It’s always a bit of a joke with Richard D. James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin. His first album promised a set of ambient tunes and delivered exactly none (at least by...
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Nowadays, Built to Spill is considered one of the original mainstays of indie rock, with a trio of mid-to-late-‘90s albums under their belt considered indie-rock classics. But they were fairly...
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The story of Portishead can be told as a tale of three albums. On Dummy (1994), Portishead created a masterful blast of recombinant culture. They started with Gibbons’ torch song...
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I tend to be the type of music fan who likes to hear a little edge or irregularity or pushing of musical boundaries when I listen. Straight-up singer-songwriter stuff doesn’t...
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Sometimes I will wake in the night with a warm, meandering bassline roaming through my consciousness, soon to be joined by a brushed rhythm and spare electric guitar melody—and when...
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Björk’s Debut (1993) album came as a bit of a surprise to me. I had known her previously through the Icelandic band the Sugarcubes, whose debut album was a late-‘80s...
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The alt-rock movement may have been stereotyped as a bunch of downer dudes, but it was far richer and more varied than that. Quirky, innovative, and immensely charming, the Breeders’...
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PJ Harvey burst forth from England as a fiery singer and guitar player, a woman unafraid to take the men in her life to task, and proud of it. In...
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What is there to say about U2? They emerged from Ireland inspired by the UK post-punk scene, and soon developed their own voice, one that spoke of political and personal...
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Emerging from the American Northwest’s alongside others in the Seattle grunge scene, the Screaming Trees never had the commercial success of many of their peers. Yet they released at least...
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