Tag Archives: indie pop

Album Review: Belle & Sebastian, “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance”

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

Growing up, I considered myself a thoroughgoing introvert. And why shouldn’t I be? I was bookish, shy, with a strong intellectual and artistic bent and a revulsion of loud parties. Most of my adolescence was spent reading classic novels, listening … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2015, ambivert, Belle and Sebastian, chamber pop, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Enter Sylvia Plath, Ever Had a Little Faith?, extrovert, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, God Help the Girl, If You're Feeling Sinister, indie, indie pop, introvet, Nobody's Empire, Pet Shop Boys, Sarah Martin, Stevie Jackson, Stuart Murdoch, The Cat with the Cream, The Everlasting Muse, The Life Pursuit, The Party Line, Tigermilk, twee | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 10’s: Most Anticipated Albums of 2015

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

Any year that kicks off with Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaborating on a Stevie Wonder-esque ballad is going to be a year of surprises. A mere week into the new year, it’s tough to say what curve balls 2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged 74 Is the New 24, Albums of 2015, avant-pop, Belle & Sebastian, Brian Wilson, chamber pop, Classic Rock, Colin Meloy, Daft Punk, EDM, electronic, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Fokus, Georgio Moroder, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, Hand. Cannot. Erase., Hollywood, indie, indie pop, Jens Lekman, Josh Ritter, Just a Dream, Liam Hayes, No Pier Pressure, Nobody's Empire, One Way Out, Parasites, Plush, power pop, prog, progressive rock, San Fermin, singer-songwriter, Slurrup, Steven Wilson, The Cat with the Cream, The Decemberists, The Party Line, Tobias Jesso Jr., True Love, What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World | 3 Comments

EP Review: Marine Life “Fool of a Kind”

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Much of what you need to know about San Francisco indie popsters Marine Life can be gleaned from the fact that they’re labelmates with Camera Obscura and a quick glance at the cover to their debut EP, Fool of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2014, Big Sur, Boy from B-612, Camera Obscura, Des de Leon, Elefant, Fool of a Kind, For the Camera Shy, indie pop, Marine Life, San Francisco | Leave a comment

Album Review: Foster the People, “Supermodel”

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Caught in a materialistic economy we did not create, faced with a job market that still offers us primarily low-wage service-sector drudgery, many Millennials find themselves wondering if something more is not possible, whether our modern society has rather radically … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged A Beginner's Guide to Destroying the Moon, Are You What You Want to Be?, Ask Yourself, Best Friend, Coming of Age, Foster the People, indie pop, indie rock, Mark Foster, pop, pop/rock, Supermodel, The Angelic Welcome of Mr. Jones, The Truth, Torches | 1 Comment

Album Review: The Family Crest, “Beneath the Brine”

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

The first track on a record is terribly important. It can’t be so stunning that everything that follows seems like a disappointment in comparison, but it also has to be good enough that it pulls you into the album’s world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2014, Beneath the Brine, Divine Comedy, Family Crest, Howl, indie pop, Liam McCormick, Love Don't Go, Make Me a Boat, Nate Ruess, orchestral pop, San Fermin, The Water's Fine | Leave a comment

Album Review: The New Mendicants, “Into the Lime”

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

Power pop is a genre where innovation isn’t necessarily the name of the game. Badfinger and Big Star laid down the general parameters of the genre back in the 70s, and since then success has been a matter not so … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged A Very Sorry Christmas, Albums of 2014, Bandwagonesque, chamber pop, Follow You Down, High on the Skyline, If You Only Knew Her, indie pop, Into the Lime, Joe Pernice, Left Banke, Lifelike Hair, Mike Belitsky, New Mendicants, Norman Blake, Out of the Lime, Pernice Brothers, power pop, Sadies, Shouting Match, Teenage Fanclub | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2010

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

As the first decade of the third millennium comes to a close, you may have noticed that, when I like a band, I really like a band, to the point that their releases tend to dominate my Top 5’s. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Afrofuturism, alternative rock, Bang Goes the Knighthood, Belle & Sebastian, chamber pop, Divine Comedy, Heartland Highway, Hellogoodbye, indie pop, Janelle Monáe, Neil Hannon, R&B, Sister Hazel, The ArchAndroid, Top 5 Albums of 2010, Would It Kill You?, Write About Love | 3 Comments

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2009

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

2009 is a surprisingly thin year for me. The following albums completely deserve their Top 5 rankings on objective merits. But as I was putting the list together, I came to the realization that I didn’t actually own that many … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Aim & Ignite, alternative rock, Belle & Sebastian, Bruce Springsteen, chamber pop, fun., God Help the Girl, indie pop, Muse, Queen, Release, Sister Hazel, Stuart Murdoch, The Resistance, Top 5 Albums of 2009 | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2007

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

If you’ve been keeping track of these lists, you’ve probably ascertained I’m a big Paul McCartney fan – apart from dominating with the Beatles during the 60s, of course, he made a strong showing on my lists for 1973, 1982, … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Bruce Springsteen, chamber pop, Doomsday Afternoon, indie pop, indie rock, Jens Lekman, Josh Ritter, Magic, Night Falls Over Kortedala, Phideaux, prog, progressive rock, symphonic prog, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, the Shins, Top 5 Albums of 2007, Wincing the Night Away | 2 Comments

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 2006

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

I have little to say about 2006, except that it’s a year from which I own an awful lot of albums and subsequently a year for whose Top 5 I had to be especially choosy. So, let’s nod to some … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, chamber pop, Colin Meloy, Decemberists, folk, indie pop, indie rock, Jr., Let's Get Out of This Country, pop-rock, power pop, prog, Roger Joseph Manning, Ron Sexsmith, singer-songwriter, The Crane Wife, The Land of Pure Imagination, The Life Pursuit, Time Being, Tom 5 Albums of 2006 | Leave a comment

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