Once the disappointment wanes that there’s nothing on here as stunning as “Diane Young” or “Hannah Hunt” (although lead single “Harmony Hall” comes pretty close), you’ll quickly fall in love with Father of the Bride as you have done every other Vampire…
Album Review: The Mountain Goats – “In League With Dragons”
In League With Dragons is no more a concept album about Dungeons & Dragons than Sgt. Pepper is a concept album about its titular band: in both instances most of the actual songs on the record don’t relate to the central “concept”.…
Album Review: The O’Jays – “The Last Word”
You guessed it from the album title: this is the last collection of music we’re going to get from the vocal group who helped to usher in the Philly soul sound back in 1972 with “Back Stabbers” the single and…
Album Review: The Chemical Brothers – “No Geography”
In their awesome 90s run, The Chemical Brothers revitalised The Beatles’ Revolver for the techno age and hence turned their newfound genre, big beat, into every rock n’ roll fan’s favourite type of electronic music. Psychedelia, Kraftwerk, Britpop, folk, hip-hop, and many…
Album Review: Khalid – “Free Spirit”
Yeah, he could never be young, dumb and broke forever. We knew that. And like any teen who goes platinum with their first album, the road to maturity that lies ahead is filled with all sorts of perils: artistic, personal,…
Album Review: Meat Puppets – “Dusty Notes”
The most far-out of the classic 80s American hardcore punk bands (and that’s actually saying something – Minutemen and Hüsker Dü were no straight-ahead rockers), Meat Puppets became famous in a limited capacity thanks to three songs off their second album being…
Album Review: Deer Tick – “Mayonnaise”
A hodgepodge this one. Mayonnaise is split three ways: between 4 “alternate versions” of songs from the band’s 2017 Deer Tick Vol. 1, 4 cover versions of other artist’s songs, and 5 originals. Like the condiments of the album’s title and…
