Album Reviews (Page 2)
11: Inner City Grit Records Volume One
Inner City Grit Records, Bristol based recording company, formed by local artists who take a different view on what makes decent music, specialise in new and upcoming underground / industrial styles
12: Celine Carroll - Such A Beautiful Light
Such A Beautiful Light is a blinder
For an independant, launching an album into the public domain requires a far greater leap of faith than someone who has got the funding and distribution power of
13: Charlemange by Charlemange
If it weren’t for the harmonies, I would have trouble fathoming why this album has been classed by every music magazine as either ‘alt-country’ or ‘Americana’. The soni
14: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning by Bright Eyes
Let’s be honest. The opening minute or so of this album is pretty pretentious. It’s one of those spoken introductions which I guess are supposed to sound off-the-cuff and ad-libbed. We h
15: Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
A grim irony lies with the public veneration afforded the Georgian quartet's most off-kilter recordings (1991's Losing My Religion, for instance, or as featured on the subject of this review, Every
16: No Depression by Uncle Tupleo (1990)
To say that I had been looking forward to hearing Uncle Tupelo’s No Depression would be putting it mildly. I had been better prepared for this album than perhaps any other – not least be
17: Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
Right around the time that most of America’s other major songwriters were making albums with a scaled-down sound, with a proud and organic acoustic sound reflective of the resurgence of folk and
18: With These Hands by Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo’s classic album With These Hands has just been re-released by Rykodisc
Alejandro Escovedo is a master at writing what might best be called the epic ballad. Conventionally we
19: King for a day, Fool for a lifetime by Faith No More
In a not uncommon plea for co-operation and harmony Bill Hicks once opined “this is a world where good men are murdered in their prime, and mediocre hacks thrive and proliferate”. One co
20: Draven - Eden
Before I start this review I should announce what I can only describe as a conflict of interest. Not only did I bump into Draven in their early days, but I am also friends with several notable band members and have played with them in the past (so to speak). Now that is out of the way let get back to the business of telling you just how cool their ebut album, "Eden" really is!
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