Lav's Music Corner

Hot Chip are a British synth pop band who released a number of critically acclaimed dance records in the latter half of the 2000's and into the 2010's. The bands last release was the critically underwhelming Why Make Sense? in 2015. They have released two singles for Ecstacy that predicted a potential change to longer and more abstract songwriting. Review By Lavender: While Hot Chip had an excellent run in the 2000's releasing four great albums starting with The Warning and moving up to In Our Heads , 2012 feels like a very long time ago for a band that feels like they have to prove themselves all over again. While Bath Full Of Ecstacy isn't the best Hot Chip album yet it definitely paints the picture of a veteran band creatively assembling and solid, but not watertight tracklist. I'm more positive on both of the singles within the context of the album than I was but themselves. Melody Of Love wasn't initially a favorite of mine but I've come to te...

Yeasayer is a New York rock group who have been consistently releasing ever evolving indie and experimental rock music for over a decade. While the most acclaimed Yeasayer album is 2010's Odd Blood  many fans have a particular favorite of their many different styles and sounds. Review By Lavender: I have never considered myself a Yesayer fan and while I do believe that Odd Blood  is by far the groups best album I still don't know if I would consider it all that fantastic. Albums like Fragrant World  and All Hour Cymbals  have some good ideas and even a few decent songs each but my expectations going into this project were basically nonexistent, Surprisingly enough Yeasayer manage to deliver just under half an hour of simple but effective synth and indie pop tunes that usually do a pretty good job of filling time with sweet hooks and dancy melodies.  For as short of an album this is the band chose to release four singles of varying quality leading ...