Kill West – Smoke Beach (2015) review
Kill West - Smoke Beach (Echo Drug Recordings, 2015) Listen: https://killwest.bandcamp.com/ Thickly layered and nearly edgeless, the music of Kill West doesn’t so much emerge from your speakers, it’s...
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Pauw – Macrocosm Microcosm (2015) review
Pauw - Macrocosm Microcosm (Caroline Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXneEvG5Vs It’s always been my contention that once played, a song never really stops playing, perhaps over your stereo, but not...
Quilt – Plaza (2016) review
Quilt - Plaza (Mexican Summer, 2016) Quilt’s new album is sensational on many levels ... first the vinyl is clear, second the gatefold album jacket is embossed, and...
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Mini Album Thingy Wingy (2015) review
At last count (which seems to change daily), Anton Newcombe has released nearly 50 albums, EPs, and singles over the past 30 years under the Brian Jonestown Massacre...
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...
Øresund Space Collective – ‘Different Creatures’ (2015)
You’re familiar with the term ‘binge viewing”, but you may need to do some “binge listening” to fully absorb this mammoth triple album/double CD (the CD contains extended...
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,...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: A Gathering Of Minds – Montreaux, July 23, 1982
A Gathering Of Minds - Montreaux, July 23, 1982 (Upbeat/Unofficial Release ) Listen Billy Cobham – Drums Didier Lockwood – Violin ...