Tag: Album Review
Album Review: Chris Cornell’s ‘Higher Truth’ reaches new heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJ9IwYc5NU
Album Review: Chris Cornell's "Higher Truth"
How many frontmen and frontwomen have ditched their bands or walked away from a messy breakup, only to rise...
Album Review: Lana Del Rey’s ‘Honeymoon’ is masterfully melancholy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2VBFxt4zOM
Perhaps the concept of a singer as a musical heroine is a product of nearly a century of the American-British pop music movement just...
Album Review: Duran Duran’s ‘Paper Gods’ is paper thin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG3k7YJhf98
One could say that the EDM aesthetic is an inevitable result of the precedent set decades ago by Duran Duran, among others. Perhaps no...
Album Review: Ben Folds’ ‘So There’ is unique neoclassical pop
As the title suggests, Ben Folds has something to prove. And after a listen, the title is appropriate. “So There” is quite the display...
Album Review: ‘The Great Unknown’ is ‘why did Rob Thomas record...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8kiUAgCT_k
Album Review: Rob Thomas's 'The Great Unknown'
One of the founding fathers of yarling and butt rock is back with a confusing wreckage of "songs"...
Album Review: In ‘Kill The Lights,’ Luke Bryan kills the libido
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvgLilGV-es
The king of bro country returns! Run!
Ok, hang on. Before the mockery begins, maybe some civil discussion is in order.
Does country music just suck?
Well,...
Album Review and Interview: Mandy Cook’s jazz-folk jewel, “See”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4g4QhkILYo
Nashville is known as several things: The Baptist Vatican, the country music hub of the world, the global Christian music headquarters, and where all...
Album Review: Alan Jackson’s cliched ‘Angels and Alcohol’ may drive you...
https://youtu.be/YcINJWBXr6s
In 1954, an entrepreneur named Ray Kroc took a hamburger stand in Phoenix and transformed it into one of the most commercially successful enterprises...
Album Review: Tame Impala’s ‘Currents’—hipster wet dream or post-Beatles porn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLg-Kqa9vEo
The Tibetans believe that rebirth doesn’t happen immediately; allegedly, several years can pass between a person’s death and rebirth. Far out, man. Hopefully, John...
Album review: Veruca Salt exhumes rock ‘n’ roll’s corpse with ‘Ghost...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeYDS9kZcE
"Ghost note" is a jazz term that refers to notes played passingly and lightly between other notes; common to drums as well as pitched...