The Waterboys Good Luck, Seeker Cooking Vinyl The Waterboys’ Good Luck, Seeker comes one full year since their last album, Where The Action Is. Once again Mike Scott and company’s music defies categorization. Actually, that sums up the entire [...]
The Killers Imploding The Mirage Island Records The highly anticipated sixth studio album by The Killers titledImploding The Mirage was recorded in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Park City Utah, where lead vocalist and writer Brandon Flowers has [...]
The Cradle Laughing In My Sleep NNA Tapes How do you make a difference as a singer/songwriter? Well, you can start by creating music under a band moniker, but that certainly isn’t enough. The other possibility could be to make spontaneous [...]
The Lemon Twigs Songs For The General Public 4AD Returning after their previous release, ambitious rock opera Go to School, Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario get back to the basics with more straight-ahead pop songs. Songs for the [...]
South Of Eden The Talk Lava Records Previously known as Black Coffee, the newly-named South Of Eden have returned with The Talk. The four-track EP is not only their debut under the new moniker, but also marks their label debut since signing with [...]
Pat Keen Cells Remain Birdwatcher Records It has now become quite a common thing for an artist to move from one genre to another. This is particularly true, say, if you start out as a jazz experimentalist or an all-out rocker and, for whatever [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master) Craft Recordings Originally released in 1970, Cosmo’s Factory was the fifth full-length album from Creedence Clearwater Revival in the two years since the band had [...]
Jonathan Richman I, Jonathan Craft Recordings Jonathan Richman’s 1992 masterpiece I, Jonathan, is now remastered for its first ever vinyl release. The cover should say it all, initially. You see Richman smiling, but it is a smile that reflects [...]
Kathleen Edwards Total Freedom Dualtone Records With her first release in over eight years, Ottawa singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has returned with musical tales about her career, good times, bad times, lovers, dogs, drinking, and her [...]
Arlo McKinley Die Midwestern Oh Boy Records A debut album at 40? Before you rise your eyebrows or hear a single note from Arlo McKinley’s album Die Midwestern, bear one fact in mind–McKinley was the last artist signed to the late great John [...]
Krief Chemical Trance Indica Patrick Krief, simply known as Krief, has been prolific as of late. He had released his best to-date body of work, Dovetale, in the summer of 2019. Now, in just a sliver over a year, Krief has outdone himself and [...]
Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter Partisan Records In an ocean of undistinguished voices, Laura Marling’s soothing, quiet vocals bob gently above the tide. Her latest album, Song for Our Daughter, is no exception as Marling pens songs to a [...]
Crown Lands Crown Lands Universal Music Following two critically acclaimed studio EPs, 2016’s Mantra and 2017’s Rise Over Run , and their recent and fantastic acoustic EP, Wayward Flyers Vol. 1 released earlier this year, Crown Lands have [...]
Matt Pond PA Songs of Disquiet 131 Records Matt Pond and Chris Hansen have been making music together for over a decade under the name Matt Pond PA. Their most recent batch of songs, an EP titled Songs of Disquiet, is soothing and pleasant, yet [...]
Allegra Krieger The Joys Of Forgetting Northern Spy Records These days, there are so many singer-songwriters around, male or female, you can easily get the impression that they’re doing one and the same thing. Still, you can actually divide them [...]
Ian Daniel Kehoe 3D Of IDK Tin Angel Records Ian Daniel Kehoe is a remarkably talented musician, best known for drumming with The Weather Station and Julia Jacklin, as well as his work with Daniel Romano and Attack In Black. With 3D Of IDK, [...]
Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan Records A Hero’s Death, the followup to 2019’s highly acclaimed Dogrel, is an introverted, thoughtful, and oftentimes melancholy album that was shaped largely by the months of touring and promoting of [...]
Rival Consoles Articulation Erased Tapes Records Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, is so adept at crafting sonic landscapes, so talented at building beautifully layered songs, and so intuitive at constructing an album that moves the listener [...]
Paul McCartney Flaming Pie: Paul McCartney Archive Collection MPL/Universal Music Flaming Pie was originally released in 1997, and was McCartney’s 10th solo album. It was also his first album following The Beatles Anthology, and he was quite [...]
Charley Crockett Welcome To Hard Times Thirty Tigers The battle between the fans of old classic country and of new country rages on. Arguments fly, but most of them won’t stick to the wall for more than a few seconds. In comes Charley Crockett [...]
The Psychedelic Furs Made Of Rain Cooking Vinyl It’s been 29 years since the last Psychedelic Furs album, 1991’s World Outside, but between 1980 and 1991, the band released a total of seven albums that featured such well-known radio [...]
The Zombies R.I.P. Craft Recordings Originally intended as the follow-up to the 1968 masterpiece, Odessey & Oracle, R.I.P went unheard for over 30 years. While it found its way out of the shadows with an official Japanese release in 2000, [...]
The Zombies I Love You Craft Recordings I Love You, a compilation that features many well-known tracks by The Zombies, was previously only available in Japan and The Netherlands. With the recent reissues from Concord Craft Recordings, this LP [...]
The Zombies The Zombies Craft Recordings The Zombies’ self-titled US debut was quite typical of ‘60s English bands. Common in those days, the US release would differ slightly from its UK counterpart which, in this case, is Begin Here. Aside from [...]
