Tigercity show off their Fake Gold
“un-ironic lite rock sound ala Hall and Oates and Prince…” Press releases can be misleading and slightly worrying...
Year: 2010
Metric remixed
When Metric released ‘Fantasies’ back in April I was convinced it would easily make my top albums of...
Tim Williams Hits Another Wall
For a few months I’ve been haunted by the Tim Williams‘ track ‘I Hit Another Wall‘. Its gentle melody...
The White Stripes get the LehtMoJoe Treatment
Cougar Microbes favourite LehtMoJoe took a break from his frequent bastardization of some of my favourite rock tracks,...
STS9: Ad Explorata, Forward into the Unexplored
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) perfected their approach to mixing electronica and live band feel on their latest...
Vampire Weekend; the ‘Contra’ band
In 2008 Columbia graduates Vampire Weekend set the world alight with their self-titled debut album. The release, boasting...
#01 Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2009: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
My choice of #01 album of 2009 should come as no great suprise to regular Cougar Microbes readers...
#02 Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2009: Birdy Nam Nam – Manual For Successful Rioting
Any other year and the superbly titled ‘Manual For Successful Rioting’ would have easily been the runaway winner for...
#03 Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2009: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs flirtation with synth-pop was one of the talking points of 2009. Seemingly everyone (with the...
