World Wide Funk is funk, plain and simple – and not just because it seems the album uses the word ‘funk’ over a hundred times in the lyrics. The album is beautifully retro, hitting up all the classic tenets of…
Album Review: Robert Plant – “Carry Fire”
If you’re a Robert Plant fan, you’re probably going to buy this album anyway. Plant, the lead singer and lyricist for the band Led Zeppelin, is a mainstay in the music industry and has built up enough industry cred that…
Album Review: Whitney Rose – “Rule 62”
Neotraditional country and 1950s doo wop aren’t two sounds that you would expect to hear on the same album. And yet, on her album Rule 62, Whitney Rose manages to merge the sounds perfectly. The singer gives us a beautifully…
Album Review: Miley Cyrus – “Younger Now”
Miley Cyrus has an image problem. Not in the traditional sense of the term, where the problems revolve around someone’s negative public image, but in a matter where the problem is her image is nebulous as hell to begin with.…
Album Review: Gary Numan – “Savage (Songs from a Broken World)”
There will be thinkpieces for days with regards to this album. And frankly? I welcome it. Savage (Songs From a Broken World) is the latest album by pioneering English new wave/industrial musician Gary Numan. The record is a concept album, envisioning…
Album Review: Susanne Sundfør – “Music for People in Trouble”
The word “desamor”, in the Spanish language, is so rich yet it’s virtually untranslatable in English. It describes something that is the opposite of Love, but it’s nowhere near Hate; it is a feeling that is lived with a certain…
Album Review: Tori Amos – “Native Invader”
If you ask twelve different people about Tori Amos, you’ll get twelve different opinions. Some see her as the it-girl of alternative 1990s music. Some see her as an even more cuckoo for cocoa puffs Kate Bush. Some see her…