Wilfully Obscure

Given their antecedents in considerably more intense precursors like Shift , Pelican and Sparkmarker , (among others) the four piece San ...

The almost complete discography from an early '90s post-hardcore trio, whose members would go onto even more substantial endeavors. ht...

So here's the concept.  Say you were in a commendable but unheralded power pop band from about 30 years ago.  You had the privilege of...

I suppose there isn't much more that I can impart here from what I had to say about the Edsel Auctioneer's 1992 Simmer LP which ...

Here it is, the debut platter from The Breathers , whose Rain Down ep I pitched to you last year.  Big, plump, near-anthemic power pop he...

Not their best album, but still pretty great - especially the single.  Took a closer look at the credits today and discovered that Dwight Tw...

Just as a heads up, I probably won't have the opportunity to post anything more for the remainder of this week (ditto for re-upping some...

From 1987.  A compilation of two releases from a co-ed British group who were in the process of writing the dream-pop handbook.  http://ne...

Am probably only going to be leaving this up for a few days, as it looks like Eskimo Kiss may still be selling copies.  The review I did ...

Low and behold it's milf's second album, and likely the last thing I have to offer by them after exhausting the rest of their catal...

In 2012 I belatedly discovered one of the most moving albums of the year that had just passed, namely Jet Black's bristling Escape Me...

Dreamy post-punk from the Midwest.  This album is where it all began.  http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/80842993/file.html

Thought this would be an appropriate follow-up to my missive on Rail a couple nights back.  Four Lexington, KY kids do the strum and clang...

This post is likely to be the first and last to concern a band whose roster contained a former roommate of mine. Some twenty years ago I h...

A genre-defining album for yours truly...only I'm not going to specify which genre.  Enjoy. http://www49.zippyshare.com/v/42746602/fil...

Admittedly, I never followed Poi Dog Pondering , not remotely in fact, yet when I had the opportunity to snatch up this little curio a coupl...

Streamlined but satisfying, Tacoma's Strypes resided on the 'wave' side of the AOR spectrum, leaving me to wonder which camp...

I'm guestimating this winsome Aussie bunch were from Perth, as that's where this disk was tracked.  If so, The Hairs were yet ano...

Despite possessing more polish than grit, this was one of the tastiest power pop treats of 2002.    http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/993...

Ever since Rapidshare made my life miserable in early 2013 and dumped the entirety of files I was hosting through them, I've been gettin...

I submit to you reviews you can use on three of akin, not so much three of a kind. While there is a concurrent thread running through this ...