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The Cure – Malahide Castle – Review
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Monday, January 7, 2019
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A Look Ahead To 2019 In Music
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Friday, October 27, 2017
Out Lines – Conflats – Album Review
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Least worst 20 albums of 2012
No point in
waiting any longer. I’ve decided to do a
top 20 this year of the least worst albums of 2012:
20 Lee Ranaldo
– Between the Times and the Tides
19 Paul
Buchanan – Mid Air
18 I Like
Trains – The Shallows
17 Leonard
Cohen – Old Ideas
16 Peter
Broderick – www.itstartshear.com
15 Earth –
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
14 Bob Mould –
Silver Age
13 The
Soulsavers – The Light, The Dead See
12 Seti the
First – Melting Cavalry
11
Tindersticks – The Something Rain
10 RM Hubbert
– Thirteen Lost & Found
Scotland’s
most accomplished guitarist turns in a stellar follow up to First & Last.
9 Dinosaur Jr
– I Bet On Sky
J Mascis can
still churn out the heavy riffs like nobody else.
8 Sun Kil Moon
– Among the Leaves
A Mark Kozelek
private joke? Possibly. He’s still a damn good guitarist.
7 Dirty Three
– Toward the Low Sun
Epic comeback
album from the Aussie rockers.
6 Dakota Suite
– An Almost Silent Life
A more varied
release than usual for Dakota Suite…
5 Mark Eitzel
– Don’t Be A Stranger
This album
sounds like nothing special at first, but it’s quite an addictive collection of
songs, from the most enjoyable whiner in music today.
4 Neil Young
& Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
In Driftin’
Back this album has one of the tracks of the year and definitely the longest.
3 Mark Lanegan
Band – Blues Funeral
A strong
collection of songs from the uber-serious Lanegan.
2 Caught In
The Wake Forever – Against A Simple Wooden Cross
Not an easy
listen. But what an album. Debut album of the year.
1 The Twilight
Sad – No One Can Ever Know
This should
have been a wrong move, but the electronic-tinged material is brilliantly
cold. Now if they could just find
directions to Ireland…
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Preview: Most anticipated albums of 2012
I’m very excited about the year ahead, particularly the few weeks between late January and February which are going to make me very poor indeed. In no time at all this is bound to be wrong, but here goes:
Barry Adamson
The new year looks set to kick off with a bang with Barry Adamson’s new album, I Will Set You Free due on January 30th. The ex-Magazine and Bad Seeds bassist has previewed one track, Destination which sounds just like Berlin period Iggy Pop, and that’s good enough for me.
RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost and Found
Due out on January 30th, RM Hubbert’s second album Thirteen Lost and Found sounds like a real Scottish collective, produced as it is by Alex Kapranos and featuring guest appearances from Aidan Moffat amongst others.
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Leonard Cohen’s first album in 8 years, Old Ideas recorded last year should be worth hearing judging by the previewed Show Me The Place, Cohen’s voice has deepened to Tom Waits proportions. It’s due Jan 30th.
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
Mark Lanegan has been a serial collaborator over the last 8 years but 6th February will see his first solo album since 2004’s Bubblegum, Blues Funeral (a satirist’s choice for a Lanegan album title), featuring contributions from regulars Josh Homme and Greg Dulli. Lead single The Gravedigger’s Song appears to be fairly standard issue Lanegan, both in sound and title, with added electronic pulsing. In related, but not strictly speaking Lanegan news Soulsavers are supposed to have a new album out next year with Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode doing vocals. This is not as big a surprise as you might think, given that Soulsavers supported Depeche Mode on their last tour.
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
The Twilight Sad eject the baby and the bathwater for No One Can Ever Know which judging by first single Sick is a total change in sound, relying less on heavy guitars and more on programmed beats. This one is due out February 6th.
Tindersticks – The Something Rain
Tindersticks have a new album landing on February 20th, and judging by one of the tracks, the bossa-nova style Medicine, it’s well in keeping with previous material without being reheated leftovers.
Peter Broderick – http://www.itstartshear.com
After 2011’s Music for Confluence, Peter Broderick has a song-based album due on February 20th also, the bafflingly-titled http://www.itstartshear.com. Could this be the first album with a URL as a title? The link will have artwork, lyrics, credits etc for the release.
Queens of the Stone Age expect to have an album ready for release “early next year”, and Morrissey is said to have a new album ready for release once he hooks up with a record company. A song-based album from Dakota Suite, You Can Leave But You’ll Never Make It Home will hopefully emerge and Mark Eitzel has an acoustic album The Bill Is Due in the works.
The National are writing “more immediate and visceral” material according to singer Matt Berninger, Lloyd Cole is collaborating with Roedelius on an instrumental album (Plastic Wood 2?) and is also talking about another Negatives album which would be very welcome. Aidan Moffat says he has “at least two albums planned for next year”, while Portishead will be working on a new album. Pearl Jam should start work on a follow-up to Backspacer and you never know, Neil Young may finally release another instalment of his Archives series. But I'm not holding my breath.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Album Review: The Twilight Sad – Killed My Parents and Hit The Road
This mini-album was initially released on the band’s 2008 tour before gaining a ‘proper’ release, and is what a lot of these things tend to be: a collection of odds and ends. Some live tracks, some new songs, some instrumentals and some cover versions.
Here we get decent, somewhat heavy versions of songs from their debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, plus a couple of tasters from the (at that time) yet to be released follow-up.
More interesting are the self-indulgent bits. We get a rough as hell version of Joy Division’s 24 Hours, where James Graham’s crude Scottish burr croons the song over HUGE MBV-style guitars. Speaking of MBV (My Bloody Valentine), The Weather Is Bad is an underwater-ish instrumental that is mostly noise and keyboards and is immensely pleasing.
They also manage not to completely murder The Smiths’ Half A Person (rendered here with voice and guitar) before concluding with two rather understated tracks to conclude this curiosity.
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