon Oliphant came... Read More

Still Single: Vol. 4, No. 6

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Doug Mosurock
Breeders We're Gonna Rise b/w German Demonstration 7 (4AD) Demo recording versions of two tracks from Mountain Battles . We're Gonna Rise sounds a little warmer and less sharp than the album version, though it's such a slow, quiet song that the changes seem negligible. German... Read More

Listed: Wye Oak + Magic Lantern

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Wye Oak Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner make up the Baltimore duo Wye Oak, a refreshingly analog act from the Charm City. While most emerging artists from the area work in modular electronica or dirty Bmore beats, Stack and Wasner keep it unsimple, actually employing a guitar and playing it in... Read More

Just Say Yes: No Wave by Marc Masters

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Jordan N. Mamone
No Wave by Marc Masters Black Dog Publishing , 205 pp. Marc Masters had his work cut out for him when he recently canonized the fleeting, fractured and specific moment in time that was no wave. Back in the late '70s and early '80s, the participants in this short-lived, downtown NYC... Read More

Non-Existent Sounds: The Story of the Asterisk Label's Deep Digging

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT

by Nate Knaebel
With their multi-volume Eccentric Soul and Cult Cargo compilations, the excellent Yellow Pills sampler, and the two volumes of classic 70s troubadour folk that comprise the Wayfaring Strangers discs, the Chicago-based Numero Group has staked its claim as one of the most diligent and... Read More