Tag Archive for ‘Album Review’
And When They Sing: Spotlight on Neverending White Lights
I’m as much a sucker for one-man projects as I am for subtle, brooding atmosphere, and those two aweinspiring elements come together as one in Neverending White Lights. The sad truth is, a lot of people don’t appreciate how very hard it is for one man to put together an entire musical project. There are many who would… Read More ›
Suede returns in elegant fashion with latest LP, Bloodsports
A listen to lead-off track “Barriers” says it all – the rolling drums, thrumming bass, dramatic keys, aching guitars, and of course, leading man Brett Anderson’s singularly emotive voice – this here is the real deal. Put another way, with the recently reunited brit-pop act’s long-awaited latest album, Bloodpsorts, Suede is back in all the… Read More ›
ALBUM REVIEW: Camel – Moonmadness (1976)
It is very difficult to select just one record to cover from such a fantastic and underrated band, but we’d be here till the second coming if I were to go through all of Camel’s fourteen studio albums in detail. Instead, I’d have you take a look at the first one I ever picked up, and the… Read More ›
ALBUM REVIEW: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Push The Sky Away”
By now, Nick Cave has earned the right to put out a bad album. After leading, or more appropriately, surviving his early noise-punk band, The Birthday Party, and settling into a solo career that epitomizes brooding and sexual vindictiveness, I’d say that by album number fifteen, you can safely put out a McCartney-style Kisses on the Bottom… Read More ›
ALBUM REVIEW: Ra Ra Riot’s “Beta Love”
I’m sitting on the subway, headphones in (as usual) when I happen to glance up and catch a woman looking curiously over at me. I self consciously run a hand over my face, just in case some stray crumb is stuck to it, but to no avail. I then realize that I’ve been bobbing my head for… Read More ›
The Man in the Monocle: Milo Greene
Milo Greene is best played in a brightly lit living room on a Saturday morning, when all you want to do is relax and get to that space in your mind that comes right before you fall asleep. You delve into that magical place where you can lull, force your dreams to be what you… Read More ›
ALBUM REVIEW: Sugar & The Hi Lows – Sugar & The Hi Lows, 2012
Sugar & The Hi Lows’ 2012 self-titled EP is a debut, of sorts. Success is common for Nashville-based songwriters Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup, having more than 100 television appearances between the two of them. But Sugar & The Hi Lows is something old made new. Stepping out from the world of singer-songwriters, Sugar &… Read More ›
ALBUM REVIEW: My Bloody Valentine’s “mbv”
It’s hard to even begin to imagine our shared scenario. How many things seem unattainable to this degree? An object of wishful desire for an album with very little realistic run-up (but 22 years worth of speculation), mbv started as an overstated rumor from Kevin Shields himself, the assumed follow up to 1991’s impossibly impressionable… Read More ›
Outside the Time Continuum: First Aid Kit’s The Lion’s Roar
Gram Parsons was dark minded, mysterious, talented, and he was the inspiration for The Rolling Stones’s song “Wild Horses.” Though considered the father of ‘cosmic American music’, his contributions somehow always faded into obscurity. Never receiving the attention they deserved, his career never bloomed into illustriousness as it should have. In 1971, he walked into… Read More ›
The Tyranny of Sorrow: Spotlight on Grauzeit
Perhaps the most exciting thing about progressive music is that it transcends the genre it has become. The irony is that while it is true that when it all began, progressive (forward-thinking) musicians were so against the very idea of walling oneself into a particular style of music that they inadvertently created their own style of music that… Read More ›
