Pink Floyd – 1965: Their First Recordings (2015) review
Pink Floyd - 1965: Their First Recordings (Parlophone, 2015) Prior to their seminal release of The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright...
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The Velvet Underground – The Complete Matrix Tapes (2015) review
The Velvet Underground - The Complete Matrix Tapes (Universal Music Enterprises, 2015) Having seen The Velvet Underground many times, mostly at The Second Fret in Philadelphia. And with...
Luna – ‘Long Players (92-99)’ (2015)
There are those of us who want the vinyl period, we make on excuses for this ... quality vinyl on a good stereo system presents rewarding results. It’s...
New Candys – ‘New Candys as Medicine’ (2015)
Like a Sodium Pentothal drip, New Candys warmly hypnotically hold you at a barely conscious level, mending the atmosphere in front of your half closed, half aware eyes,...
Mystic Braves – ‘Days of Yesteryear’ (2015)
Stepping out from behind their previous more gritty garage sounding outing, 'Days of Yesteryear' finds The Mystic Braves delivering a more tightly woven bit of lo-fi neo-psychedelia, complete...
Troubadour Dali – Let’s Make It Right (2011) review
Troubadour Dali - Let's Make It Right (Euclid Records, 2011) Listen: https://troubadourdali.bandcamp.com/album/lets-make-it-right-velvet-revolution Listening to “Let’s Make It Right,” by Troubadour Dali floated over me like the memory of a...
Kevin Gordon – Long Gone Time (2015) review
Kevin Gordon - Long Gone Time (2015) Listen: https://kevingordon.bandcamp.com/album/long-gone-time Don’t ask me why, but I was takin’ the backroads from El Paso to Albuquerque when I first heard Kevin...
Jonathan Wilson – Fanfare (2013) review
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare (Bella Union, 2013) There is no middle ground when it comes to Jonathan Wilson’s album Fanfare, listeners will either love it, or despise it....
Thelightshines – Before the Sandman Sung (2015) review
Thelightshines - Before the Sandman Sung (2015) Anyone who’s ever chemically laced the night knows what it’s like when the walls stop moving, the colours become less brilliant,...
Kurt Vile – ‘b’lieve i’m goin down…’ (2015)
'B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down' exists, and in the same breath it doesn’t. Never have I had the pleasure of hearing a more etherial album laced with intoxicating imagery...