This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:
Quasi: When the Going Gets Dark – mixed variety
Rocket From The Crypt: Paint As a Fragrance – quality introduction
Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown – dance variant
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange – flavorful blues
Mudhoney: Under a Billion Suns – sludgy grunge
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army – more meandering
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: No Old Guy Lo-Fi Cry – no go
Jon Brion: Paranorman Soundtrack – playful fun
It Was Made in Northeast Ohio Compilation – time capsule
Trixter: Trixter – catchy pop-metal
Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away – mature pop
Nuggets of American College Rock 1987: interesting archive
Sloan: Pretty Together – varied styles
The Twilight Singers: Live in Amsterdam, 11-28-06 – ripping live