by Sean Passmore | Apr 23, 2020 | Album of the Week
Lame Impala. ‘Nuff said. And while we’re at it, people gotta stop referring to Australia’s one man Kevin Parker band as psychedelic. Not since the delightful 2012 sophomore LP Lonerism has Parker even vaguely orbited close to the warmth of the...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 23, 2020 | Album of the Week
Nathaniel Rateliff And It’s Still Alright (Feb 14/2020) Rating 9/10 Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways (June 19/2020) 10/10 Microphones Microphones in 2020 (August 7/2020) 8.5.10 Brendan Benson Dear Life (April 24/2020) Rating 8/10 Stone Temple Pilots Perdida (Feb...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 21, 2020 | Album of the Week
Top 15 Albums Of 2019 The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South Of Reality FIDLAR – Almost Free Motherhood – Dear Bongo, Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Foxygen – Seeing Other People Fat White Family –...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 5, 2019 | Album of the Week
Vancouver’s hard rocking Polaris Music Prize nominated Black Mountain have been putting out albums for close to 15 years dating back to their 2005 self titled debut from Jagjaguwar Records. Their most recent album Destroyer, released earlier this year in May of...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 21, 2019 | Album of the Week
To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, “this is the way the band ends, not with a bang but a whimper”. Sort of. After releasing five critically acclaimed albums in seven years (band members Rado and France were both just 15 years old and still in high school when...
by Sean Passmore | Jul 16, 2019 | Album of the Week
The Beatles set the gold standard by releasing 13 studio albums in 7 years from 1963 through to 1970. Contemporaries of theirs The Who released 11 studio albums in forty years from 1966 to 2006, Led Zeppelin released 8 from 1969 to 1979 and Paul Simon released 14 in...
