The Cardigans: First Band on the Moon
I won't even call this a guilty pleasure because it's too good for that. You probably remember The Cardigans for their kitschy pop hit from 1996: Lovefool. Give the whole album, First Band on the Moon, a listen with a good pair of headphones. They're a tight band and the layers of sound are truly colorful without sounding over-produced. On tunes like "Losers" and "Step On Me," Nina Persson delivers some surprisingly dark lyrics with her "girly" voice over a variety of guitar and synth timbres. And sorry old-school metalheads, but I LOVE their lounge/trip-hop cover of "Iron Man."
I won't even call this a guilty pleasure because it's too good for that. You probably remember The Cardigans for their kitschy pop hit from 1996: Lovefool. Give the whole album, First Band on the Moon, a listen with a good pair of headphones. They're a tight band and the layers of sound are truly colorful without sounding over-produced. On tunes like "Losers" and "Step On Me," Nina Persson delivers some surprisingly dark lyrics with her "girly" voice over a variety of guitar and synth timbres. And sorry old-school metalheads, but I LOVE their lounge/trip-hop cover of "Iron Man."
Comic books: Prophet
I'm hooked on this after reading about it on a geek-site and grabbing the first issue online. Prophet is a weird, trippy, biological tale of John Prophet, a cloned earthling who wakes up in the distant future on a mission to re-establish the Earth Empire. It turns out there are hundreds of Prophet-clones scattered throughout the galaxy and the writers have a field day with this, creating countless worlds for these Prophets to explore. The environments are usually "alive," quite literally in the sense that many of the worlds, buildings, and modes of transportation are creatures feeding off each other. Go check out issue 21 (first issue of the re-launch) at Comixoloy.com for free!
I'm hooked on this after reading about it on a geek-site and grabbing the first issue online. Prophet is a weird, trippy, biological tale of John Prophet, a cloned earthling who wakes up in the distant future on a mission to re-establish the Earth Empire. It turns out there are hundreds of Prophet-clones scattered throughout the galaxy and the writers have a field day with this, creating countless worlds for these Prophets to explore. The environments are usually "alive," quite literally in the sense that many of the worlds, buildings, and modes of transportation are creatures feeding off each other. Go check out issue 21 (first issue of the re-launch) at Comixoloy.com for free!
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