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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, July 12, 2010
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