Wilko Johnson
The Best Of (Cadiz Music) Sad that it took terminal illness to remind the UK that Wilko Johnson was a national treasure who had been ignominiously shuffled onto the sidelines, still better late than...
Category: Album Reviews
J Mascis
Tied to a Star (Sub Pop) Unlike his Dinosaur Jr. band-mate Lou Barlow J Mascis has seldom found the need to unleash his acoustic side, which is a bit sad as even a cursory...
Tricky
Adrian Thaws (Republic Of Music) Like many an artist whose debut calling card is such a game changer (some might argue no Tricky, no dubstep) Adrian ‘Tricky’ Thaws has spent the last, almost, 20...
Adam Cohen
We Go Home (Cooking Vinyl) Despite the obvious advantages in life Julian, Sean, Dhani, Baxter, Nora, Rufus, Martha, Ziggy, Damian and Jakob will all know about the weight of expectations having a famous dad...
Red Planet Orchestra
States Of Space (Paths Of Action) The first time this writer experienced the slowly unfolding textures of ambient music (and we’re not talking about the pan pipe/didgeridoo drivel that some people assault your ears...
Daevid Allen
Bananamoon Obscura 1 & 2 (Floating World) Remastered versions of albums 1 and 2 from Allen’s huge, and currently largely unavailable Bananamoon Obscura series (hopefully suggesting there’s more to come), the first being rehearsal...
Neil Young
Le Noise (Warners) Every Neil Young album of the past decade has had its moments of wonder (eg. ‘Bandit’ on 2003’s Greendale, ‘Ordinary People’ on 2007’s Chrome Dreams II), but in all honesty, Old Father Grunge...
Warren Zevon
Romantic Genius: The Love Songs (Rykodisc) The Love Songs is such an unlikely title for a collection of work by the legendarily barbed Zevon that you half-suspect the very suggestion of it laid down the...
The Zutons
Tired Of Hanging Around (Deltasonic) Second album from Liverpudlian five-piece The Zutons – the follow-up to 2004’s double platinum-selling and Mercury Music Prize-nominated debut Who Killed The Zutons, this time around with Stephen Street (of...
Warren Zevon
The Envoy (Asylum/Rhino) Part of a remastered trio that also includes live set Stand In the Fire and commercial peak Excitable Boy, The Envoyhas – perhaps inevitably given that it has never previously appeared on CD – been...
