New Music Reviews 9/13/07

New Music Reviews by Kent Manthie John Amen All I’ll Never Need (Cool Midget Records) Somebody gimme an Amen!!! The fresh musical stylings of one who calls himself John Amen are apt, terse and ultimately have some sort of spooky sensuality to it. An example is “Waiting for Mary”; a haunting reverie of unrequited love (?) that revolves around the […]

Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? CD review

Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? review by Collin Wicker Hissing Fauna is a masterpiece, a sparkling gem of the indie world, spawned from holy ground, Athens, GA. Truthfully, I’ve never heard another album like it, part Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, part Bowie, with dance undertones and indie flair. Most of the songs on Hissing Fauna […]