Don McGlashan – Bright November Morning: Album Review
Don McGlashan finally gets his Bright November Morning, but a few months later than planned. Fortunately, good things are worth waiting for.
Album Reviews
BROODS – Space Island: 13th Floor Album Review
BROODS cruise through their Space Island album on their familiar Indie Pop vehicle but the landscapes they navigate are invested in strong emotions of heartbreak and loss.
alt-J – The Dream: 13th Floor Album Review
alt-J create a perfect dream world on fourth album The Dream. Strange associations and allusions. Multiple narrative perspectives and constantly shifting and morphing landscapes. As English as Alice in Wonderland but simultaneously wandering through the psyche of spiritually bankrupt California.
The Delines – The Sea Drift: Album Review
The Delines third album is equal parts short films, short stories and Suburban Country Music. Sundance, SXSW Austin music festival and John Steinbeck in four minute vignettes. Read Rev Orange Peel’s review.
Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa: Album Review
Spoon are the perfect band for musical obsessives and close to the thirty-year mark comes their tenth studio album Lucifer On The Sofa. Being regarded as a critic’s band can be a curse but back the perpetually morphing outfit come. Here, there and everywhere.
Mitski – Laurel Hell: Album Review
Mitski is a relatively new and exciting Pop artist running hot as an ingenue singer-songwriter, and she blooms with darker material on Laurel Hell.
The Temptations – Temptations 60: Album Review
The Temptations are the foundation group from which Soul music was defined. Of course, there are others, but for laying down the blueprint and then to be at the forefront of innovation over a long haul, they are the Emperors of Soul.
Forenzics – Shades And Echoes (Warner Bros)
Forenzics is Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner who, along with a few friends, have sieved through classic Split Enz tunes and created 14 new tracks that are incredibly fresh and vibrant sounding.
Greensky Bluegrass – Stress Dreams: Album Review
Greensky Bluegrass are Bluegrass practitioners in a parallel world from which they seem to have become a Grateful Dead hybrid. The core trio, Paul Hoffman mandolin, Dave Bruzza guitar and Michael Bont banjo came together in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000. Essentially an American string band, they honed their craft through countless open mike sessions. At […]
Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (EWorks/PIAS): Album Review
Eels practice Extreme Witchcraft on this, their 14th studio album. For this one Mr. E is back working with his Souljacker co-producer John Parish.