Results for Tactics

  • Dresden Dolls

    by Aaron SankinMay 21, 2008Comments (4)

    "partially comprised of cast-offs from other records, it’s surprisingly cohesive" (read more)

  • Mr. Soul: Neil Young vs. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James

    by Cyrus PhilbrickApril 16, 2008Comments (7)

    James’ voice sounds like Young’s with the rust filtered out. Free of grit, his pipes can reach unearthly pitches that Young’s never could. On Z, My Morning Jacket’s last studio album, James’ voice becomes more of an instrument than ever before, splintering through the subtle harmonies of tracks (read more)

  • Can Laundered

    by Vivien GoldmanFebruary 6, 2008Comments (0)

    Originally published in Sounds, 23 October 1976 “Irmin Schmidt was transporting a washing machine down the stairs, and it fell on top of him.” Bad karma for Can, as their keyboard player's mishap has put the band hors de combat, or out of action, for a crucial month or so, at precisely the time (read more)

  • Coil: The Soil And Spoil Tactics Of Coil

    by Biba KopfJanuary 30, 2008Comments (0)

    When you’re up to your nose in shit, goes the Spaghetti wisdom, keep your mouth shut. To anyone else this is indisputably good advice. To Coil—creators of Scatology, an LP given over to arcane, exotic, and excessive desires—it bespeaks unwelcome, even cowardly inhibition. (read more)

  • Chauchat: Select-Fire Of the Thinking Man

    by Brenda ParoAugust 8, 2007Comments (3)

    In Thomas Mann's classic novel The Magic Mountain, the hero, Hans Castorp, observes the mysterious Madame Chauchat, a fellow patient in a swiss sanatorium, only from afar. Over time, a strange understanding develops between the watcher (read more)