Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Musiq (Soulchild) - MUSIQINTHEMAGIQ (Atlantic/Wea; 2011)

Souls learn the alphabet in hieroglyphics when dancing is the heartbeat explaining clothes to melt to you.

New Boyz - Too Cool to Care (Asylum Records; 2011)

Auto-tuning through the days of decadence taught us this one moral which has crawled down the clogged drain.

Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy (Capital; 2011)

Disco lights beneath the choir on the dance floor brightens every chess move of the mating ritual. 

Pulseprogramming - Charade Is Gold (Audraglint; 2011)

Synthesizers under the bunk beds are walking with cats as when the summer sun goes strapless. 

The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? (Columbia; 2011)

Tweed jackets and hoarse throats beat the stones from the jeans as some new morning opens upon a familiar coffee shop.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Monju Begum - Snake Charmer

Snakes lie and say they've come before, but I have shut the guillotine from opening any door. 

Latisha Lawson - Household Exorcism

 Marzon reached from Jezaih, so I hung on lest the demon escape the lips that were to grow blue in the basement a year hence.

Casey Anthony - Worse Eternities

Eternities can be worse people for the imaginary nanny before the imaginary doorway.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Casey Anthony - Wealthy Suitor

A wealthy suitor and I drank strychnine while all our covers of clouds rushed from the swamp.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Casey Anthony - Car Scent

Your car was close but never far until the whiffs of heart-shaped lips dawned a mother. 

Friday, May 27, 2011

Casey Anthony - Gas Cans?

Throwing gas cans faster than the snowballs from where Caylee once lied too.

Kids on a Crime Spree - We Love You So Bad (Slumberland; 2011)

Sweet teeth chomp the cleanest alligator legs when we are cheating inward destruction.

SebastiAn – Total (Indie Europe/Zoom; 2011)

Hot wax dance moves from the candles melting forward with the rapidly growing vines.

Dispatch - Dispatch EP (Bomber Records; 2011)

Even the smoothest surfboards can leave slivers from the sunniest of days.

Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys (Atlantic; 2011)

Death cabs took us away from the family skate park when sour candy stuck to our cheeks and we broke halogen lights to neon.

The Unthanks - Last (Rough Trade; 2011)

Twin shadows hold hands across the ballroom floor as spirit photography flashes us to dusk.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Brave Irene - Brave Irene EP (Slumberland; 2011)

Tiny petals in the mouth of an orangutang are wiggling towards the tadpoles.

Sightings - Future Accidents (Our Mouth; 2011)

Scalpels race across the brain to meet each torture drop before the cane.

Nat Baldwin - People Changes (Western Vinyl; 2011)

Lonely hands clapping in the porcelain of the elephant tusks if you are going deaf from drowning. 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Misty Croslin - Sandman Victim

Sandmen stole Haleigh from the nursery of unicorn good girls. 

Casey Anthony - Mystery Of The Heart-Shaped Residue

Lab technicians burned the chains linking the nightmare to the nightmare's frame.

Casey Anthony - Phantom Strings?

Ghastly songs without strings were played beside a soon-to-be invisible daughter.

Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’ (Columbia; 2011)

Down by the Delta, my soul ran through the beasts and grabbed a harmonica from a blind priest.

My Morning Jacket - Circuital (Ato Records/Red; 2011)

Winding round and round the leaves in some tornado spot where your green eyes keep leaking through the dark to remind me of secret moss gatherings.

Pimienta Family Pool Massacre (R.I.P.)

Sabal Palmettos dwarf the shrunken shore in the stepping-stone yard of owl pellets. 

Casey Anthony Trial - Day 2: Cameron Campana

Murder on the mind of the beehive holding hands with closet skeletons.

Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide (Wonder Beard Records; 2011)

Funeral arrangements were made behind my back as we walked across the Styx waters.

2562 - Fever (When In Doubt; 2011)

Dusty turntables trudge down from the attic upon your shoulders as the gauze wraps your mouth away.

Implodes - Black Earth (Cranky; 2011)

Gates of joy divide these thunderous passions like the knife from its victim.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Irma Sabanovic - Lost to The Exit

Lost to The Exit between Milwaukee Avenue and Erie Street in a sonar signal.

Blue Sky Black Death - Noir (Fake Four; 2011)

Dusty is lost in the field of land mines that is a world of parking fines by lizard policemen.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's a Corporate World (Warner Brothers/Quite Scientific; 2011)

The bus just left, yet the flowers in your hair remain ... and all the colors of your coat have faded in the rain.

Howe Gelb & A Band of Gypsies - Alegrías (Fire; 2011)

Flamenco dancers hide behind the flaming horses when, drowsy, we fell off the wagon.

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Donkeys - Born With Stripes (Dead Oceans; 2011)

Walking straight or zigzagged lines has always been your specialty in the dawn of a million starlight brides.

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - Dirty Radio (Partisan Records; 2011)

Rodeo workers carried the broken radios to a ghost town where scarecrow men in the flames taught us how to dance, my dame.

Chelsea Wolfe - Apocalypse (Pendu Sound Recordings; 2011)

Churches glow a pale on pale, a hue of greenish blue, as witches ride above the cauldron, waiting for the moon.

Idiot Glee - Paddywhack (Moshi Moshi Records; 2011)

Get it together with my favorite girl in the doo-wop streets of some greaser's loveless leather jacket.

A Lull - Confetti (Mush/Lujo/Something in Construction; 2011)

Wolves underwater sleep beside the sea serpent whittling his nails and biding his time.

Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Interscope Records; 2011)

Pump the throttle full through the gauntlet of mariachi skeletons as if being born were striking a match tip the size of the world.

Alcest - Le Secret EP (Prophecy; 2011)

Kings of crimson felt like sugar as we stroked the corridor of great Ziggy-riffs and our lightning tattoos swam away.

Johan Agebjörn - Casablanca Nights (Paper Bag; 2011)

Tigers and cheetahs encased in laser pulling down the nighttime shades.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Funeral Party - Golden Age of Knowhere (RCA; 2011)

Desperate knowledge torn from books in voices under the track of backward flowing teardrops.

Brown Relcuse - Evening Tapestry (Slumberland Records; 2011)

Rolling with the grasses through the tangled thorns of long goodbyes.

Skull Defekts - Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey; 2011)

This haunted honeymoon was born of the swamp skin of my live snake coat.

Paris Suit Yourself - My Main Shitstain (Big Dada Records; 2011)

Hollow halos fly over UFOs to rip dirty spider web to magic.

French Horn Rebellion - The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion (101 Distribution; 2011)

Backstage, you sang some weak little song that flowered into the machinery until cogs turned to earrings.

Lil Daggers -Lil Daggers (Limited Fanfare; 2011)

Kings of corpses leaked one eye out the radio of modern lovers to see collapsing.

Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts (Matador Records; 2011)

Enough experiences jammed into a single evening to finally relax.

Robert & Andrew Kissel - Tragic Brotherhood

Wives find the documents impersonating husbands' fingerprints upon the fruit in someone else's garden.   

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Casey Anthony - Double-Headed Skeleton

Casey and Caylee wind skeletons with their ivy.