Ian F. King
writing
record reviews
Maserati - The Language of Cities (reissue) [under the radar]
The Charlatans - The Charlatans (reissue) [under the radar]
The Gloria Record - Start Here (reissue) [under the radar]
Unwed Sailor - Truth or Consequences [under the radar]
Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus [under the radar]
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Uncommon Weather [under the radar]
South - From Here On In / From Here On Out (reissue) [under the radar]
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (reissue) [under the radar]
Chad Van Gaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener [under the radar]
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark [under the radar]
Mogwai - As the Love Continues [under the radar]
Shame - Drunk Tank Pink [under the radar]
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (reissue) [under the radar]
Iress - Flaw [under the radar]
Uniform - Shame [under the radar]
Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (reissue) [under the radar]
The Charlatans - Between 10th and 11th (reissue) [under the radar]
JOBS - endless birthdays [under the radar]
Tim Burgess - I Love The New Sky [the line of best fit]
FACS - Void Moments [under the radar]
Arbouretum - Let It All In [under the radar]
Snarls - Burst [under the radar]
Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner [under the radar]
Ash - Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years of Ash [under the radar]
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (25th Anniversary Edition) [under the radar]
IDLES - A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan [under the radar]
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron - Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 [under the radar]
Black Marble - Larger Than Life [the line of best fit]
Trupa Trupa - Of the Sun [the line of best fit]
Tropical F*ck Storm - Braindrops [the line of best fit]
The Soft Cavalry - The Soft Cavalry [the line of best fit]
Versing - 10000 [the line of best fit]
American Football - American Football (LP3) [popmatters]
Sleeper - The Modern Age [the line of best fit]
Pom Poko - Birthday [the line of best fit]
Piroshka - Brickbat [the line of best fit]
Swervedriver - Future Ruins [popmatters]
Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? [popmatters]
Ian Sweet - Crush Crusher [the line of best fit]
Low - Double Negative [analogue]
Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt [popmatters]
Mogwai - KIN: OST [the line of best fit]
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance [the line of best fit]
The Posies - Frosting on the Beater (reissue) [popmatters]
Alexander Tucker - Don't Look Away [the line of best fit]
Chastity - Death Lust [popmatters]
The Love-Birds - In the Lovers' Corner [popmatters]
Tangents - New Bodies [popmatters]
Johnny Marr - Call the Comet [the line of best fit]
The Buttertones - Midnight in a Moonless Dream [popmatters]
The Dreebs - Forest of a Crew [the line of best fit]
Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg [the line of best fit]
Joan of Arc - 1984 [the line of best fit]
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Sparkle Hard [popmatters]
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Here Lies the Body [the line of best fit]
The Sea and Cake - Any Day [the line of best fit]
Father Murphy - Rising... [popmatters]
FACS - Negative Houses [popmatters]
MIEN - MIEN [the line of best fit]
Dead Meadow - The Nothing They Need [the line of best fit]
Caroline Says - No Fool like an Old Fool [the line of best fit]
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens [the line of best fit]
Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On [popmatters]
Psychic Markers - Hardly Strangers [the line of best fit]
Keiji Heino and SUMAC - American Dollar Bill... [popmatters]
The Lovely Eggs - This is Eggland [the line of best fit]
S. Carey - Hundred Acres [the line of best fit]
Field Music - Open Here [the line of best fit]
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut [the line of best fit]
Charles Hayward and Thurston Moore - Improvisations [the line of best fit]
Quicksand - Interiors [the line of best fit]
Trupa Trupa - Jolly New Songs [the line of best fit]
Esmerine - Mechanics of Dominion [the line of best fit]
Melkbelly - Nothing Valley [popmatters]
Raleigh - Powerhouse Bloom [popmatters]
Chad VanGaalen - Light Information [the line of best fit]
Paul Draper - Spooky Action [the line of best fit]
Lo Tom - Lo Tom [the line of best fit]
Kacey Johansing - The Hiding [popmatters]
Ride - Weather Diaries [popmatters]
Evan Dando - Baby I'm Bored (reissue) [popmatters]
Man Forever - Play What They Want [the line of best fit]
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions [the line of best fit]
Helium - Ends With And [popmatters]
Disco Inferno - In Debt (reissue) [the line of best fit]
Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 2 [the line of best fit]
Tara Jane O'Neil - Tara Jane O'Neil [popmatters]
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy [popmatters]
Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution [the line of best fit]
Wire - Silver / Lead [the line of best fit]
Spiral Stairs - Doris and the Daggers [the line of best fit]
Gailes - Seventeen Words [popmatters]
Dude York - Sincerely [popmatters]
Pontiak - Dialectic of Ignorance [popmatters]
Idles - Brutalism [popmatters]
High Plains - Cinderland [the line of best fit]
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon [popmatters]
Grails - Chalice Hymnal [popmatters]
Lawrence English - Cruel Optimism [the line of best fit]
PVT - New Spirit [the line of best fit]
All Them Witches - Sleeping Through the War [the line of best fit]
Teen Daze - Theme for Dying Earth [the line of best fit]
Joan of Arc - He's Got the Whole This Land is Your Land in His Hands [popmatters]
Uniform - Wake in Fright [the line of best fit]
Papa M - Highway Songs [popmatters]
Muuy Biien - Age of Uncertainty [popmatters]
Redspencer - Perks [popmatters]
Loscil - Monument Builders [the line of best fit]
Bayonne - Primitives [the line of best fit]
American Wrestlers - Goodbye Terrible Youth [the line of best fit]
Holy Sons - In the Garden [the line of best fit]
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth [the line of best fit]
Benoit Pioulard - The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter [popmatters]
Few Bits - Big Sparks [popmatters]
Trails and Ways - Own It [popmatters]
Black Marble - It's Immaterial [popmatters]
Acrylics - DADA Minor [popmatters]
Luke Haines - Smash the System [the line of best fit]
Off World - 1 [the line of best fit]
Oddarrang - Agartha [popmatters]
Ultimate Painting - Dusk [the line of best fit]
Preoccupations - Preoccupations [popmatters]
The Verve - A Storm in Heaven / A Northern Soul (reissues) [popmatters]
Blue States - Restless Spheres [the line of best fit]
Eluvium - False Readings On [popmatters]
The Album Leaf - Between Waves [the line of best fit]
Peter Broderick - Partners [popmatters]
Tobacco - Sweatbox Dynasty [the line of best fit]
Atoms and Void - And Nothing Else [the line of best fit]
Jherek Bischoff - Cistern [the line of best fit]
Various Artists - C87 [popmatters]
Rhyton - Redshift [the line of best fit]
Hauschka - Room to Expand (Expanded) [the line of best fit]
Psychic Ills - Inner Journey Out [popmatters]
Colder - The Rain/Goodbye [the line of best fit]
Still Parade - Concrete Vision [popmatters]
Quasi - R&B Transmogrification, Featuring "Birds", Field Studies [the line of best fit]
Minor Victories - Minor Victories [popmatters]
Moonface and Siinai - My Best Human Face [the line of best fit]
Ilya Beshevli - Wanderer [the line of best fit]
Various Artists - Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980 - 1985 [popmatters]
Doomsquad - Total Time [the line of best fit]
Keeps - Brief Spirit [stereo subversion]
Suuns - Hold/Still and Bibio - A Mineral Love comparitive review [redefine]
Woodpigeon - Trouble [stereo subversion]
Jan St. Werner - Felder [the line of best fit]
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness [the line of best fit]
Black Mountain - IV [the line of best fit]
Aidan Moffat - Where You're Meant To Be [the line of best fit]
Quilt - Plaza [the line of best fit]
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause [popmatters]
Pete Astor - Spilt Milk [popmatters]
Field Music - Commontime [popmatters]
The High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees [the line of best fit]
Luke Haines - British Nuclear Bunkers [popmatters]
The Bluetones - Return to the Last Chance Saloon (reissue) [popmatters]
The Telescopes - Splashdown: The Creation Recordings 1990 - 1992 [popmatters]
Esmerine - Lost Voices [popmatters]
Mark McGuire - Beyond Belief [the line of best fit]
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Style [popmatters]
The Twilight Sad - Oran Mor Session [the line of best fit]
Born Ruffians - RUFF [popmatters]
Blitzen Trapper - All Across This Land [the line of best fit]
Girl Band - Holding Hands with Jamie [popmatters]
Telekinesis - Ad Infinitum [popmatters]
Masayoshi Fujita - Apologues [the line of best fit]
The Jam - About the Young Idea: The Very Best of the Jam [popmatters]
Talk In Tongues - Alone With A Friend [stereo subversion]
CFCF - Radiance and Submission [the line of best fit]
Tearjerker - Stay Wild [popmatters]
Eleventh Dream Day - Works For Tomorrow [popmatters]
Moullinex - Elsewhere [popmatters]
William Basinski - Cascade [popmatters]
Shopping - Consumer Complaints [stereo subversion]
Uniform - Perfect World [popmatters]
Diamond Youth - Nothing Matters [popmatters]
Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, girl [popmatters]
Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia [stereo subversion]
Kinski - 7 (or 8) [popmatters]
Broken Water - Wrought [stereo subversion]
Soley - Ask the Deep [popmatters]
Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh [popmatters]
Grounders - Grounders [popmatters]
Nocturnal Sunshine - Nocturnal Sunshine [redefine]
This Will Destroy You - Another Language [stereo subversion]
Braids - Deep in the Iris [popmatters]
Nai Harvest - Hairball [popmatters]
Wand - Golem [stereo subversion]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress [popmatters]
Indian Wells - Pause [redefine]
Inventions - Maze of Woods [stereo subversion]
The Monochrome Set - Spaces Everywhere [popmatters]
Bedhead - 1992-1998 [stereo subversion]
Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries [popmatters]
Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun [popmatters]
Krill - A Distant Fist Unclenching [stereo subversion]
Sam Prekop - The Republic [popmatters]
The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie [popmatters]
Disappears - Irreal [redefine]
Mount Eerie - Sauna [popmatters]
Loscil - Sea Island [popmatters]
Pour le Plaisir - Tin Machine EP [redefine]
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos [popmatters]
Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold [stereo subversion]
Owen - Other People's Songs [popmatters]
Two Inch Astronaut - Foulbrood [popmatters]
Last Ex - Last Ex [popmatters]
Young Widows - Easy Pain [stereo subversion]
Institute - Salt EP [popmatters]
Native America - Grown Up Wrong [popmatters]
Cult of Youth - Final Days [popmatters]
The Jazz June - After the Earthquake [popmatters]
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom [stereo subversion]
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave [popmatters]
The Posies - Failure (reissue) [popmatters]
Arp - Pulsars e Quasars EP [popmatters]
yMusic - Balance Problems [popmatters]
Hers - Youth Revisited [stereo subversion]
Equals - Tracts [stereo subversion]
Little Racer - Modern Accent EP [stereo subversion]
Mimicking Birds - EONS [stereo subversion]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Days of Abandon [stereo subversion]
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House [stereo subversion]
BLUFFING - Sugar Coated Pills of Wisdom [stereo subversion]
The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt [stereo subversion]
Hammock - Oblivion Hymns [stereo subversion]
Unwound - Rat Conspiracy [stereo subversion]
Owls - Two [stereo subversion]
Soft Science - Detour [stereo subversion]
Sun Kil Moon - Benji [stereo subversion]
Mogwai - Rave Tapes [stereo subversion]
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain [stereo subversion]
Into It. Over It. - Intersections [stereo subversion]
Minor Alps - Get There [stereo subversion]
Body/Head - Coming Apart [stereo subversion]
Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - s/t [stereo subversion]
Still Life Still - Mourning Trance [stereo subversion]
Obits - Beds & Bugs [stereo subversion]
Heirlooms of August - Down at the 5-star [stereo subversion]
CFCF - Music for Objects [stereo subversion]
Bestial Mouths - s/t [stereo subversion]
Hausu - Total [stereo subversion]
Ellen Allien - Sool [nylonmag.com, 2008]
Low vs. Diamond - s/t [nylonmag.com, 2008]