Album Review: The Dandy Warhols – Why You So Crazy (Dine Alone)
It’s been a long, strange trip leading up to The Dandy Warhols’ 10th album. With Why You So Crazy, the band takes us on a wayward musical journey that goes everywhere and nowhere.
Album Reviews
Album Review: Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow (Jagjaguar)
Indie darling Sharon Van Etten returns with her 5th album and her first since 2014’s Are We There.
Ray Davies – Our Country: Americana Act ll (Legacy)
The former (and possibly future) Kinks front man continues his exploration of his relationship with the US where he has lived, off and on, for the past 20 years.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs (Ivy League)
For those lucky enough to catch RBCF at Laneway Fest this year they will know all about their wonderful slacker-jangle and swagger.
Petal – Magic Gone (Run For Cover/Cooking Vinyl)
Paranoia, anxiety, guilt and pain…these are the building blocks that make up Magic Gone, the second album by Petal…aka Kiley Lotz
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage (Fat Possum)
What do you get if you mix the sound of downbeat producers Air with the creepy vibes of David Lynch, the sultry vocals of Melanie Pain and then force it all through a psychedelic lemon squeezer? Well, this, I imagine.
Olivia Chaney – Shelter (Nonesuch)
Olivia Chaney’s second album is an accomplished and smooth, if unexciting, collection of chamber folk ballads. The follow-up to 2015 debut The Longest River treads much of the same ground as that album – Chaney’s soft elegant vocals, sparse acoustic backing, mid-tempo carefully dignified compositions.
Luke Haines – I Sometimes Dream Of Glue (Cherry Red)
It’s not mandatory, but it helps to know a few things about Luke Haines before leaping, headlong into his new album.
Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic (Warner Bros)
Its hard to believe that next month will be the one-year anniversary of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington’s passing, which makes Mike Shinoda’s debut solo EP, Post Traumatic just that little bit more poignant.
Shannon Shaw – Shannon In Nashville (Easy Eye/Nonesuch)
Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach seems to be on a one-man crusade to make records “the way they used to”.