May 29, 2003 Ed Harcourt | From Every Sphere | Heavenly By Owen Salisbury Ah, singer/songwriters and their quirks. Ed Harcourt, who plays about 39 instruments, wrote all the music, sang all the songs and entirely lacked creative backing on From Every Sphere , is a good example of "quirky" - I ...
March 7, 2003 Supergrass | Life on Other Planets | Island By Owen Salisbury Here's an exercise in futility: Imagine a music scene where pop does not exist. Almost as futile: trying to sort out how to describe Supergrass' new album, Life on Other Planets, without listing half of the pop acts the ...
November 8, 2002 Sigur Ros | ( ) | MCA By Owen Salisbury Sigur Ros' new album, "( )," is like an aural injection of Xanax; It leaves you disoriented, dazed and euphoric. Continuing in the idiom created with 1997's "Von" and cemented by 1999"s "Agaetis Byrjun," the semi-untitle...
