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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Daddy Long Legs – Street Sermons LP
Daddy Long Legs Street Sermons LP (Yep Roc Records) It’s funny how an album cover is capable of getting the gears to begin running in a listener’s mind and cause them to begin drawing conclusions and/or forming expectations of the music before they even hear a note. In the case of Daddy Long Legs’ debut…
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Kepi Ghoulie – Ramones In Love LP
Kepi Ghoulie Ramones In Love LP (Pirates Press Records) No matter how open-minded listeners might be, some albums are simply intent on challenging their audience’s expectations – and Kepi Ghoulie’s Ramones In Love is definitely one of those. First, while the idea of an artist presenting their own interpretations of Ramones songs is not new,…
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Alice In Chains – Dirt 30th Anniversary 2LP Reissue
Alice In Chains Dirt (30th Anniversary 2LP) (Columbia/Sony/Legacy) While there are plenty of deluxe reissue versions of classic albums on the market at the moment (including of Dirt, actually; there are multi-disc sets of the album which include enough 7” singles to contain all the songs on the album’s hype sticker, and then some), that…
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The Shouldies – 😉 LP
The Shouldies ; ) LP (Graveface Records/Nevernotgoth Records) It’s uncommon enough an occurrence that one can never hope to count on it, but sometimes an album comes along at precisely the moment a listener needs to hear it. In my own case, I’ve been listening to a surprising amount of very moody, very texturally-centred music…
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Anti-Flag – Lies They Tell Our Children LP
Anti-Flag Lies They Tell Our Children LP (Spinefarm Records) After thirty-five years in circulation documented by twelve full-length albums, eleven EPs, a multitude of singles, videos, split releases and other releases in addition to innumerable miles logged on the road, it goes without saying that Anti-Flag has paid its dues – but Lies They Tell…
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Drowns & Plizzken – Split 7” Single
The Drowns/Plizzken “Lost Boys Of Suburbia” b/w “One More Time” split single (Pirates Press Records) It doesn’t feel as though it happens very often, but some releases (and their contents) defy explanation. Like, how does a song appear on a single and nowhere else – particularly when the song in question features such a high…
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Amai Kuda et Les Bois – EmUrgency! LP
Amai Kuda et Les Bois EmUrgency! LP (Imprint Entertainment) It’s not terribly common to come upon an album which sound simultaneously easy to qualify and quantify as well as in addition to coming off completely fresh and original, but that’s exactly what EmUrgency! does. As soon as stylus touches down, needle catches groove and “Which…
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The Wombats – Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This EP
The Wombats Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This 12” EP (The Orchard) After having embarked on a career which has seen the band release six full-length albums, one compilation and nine EPs with startlingly minimal popular notice, there’s no way to deny that The Wombats are one of the most tragically…
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The Senders – All Killer No Filler (1977 – 2001) 2LP
The Senders All Killer No Filler (1977 – 2001) 2LP (Left For Dead Records) It’s funny how, as perfectly well-exposed as a scene and its associated lore might be, there are always bits which are obscured by shadows. In the New York punk scene of the 1970s, for example, everybody knows many of the stories…
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Bishop’s Green – Black Skies EP and Waiting EP
Bishop’s Green Black Skies EP (Pirates Press Records) As cool as some album covers are (and the cover of the Black Skies EP is definitely very cool), the peril is often that the image on the cover of a record just doesn’t match the music. It could easily be argued that Black Skies falls hard…