Category: Reviews – Audio
Glorious metal in all its earthly forms, compressed onto shiny plastic discs or into digital files. Which ones will become the soundtrack to your life?
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Various Artists – Stranger Things 4 – Soundtrack From The Netflix Series 2LP
Various Artists Stranger Things 4 – Soundtrack From The Netflix Series 2LP (Legacy/Sony Music) I usually steer clear of soundtracks because I’m not the greatest fan of compilations in general. When I throw on a record, I usually want to hear an artist’s idea seen through from start to finish as well as all of…
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The Christian Family – The Raw and Primitive Sound of The Christian Family LP
The Christian Family The Raw and Primitive Sound of The Christian Family LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) With the success of bands like The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Death From Above and Japandroids in hand, making a guess about the probable sound of The Christian Family – another two-piece American band – seems like it…
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Beat-Man & The Underground – It’s A Matter Of Time – The Complete PALP Session LP
Reverend Beat-Man & The Underground It’s A Matter Of Time – The Complete PALP Session LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) In this era of digital production, rare is the album which feels and sounds dirty. Now, I don’t mean “dirty” in the sense that it was recorded poorly or the sound quality is poor, I mean…
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Maren Morris – Humble Quest LP
Maren Morris Humble Quest LP (Columbia/Sony Music) It’s funny how, as good as each of the eleven songs are on Maren Morris’ Humble Quest are, trying to pin down their appeal will probably take listeners a minute. For example, when “Circles Around This Town” opens the A-side of the album, listeners will be able to…
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OFF! – Free LSD LP
OFF! Free LSD LP (Fat Possum Records) To say that the last few years have been marked by difficulty and upheaval for OFF! would be an understatement. After Wasted Years was released in 2014, OFF! kept excitement levels up with the announcement that they were working on a feature film project (to be entitled Watermelon)…
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L7 – Bricks Are Heavy 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue
L7 Bricks Are Heavy (30th Anniversary reissue) LP (Licorice Pizza Records) Looking back on it now, it’s pretty pitiful how unprepared the music industry was for L7. When the band first appeared in 1988 with their debut album, it’s easy enough to understand how nobody noticed; L7’s self-titled debut came out on Epitaph Records (which,…
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Zabrecky – Seance! With Zabrecky 12” single
Zabrecky Seance! With Zabrecky 12” single (In The Red Records) On the surface, noting that Seance! With Zabrecky 12” single. is a novelty record just goes without saying. Sure – people still indulge in trying to make contact with the deceased, on occasion, and some people even claim to have been successful; but really, it…
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Silversun Pickups – Physical Thrills 2LP
Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills 2LP (New Machine Recordings) In listening to Physical Thrills, the first thing which becomes self-evident is just how great a success 2019’s Widow’s Weeds (Silversun Pickups’ fifth studio album) was, and how great a financial and creative reward it yielded for the band. Clearly emboldened by that success, Physical Thrills represents…