Cloudspeakers

You may have first come across producer Amp Live over adecade ago as one half of the Bay Area hip-hop duo Zion I. At the time, there were certainlyindications that he wasn't content to craft tradit... Read more

If you listen to IndianJewelry a few times, then don't listen for a few months, then prepare to listenagain, chances are that you will imagine you are about to embark upon somethingmuch weirder, mu... Read more

Vocalist Valerie Trebeljahr's lyrics are buried in the mix,as the band utilizes her voice less as a centerpiece and more as anotherelement upon which to build their low-key, atmospheric pop. "Every... Read more

On Grey Oceans,as on every other CocoRosie album, the songs veer wildly across the spectrum interms of sound and style, although they tend to sound like a really wellproduced toy orchestra playing ... Read more

The album's opener, "Kiara," (it is actually preceded by"Kiara Prelude," but it's really all one song) features beautifully cinematicstrings flaring up over an icy electro beat, a perfect example o... Read more

Occasionally, the album does come close to the realm of acidjazz, or at least flirts with lithe, jazzy licks (see "Sun Child"). But it'sthe darker moments that really shine through, such as the fas... Read more

Francis is joined by longtime collaborator Eric DrewFeldman, who laces tracks like the softer "O My Tidy Sum" and the floating "Rabbits"with a bed of ethereal keyboards that mark this is some of Fr... Read more

We Are Wolves, at heart, are a relatively uncomplicatedband, latching onto a riff, repeating it, utilizing the power of repetitionthat is at the core of so much good pop and punk. This is recogniti... Read more

It might prove hard for anyone but the most diehard Knifefans to sit through an entire album of this music (besides the breezy, buoyanttechno of a track like "Seeds"). But it's evident that those i... Read more

Many of the album's tracks are instrumentals. But whenFredrik's mellifluous tenor floats in over the mix, as on "Ava," afree-spirited song that remains propulsive by way of a soft electronicbackbea... Read more