Links for 21-02-2008
Keyword research, batch of music reviews and an interview …
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1 – Keyword Research for Bloggers: A Comprehensive Guide
Does what it says on the tin, guv.
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3 – Album review: Kingdom Of Sorrow – Kingdom Of Sorrow
“… thanks to the fine production job, every squeak and crunch of the guitars, every blow on the drumkit and every bellowed vocal is clear as a bell; the genre may be called sludge, but it benefits hugely from being recorded well.”
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4 – Album review: Les Fauves – N.A.L.T. 1 — A Fast Introduction
“Whether it’s meant to or not, N.A.L.T 1 — A Fast Introduction comes across as a spoof send-up of The Strokes, and taken on that level it’s a fun little record — if somewhat late to the party.”
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“7 is sleazy, full of gratuitous X-rated swearing and stories, a howled demand to be noticed that is made all the more effective by the few mellower sections scattered through. There’s just one problem. The production is awful.”
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6 – Album review: Long Distance Calling – Satellite Bay
“… big epic daubs of bass and guitar … filled out with samples and keyboard drones that sound like the slow steady breathing of some huge living machine at rest beneath your city.”
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7 – Album review: Die So Fluid – Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending
“I’m tired of pin-up singers who can’t sing and sell records on the strength of their looks alone. On the evidence of Die So Fluid’s second album, Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending, that mould just got broken.”
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8 – Album review: Favez – Bigger Mountains Higher Flags
“I’d have guessed at them being a genuine American band — a bunch of young punks or stoners who discovered Tom Petty while everyone else was digging Nirvana, maybe.”
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9 – Interview: Genghis Tron – Michael Sochynsky (keys’n'beats)
“If I had to classify our music, I would called it “experimental metal with a lot of electronic elements” but that doesn’t really flow off the tongue, does it? It’s also funny because in some ways that is just a fancy way of saying “electro-core.” Oh well
