History is a fickle and often unreliable narrator. When it comes to thinking about the Britpop movement of the ‘90s, it usually goes Blur vs. Oasis and Album Reviews
Martin Carr
The Breaks
October 13th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
History is a fickle and often unreliable narrator. When it comes to thinking about the Britpop movement of the ‘90s, it usually goes Blur vs. Oasis and
Leonard Cohen
Popular Problems
October 8th, 2014 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
With an iconoclastic artist like Leonard Cohen, a new album is almost irrelevant. Possessing a lengthy discography of records filled with the kind of religious
Erasure
The Violet Flame
October 3rd, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If thrash metal has its “big four” (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer), then synth-pop needs to have a “big three.” The members would be Depeche Mode
Tricky
Adrian Thaws
October 1st, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Since coming back from a five-year absence with Knowle West Boy in 2008, Tricky has been on a bit of a tear. While he hasn’t approached the prolificacy
Caribou
Our Love
September 26th, 2014 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Caribou, the performance name of the Dundas, Ontario, composer/musician Dan Snaith, has seen a few changes in its lifetime (not unlike Snaith himself
Information Society
Hello World
September 24th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | 5 Comments »
An underappreciated aspect of the ’80s is just how much weird stuff not only invaded pop culture, but also became wildly popular. Of course with the passage
Karen O
Crush Songs
September 23rd, 2014 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Feeling rejected or receiving the brunt of a break up seems universal. Equally so might be the spurt of inspiration that comes of it. While dumped laymen
God Help the Girl
God Help the Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
September 22nd, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
This is a bit complicated, but try to stay with me. In 2004, Stuart Murdoch, leader of Belle & Sebastian, decided to launch a girl-group
Sinkane
Mean Love
September 19th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
The man known to the public as Sinkane, but to the government and his friends as Ahmed Gallab has always been a hard one to pin down. After three records
U2
Songs of Innocence
September 17th, 2014 | by Chris Sabbath | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
I’ll get right to the point: this album stinks! It reeks like the bloated and putrid corpse of The Fly, Bono’s leather-bound, sunglasses-sporting alter-ego