Cheese Coney Record Reviews and Cincinnati       

Get ready for another batch of Cheese Coney album reviews from John Crowell…..
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Mosquito
Interscope

2 out of 5
You can’t fault the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for trying, I guess. They’ve followed up 2009′s synth and dancefloor-leaning It’s Blitz! with a record that similarly strains as reaches far away from their early …

 Cheese Coney Record Reviews and Cincinnati       

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Wavves
Afraid of Heights
Mom + Pop

3.5/5

It turns out the best medicine for this slapped-together stoner rock band was to stop for a minute and actually try. Produced by John Hill, whose resume includes the likes of Rhianna and Christina …

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Get ready for another batch of Cheese Coney album reviews from John Crowell…..
Marnie Stern
The Chronicles of Marnia
Kill Rock Stars

1/5

Marnie Stern makes guitar rock for people who don’t know anything about guitars and who don’t like rock music. I can’t really think of anything about her that doesn’t peel the skin …

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Mogwai
Les Revenants
Sub Pop

3.5/5

We’ve established that instrumental post-rock makes great background music for televised dramas. Explosions in the Sky basically functioned as the house band for the NBC high school football drama Friday Night Lights, infusing weight and drama into scripted spread …

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My Bloody Valentine
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Pickpocket
4.5 out of 5

Kevin Shields spent 22 years painting himself into a corner, and just jumped out of it in the best possible way. There were so many questions and expectations about whatever record would follow the holiest of holies, the classic Loveless, that it amazing …

 Album Reviews and Cheese Coney Record Reviews       

It’s a new year, so that means new content for Each Note Secure. Every couple weeks or so, I’ll be reviewing a handful of new records. These reviews will be less about whether or not an album is objectively “good” and more about whether it’s cool and/or interesting and/or worth …