Category: Album Covers

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Experimental, New Release, Soul, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Marcus Whale – Inland Sea

Marcus Whale (Collarbones) has made an impressive artistic statement with his debut solo album. Released digitally, with an accompanying physical book, Inland Sea explores queer and colonial Australian history through a dark and oblique gauze of minimal electronica. It veers between militant tech-heavy drums and glitchy whirs of atmospheric sounds that can draw a timeline back through artists such as Bjork and Photek. There’s an … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Marcus Whale – Inland Sea

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Americana / Alt-Country, Guitar Rock, New Release, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines

At the forefront of the loose scene of guitar adventurists that include Cian Nugent, Ryley Walker and Chris Forsyth, Steve Gunn is another who has figured out how to expand his sound to a full band and incorporate his lazy psych-rock vocals. The touchstones of Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine (Television) are obvious in the sparkling, spiralling guitar phrasings while on tracks such as Nature … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, News, Soul, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Dexys – Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul

Kevin Rowland has been bandying around the idea of an album of Irish songs for 30 years. Now he’s finally done it, in the process expanding out the remit to include non-Irish songs such as To Love Somebody (Bee Gees) and You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart) among others. They’ve applied a sparse and clean soul treatment to the songs, reinterpreting tracks made famous by … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Dexys – Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Metal/Hard Rock, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Surgical Meth Machine – Surgical Meth Machine

  Surgical Meth Machine is the latest warped incarnation from Al Jourgensen (Ministry, Lard, Revolting Cocks) with his longtime producer Sam D’Ambruoso and in many ways it acts as a summary document of all his musical explorations. From his early electronic days, through the industrial speed-freak sound of Ministry and the sample-laden diversions of other projects, Jourgensen has always revelled in the sublime and the … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Surgical Meth Machine – Surgical Meth Machine

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Indie Rock, New Release, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Damien Jurado – Visions Of Us On The Land

This is the last in a trilogy of albums that Jurado has released with producer/collaborator Richard Swift and it’s as immersive, wide ranging and often fantastical as its predecessors. Swift again brings a lushness of production to Jurado’s folk songs. He adds the drama, the texture and the light psychedelia that washes over the 17 songs. The album completes the tale of an individual who … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Damien Jurado – Visions Of Us On The Land

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Guitar Rock, Post-Punk, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free

On The Drones last album, I See Seeweed (2013), there was a sense that the band had reached terminal velocity with their brand of dense, churning rock music and elegiac, snaking balladry. Where could they go from there without repeating the format they’d seemingly mastered? The answer is Feelin Kinda Free – the title alone signalling a breaking of the creative shackles. Between albums they also … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Psych, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion

  This is the debut album from what is a veritable supergroup of modern psych rock/folk music. Meg Baird (Espers) on vocals & drums, Charlie Sauffley (Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound) and Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire) on guitars, and bassist Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin’ Rain) are your tour guides on this journey into tripped-out guitar solos, dreamy bewitching wanderings and plenty … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Indie Rock, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Suede – Night Thoughts

Their second album since reforming in 2010, Night Thoughts possesses the same trademark swagger and lush drama the band has been creating over the last 26 years yet it feels more considered, atmospheric and thematically pure. Brett Anderson explores his relationship with his parents and his own fears and neuroses as a father over an expansive musical backdrop. The epic art-rock guitar soundscapes and Anderson’s … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Suede – Night Thoughts

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Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Damien Jurado – Exit 353

  Damien Jurado has a new LP called Visions Of Us On The Land coming out on March 18h via Secretly Canadian/Inertia. It once again features producer Richard Swift and carries on the themes established on the excellent preceding albums Maraqopa and Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. ‘Maraqopa’ the album introduced a character – deliberately unnamed, intended to represent anyone feeling that way – who stumbles … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Damien Jurado – Exit 353

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Album Covers, Audio Stream, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental

NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

Texan post-rockers Explosions In The Sky return in 2016 with their new album The Wilderness on April 1st. Released locally on Spunk Records, The Wilderness is the band’s sixth album, and first non-soundtrack effort since 2011’s Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. TRACKLISTING 01 Wilderness 02 The Ecstatics 03 Tangle Formations 04 Logic of a Dream 05 Disintegration Anxiety 06 Losing the Light 07 Infinite Orbit 08 … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

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Album Covers, Funk, New Release, Pop, Soul

French Disco Boogie Sounds (1975-1984)

For total indulgence and unabated dance floor pleasure you can’t go past this compilation of French soul, pop, funk and disco tracks from 1975-1984. Selected by Charles Maurice, the album was released last year on the Favorite label. Hit the Bandcamp link below to stream and/or buy the album on 2LP, CD and digital formats. In their words: Helped by a close connoisseur friend, DJ … Continue reading French Disco Boogie Sounds (1975-1984)

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock

ALBUM REVIEW: Danzig – Skeletons

Covers albums can be hit or miss affairs, sometimes insightful and revelatory, often indulgent and derivative. Glenn Danzig’s selections and interpretations sit somewhere in the middle. He has certainly applied the demonic, grandiose metal Danzig sound to these songs, though often they sound like poorly recorded demos. In particular Elvis’ Let Yourself Go works well, as does his Ramones ramalama take on The Troggs’ With … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Danzig – Skeletons

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