Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts tagged with: rock

rock

Embryonic – The Flaming Lips

I'm such a fan of this album. It's raw and threadbare. The production is so very analog. It's as though they sent everything through as much analog...

Leave Kanye out of this – Black Country, New Road

It's experimental and post-rock and Slint with klezmer and pushes back at the rock-band format.  The band gained notoriety from their first two singles, "Athens, France" and "Sunglasses."  For their...

Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island

I was chilling one evening surfing chaotically through the youtubes as one does when the track "Decending Blue" popped up.  Its intro starts with an odd cello line that's quickly...

Can’t Believe How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All – Neutral Milk Hotel

While I've always been an instrumentally-heavy music fan, there's something addictive about the lyrics built on the beautiful and out-of-the-norm vocal melodies Jeff Mangum created. This 1998 album is intoxicating...