It has been 18 months since The Black Keys released the immensely successful Brothers. The Ohio blues-rock duo’s new release, El Camino, is clearly a product of the same period of inspiration and...
Having recently released the incredible All Delighted People EP it should already be clear to most that the past 5 years of relative obscurity and lack of original solo output have been good to...
Response to: Delays - Star Tiger Star Ariel (Lookout Mountain)
Lost? Flying ear-phones? Quasi Boyzone production? et deadening cetera ... Nice review. Well done.
Response to: Wive – PVLL (Exile On Mainstream)
I found Wive by accident. Their music drew me in and I find it kind of haunting in a way. I am 44 and have over 20,000 songs in my collection ranging from Krautrock, bluegrass, Eno, Hardcore, and...
Response to: Sian Alice Group – Troubled, Shaken Etc. (Beautiful Happiness/Social Registry)
A very beautiful and moody thing indeed. Often, saying something is a good record to fall asleep to is taken as a derogatory description. When in fact, when deliriously sleepy records like this are...
Response to: PENS – Hey Friend What You Doing? (De Stijl)
Easily as cool as Lovvers, Mika Miko, Wavves et al, and with none of the pretentiousness that often suffocates all meaningful discussion of the aforementioned bunch. Proof that anyone could, and...