Articles by Alex Molotkow

Jade McNelis

All the Fables

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

Good songwriter, pretty voice, talented player — why is it that such nice parts often add up to such detestable wholes? It’s tempting to wr...

Battles Bedazzle

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

Virtuosic music can seem bizarre to non-musicians — say "math rock” and one pictures some scruffy long-hair who might once have been an E.L...

The Phonemes

There's Something We've Been Meaning to Do

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

It’s been three years since the Phonemes released their debut EP, a fact which the title of their first full-length addresses. Without reso...

Shannon Wright

Let in the Light

PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

Let in the Light opens cinematically — a few elegant, melancholy piano notes nearly blur the line between Wright’s music and that of Yann T...

Battles

Mirrored

PUBLISHED May 15, 2007

Just when it seemed like math rock was a relic of the ’90s, Battles’ EP series proved that the genre was not simply jam band music for soci...

Elliott Smith

New Moon

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2007

Sound engineer/Elliott Smith archivist Larry Crane has an easy job — frankly, bereaved fans will buy anything with the tragic figure’s name...

The Frog Eyes Manifesto

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

Whenever an interesting album is released, critics rush to tie it into a homemade pseudo-philosophy of popular music. Frog Eyes singer Care...

Dr. Dog

We All Belong

PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

This band should really pick a better name because "Dr. Dog” is bound to give people the wrong impression. You might expect them to play in...