Title: Schaum Label: Tapete This is the first album by Unhappybirthday in three years. That album, Schauer, was influenced by the Georges Perec novel, Un Homme Qui Dort. Lots of melancholy…
Browsing Category
Rock Review
-
-
Title: Squier Label: Stolen Body A second album from Dr Chan. Uh-oh. But no, let’s pretend we don’t know and see what happens. Based upon classic nasty rock’n’roll rhythms this French…
-
Tite: Easy Label: Stolen Body All the way from Montreal Quebec, ex-one man band the now band-bedecked Paul Jacobs wrote, performed, recorded and mixed this album. Anyone how has seen his…
-
Title: Free Spirit Label: Quarto Valley Records This is a 3LP set, presented in a double fold-out gatefold sleeve, captures Paul Rodgers in a live setting, the Royal Albert Hall in…
-
Title: Phantasmagoria Label: Esoteric An expanded two disc edition of the original Phantasmagoria album. Originally released in 1972, the album was the first to feature the line-up of Sonja Kristina (vocals,…
-
Title: Paradox Label: Reprise Most musicians tend to become increasingly safer in terms of their art and more conservative with age. It’s to do with increasing money and power plus a…
-
Title: Singles Label: BMG Formed in Derry in 1974, The Undertones consisted of the O’Neill brothers – John and Damian on guitars, Michael Bradley on bass, Billy Doherty on drums and…
-
Title: Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy Live Label: BMG This set features two live shows. On the CD is a show from 25 November 2015, featuring the ELP album, Tarkus alongside Mars,…
-
Title: Best Of Label: Angel Air Scotland-spawned Stone the Crows had everything going from them but luck. They were talented, well known and respected but never received the success they deserved.…
-
Title: Heavy Horses Label: Chrysalis Not only is this year the 50th anniversary of the band but also the 40th anniversary of the album Heavy Horses. Presented as a 3CD/2DVD book-type…
-
Title: Watchin’ TV/You Can’t Get Off Label: Floating World The band itself has a bit of a convoluted history and most of it surrounds the constant presence in the band of…
-
He should have been a big star, says Paul Rigby, but Jack Scott’s music career perfectly followed the ups and downs of the pop music business of the time. Jack Scott…
-
Presenting the magnificent George Harrison 16LP box set, Paul Rigby undertakes a detailed sound test and talks to the mastering engineers behind it, Lurssen Mastering’s Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen George…
-
Title: Krauter der Provinz Label: Bureau B A krautrock-style group or artist’s ‘collective’ (now, tell me, what’s more krautrock than your common or garden ‘collective’, eh? A classic musical collection if…
-
Title: Firm but Fair Label: Stolen Body This band has been about a bit. Names such as Phantom Limb, This is The Kit, Zun Zun Egui and Port Erin spring to…
-
Title: Night Leaf Label: Stolen Body Album number two from BoyToy with a quite brilliant pictorial chart on the rear of my promo CD, at least (I hope it’s on the…
-
Title: Muck Label: Stolen Body So let’s see here, within The Evil Usses we’ve got Leon Boydon on bass with Dan Truen on drums. The intriguing mixture of tenor sax with…
-
Title: Volume 2 Label: Jasmine It’s interesting isn’t it that the entire rock’n’roll genre found film so important. There seemed to be plenty of feature films out and about during the…
-
Title: Love is Strange Label: Jasmine This is a 2CD package cramming 56 tracks within from Sylvia Robinson (nee Vanderpool) and Mickey ‘McHouston’ Baker (an unruly child, ex-pool hustler and rock…
-
Title: Crabby Appleton Label: Man in the Moon The band’s name is an intriguing one because it derives from a kids cartoon show. O’lCrabby was a cartoon villain on the Captain…
-
Title: Ironic Label: Spectacle Ian Lowery worked as a musician, singer-songwriter and even a producer. He had a full musical career up until he sadly passed away in 2001 with a…
-
Title: The Graveyard and the Ballroom/Force Label: Mute I remember seeing the band around 1985 or 86, about the time that Force hit the streets, at the Liverpool Playhouse theatre, a…
-
Title: The A&M Years Label: Caroline Stealers Wheel were formed around the core of two people, Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan (see the review of the vinyl version of the Egan…
-
Title: Matthew Fisher/Strange Days Label: Angel Air A founder member of the legendary Procol Harum, Matthew Fisher was the organist for the band, delved into production and arrangements and, after a…
-
Title: 28 Classic U.S. Novelties Label: Jasmine Another crazy selection of crazy tunes of a novelty nature – we’ve been in this territory before, of course. Many will be familiar but…
-
Title: Head Over Heels Label: 4AD It’s still a big call and many will disagree but, as far as I’m concerned, the Cocteau Twins were 4AD. They represented and projected everything…
