Another Way In - The Rosebuds - Life Like - 2008

Funny thing...I just bought and added this album to my iPod this AM, just in time for this song to jump to the head of the line. So this is a super fresh perspective.

Typically on any Rosebuds album Kelly Crisp will sing 2-3 songs, and this is one of them. Though she'll never be blessed with either the pipes or the chops of her husband, there is a certain charm to her deadpan vocals. Additionally, her songwriting (assuming she writes the songs she sings) has improved making her songs a bit more interesting. This song continues in the same dark vein as her songs on Night of the Furies.

I haven't listened to the whole record, but if Ivan Howard continues the shoegaze-y guitar playing he demonstrates in the second half of this song throughout the album, then that can only be a good thing.

Alison - Slowdive - Souvlaki - 1993

More Things I Learned in Indiana:

D) My family talks a lot about the surguries people have had. This is especially disconcerting as they have no objection to doing this during dinner. There's nothing more appetizing than hearing about aunt Zelma's gall bladder surgury while eating potato salad.

Clearly Alison is a very musical name...

Slowdive's Souvlaki is basically the quintasential Shoegazer album, and this is one of the best 2-3 songs on the album. I am continually amazed by the degree to which shoegaze sounds have infiltrated so much of modern music. It seems like everybody loves a delay pedal these days.