Soft Speaker – ‘Priestess of Carnality’ (2021)
If you’ve been rolling with Soft Speaker over the last few years, you’ll be delighted with their new outing 'Priestess of Carnality', an album that brings new changes...
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Dean Wareham – ‘I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.’ (2021)
With Dean Wareham treating me to a test-pressing of his new solo album 'I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor of L.A.', I’ve been fortunate enough to...
Various Artists – ‘Funky Chimes: Belgian Grooves From the 70’s Parts 1 & 2’
I’ve been told, “This sort of music was available to the ordinary consumer in 1970's Belgium, with a delivery that was sort of mind-boggling. If you saved up...
Send Medicine – ‘By Telepathy & Reputation’ (2021)
'By Telepathy & Reputation' by Send Medicine carves out a very intoxicating space, where with the band’s crystal-clear notes, hushed vocals and fuzzed guitars, the record manages to...
National Flag – ‘Thank You & Goodnight’ (1976)
By now, my short relationship with National Flag is the stuff of legend, at least in my own mind, which went sort of like this: I was on...
Black Sand – ‘Hypnotic Revolutions’ (2021)
Weighted just enough to hover above my Persian carpet like low hanging morning haze, 'Hypnotic Revolutions' opens with purposeful wasted slow danceable intoxicated bliss; this time caressing my...
Jakob Battick – ‘Rabbit’s Moon’ (2021)
Some music you control, some music controls you, yet every once in awhile an album floats onto my turntable that’s so unexpected, an album that ebbs and flows...
Tom Petty – ‘Finding ‘Wildflowers’ (Alternate Versions)’ (2021)
Some thirty years ago, Tom Petty wished for 'Wildflowers' to be a much longer and more inclusive outing, of course his record label disagreed, saying that a stretched...
Reigning Sound – ‘A Little More Time with Reigning Sound’ (2021)
Of course the big news is that this is the band’s first album in nearly seven years, belaying an insightful mix of soulful garage rock and jangle pop,...
Valium Aggelein – ‘Black Moon’ (2020)
The story behind this ethereally blissful album is that the space capsule Valium Aggelein drifted off its planned orbit, ebbing into uncharted regions of the cosmos, beaming back...