Plastic Bag in the Tree (Hush Records)
BARR attempts to understand everything
Alone again, naturally. I sat in the corner by myself and drank an Anchor Steam. I counted 23 disco balls hanging over the bartender…
8 Million Stories
Bitwise Operators (Malvado Records)
Portishead The beautiful rolling textures of trip hop owe everything to the dub and hip hop captured within a few elegant blue lines. Blue…
Maxinquaye probes the soul-snatching sounds of Tricky and Martine
Elastica Elastica (DGC) It's telling that rock criticism's favorite “strong women” — Liz, Courtney, PJ — have all recently stripped to their underwear in…
