Album name: It’s All Up To You Artist name: Deborah Crooks Genre: Folk Rock Released: 11 March 2010 Label: Deborah Crooks ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: deborahcrooks.com/ It’s probably my own fault for not having a wide enough frame of reference for this kind of thing, but still: the first comparison that came to mind when listening to Deborah Crooks’ It’s All Up [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
A matter of weeks ago, I took a short trip to London, during which I was serendipitous enough to catch an Amber Rubarth gig. Although that may be less down to serendipity, and more to the fact that I flew over specifically for it. She was also gracious enough to allow me [...]
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The bellowingly good news coming from last night’s Ham Sandwich gig is this: their new album is shaping up to be jolly good. (This has been calculated using science - specifically, an inventive method involving measuring the size of the bruises on the knees and thighs of myself and my colleague-in-jests, David Kirk, following the [...]
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Album name: Heaven is Whenever Artist name: The Hold Steady Genre: Rock Released: 3 May 2010 Label: Vagrant/Rough Trade ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: theholdsteady.net A while back, I tweeted something to this effect: “If Craig Finn was a better singer, The Hold Steady would be a worse band.” In that respect, it would appear that Heaven is Whenever exists only to [...]
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Album name: The Parallels Amongst Ourselves Artist name: Sugar Army Genre: Rock Released: July 2009 Label: Shock ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: sugararmy.com/au In The Style Of… Mock The Week! SCENE: A RATHER BARE STUDIO. A CENTRAL DESK IS FLANKED BY TWO LARGE CURVED ONES. A LARGE VIDEO SCREEN IS EMBEDDED IN A SIDE WALL. DRAMATIS PERSONAE BRIAN O’HARA - Good-natured Irish host HANK E. FOIL - [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
Album name: Ocean, Meet The Valley Artist name: The Literary Greats Genre: Country Rock Released: October 2009 Label: ERROR ERROR ERROR ZME Rating: 7/10 Website: theliterarygreats.com An intro: My inbox appears to have become some sort of primitive, text-based time machine. No less than two - TWO - separate e-mails have arrived recently, directing my bespectacled eyes towards albums that were released [...]
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Album name: Memories Are Hunting Horns Artist name: Saredren Wells Genre: Folk-indie Released: 11 May 2010 Label: Rinehart Records ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: Myspace SCENE: A post-post-apocalyptic Earth - burgeoning cities arise next to arid wastelands, the human race who had for centuries abandoned this place having returned mere decades ago. As rugged off-road vehicles race along the desert trails, a passenger-carrying [...]
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Album name: The Big To-Do Artist name: Drive-By Truckers Genre: Rock Released: 16 March 2010 Label: ATO ZME Rating: 8/10 Website: drivebytruckers.com It’s all about “Birthday Boy” this time. On every Drive-By Truckers album, there’s one song that, quite helpfully, doubles as a litmus test as to whether you’ll like happily gorge yourself silly on what they’re dishing out. On Gangstabilly, their [...]
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Album name: Plastic Beach Artist name: Gorillaz Genre: Gorillaz Pop Released: 3 March 2010 Label: Parlophone/Virgin ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: www.gorillaz.com ——————————– It appears that the the self-titled debut of Gorillaz was the induction of the 21st Century into the popular culture, ya know before all that nasty terrorism and war stuff. Its follow-up, Demon Days, was a reaction to all of the [...]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Album name: Life Artist name: Uniform Motion Genre: Folk-pop-cartoons Released: 9 February 2010 Label: Aahhh Records ZME Rating: 5/10 Website: uniformmotion.net I’m something of a deliberate philistine when it comes to fine art. Despite spending six years or so studying the subject in one form or another, I never really saw the appeal. I mean, sure I can appreciate it up to [...]
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Deborah Crooks: 'It's All Up To You'
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The Literary Greats: 'Ocean, Meet The Valley'
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