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Silje Nes

Opticks

(Fat Cat)   www.fatcatrecords.com   Norway's Silje Nes home records, and while it adds warmth and intimacy to her songs, they come off so delicate and cocoon-like they can induce cla more...

Silos

Florizona

(Sonic Pyramid)   www.thesilos.net   Over the course of their 25-year career, the Silos have earned an enviable reputation as one of the nation's sturdiest outfits, given a fierce to more...

Silver Jews

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

(Drag City) www.dragcity.com     In the packaging for the Silver Jews’ sixth album, bandleader David Berman includes a hand-drawn chord chart and an entreaty reading, “An more...

Silver Seas

Chateau Revenge

(Cheap Lullaby)   www.thesilverseas.net   When listening to the Silver Seas' Chateau Revenge, you're faced with a predicament. Do you enjoy it for what it is - a pristine pop record more...

Silversun Pickups

Swoon

(Dangerbird)   www.dangerbirdrecords.com   Silversun Pickups were one of the surprise breakthrough bands of 2006, with a debut album that combined loud, shoegazey guitars with beaut more...

Simon & Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water (40th Anniversary Edition)

(Sony/Legacy)   www.legacyrecordings.com   One would be hard pressed to identify any album that better encapsulated the sunset of the ‘60s and the fading glow of optimism that more...

Simon and Garfunkel

Live 1969

(Columbia/Legacy)   www.columbiarecordings.com   Nixon was in the White House as the Vietnam War raged on, but it was all peace and love when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, two over- more...

Simon Joyner

Out Into the Snow

(Team Love)   www.team-love.com   At times, it's hard to tell where Simon Joyner's favorite records end and he begins. The way he talks as much as sings his way through "Ambulances" more...

Simone White

Yakiimo

(Honest Jon's Records)   www.honestjons.com   Without paying close attention, Simone White may come off as merely another quirky, delicate ingénue upon first listening. But st more...

Sin Fang

Summer Echoes

(Morr Music)   www.morrmusic.com   With a slightly changed name and a pack of Icelandic all-stars, Sindri Már Sigfússon returns to the hinterlands of wistful melodic po more...


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