keep calm stay home, A Theme For… (Give/Take Records)
I know how much a good percentage of my readership loves The Beatles, even if I don’t so much. I only bring it up because the artist in question here, London-based composer Oli Morgan, is the mastering engineer at legendary Abbey Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/01/26”
We Are Scientists, Lobe (Masterswan Recordings)
You may remember this New York City-based indie-rock band first surfacing in 2005 with their debut LP With Love And Squalor, a sturdy record that did well for sounding like a cross between Killers and Tokyo Police Club (I know, there’s not a Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/01/19”
Heroes and Monsters, Heroes and Monsters (Frontiers Music srl)
You get why this is a stupidly named band, right, like, I don’t have to explain that there’s a really great band called Of Monsters And Men already, and Lana del Rey has a song called “Gods & Monsters,” right? (Am Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/01/12”
Winery Dogs, III (Three Dog Music)
On Feb. 26, 2023, The Winery Dogs will be at Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, New Hampshire. They’re something of a rebirth of the hard rock superband Mr. Big, which older people will remember as an act whose main spotlight was on former Talas Continue reading “Album Reviews 23/01/05”
Justin Courtney Pierre, Permanent Midnight (Epitaph Records)
If you’re going to sound like a male version of Mazzy Star — I mean the full Monty of that vibe, the aural equivalent of sipping a vodka drink while floating around in a luxury pool and feeling the tremors as the earth Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/12/29”
Sarah Pagé, “Méduses” [single] (Forward Music)
You might remember this Montreal, Canada-based harp-experimentalist from her 2019 album Dose Curves, or, more likely of course, not, but as avant-music goes, this is something that might interest you, as she’s been working on a new record titled Voda, and this single Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/12/22”
Wolfgang Haffner, Silent World (BMG Records)
Jumping the gun a bit on this one, as it’s not out until the end of January, but it’s worth knowing about if you’re a jazzhead on a budget. German drummer and bandleader Haffner is a dreamer in sound whose real gift is being Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/12/15”
-(16)-, Into Dust (Relapse Records)
Come to think of it, it’s been a while since I covered a sludge-metal album, which is weird, because I usually get a lot of jollies out of that genre: usually you can count on hearing stuff that treads some sort of middle ground between Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/12/08”
Monster Magnet, Test Patterns: Vol. 1 (God Unknown Records)
Holy cats, a new Monster Magnet album, folks — there’s a jolt to the brain, isn’t it? They suddenly showed up from out of nowhere — a.k.a. Red Bank, New Jersey — working a noise rock angle that was, and I Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/12/01”
Soen, Atlantis (Silver Lining Music)
With Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s traditional holiday tour coming soon, our thoughts turn of course not to Santa Claus and all that stuff but instead to progressive metal bands, like this Swedish one, which first hit the scene in 2004 as a “supergroup” consisting of former Opeth Continue reading “Album Reviews 22/11/24”
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