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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999): Review
Produced by Dave Fridmann and The Flaming Lips Label – Warner Bros It’s difficult to assess what would have happened to Wayne Coyne’s Flaming Lips, had they not released one of the most incredible...
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Bob Mould – Patch The Sky (2016): Review
Produced by Bob Mould Label – Merge Mould seems to have accepted his position as the grizzled self analyzing statesman of punk/pop. His recent releases have all retained that familiarity with his...
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Maxwell – Now (2001): Review
Produced by MUSZE (Maxwell) Label – Columbia There’s a suitable time and place for almost all music. Some styles and genres comfortably fit into different environments, from the car, at home, with...
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Holger Czukay – Movies (1979): Review
Produced by Holger Czukay Label – Electrola When Krautrock visionaries Can split in 1978, bass player and sonic sorcerer Holger Czukay retired to his small Cologne studio and began to collect snippets...
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Goon Moon – Licker’s Last Leg (2007): Review
Label – Ipecac Side projects are always a mixed bag. They either capture the individual creative abilities of the protagonists for an interesting musical collaboration, or they fall flat in a tide of...
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The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect (2016): Review
Label – Domino It would be easy to suggest, judging by Alex Turner’s permanent residence in Los Angeles, that The Arctic Monkeys front man has lost much of the lyrical bite that brought tales of the...
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Gene Clark – No Other (1974): Review
Produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye Label – Asylum By 1974, Gene Clark’s record label (Asylum) were becoming increasingly frustrated with the demands and inactivity of an integral part of their roster....
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Vanessa Williams – The Comfort Zone (1991): Review
Produced by Vanessa L. Williams, Keith Thomas, Brian McKnight, Kenni Hairston, Derek Bramble, Gerry Brown, Bruce Carbone, Dave Darlington, DJ L.A. Jay, Ed Eckstine, Kipper Jones, Phase 5, Mark Stevens...
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PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016): Review
Produced by PJ Harvey, John Parish and Flood Label – Island/Vagrant Five years since the powerful evocation of the atrocity of war on the Mercury Award winning “Let England Shake” there seems to have...
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The Charlatans – Tellin’ Stories (1997): Review
Produced by The Charlatans and Dave Charles with Ric Peet Label – Beggars Banquet In spite of the continuing trauma and turmoil that surrounded The Charlatans “Tellin’ Stories”, the band’s survivalist...
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Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position (2007): Review
Produced by Patrick Wolf Label – Loog Records Eccentricity can be a strength and weakness for many artists. As English/Irish art rocker Patrick Wolf prepared for the North American release of his...
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Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth (2016): Review
Produced by Sturgill Simpson Label – Atlantic Simpson’s 2014 sophomore release “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music”, an intoxicating Grammy nominated new country and bluegrass hybrid, showed a potent...
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Genesis – Selling England By The Pound (1973): Review
Produced by John Burns and Genesis Label – Charisma By 1973, most who chronicled Genesis with any degree of intrigue would conclude that their following was more a dedicated cult, and that their rise...
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Thom Yorke – The Eraser (2006): Review
Produced by Nigel Godrich Label – XL For Thom, artistic complexity has been the necessary currency by which he has built his career. His standing in alternative rock has been one of ever changing...
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Travis – Everything At Once (2016): Review
Label – Red Telephone Box For the first couple of years of the new millennium, pop rock in the UK was dominated by two bands, Fran Healy’s Travis and Chris Martin’s Coldplay. 15 years later and the...
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The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker (1990): Review
Produced by George Drakoulias Label – Def American In an era where rock music was moving towards a seismic re-alignment, one has to credit Atlanta’s Black Crowes for sticking to their principles, even...
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Neil Young – Harvest Moon (1992): Review
Produced by Neil Young and Ben Keith Label – Reprise It may have been a necessity that enforced Neil Young to drop his axe and amp, and revert to acoustic guitar for “Harvest Moon”, the 20 year...
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Gregory Porter – Take Me To The Alley (2016): Review
For a jazz artist crossing his/her art form with pop music can be a hazardous affair. So called jazz aficionados often tend not to take the journey or the destination seriously and many recordings...
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Megadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? (1986): Review
Produced by Dave Mustaine and Randy Burns Label – Capitol 1986 was a pivotal year in the development of speed metal and thrash. Vital album releases from Metallica, Slayer, and the continuing rise in...
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Tin Machine – Tin Machine (1989): Review
Produced by Tin Machine and Tim Palmer Label – EMI Why, oh why ? David Bowie was one of the most gifted and outstanding artists to have appeared in the album charts over six decades. With...
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