Beau – ‘When Butterflies Scream’ (2017)
The singer-songwriter Trevor Midgley, known as Beau, has aged well like all good vintage stock; still a rich, heady consistency after all these years. From a Yorkshire teen...
Reviews
Record Store Day: The War on Drugs – ‘Thinking of a Place’ (2017)
In the last eighteen months the only thing we’ve heard from War On Drugs was their addition to the Day of the Dead compilation, with the song 'Touch...
Rückwater – “Bonehead” (2017) review
Rückwater Bonehead (2017) Hailing from Scandanvia, Rückwater’s debut EP, Bonehead, is a fantastic stoner rock EP, similar to Graveyard, but with some neopsychedelic vibes. The album kicks off with...
Trip Hill – ‘Automatic Folk & Flowers’ (2015)
I’m hoping to encompass reviews for the last four outings by Trip Hill, 'Ten Petals of Manipura', 'Raining Metallic Mushroom', 'Lamp of the Universe' and 'Automatic Folk &...
Cindy Lee Berryhill – “The Adventurist” (2017) review
Cindy Lee Berryhill The Adventurist (Omnivore Recordings, 2017) Cindy Lee Berryhill hasn’t released an album since 2008’s Beloved Stranger. Since then, her spouse, Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy magazine, has passed away after years of gentle decline in a nursing home, their...
The Creation – “Action Painting” (2017) review
The Creation - Action Painting (2 CD & Book) (The Numero Group, 2017) In their first lifetime, lasting a mere two years, 1966-1968, The Creation had nearly as many...
WAH – “Travellers Station” (2016) review
WAH - Travellers Station (Assophon Records, 2016) Travellers Station, the newest release from Seattle creative jazz duo WAH, is an album rooted in post bop jazz composition as much...
The Black Angels – ‘Death Song’ (2017)
Envision lightning striking across a velvet sky, holding there momentarily, strobing, eliciting hypnotic trails within trails that rush at you, through you, bouncing off passing cosmic clouds, and...
Uncle Acid – ‘The Night Creeper’ (2015)
The Night Creeper, by Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, is their third record, and it shows them progressing. And it’s fucking fantastic. It has the riffs and vibes...
From The Vault: The Beatles – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1967)
I love hearing people talk about Sgt. Pepper, I love the mystery that to this day, surrounds not only the music but the album artwork. I really love...