Laura Jane Grace, Stay Alive (Polyvinyl Records)
Laura Jane Grace has a lot her plate dealing with being the most wellknown punk-rocker in the LGBTQIA community. Thankfully, this time out, she didn’t even bother trying to bring in her band, Against Me!, through some sort of awkward Zoom collaboration in Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/10/22”
CrowJane, Mater Dolorosa (Kitten Robot Records)
For your Halloweening pleasure, we have this Los Angeles lady, last seen as the guitarist of Egrets On Ergot, a noise-rock band with the sound of early Nick Cave and the aesthetics of Dresden Dolls. The story goes that L.A. punk legend Paul Roessler Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/10/22”
Yellow Days, A Day in a Yellow Beat (RCA Records)
If you believe the hype bubbling up around this second album from Yellow Days, a.k.a. George van den Broek, he’s successfully bending ’70s radio-funk into a form of “upbeat existential millennial crisis music.” What that translates to in the real Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/10/15”
Tedy, Boys Don’t Cry (Sony Records)
This mononymed 28-year-old singer comes to us from Haiti by way of Montreal, where he’s most recently occupied himself with accumulating a gigantic flock of followers on TikTok and Instagram. He came out as gay on TikTok, which unleashed a tidal wave of attention Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/10/08”
U96 with Wolfgang Flür, Transhuman (Radikal Records)
The march of 1980s Nintendo-techno continues, this time with a worthy-enough pair-up between former Kraftwerk percussionist Flür and whatever’s left of U96, a project originally helmed by Alex Christensen, who’s no longer part of it. Just to be a jerk, I talked about Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/10/01”
Clan of Xymox, Spider on the Wall (Metropolis Records)
This Dutch goth-rock outfit, originally comprising three songwriters, is nowadays down to one prime mover, Ronny Moorings, who’s been at the helm since, well, forever now, the early 1990s. After some success on the 4AD and Polydor labels, including a whopping Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/09/24”
Allegra Levy, Lose My Number: Allegra Levy Sings John McNeil (SteepleChase Productions ApS)
You may have noticed that not a lot of jazz vocalists’ albums make it into this space, or maybe not, but I’ll tell you that the main reason for it is that I’ve heard too many that Continue reading “Album Reviews 20/09/17”
