If It's Too Loud...

We're getting toward the end of the year and, with Thanksgiving, new releases are slowing down. Artist : GFOTY Album : GTOFYBUCKS Quick Description : Bizarre anti-pop. Why You Should Listen : This is a necessary listen even if you end up not liking it. Overall Thoughts : GTOFY put out an EP last year that intrigued me, and this is closer to a full length than anything else, and it's just weird. There are snippets of covers, strange songs and structures, and yet it's utterly compelling. This is definitely an artistic effort, and it might turn off more people than it turns on, but this is one that I'll be diving back in on. There's just too much going on to ignore. Recommendation : Probably the most divisive release of the quarter. Artist : Pete International Airport Album : Safer With the Wolves... Quick Description : Dandy Warhols side project with some interesting droney rock. Why You Should Listen : We haven't had some good Dandys stuff in a w...

Pete International Airport is a new project from Pete Holmstrom of The Dandy Warhols, and also features members of Mercury Rev, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and The Warlocks. Think about what you think that sounds like for just a minute... and you're most likely exactly right. Pete International Airport  the album is absolutely perfect for old school fans of The Dandy Warhols. The main difference is take out some of the poppier moments and add a whole boatload of trippy psychedelia. (Normally I feel bad comparing a side project to the members' main band so much, but they got their title from a song off The Dandy Warhols Come Down  which just might be the most Dandy Warhols move of all time...) The openng track, "Sweetheart Tattoo," is pure classic Dandy Warhols in a groovy slacker kind of way. "21 Days" is almost hard rock, and might be the closest to a radio single on the album, if that was still a thing. As the album progresses, the songs seem to lose the...