Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters: Album Review
Lana Del Rey is all tangled up in blue on her latest album Blue Banisters. An expansive and soaring body of songs, literary and cinematic and riding along on an angelic voice.
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The Courettes – Back In Mono (Damaged Goods)
The Courettes present a thoroughly retro and immersive dive back into the period of music when Rock’n’Roll defined itself as an Art Form. This is Brazilian Flavia Couri voice and guitar and Danish Martin Couri drums and percussion. As The Courettes, they are simultaneously a Tribute Band whilst presenting all original songs.
Hollie Smith – Coming In From The Dark: Album Review
Hollie Smith ’s distinctive powerful voice lays out an intensely emotional ride of an album. Themes of loss, grief and death but you can climb on board this Gospel train and sense salvation. There is some of the Spirit in the Dark of Aretha. A little choke and sob of Gladys Knight. The soaring songbird […]
Amyl and the Sniffers – Comfort To Me: Album Review
Amyl and the Sniffers are a ferocious young Melbourne Punk quartet who can slice through your head and explode it whilst making you feel hot, sweaty and high. Amyl nitrate poppers are a fast surge and fade. So is Amy Taylor the singer and probably chief lyricist.
Alien Weaponry – Tangaroa: Album Review
Alien Weaponry – Tangaroa (Napalm Records) – Maori Haka and Metal makes for a thrilling warrior trio band from Northland New Zealand. Two brothers who combine their Northern European Dutch ancestry with a passionate and heart-felt activist expression of their Maori heritage.
Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol 5: Album Review
Voodoo Rhythm Label Compilation Vol 5: Various Artists and Labels Beat Zeller is a Swiss Rock’n’Roll fanatic. The founder and manic driving force behind Voodoo Rhythm Records. Performs as one-man-band, Reverend Beat-Man as well as other group projects. His specialty is mutant Garage Psychobilly Gospel Blues, by his own admission.
Missy – Major Arcana (ARKH): Wormholes of mysticism, Album Review
Missy – Major Arcana (ARKH Records). Avante Garde Pop with a broad palette which opens out into graphic art, theatre and cinema. Wormholes of mysticism. An ambitious journey of an album for Abigail Knudson and her musical persona Missy.
Reb Fountain – Iris (Flying Nun), a dream state & rebirth
Reb Fountain takes us into the rivers of the Bardo with fifth album Iris. The after-life or the dream state between death and rebirth. The album cover has a wild-haired Reb shot from behind. Looking up at a white light. Could be a stage light or the direction the Soul heads toward for a better […]
Jesse Malin – Sad and Beautiful World (Wicked Cool)
Jesse Malin sounds as familiar as an old friend you shared your best times and your most difficult with. More into comfort these days than his wild former self. Pitching himself perfectly between Tom Petty and Boss Springsteen. A slightly less melancholic Ryan Adams.
I’ll Be Your Mirror – A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico: Album Review
I’ll Be Your Mirror – A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico Various Artists (UMG Recordings, Inc). A defining moment in American music and art was the release of The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1967. Hated and ignored at the time when Flower Power and Hippie Good Vibes were ascendent. It went […]
