Disparate Methods

Two new reviews up:

One on The War on Drugs from my native Philadelphia. I saw them open for Bardo Pond about a year ago, maybe two, and they weren't anything to write home about. So I was shocked when this album came in and it was actually quite good. There's been a little bit of appeal in our little rock scene of late, but truth be told Philadelphia, with some notable exceptions, is somewhat of a bust for music. It's dominated by scenesters and most of the attention winds up going to bands revolving around a few closely linked groups rather than bands who might actually warrant our attention (Weyes Bluhd, Northern Valentine, Sonic Liberation Front, etc.).

On the other end of the spectrum is a fantastic experimental collaboration by Alan Licht and Aki Onda, the review of which can be found here.