Category: Reviews – Vinyl
Metal still sounds best on large, round pieces of pressed vinyl. The smell, the artwork – and it gets played through a needle.
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The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set)
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set) (Warner Records) While The Flaming Lips had already established themselves in the pop and rock communities by the time Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was released in 2002, the album holds the distinction of being the one that really…
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Urban Junior – Urban et Orbi LP
Urban Junior Urban et Orbi LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) It doesn’t seem like this should be true on paper but, in the fourteen cuts which comprise Urban et Orbi, Urban Junior shows those listeners who come upon the album the future of pop. That might seem like a bold statement, but it’s true; throughout this…
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The Modernettes – View From The Bottom EP reissue
The Modernettes View From The Bottom EP (Porterhouse Records) What Porterhouse Records has been doing over the last couple of years has proven to be pretty thought-provoking. The label had already established a name for itself – releasing deluxe edition vinyl reissues from bands like Circle Jerks, Urge Overkill and All – but keeping a…
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Kane Brown – Different Man 2LP
Kane Brown Ordinary Man 2LP (RCA/Sony Music) It doesn’t take long, after one begins listening to Kane Brown’s Different Man LP, to realize that the artist is most definitely onto something here that might end up changing everything – if it has a chance. True, country music has been surrounding and absorbing every other type…
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Bruce Springsteen – Covers Volume 1 – Only The Strong Survive 2LP
Bruce Springsteen Covers Volume 1 – Only The Strong Survive 2LP (Columbia/Sony Music) As open as Bruce Springsteen’s fans have become to the singer’s experimentations and his desire to push boundaries as the tape rolls in the studio, that doesn’t mean the singer’s fans are incapable of being apprehensive when they hear how far from…
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The White Stripes – Elephant 2LP Reissue
The White Stripes Elephant 2LP (20th Anniversary reissue) (Legacy/Columbia/Sony Music) I’m not so proud that I cannot admit I didn’t like The White Stripes when the band first appeared on the great, big, popular radar with “Fell In Love With A Girl” in 2001. I didn’t like White Blood Cells at all, in fact; crammed…
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The Dirty Nil – Free Rein To Passions LP
The Dirty Nil Free Rein To Passions LP (Dine Alone Records) How fantastic is it that, in some instances, a band doesn’t have to change themselves or their sound very much (if at all), they just have to write a new batch of songs and be brave enough to just be themselves with the understanding…
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Spitting Image – Full Sun LP
Spitting Image Full Sun LP (Slovenly Recordings) While such things might seem like the definition of logic to those on the outside looking in, some bands feel compelled to lay up when they make their first introduction to audiences rather than making an orgiastic statement the first time a needle drops on their album. For…
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Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys In The Campfire – Wronger LP
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys In The Campfire Wronger LP (Done To Death Music) While the breadth of musical styles that Tommy Stinson has approached in his career has not been small (beginning first with indie rock with The Replacements, Stinson has has touched on punk with Bash & Pop and Perfect as well as undeniably mainstream,…
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The Flaming Lips – The Hypnotist EP
The Flaming Lips The Hypnotist 12” EP (Warner Records) 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and, to celebrate, Warner Brothers has embarked on an impressive campaign to re-examine the album (stay tuned for more on that later) but, without question, one of the most unusual parts of that endeavor is…