Articles on music albums
Alternate Moving Pictures — What Moving Pictures? It’s a seminal Rush album. You know Rush, the marvellously long-lasted band who moved from Prog to ’80s almost and back to Prog with a little bit of Pop. Moving Pictures was their first number 1 in their homeland of Canada. It went to number 3 in the […] More
Sorry, I don’t smoke. When he asks you if you’ve got a light, that’s not what he means. The he is Brandon Phillips. The band is Mensa Deathsquad. This single is “Light,” but it isn’t. It’s called Electronic Darkwave, but it isn’t that either. So What Is It? There’s that bubbly, b-boy synth bass backing […] More
There’s never been a time when art wasn’t fascinating to talk about but my disposition dictates that the most interesting is invariably going to be “now”. Art informed by whatever is currently going on and the listener is living through is always going to be more exciting than that which we look back on, as […] More
A recent release from champions of the cassette tape only format Industrial Coast, The Miillion come on strong with their hard-hitting debut The Beat Up. Fusing big-beat, hip hop, heavy and ambient guitar and well chosen samples, it’s a record (or cassette!) that is more than the sum of its parts. Based in the North […] More
We need to be Baroque & Bleeding. We need the Ritualists. We’re just not sure. We don’t feel strong. We feel our own mortality. Don’t we, at the moment? Not all of us, but a lot. Our artistic life is so important, so vital to our lives and music seems central to that, as Pitchfork […] More
Michael James Pollard takes my photos. Well, he used to when I was an actor. I thought I might have some new photos of my new face (long story) done recently and he was the only photographer in mind. And he told me an extraordinary story. A story of being discovered. 40 years late. “I’ve […] More
Bruno Mars has a strange relationship with time and music. His early imprint on the charts in 2010, with singles like “Grenade” and “Just The Way You Are”, was a commercial success, but received mixed critical reviews. Subdued, saccharine vocals and generic lyrics were perceived as an inauthentic effort to please too many audiences at […] More
You have to admire Tom Morello. Well, it’s not a law or anything, but since Rage Against the Machine ended, this singular guitarist has not stunted himself in musical exploration. There’s the Classic Rock and Indie meld of Audioslave, his fabulous rap collaboration with Boots Riley, Street Sweeper Social Club and Rap Rock conflagration Prophets […] More
In her newly released vault track “Nothing New” with Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift laments: “how could a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22?” That energy, of a woman whose lived experiences have taught her only how little she really knows, pervades the fourth album of Adele. Like her previous albums 19, 21 […] More
With the imminent release of The Beatles Thanksgiving feast that Peter Jackson’s Get Back will (hopefully) be, now seems like just the right to time to delve into what often seems like one of the most divisive Beatles albums in their catalogue: Let It Be. And not just any version of the album either, the […] More
There’s a difference between having fun and making comedy. The Darkness are doing the former but not the latter. That needs to be mentioned because so many people discount them as a laugh. Background Mind you, Lowestoft’s finest haven’t done themselves any favours. Huge success with the debut, Permission To Land, huge arrogance in the […] More
This has an inevitability about it. When you’re a great exponent of Southern Rock with a dash of Funk on the side, the Blues are never far away and Gov’t Mule have visited it in Heavy Load Blues. With real class. Band mainman Warren Hayes told the Gov’t Mule website, ‘For me, personally, it’s kind […] More
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