Sometimes it makes one wonder how such similar ingredients can create such different results. Take Failure for example. You get the mourning vocals, the discordant wails of guitar feedback, the Steve Albini production -- yes, just about everything that fits the Nirvana template. Yet Failure seem to miss the point. Because even here on the band's third album out of the fire, Fantastic Planet is ripe with idolized ingredients but low on original flavor. One aspect that seems to be in the band'...   [ read more ]

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Features Jonathan of THE PASTELS. The country-tinged melodies of these peerless layabouts will melt your beady black eyes - planet pop. This Glasgow ensemble has been together for a few years of very occasional action. On those occasion when they are spurred to action, they have played some shows with the likes of Adventures in Stereo, Urusei Yatsura, Eska, Spare Snare, Secret Goldfish etc...

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On Faris Nourallah's new album Problematico you'll find that each song has pop hooks that fall like candy from a heart shaped piñata--each new melody a sticky sweet guilty pleasure. In Faris' world, he is the sun and each new song another planet swirling around him. As such, some are cold, blue, and distant, while others swirl with inviting and fantastic colors and textures. The purity and newness he delivers seems like something leftover from childhood, some basic piece of the human core so many of us ...   [ read more ]

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