Epinions Recent Reviews for crypticcradle

Making Music Like Everything is Everything, But Just For Now

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:14:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Defintion to the IndefinableTV On The Radio (Tunde Adebimpe on vocals, David Andrew Sitek on guitar, production, multi-instruments, Kyp Malone on vocals and bass, Gerard A. Smith on a buncha instruments, and Jaleel Bunton on drums, etc.)...

I Try to Untie From Your BAD BLOOD! (Someone Deserves to Be Famous...)

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:07:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - It's unbelievable, in retrospect, how I let my interest in The National slide on by after hearing the marvo-spectacu-mazing "Boxer" in the summer of 2007. I still feel weak in the gut when singing along to "Fake Empire"s glorious visuals of dangerous...

Auditory Anarchy

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:05:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - I concede, the "Auditory Anarchy" title could have been used for any Animal Collective album put out to date. It's that this experimental combo of Avey Tare and Panda Bear truly came across the Nirvana in Chaos with "Strawberry Jam", at least in my...

Part Campfire, Part Cerebral Cortex

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:11:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Lit in the blaze of a campfire is nostalgia, comfort, warmth; you can see the caveman's attraction, and our return to this basic "element" of our world. A face is different in a fire. It catalyzes the embedding of shared moments in the memory...

Hearts Shatter n Mend n Shatter n Mend n Shatter n Mend...

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:44:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - (1) No, I don't see this one fitting a conventional review. Little pieces of review put together, just like the Shocking Pinks full-length, sewed together little songs of lovers n yearning forever yearning. --- (2) Nick Harte, a man of...

An Ode to the Mania of Life

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:10:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Sometimes I feel as if I'm expressing the same thing over and over again when I'm putting words to the music and books and philosophies of teaching I hold. Maybe I'm drawing too easily a hard-to-reach connection, but it would seem to me that no matter...

Eat Pudding, Make Voices

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:26:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - ...still, as I was saying, it'd be so much easier to talk about Panda Bear like you know who Animal Collective is and their love it or hate it experimental folk/pop, because explaining them and Panda Bear's existence in the group is absolutely not...

Lost Vignettes

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:00:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Everywhere you go, everything you see, if you are receptive, you will take in shards of so many lives swirling around you doing the craziest most interesting activities, breathing and dying. You could fill notebook after notebook up with humanity. How...

In the Basement, With Matches

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:45:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - It sits by you when feel like you're on a moon all by yourself, looking down at a planet, and you know it's all going on down there. It doesn't cry with you, however, it just drips into your pores like morning dew, it lives with you. Then it vibrates,...

Senioritis

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:59:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - As the normal monologue of unusable and uninteresting facts were being presented on the current state of the economy and its recession, Charles sat with his notebook opened, pencil idle, eyes focused on the chaos of frizz and split-ends that made-up the...

Don't Cry Over Spilled Life

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:32:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - I can pinpoint the biggest waste of human congregation that I have ever experienced, and it has nothing to do with the remedial learning on "professional development" days at my school, nor does it involve imbibing until you are laid-out on a random park...

Once: Believe in Connection

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:17:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - I wonder if the toaster spends all of its downtime longing to be plugged in. Wonder if it waits, all its cold, dank, miserable metal parts, vibrating slowly in place only for the time when its coils light into a brilliant orange and release soothing,...

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall...Erase Them All...the Mighty and Mighty Small

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:24:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Take a quick moment, if you will, and follow me in a little exercise. STEP 1: Think of one human being that you really love. STEP 2: Brainstorm all that makes you love this person. Pick them apart like a puzzle, put them back together piece by...

Dear Abby, Where Are You When I Need You? (ISYMIYSMY W/O)

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:27:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Dear Abby, You're not the real Abby, and that makes me sad. No offense, Miss Phillips, but the "Dear Abby" column just hasn't been the same since your mum put down the pen in 2002. It's just not as cute and funny in its practicality as it once was...

That Harmony You Hear In Your Head When You're All Alone

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:12:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - It's the music you hear in your head when you watch the street lights go on and witness the day, alive, grow into the blanket of hidden goings-on, night, equally as alive. It's the harmony you hear in your head when you see a baby kicking, wailing;...

"You're Gonna Want Me Back In Your Arms"

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:56:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - If there was Music, and it was a living, breathing creature, then this past February it shed two tears on its big Polaroid picture album of memories. As it looked through this book, to the photos of the past 10-15 years, it saw a hip-hop producer in...

Among Dark Halls, Empty Seats, and Dusty Books...

Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:24:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - People, Kanye West's "Late Registration" is a hip-hop album for the dreamer in all of us. And you, too. Regardless of what you think of the guy's public persona, or his past work, we have a wondrous piece of musical art on our hands with...

The Dinosaurs Would Call Us Post-Apocalyptic Creatures

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:54:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - it pulsates in your hand, stereo Three years after the fact that NYC producer/emceee El-P, formerly of Rawkus juggernaut Company Flow, made his return back into the rap game as an artist with "Fantastic Damge", I know there's nothing I can tell...

"'Shiny, pretty fox', thought the duck"

Sat, 2 Jul 2005 01:36:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - I sit in front of my lil' white Mac iBook, and silence oozes from every pore of these solid white painted bricks. I have the title down for my Sleater-Kinney "The Woods" review, as well as the pros, cons, bottom line, and all that jazz. Yet, I have...

Nobody Wants To Hear You Sing In The Hallway...Make An Album Or Something (ISYMIYSMY W/O)

Mon, 9 May 2005 18:16:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Walking down the hallways in high school, you see so much homogenization, it's no wonder why we grow up to create comfy little suburban developments where every house is painted the same, every garage is on the same side and holds the same number of...

(We Were Hiding From The Sun)

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:45:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - "A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall Says, 'there's plenty of time to make you mine tonight' Says, 'there's plenty of time to make you mine' Says, 'there's plenty...

I Got The Go! Team (Yeah!); You Want The Go! Team (Yeah!)

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:49:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - Supercali-samplelicious-pop-ho
p-chant-euphoria!
That's what you need. That's what you want. You have this ideal of an inner-child that dwells within you and you are just dying to let it out. You want to romp around the living room and throw...

Set Yourself On Fire So We Can Burn A Little Less

Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:41:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - What reasons do the righteous have for being optimistic? In the battle of good v. evil, commoners v. aristocrats, compassionate v. cold, how can the virtuous blind themselves well enough as to not see the wicked at the wheel of the world, directing it...

Villainous Emergency Rations ::Lean-N-Mean III W/O::

Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:03:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - ...V keeps comin' back with more and more hits... The Smooth reference ("DWYCK", wha'? wha'?) this rap world of stage actors and stock characters never ever wanted to hear from the villain. He terrorized the game and inflicted pain like Saddam...

for those moments when i lose myself

Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:34:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author crypticcradle - I want to tell you something. I want to show you so much more. Like Radiohead does on "OK Computer". How's that for an understated opener? Speech is only but a little part of how a human being feels things. It's the verbal expression and a lot...