With Living Well, Rob Crow has created some of his finest work, even if you like to hesh it up metal style.  Full text...

Living Well is likely the most cohesive album to bear Rob Crow's full name on the cover-- he of Thingy, Heavy Vegetable, collaborations with mainstream alt-metallers and underground instrumental heavyweights, Clorox Wipes commercials, novelty-metal projects named for goblin appendages, goofy solo records devoted to arcane instruments, and the perpetually almost-blowing-up-huge Pinback.  Full text...

It’s all here: mid-to-slow tempo indie rock, usually on the softer side, with the occasional meter changes and drums that sound like or are indeed drum machines.   Full text...

As the title suggests, the music herein is undemanding, easy, melodic indie rock that (finally) doesn't try so hard to be funny. And in these direct senses the album succeeds at what it's attempting to convey. Crow isn't yet another new parent insisting that the rest of us understand the infinite mysteries and universal wonder of parenthood. He just sounds as if he's grown up a little.   Full text...

An album that, much like Pinback’s 2004 full-length Summer in Abaddon, is more immediate in its appeal but suffers from repeated listens.   Full text...