Album Review: Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl)
Drawing in as many diverse elements of African-American music as you could care to name, Fantastic Negrito has presented a heady gumbo of an album which will surely garner a further Grammy nomination, to go with the two previous awards.
Album Review: The Killers – Imploding The Mirage (Island)
When is a band not a band? When you’re The Killers and your guitarist seems to have gone AWOL and your bass player is a part-timer.
Album Review: Billy Nomates – No (Invada)
A fresh and feisty young artist, Billy Nomates steps up to the world with a debut album of Stand-Up Rap Beat Poetry. This is the sound of the suburbs, streets and supermarkets.
Album Review: DMA’s – The Glow (I OH YOU)
The Glow is the 3rd studio album from Australian trio DMA’s is a shiny fast-moving brand new airmobile of Indie Rock and Britpop, fronted by a gifted singer.
Album Review: Psychedelic Furs – Made Of Rain (CookingVinyl)
Punk-era Art Rockers Psychedelic Furs let loose a stunning album of new material, 29 years after the last one. The brothers Richard Butler and Tim Butler are Voice and bass guitar, Poet and the Rhythm. The album is Made of Rain.
Album Review: The Stooges – Live at Goose Lake: August 8, 1970 (Third Man Records)
A legendary set from a Michigan Music Festival is unearthed, and we get to hear some of the primal raw power of the original Punks, The Stooges, in their classic line-up.
Album Review: Milly Tabak and The Miltones, Honest Woman (Milly Tabak Records)
The second album from Milly Tabak and the Miltones is Heartland Americana, where Milly stands out with a magnificent voice and the band comes on like the modern Muscle Shoals house band.
Album Review: Glass Animals – Dreamland (Polydor)
Dreamland is the third LP from Glass Animals and is reported to be an autobiographical tour of frontman Dave Bayley’s life.
Album Review: Hockey Dad – Brain Candy (BMG)
The third album from Australian duo, Hockey Dad, and they lay down their indisputable credentials as a life-affirming Power Pop force to be reckoned with.
Album Review: The Bobby Lees – Skin Suit (Alive Naturalsound)
Young four-piece band from Woodstock New York throw out a grenade of an album coming from the spiritual heart of the Los Angeles Punk scene of the Eighties.
Album Review: Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG)
At the 50-plus year mark of making parallel world Pop Art Prog Rock, the brothers Ron Mael and Russell Mael take us on a theatrical journey of music packed with humour and philosophy, most of which you can dance to and feel moved.
Album Review: Lime Cordiale – 14 Steps To A Better You (Chugg Music)
Hard-working brothers Oli Leimbach and Louis Leimbach deliver a sparkling gem of an album with their own specially developed brand of Aussie Power Pop.
Album Review: McStine and Minnemann – McStine and Minnemann
Two well regarded and highly productive musicians come together to deliver a debut album of theatrical and highly engaging Progressive Rock.
Album Review: The Milk Carton Kids, Live from Lincoln Theatre
The Milk Carton Kids are a folk duo, hailing from Eagle Rock California, with a fast-growing reputation as highly regarded Roots Americana artists. Live from Lincoln Theatre was recorded in 2013, while on tour promoting their second album, Ash & Clay.
Album Review: The Beths – Jump Rope Gazers (Carpark)
The Beths deliver a knock-out of a second album, Jump Rope Gazers, which seems destined to give them an international boost in these troubling times.
Album Review: James Reyne, Toon Town Lullaby (Bloodlines)
Eight years since his last studio album, James Reyne delivers the goods with Toon Town Lullaby, ten finely crafted songs delivered with a voice in great form and a highly polished but sympathetic production.
Album Review: Joe Ely, Love in the Midst of Mayhem (Rack ‘Em Records)
With Love in the Midst of Mayhem, the original Flatlander, Joe Ely trawls through his personal trove of unreleased songs stretching back to the 70’s to deliver a sombre but ultimately uplifting set of songs for the troubled America.
Album Review: Lucy and the Rats, Got Lucky (Dirty Water Records)
These Lucy and the Rats have come up with a perfectly packaged power pop minor classic. Don’t have a lot of information on them, but for the meantime jump around your living room (or bedroom) to this gem.
Album Review: Lewis Watson – The Love That You Want ( Cooking Vinyl)
Lewis Watson delivers a well-crafted Folk-Pop album on his third album release.
Album Review: Sneaky Bones, Little Words
Taking folk and Americana to broader places, Sneaky Bones is Matthew Bean, who hails from Oregon. His latest outing, Little Words was recorded in Sonoma California, amongst the heart of wine-making country and is both intimate and all-embracing.