Wood
Artist: Moxy Früvous
Community Score: 8.00

After Moxy Fruvous built a Canadian audience with the novelty songs of their debut Bargainville, the fairly subdued and serious Wood came as a bit of a shock. The cover art, featuring a whimsical cartoon that has been replaced with a black-and-white photo of the band standing in the forest, illustrates the transition from quirky humor to earnest... Read More

The B Album
Artist: Moxy Früvous

The collection of songs on The B Album have a largely consistent and unchanging sound, despite having been written over a six-year period. All of the selections here feature tight vocal harmonies, lyrics that are sometimes silly but clever (and sometimes just plain silly), and a complete lack of attention to showy instrumentals. The very fact... Read More

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Artist: Ben Folds Five
Community Score: 6.99

The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting that has become the group's trademark. Like other piano-based rock composers such as Randy Newman and Todd Rundgren, principal songwriter and de facto leader Ben Folds... Read More

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - CD & VIDEO
Artist: Ben Folds Five
Community Score: 6.50

The follow-up to the popular Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five's third LP, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Mesner, continues the eclectic and clever songwriting that has become the group's trademark. Like other piano-based rock composers such as Randy Newman and Todd Rundgren, principal songwriter and de facto leader Ben Folds... Read More

Hurting - UK BONUS TRACKS
Artist: Tears for Fears

Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith's debut featured the morose synth-pop hits "Pale Shelter" and "Mad World." [Hurting is also available in an import release, with bonus tracks.] ~ Scott Bultman, All Music Guide Read More

Voodoo Dollies: The Best of Gene Loves Jezebel
Artist: Gene Loves Jezebel
Community Score: 8.33

Looked at in the cold light of day and from some years' distance, Gene Loves Jezebel would seem like the last band whose work would stand the test of time. Weird thing, though -- in all their "everything goes" exuberance, from abstract goth wailing to balls-out Sunset Strip rock, the Aston brothers, much like their labelmates in the Cult, made... Read More

Rain, Steam & Speed
Artist: The Mutton Birds
Community Score: 10.00

Envy of Angels has a higher percentage of remarkable songwriting, as anyone who's heard the smooth, flowing, lovely-but-not-wimpy "April," "Come Around," "She's Been Talking," and "Come Around" can attest. But that's not such a bad tradeoff for an LP that sounds more immediate; the self-produced Rain, Steam & Speed is less streamlined than Envy... Read More