Album Review: Haunted Shed – Faltering Light (Strolling Bones)
Haunted Shed is debuting their first album Faltering Light, but singer/songwriter Etienne De Rocher is no stranger to the music scene. After a brief hiatus and shift from San Francisco’s West Coast he moved to Athens, Georgia with wife Maria and their two children where he discovered new musical influences culminating in a new band and […]
Album Review: Chris Cornell – No One Sings Like You Anymore Volume One (UMe)
Chris Cornell, who many believe to be the ‘Founding Father of Grunge’, self-recorded a fifth and final solo album in 2016. And with a suggestive term such as Vol.1 hanging off the album’s title, could there be another down the road?
Album Review: The Routes – Mesmerised (Action Weekend)
Opening track Broken Goods off The Routes newest LP Mesmerised hits you hard and hits you strong with a thundering, reverb-soaked drum groove followed shortly after by a gnarly guitar riff, bass and scattered vocals dipping hard into garage punk that echo from their turf in Hita City, Japan.
Album Review: Be-Bop Deluxe – Drastic Plastic: The Esoteric Recording Edition (Cherry Red)
Spare now, a thought, for Be-Bop Deluxe, a hugely talented, widely forgotten band from the 1970s led by Bill Nelson, a man who, at the time, seemed strangely out of time.
Album Review: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Way Down In The Rust Bucket (Reprise)
Neil Young continues cranking out Archive releases at an astonishing pace ( I think another, titled Young Shakespeare, has just been let loose). But this 4-disc (on vinyl) takes time to get through, so here we are…Neil & The Horse, December, 1990.
Album Review: Adam Hattaway and the Haunters – Woolston,Texas
Adam Hattaway and the Haunters‘ new album, Woolston,Texas is rock’n’roll wrapped in Americana with an intoxicating rush of soul, romance and high spirits. At its core is songwriter, guitarist and lead singer Adam Hattaway, who sounds like he was raised listening to the King of Celtic Soul, Van Morrison.
Album Review: Bob Dylan 1970: With Special Guest George Harrison (Columbia)
Flog off your copies of Self Portrait and New Morning, this 3-disc (CD) set will render those two Dylan releases irrelevant.
Album Review: Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories (Edel Germany)
Alice Cooper’s Detroit Stories is an enjoyable blast of great and funny Rock’n’Roll with no remorse. Rev Orange Peel tackles the latest from the Grand Guignol of Rock Theatre.
Album Review: Sheppard, Kaleidoscope Eyes (Empire of Song)
Pop sensations from Brisbane Sheppard have released 15 singles from October 2019. All except one are here on this third album Kaleidoscope Eyes. A smooth shiny vehicle which does have the faint echo of Lucy in the Sky as the short instrumental title track invites everyone in.
Album Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage (Goliath)
Just months after releasing his solo live album, Idiot Prayer, Nick Cave is back, this time with Bad Seed Warren Ellis and an album Cave himself describes as “brutal, but very beautiful”.
Album Review: The Gold Needles – What’s Tomorrow Ever Done For You? (JEM)
Power Pop Yorkshire band The Gold Needles time-travel back to England of the mid-Sixties when The Beatles were re-inventing popular music from the inside.
Album Review: The Weather Station – Ignorance (Fat Possum)
Toronto-based artist Tamara Lindeman has just produced an early contender for album of the year along with her band The Weather Station.
Album Review: You, Me, Everybody – Southern Sky (Second Hand Records)
A debut album that has its heart in Americana and sounds like it has been fed from the same well that Dylan and especially The Band tapped into in the late Sixties in Woodstock, New York. Traditional Irish and Scottish music adding in ingredients of Jazz, Swing and Blues to make it sound simultaneously contemporary […]
Album Review: The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground (Spitfire Music)
Holy Ground is all about the culture and tradition of Rock music, and this album is a grand celebration of all its fine elements and ingredients. The continuing progression of White Revivalist Pentecostal and American Black Baptist Church music. Holy ground absolutely.
Album Review: Colette Rivers – Memory Lake
Colette Rivers debut album Memory Lake is a multi-layered opus of sound and textures which on the surface have a shimmering, radiant Indie Folk quality. Like Lake Taupo which is the inspiration for the title, still waters reveal a more complexity in the depths.
Album Review: Barry Gibb – Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1 (Capitol)
Sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb goes country! Or does he? This new album was recorded in Nashville, produced by Dave Cobb and features Keith Urban, Jason Isbell and Dolly Parton.
Album Review: Aaron Frazer – Introducing… (Dead Oceans)
The debut solo album by Aaron Frazer is actually a time vortex where you are transported back to the latter Sixties in America when Soul music was on an artistic plateau. Anyone hooked on Casey Kasem’s American Top Forty in that time will instantly recognise the Motown to Philly Soul to Stax sounds.
Album Review: Passenger – Songs For The Drunk And Brokenhearted (Nettwerk)
When did British singer songwriters start crooning away in such high voices and funny accents? Does it go back as far as the bards with their lutes, or the Bee Gees, or that other guy who I’d rather not say for fear of getting that song stuck in my head who used to drive tanks?
Album Review: Steve Earle – J.T. (New West)
With the new year kicking in, we at The 13th Floor are determined to cover as much new music as possible. Our first entry is this new album by Steve Earle titled J.T.
13th Floor’s Top 10 Albums of 2020
The new year has just begun, so what better way to spend New Years’ Day than to ruminate over last year’s best music?