Secret Colours – Peach (2013) review
Secret Colours "Peach" (2013) Secret Colours stumbled out of the studio hazed and dazed ... well, at least that’s how I like to imagine it. But truth be...
Jenell Kesler
Grateful Dead – Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72 (2013) review
Grateful Dead "Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72" (Rhino, 2013) Twenty years ago this review would have taken on an entirely different flavor, and back in '72, fresh off...
Dean Wareham – ‘Emancipated Hearts’ (2013)
Enigmatic lo-fi dream-pop hipster Dean Wareham has wandered in with a new romantic 10" solo album that touches all the right nerves, and pushes all the right buttons,...
Allah-Las – Allah Las (2012) review
Allah-Las - “Allah Las” (Innovative Leisure 2012) Once upon a time, when a warm enchanting sun rose and set around just me, a bit of musical wanderlust floated in...
The Black Angels – ‘Indigo Meadow’ (2013)
Indigo Meadow, filled with spacey hypnotic splendor, channels the mystic ethereal delights of The Doors and early Pink Floyd, overflowing the grooves with a heartbeat pounding bass that...
Gene Clark – Here Tonight: The White Light Demos (2013) review
Here Tonight: The White Light Demos or White Light Demons as I continually misread the title, but that may just be a series of Freudian slips on my...
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Selected Studies Vol. 1 (2013) review
Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Selected Studies Vol. 1 (Bureau B, 2013) Unless you’re Brian Eno, electronic / ambient music is all too often overlooked, even if...
The Soft Moon – Zeros (2012) review
The Soft Moon’s release of Zero’s is a tour de force excursion into the dream-state of music, where they’ve managed to take the footprints set down by the...
My Bloody Valentine – m b v (2013) review
It’s been 22 years, that’s more than a generation since My Bloody Valentine dropped their last release [Loveless] on us, and I tell you true, over the years,...
The Growlers – Hung at Heart (2013) review
Once upon a time there was a party-band called The Grateful Dead, and while most Growlers' fans don’t have the foggiest idea who The Dead are, The Growlers...