Posts Tagged ‘Erik Wofford’

Album Review: Ghost of the Russian Empire - The Mammoth

By Mark Topel • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Album Review, Music

The Mammoth is big. It’s unlikely that Ghost of the Russian Empire named the album to describe their sound, but it’s certainly fitting. On their first LP (following last year’s EP, With Fiercest Demolition EP), Ghost of the Russian Empire push with post-rock intensity and eloquence, offering a frightening conceptual album large enough to get lost in while also being surgically concise.

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Album Review: Canopy – Canopy/Anopy EP (Autobus)

By John Michael Cassetta • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Album Review, Music

Martin Crane and Erik Wofford are Austin’s production dream team. These two masters could make even a high school ska band sound good. But for as much talent as there is behind the knobs and switches on this recording, there’s just as much talent on the business side of the microphones, compliments of Praveen Ayyagari, with some help from Martin Crane and a few others, including members of White Denim and Tacks, The Boy Disaster. After listening to album after album of new music, it’s nice to sit back, relax and tap my foot along to Canopy’s first offering, a short, 5-song, laid-back (in a good way) EP called Canopy/Anopy.

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