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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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…
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Chip Kinman – The Great Confrontation 2LP
Chip Kinman The Great Confrontation 2LP (In The Red Records) I confess that I had forgotten about The Dils until the opportunity to review the band’s Live! reissue came up. Not that I was unfamiliar with the band before (I remember discovering the band at the same time I came upon The Weirdos, The Bags,…
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The Slackers – “New York Berlin” b/w “Tell Them No” 12” single
The Slackers “New York Berlin” b/w “Tell Them No” (12” one-sided picture disc single) (Pirates Press Records) I confess that, while the two songs which comprise the new Slackers single are good, solid cuts, I do not understand why this single has been pressed the way it has. First, both “New York Berlin” and “Tell…
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Garbageface – Penumbra//Antumbra 12” single
Garbageface Penumbra//Antumbra (12” Single) (Rap Will Eat Itself Records) If history has taught us anything about Karol “Garbageface” Orzechowsky, it has taught us that the artist takes a lot of joy in turning expectations that fans may have of him on their collective head – and the emcee’s newest 12” single, Penumbra//Antumbra, upholds that practice…
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Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 2LP
Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9 2LP (Epic/Sony Music) With the last good Ozzy Osbourne album having been released over twenty years ago now (2001’s Down To Earth was respectable – 2010’s Scream was both an earnest and mawkish expression of Ozzy’s strengths as it tried to update its styling for a new, digital generation which…
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Jacob Brodovsky – I Love You and I’m Sorry LP
Jacob Brodovsky I Love You and I’m Sorry LP (independent) I started trying to write a review of Jacob Brodovky’s debut album, I Love You and I’m Sorry, six times before finally electing to do what the album does and just opening with a bit of candor: on my first play through the album, I…
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Suzi Moon – Dumb & In Luv LP
Suzi Moon Dumb & In Luv LP (Pirates Press Records) After having released two EPs in the last sixteen months, it’s unlikely that fans expected a full-length album to be forthcoming from Suzi Moon – but the even greater surprise is just how incredibly good Dumb & In Luv is. Where the EPs hinted at…
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Man’s Body – A Set Of Steak Knives LP
Man’s Body A Set of Steak Knives LP (Nocturnal Sol Records) It’s funny how names and images have the power to be completely irrelevant, when it comes to music. Really think about it, reader; on first sight, a name like Man’s Body feels like it might be a little prog-gy or even a little metallic…