ANNE MURRAY HERE YOU ARE UNIVERSAL MUSIC I grew up in the 1970s, and to be honest I have always had a big soft spot for Anne Murray. I could never admit it at the time, but I always loved her voice and choice of songs. She was huge in the 1970s [...]
GRANDSON INERTIA XX RECORDS It’s been two years since the last release from Los Angeles-based singer, rocker, and rapper grandson (aka Jordan Benjamin). On his third album, INERTIA, he has plenty to say, delivering 10 politically charged tracks [...]
ALEXEI SHISHKIN GOOD TIMES RUE DEFENSE Artists dabbling with all the variants of lo-fi/bedroom pop and all closely connected musical forms, seem to be having a sort of a hard time these days for no apparent reason, as quite a few of them are [...]
GWENIFER RAYMOND LAST NIGHT I HEARD THE DOG STAR BARK WE ARE BUSY BODIES Making an instrumental album is a tough prospect to start with, when it is a solo instrument affair even harder, and you can triple that if that instrument is an acoustic [...]
SAINT ETIENNE INTERNATIONAL HEAVENLY RECORDINGS After 35 years of reshaping British pop with wit, warmth, and club-ready elegance, Saint Etienne, the trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, and Sarah Cracknell, return with International, their 13th and [...]
YUSUF/CAT STEVENS ON THE ROAD TO FINDOUT: GREATEST HITS CAT-A-LOG RECORDS/A&M/UNIVERSAL Steven Demetre Georgiou, better known as Cat Stevens and now known as Yusuf Islam, released his first single in 1966 (“I Love My Dog”) and from that [...]
DAVID BYRNE WHO IS THE SKY? MATADOR RECORDS David Byrne is best known as the frontman of the legendary band Talking Heads, who helped shape the landscape of music in the ‘80s. He is also a prolific solo artist and, with his unique artistic [...]
RHYS FULBER MEMORY IMPULSE AUTONOMY ARTOFFACT RECORDS Memory Impulse Autonomy is Rhys Fulber’s eighth solo album since his solo self-titled debut album in 2018. He is, among other things, a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium (both [...]
