INDOOR VOICES – s/t (2012) Atmosphere rock done right
Here’s your premise for this review. There are two ways to achieve a task: the right way and the wrong way, whether you are assembling a bookcase from IKEA (easier said than done) or making music. Oh...
View ArticleALL ABOUT EVE – Ultraviolet (1992) A lost dreampop classic
You probably haven’t heard of this album. If you haven’t and you like your rock music full of reverb, delay, genius psychedelic guitar playing, sweet female vocals and far-out atmospheres, then prepare...
View ArticleWHITE BLUSH – White Blush (2012) Yesterday’s haze today
I was both pleased and concerned when I got my first actual request from an independent musician for some coverage here in my humble corner of the cyberworld. I mean, I’d like to think I’m a pretty...
View ArticleA listener’s guide to THE CHURCH
This is a special post for me. Many people have a “personal” musical act that really inspired them during their formative years, and I’m no different. Around 1990, as a geeky, sort of introverted (ok,...
View ArticleConcert Review! Steven Wilson in Toronto, April 23, 2013
Here’s a new feature! Not one you should expect to see often, but when I go see a concert, I may as well write about it. I’m sort of a recovering prog-head. Which means I love prog-rock, still do. But...
View ArticleHER VANISHED GRACE – Star-Crossed (2012) The ocean of sound
Dream pop is a genre the aim of which is to use all the sonic tools available to a rock band to achieve a trancelike state in the listener. Without the invention of the delay pedal, dream pop would not...
View ArticleMay Netaudio Revue
Another month and another bushel of worthies have sent their wares my way so I can tell you about them. We have a selection of ambient both light and dark, some beats, and some synth-pop from around...
View ArticleBig June/July netaudio catch-up Part One
So I totally missed out on doing a netaudio roundup in June due to some crazy life circumstances. Since that’s one of this blog’s more notable features, it stinks. It happens in the best of families,...
View ArticleBig June/July netaudio catch-up Part Two
OK, it’s now August 2013. But I missed a month of roundups so I’m still catching up on July and June! And there’s still more left over! (part one is here) Ah ’tis work being a blogger of, um, some...
View ArticleMarch Netaudio Revue 2
Hey, lookit me slowly catching up on my submissions emails! And I did greatly enjoy the stuff you will be reading about and checking out below, much of which is free or cheap to own on your very own...
View ArticleFall 2014 Netaudio Revue 1
Make Your Own Taste’s submissions processes went into full crisis mode during the summer of 2014; success is hard to handle sometimes, and this site getting onto the radars of musicians worldwide meant...
View ArticleTHE CHURCH – Further/Deeper (2014) Neo-psych’s masters recharged
by Allister Thompson I almost didn’t review this album. Make no mistake, I completed my purchase with an eagerness I reserve for very few musical acts. If you’ve perused this site you’ll have found...
View Article10 Great Rock Albums from the Desolate 1990s
Time for a list because as all observers of the Internet well know, if you make an article into a list, far more people will read it. But I do try to make mine interesting for people with an attention...
View ArticleTWILIGHT FIELDS – Further Up, Further In! (2016)
Twilight Fields is another of my musical projects. There’s an explanation why this new one is out under yet another name. You may, if you read this blog, be familiar with The Gateless Gate, the name...
View ArticleHAMMOCK Reaches for the Heavens…and Takes Us Along
I started writing this site in 2012, but I actually didn’t listen to Hammock until…hmm, late 2016 maybe — around the time I stopped writing the blog. So, naturally, I never wrote about this duo during...
View ArticleConcert Review! Steven Wilson in Toronto, April 23, 2013
Here’s a new feature! Not one you should expect to see often, but when I go see a concert, I may as well write about it. I’m sort of a recovering prog-head. Which means I love prog-rock, still do. But...
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