Best Sex album ever

You start slow with chasing a bee... touching feeling out the situation. By Coney Island Cyclone you're naked and bodies are moving. The next few songs are for all the experimenting you want to do. Then Very Sleepy Rivers brings it all home in a rythmic pulsating orgasm. I don't see it here, but you get a little afterglow with the amazing Carwash Hair. In fact, if Car Wash Hair isn't included, I'd probably decline this download...though it's still the greatest sex album of all time.

BEST ALBUM OF THE DECADE

It's either this or Doolittle by The Pixies. Do yourself a favor and find the extremely limited "whipped" double disc version of this thing. It's a monster. Listen to the much more ballyhooed Flaming Lips albums and you'll be pleasantly surprised to find where Wayne and the Boys got that 180 out sound on The Soft Bulletin. This album is genuinely weird, poppy and filled with noise all at the same time. Not for the faint of heart.....

eMusic Features

09.13.11 Who Is...? 0

Who Are…Milagres

By Leonard Pierce, eMusic Contributor

With a sound as big as the sky and a lyrical approach as densely packed as any metropolis, Milagres, a Brooklyn five-piece freshly signed to Kill Rock Stars after a major personnel shake-up, doesn't need a compelling origin story for Glowing Mouth, its sophomore album. Still, as origin stories go, it's hard to beat Kyle Wilson's: "Our first album [2008's Seven Summits] was more of a calculated concept album, where I used mountaineering as a… more »

01.27.10 Six Degrees 0

Six Degrees of The Lonely Surfer

By Andy Beta, eMusic Contributor

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »

They Say All Music Guide

Music dictated not by logic but by intuition, Yerself Is Steam is an album at war with itself, split by its desire to achieve both melodic pop bliss and white-noise transcendence within the same space; it succeeds brilliantly, avant-bubblegum fuel injected by fits and flourishes of prismatic chaos. From the comic malevolence of David Baker’s mad-scientist creations to Jonathan Donahue’s opiate lullabies, Yerself Is Steam is vividly cinematic — between the roller coaster feedback of “Coney Island Cyclone” and the narcoleptic ebb and flow of the climactic “Very Sleepy Rivers,” the songs perfectly evoke their titular aspirations; likewise, from the album title (say it out loud) onward, the lyrics revel in the quirks and idiosyncrasies of language, buoyed by a homophonous prankishness and dada rhyme schemes, which, in their own odd way, suggest a kind of poetry. A near-perfect debut from a band that would only get better from here on out. [The American edition appends the superb single "Car Wash Hair," while some foreign releases include the bonus disc Lego My Ego, a crazy quilt knitted together from unlikely covers (Sly Stone's "If You Want Me to Stay," Miles Davis' "Shhh/Peaceful"), Peel Sessions highlights, and wonderfully loopy studio chatter.] – Jason Ankeny