Articles by Chris Whibbs

Wintersleep

Welcome to the Night Sky

PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

People want to look to producers like Dave Fridmann or Diplo as people who really make or break an album but what these immensely talented...

Athlete

Beyond the Neighbourhood

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

Considering that this was concocted and recorded in the band members’ home studios, inferring from the title that Athlete are expanding the...

Devendra Banhart

Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

No one personifies the idea of the modern stinkin’ hippy (in a good way) more than Devendra Banhart. He has a well-travelled look and, most...

Mother Mother

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2007

You never know what you’re going to get with Mother Mother. Frazzled country? Infectious indie pop? Straight up rock? The frenetic fusion t...

Doveman

With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead

PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2007

"Brevity is the soul of wit”; it’s a famous saying that, like many things, finds its origin with Shakespeare — Hamlet, to be exact. Incredi...

Robert Pollard

Coast to Coast Carpet of Love / Standard Gargoyle Decisions

PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2007

"Two albums. One day!” If there’s ever a quote to lead me running in the opposite direction, it’s definitely that one. But wait! For the fi...

Múm

Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2007

There was this great line that I once read that roughly stated of a band, "They’re from Iceland. Ergo weird.” Few bands have upheld that si...

Band of Horses Let It Flow

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

"You know, I thought it would go either way. I thought it would go really big or get panned super hard and people would be like, ‘derivativ...