by Sean Passmore | Dec 25, 2016 | Album of the Week
Due to medical reasons the late Leonard Cohen’s final album was recorded in the living room of his home in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, California. An injury to the poets back as a result of extensive touring in the last five years of the 82 year old...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 24, 2016 | Album of the Week
With one notable exception Dylan picks up where he left off with 2015’s “Shadows In The Night” collection of Frank Sinatra recordings. Whereas the previous album of standards steered through a sparse and lonesome American landscape, Fallen Angels has...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 24, 2016 | Album of the Week
A play on words for the band’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, Seattle’s little boho brah to the south, “Distortland” is the Dandy’s 9th studio album in a recording career spanning 21 years. Distancing themselves from their retro...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 23, 2016 | Album of the Week
Only the 10th studio album from Cult guitarist Billy Duffy and singer Ian Astbury in a long and storied career spanning 30 odd years from 1983 til now. Less than a decade after quitting his boyhood dream job as lead singer of The Doors, 54 year old Astbury’s...
by Sean Passmore | Dec 23, 2016 | Album of the Week
Founded in early 2015 by Thibauld Labey in Lyon, France, this is the eponymous first album by English singing French psych-pop outfit Trumpets of Consciousness. Mixed by Labey himself and recorded at Mikrokosm and Cartelier Studios this record is an upbeat celebration...
