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Posted on: May 27, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Ivy – In The Clear (CD)

The dreamy pop of Ivy is cultured, having been refined for the last decade over four albums. The music that starts off the disc, especially “Nothing But The Sky”, does not cut as deep as it could. Everything seems to traverse the same narrow swath during the 5:12 of the track, ultimately leaving a certain hollowness and lack of depth that plagues the band throughout the disc. “Thinking About You”…

Posted on: May 27, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

It Dies Today – Sirens (CD)

Okay, so I went into It Dies Today’s “Sirens” pretty negatively. The first verse of the first song had me making my “Eww, all yelling metal crap.” But, you guys won me back over. The growls and yelling were used tastefully, backed by vocals I actually quite enjoy. And the yelling is pretty unique; I can still make out all the lyrics. “A Port in Any Storm” actually had some…

Posted on: May 27, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Ism – Monkey Underneath (CD)

Ism – Monkey Underneath I had started writing my review of “Monkey Underneath”, but after writing about half of it I realized that the music that was playing from my speakers was in reality not Ism but Him or Avenged Sevenfold, coming out of one of my friends’ Myspace. Oh well, Ism sounds quite different from either band, so I can’t salvage much besides “and” and “the”. The style of…

Posted on: May 26, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Islands – Return to the Sea (CD)

I loved The Unicorns a great deal when I heard their “Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone”, and to hear that some of the members of that band are in the Islands, I began to get excited about “Return to the Sea”. The album breaks away from the traditional pop act sound by incorporating a number of vocalists as the focal point of the band. In this sense,…

Posted on: May 26, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Isis – Oceanic: Remixes/Reinterpretations (CD)

It is true that Oceanic fits well with the sound that Isis puts on this disc. For “Weight”, done by Fennesz gives listeners a sense of being by a sea. This sea sound, created by white noise, is one of the better emulations of nature. This compilation of “reinterpretations” is interesting to say the least. While Fennesz has a very solemn and sedate sound dominating their track, Ayal Naor creates…

Posted on: May 26, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

GiTAR offers a complete and scathing pop culture commentary on “STUFFED.”

Scheduled for release on June 8th, 2010 by Seeland Records, the label owned by legendary culture-jammers, Negativland, GiTAr’s “STUFFED” has the potential to make you more than you are without it. GiTAr members Ellipse Elkshow and I Cut People were raised in Evansville, Indiana, home to major polluters, factories, cancer statistics, pharmaceutical manufacturing and a test town for new products cooked up by various fast food giants. In that cold…

Posted on: May 26, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

J. Isaac – Welcome to the Planet (CD)

I’m not sure exactly if having two non-song tracks to start out your album is necessarily something a rapper attempting to reach that next level of fame really should be doing. When J. Isaac starts the song section of eir disc with “Baby Ez Up”, a lot of this doubt disappears. “Baby Ez Up” starts out in a Sisqo vein, but the backing beat seems to be a little anemic…

Posted on: May 25, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

The Irving Fields Trio – Bagels and Bongos (CD)

There are albums that are re-released for a number of reasons seemingly every day. Expanded editions, discs with new tracks on them, but very rarely is it that a deleted, long out of print album will see the ligh of day again. It probably will not happen in regards to Warren Zevon’s Terminus City or Neil Young’s Trans, but to see that there are individuals that will take it upon…

Posted on: May 25, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Irving – Death in the Garden Blood on the Flowers (CD)

The style of music that Irving plays is something that has not been heard quite as much since the end of the eighties. The very dusky, retro sound of Irving is done with a quality that will make individuals find something to love about the band, even if the individual’s tastes are far removed from the band’s style. For example, a song like “Situation” is something that is heavily based…

Posted on: May 25, 2010 Posted by: AAA NeuFutur.com Comments: 0

Ironbound NYC – With A Brick (CD)

This is hardcore that should be called such, instead of jock-metal. This mixes thrash, punk, and Slayer-like metal to create something that is hard enough to bang one’s head to but not dark enough that a killer mosh pit couldn’t be started. The band, which has members of Sick of It All, Nausea, and Killing Time in it, really shows a maturity that goes well beyond the amount of time…