The Toro y Moi debut album, "Causers of This" (Carpark), which will be released in February, is a bit like listening to the Gap Band while submerged in a lake, familiar textures warped and decentered until the structure itself begins to reshape.
With the release of Supermogadon (Carpark) the 3rd cd by Marumari (my favorite artist on the label), Carpark's rep grows stronger by the minute.
The strong "Anything in Return" (Carpark), Mr. Bundick's recently released third full-length album, can't help but feel like a response to the womb he was born of.
"Grace/Confusion" (Carpark), the third full-length Memory Tapes release, marks a turn away from bright concision and toward a species of murky sprawl, though these are relative terms: the album clocks in under 40 minutes, and its experimental touches are modest.
Instead she met guitarist and keyboard player Alex Scally (if Mattel made bookishly hot band-geek Ken dolls, he could be the inspiration), and after practising in a basement together, they released their debut album Beach House on Carpark records in 2006.
Certainly no band is more powerful than the heat, as was clear Friday night at Death by Audio, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Speedy Ortiz was playing in celebration of the release of its full-length debut album, "Major Arcana" (Carpark).
She and her husband have campaigned for a change in the law relating to bail after their daughter, Jane, a nurse, was stabbed to death in a Blackpool hospital carpark in 2010 by her ex-partner, Jonathan Vass, who had been released on bail after being accused of rape and assault offences.
