Mike Hopkins

Tag: Pop

  • Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse – Of Montreal

    There’s something to be said for chaos in music. Ever since the advent of atonal theory and composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, there has been countless amounts of experimental music that tests the limits of music and – if I’m being frank – tests the limits of a listener’s ability to suspend judgment until after […]

  • Post – Björk

    “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams Of the dozen albums I’ve reviewed so far, Post by Björk has been the biggest and most pleasant surprise. If you are at all familiar with Icelandic-based Björk’s work, you know that her music is anything but traditional and this album is no […]

  • We the Common – Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

    I went into this album cold. I mean, 100% cold. Blind. I’d never heard of the album We the Common. I’d never heard of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. In fact, I knew pretty much nothing about the musical tastes this week’s suggester Jay Valle had. So, when I say I had no […]