http://www.iq451.com/ New CD reviews on iq451.com http://www.iq451.com/music/red-hot-chili-peppers.htm From Uncut Magazine: The album may be massive, but it’s intimate as well, thanks in part to the wise decision not to pile on the overdubs. Sat, 20 May 2006 12:14:00 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/red-hot-chili-peppers.htm From musicOMH: The problem is, when you've done something this good, where do you go from here? Sat, 20 May 2006 12:14:00 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/built-to-spill.htm From Nude As The News: As I sit here, listening to this album, trying to write this review, I wonder, when did self-indulgence become and art form and I why am I such a sucker for it? Sat, 20 May 2006 12:11:57 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/cat-power.htm From PlayLouder: the makers of this collection painstakingly translated and reinterpreted his lyrics from their sexy, guttural vernacular into cold, hard English Sat, 20 May 2006 12:11:57 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/pearl-jam.htm From PlayLouder: This is Pearl Jam, it's down to you whether that means anything or not. Sat, 20 May 2006 12:11:57 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/black-heart-procession.htm From PlayLouder: 'The Spell' marks their most successful record to date in creating a coherent aesthetic throughout; a beguiling and compelling atmosphere of black magic. Sat, 20 May 2006 12:11:57 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/dinosaur-jr.htm From Pitchfork: recommended to anyone too young to have heard them the first time around or ... to anyone who thinks being an autistic depressive can always be improved by a really kick ass guitar solo. Sat, 20 May 2006 11:34:08 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/black-heart-procession.htm From Pitchfork: It's no emotional picnic, but it contains moments of immense beauty and grand intensity, delivered from a wider palette than the group's ever used before. Sat, 20 May 2006 11:34:08 GMT http://www.iq451.com/music/ladytron.htm From Pitchfork: The music itself is inessential at best; at worst, it achieves this weird state of Too Much Information that somehow diminishes the actual album. Sat, 20 May 2006 11:34:08 GMT