Articles by Chris Whibbs

Various

SXSW Live 2007

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2007

A current search on Amazon finds that you can buy this slick and very commercial collection of performances from Austin, TX’s SXSW festival...

Perishers

Victorious

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007

Sweden, arguably, is producing some of the finest music in the world right now. Jens Lekman, El Perro Del Mar, Jose Gonzalez, the list goes...

Raising the Fawn

Sleight of Hand

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2007

This Toronto-based band are always a hard nut to crack. They easily move between immaculately composed pop songs and longer epics that tend...

Sleeping States

There The Open Spaces

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2007

I want to say this album made me cry. It didn’t but I came close. I could feel the pressure behind my eyeballs pushing my maudlin, salt-tin...

Akron/Family

Love Is Simple

PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2007

Leading the nouveau hippy charge, Akron/Family are known for their creative unconventionality and the fact that nothing really sounds alike...

Unnerving Candour

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007

Adrian Tomine Is Upfront About Shortcomings Long car trips. Your first summer job. Helping a blind man with groceries. These moments, wheth...

Portico

Progeny Blues

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2007

A delightful leap forward from their debut, this is a confident-sounding sophomore release that is quite the thing of beauty when it connec...

Picastro

Whore Luck

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2007

The title of the album comes from a term that means when a person who partakes in the world’s oldest profession scores a customer that isn’...