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 Reviews
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?