Against Me! – White Crosses (8/10)

A raucous caricature of seasoned punk rock and roll, the follow-up album to 2007’s well-received New Wave is at times generic sounding but always unrelenting and unapologetic in its tone.

Against Me! – White Crosses (8/10)

A raucous caricature of seasoned punk rock and roll, the follow-up album to 2007’s well-received New Wave is at times generic sounding but always unrelenting and unapologetic in its tone.  The album’s eponymous first track White Crosses is a microcosm for whole the album, where the intuitively hostile lyrics “White crosses on the church lawn, I want to smash them all!” are misleadingly played out in the fashion of a jolly Irish drinking song.

Suggested listening environment:  Gym or pub.  If you can find a hybrid between the two, please contact me at b@moetrainstracks.com.

Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (7.3/10)

For the most part, ‘gramma is gritty yet waxed smooth, both urban and sleek.  All in all, it’s hip and I dig.

Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma (7.3/10)

This third installment from the nephew of jazz legends Alice and John Coltrane is his best composition to date.  As a manifesto of electro-trip-hop-jazz fusion, Cosmogramma is commendable.  (As something you’d actually like to listen to on the regs, possibly not for everyone)  Occasionally, it will stumble into sounding like a semi-clusterfuck of beats and sound effects, but only occasionally.  For the most part, ‘gramma is gritty yet waxed smooth, both urban and sleek.  All in all, it’s hip and I dig.