Album Review: LoneLady – Former Things (Warp)
Julie Campbell started work on the third LoneLady album, Former Things, when she took up a residency at Somerset House’s studio in London in 2016.
Album Reviews
EP Review: Freya – Wildest Creatures I’ve Dreamed
North Shore teen Freya serves up her Wildest Creatures I’ve Dreamed.
Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man)
Forty one years ago Joy Division charted the emotions of the failing end of a relationship in their classic song Love Will Tear Us Apart and that same sad territory is mapped in Utopian Ashes by Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth. On their first album together Gillespie and Beth use country and chamber pop to […]
Album Review: Hiss Golden Messenger Quietly Blowing It
With a Grammy nomination in his back pocket, M.C. Taylor (aka Hiss Golden Messenger) is on a roll and Quietly Blowing It looks to be one of the year’s finest Americana records.
Album Review: Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
The album Planet (i) is titled for a new world that Ella Williams, who is Squirrel Flower, imagines people settle and destroy after leaving earth and for her internal world of thoughts and feelings.
Album Review: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Hope
This is the third album for the three piece Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog which is Ribot, plus two members of the Secret Chiefs 3 avant-rock band. The band has Shahzad Ismaily, on bass and synth and Ches Smith on drum, percussion and electronics. To enjoy their work it probably helps if you tastes run to […]
Album Review: Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend (Liberator)
After the steady progress of their first two albums Wolf Alice have taken a bold step forward with their new album Blue Weekend. The album combines soaring well crafted dynamics, subtle playing and stunning vocals with lyrics that fearlessly tackle a range of human emotions.
13th Floor Album Review: Thomas Isbister – #5
The first impression listening to Thomas Isbister’s brand-new album is Beatles. Specifically, 1966 and the switch to studio artists. Revolver to Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. Pop music as myriad and quietly subversive. Psychedelic and hallucinogenic. Unsettling but what a nice trip, and at the end you find yourself in a changed world.
Album Review: Chris Thile – Laysongs (Nonesuch)
American bluegrass musician Chris Thile has just released his new album, Laysongs…a truly solo effort. The 13th Floor checks it out.
Album Review: The Datsuns – Eye To Eye (Hellsound Records)
The new Datsuns album Eye To Eye is first and foremost great fun from start to finish. Seven years in the making, but it sounds seamless and fresh and it touches on many classic periods of Rock (& Roll).