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Autogramm – Music That Humans Can Play LP
Autogramm Music That Humans Can Play LP (Stomp/WEA) That Autogramm has so meticulously presented themselves as being perched on New Wave’s pinnacle of power and influence now – about forty years after that form peaked – cannot possibly have been by accident. From front to back and top to bottom, Music That Humans Can Play…
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Scott Collins – Purple Pain LP
Scott Collins Purple Pain LP (independent) There aren’t many artists making music right now who are capable of introducing themselves as clearly having both their heart on their sleeve as well as a chip clearly on their shoulder, but that’s exactly what Scott Collins does on his Purple Pain LP. From the moment stylus catches…
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Blink-182 – One More Time LP
Blink 182 One More Time… LP (Columbia/Sony Music) It would be easy to find a cynical angle to approach the existence and sound of One More Time…, Blink-182’s ninth studio album and first to feature singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge since 2015. Did DeLonge’s return have something to do with singer/bassist Mark Hoppus’ cancer diagnosis in 2021?…
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Alabama 3 – Cold War Classics Vol. 2 LP
Alabama 3 Cold War Classics Vol. 2 LP (Submarine Cat Records) Before anyone gets nervous about what they might have missed, it’s important to point out that Cold War Classics is not the first Alabama 3 album to feature the erroneous numeric identifier Volume 2 (2002’s acoustic experiment Last Train to Mashville was listed as…
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The Drowns – Blacked Out LP
The Drowns Blacked Out LP (Pirates Press Records) While the number of ways that a band may choose to change their sound in the name of refreshing it or updating it are almost innumerable, what The Drowns have done on Blacked Out is genuinely impressive. This time out, the band has left most of the…
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The Complicators – s/t LP
The Complicators s/t LP (Pirates Press Records) While it’s very easy for any critic to come off as surprised when a band reassembles a set of well-used, time-honoured musical cliches and presents something which works, it’s far more difficult to find the flaw which ultimately causes that very familiar structure to fall apart and/or come…
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Brigata Vendetta – This Is How Democracy Dies LP
Brigata Vendetta This Is How Democracy Dies LP (Pirates Press Records) Okay, after the last few years of pundits both educated and ill-informed questioning the health and longevity of democracy and looking at the concept so closely the eye-strain could easily be attributable to a migraine, the idea of another punk band stepping forward to…
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The Dwarves – Concept Album LP
The Dwarves Concept Album LP (Greedy Media) To say that The Dwarves have been around and weathered a lot of pop cultural storms is an understatement. Since forming in Chicago in the mid-Eighties, The Dwarves have reinvented the concept of the revolving door; they’ve gone through band members (dozens of them – but guitarist Pete…
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Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue – Tropical Breakdown LP
Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue Tropical Breakdown LP (Voodoo Rhythm Records) Ever since Swing Kids came out in 1993 featuring a cast of very talented dancers, hipsters have wanted to revive swing music and dancing and make it their own. The reasoning for that desire is really easy to understand; the music is wildly infectious even…
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Ice-T – The Legend of Ice-T 3LP
Ice-T The Legend of Ice-T: Crime Stories (3LP) (Rhyme Syndicate Productions/Ruffnation Entertainment/MVD) It’s hard to know what to make of The Legend of Ice-T: Crime Stories exactly, in part because what the album wants to be isn’t particularly clear. A very solid argument could be made for the possibility that, in fact, this 3LP set…