Brice Ezell

Blu-ray Review: ‘Song to Song’ and Terrence Malick’s Austin

Brice Ezell July 20, 2017 No Comments

Terrence Malick’s latest hits home release, but is it worth your time?

Blu-ray Review: ‘Free Fire’ Comes Home with a Hail of Bullets

Brice Ezell July 20, 2017 No Comments

Ben Wheatley’s shoot-em-up is out now on Blu-ray.

Jens Lekman Creates Finest Album To Date With ‘Life Will See You Now’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell February 16, 2017 No Comments

[rating=9.00] Ten years ago, night fell over Kortadela. On his vividly colored, sample-heavy 2007 breakthrough LP, Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman juxtaposes vibrant pop with dryly funny quotidian narratives. Lekman is

The Avett Brothers Struggle Against Production Values on ‘True Sadness’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell June 24, 2016 2 Comments

[rating=6.00] There’s an ongoing debate about the state of the Avett Brothers’ music that begins with 2009’s Rick Rubin-produced I and Love and You. The Avett Brothers, a North Carolina-based

Deafheaven Sharpens Its Attack on ‘New Bermuda’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell October 15, 2015 No Comments

[rating=8.00] Sunbather, the 2013 album by the then Bay Area (now Los Angeles) “metalgaze” outfit Deafheaven, was, and arguably still is, dangerously close to merchandising itself into self-parody. The record’s

Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell July 8, 2015 2 Comments

[rating=8.00] Regardless of what one’s opinion of Between the Buried and Me’s 2012 concept LP The Parallax II: Future Sequence is, it’s hard to deny one thing: it’s certainly the

The Mowglis – Kids in Love (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell April 16, 2015 No Comments

[rating=3.00] If nothing else, the California rock outfit the Mowgli’s will always have “San Francisco”. That tune, a jubilant ode to “being in love with love”, is no doubt guilty

Brian Wilson -No Pier Pressure (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell April 7, 2015 2 Comments

[rating=3.00] No Pier Pressure answers a lot of questions, many if not most of which the world probably didn’t need to ask in the first place. These include: “What if

Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell January 26, 2015 3 Comments

On their fourth LP, Punch Brothers continue to push themselves compositionally, balancing the cerebral and emotional aspects of their music.

Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (ALBUM REVIEW)

Brice Ezell September 22, 2014 No Comments

[rating=7.00] Ten years have passed since the Toronto bass and drums duo Death from Above 1979 released its debut LP, the high-octane You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine. For a