Tom Jones: Surrounded By Time
Tom Jones Surrounded By Time (S-Curve Records) Sir Tom Jones has earned over a 100 million record sales, 36 Top 40 hits spanning five decades, and is in his 8th decade…and he’s not slowing down one bit on his latest, Surrounded By Time. Picking a rich vein of covers here, he opens with a strong gospel-y read over Nick Pini’s bowed bass and More...
Restless Mosaic: There’s Much Left to Explore
Restless Mosaic There’s Much Left to Explore (2272972 Records DK) It’s as if Seattle-based Restless Mosaic is releasing a steam valve, that odd piss-of-a-sound getting us into a roiling bass and snapping More...
Beatnik Neon: Yoreself
Beatnik Neon Yoreself (Beatnik Neon) Slow piano arpeggio, atmospheric vocals that at first bubble forth unintelligibly then come clear, start the first song here, “Colors.” Swirling strings, a slow-reaching More...
Crack The Sky: Tribes
Crack The Sky Tribes (Carry On Music) You might not exactly know who Crack The Sky is…especially if you are under forty and not a prog-rock head. But I’d advise you to go seek out this American band’s new More...
Blue Water Highway: Paper Airplanes
Blue Water Highway Paper Airplanes (Start Swimming) The baker’s dozen of Blue Water Highway’s new album Paper Airplanes, is simply perfect. The anthemic ballad title track opens. Simple piano, atmospheric More...
Daniel Lanois: Heavy Sun
Daniel Lanois Heavy Sun (Ent. One Music) Producing the likes of U2, Bob Dylan, and Peter Gabriel (to name but a few), creating way-out ambient music with Brian Eno, scoring Oscar-winning films and video games, More...
Elford, Davies, and Baldini: The Real Story
Elford, Davies, and Baldini The Real Story (Independent) A roiling low metallic bass sound, flicking guitar, and laid-back snare informs the decidedly bleak “The End is Night,” the opening track on Elford, More...
Farees: Border Patrol
Farees Border Patrol (Rez’arts) A snare marries a quickly picked acoustic guitar on “Sand Ni##ger!” the opener on Italian producer/activist Farees’ new Border Patrol. It’s a sly beginning, with some More...
Captn K: Salad Days
Captn K Salad Days (Picnic Records) Opening with a super cool stomp beat and metallic percussion backing of the title track, we are off to some good danceable electronica on Captn K’s new Ep Salad Days. “Body More...
The Divorcees: Drop Of Blood
The Divorcees Drop Of Blood (Independent) Quick picking and sailing slide lifts us into the instrumental opener, “Caledonia Mountain,” to land us then into the soft beat of the first real song here, “Dying More...
