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Honey Moon by The Handsome Family

By carlyp • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Music Reviews

Released on Carrot Top Records
If you’re looking for a melancholy yet carefree album of love songs Honey Moon, The Handsome Family’s eighth studio release, is it.  Brett and Rennie Sparks take you on a journey through starry skies, winding corn mazes, petrified forests, and the dusty roads of Albuquerque to celebrate their twentieth year of [...]



God Help The Girl by God Help The Girl (Stuart Murdoch)

By carlyp • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Music Reviews

Released on Matador Records
Have you ever picked up (or been handed) an album and popped it into your listening device only to listen to half of the album (unintentionally from finish to start-stupid listening device) before putting together all the pieces to the puzzle and realizing what you are truly listening to?  You thought that [...]



Fantasies by Metric

By carlyp • Jun 3rd, 2009 • Category: Music Reviews

Fantasies is Metric’s fourth release and I was awaiting it with anticipation since their 2005 Live It Out, both on Last Gang Records. And, to be honest, before I badgered Christine to obtain this album so I could review it, I was listening to it online daily.
For long time Metric fans, Fantasies should live up [...]