Mystic Braves – ‘Days of Yesteryear’ (2015)
Stepping out from behind their previous more gritty garage sounding outing, 'Days of Yesteryear' finds The Mystic Braves delivering a more tightly woven bit of lo-fi neo-psychedelia, complete...
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Troubadour Dali – Let’s Make It Right (2011) review
Troubadour Dali - Let's Make It Right (Euclid Records, 2011) Listen: https://troubadourdali.bandcamp.com/album/lets-make-it-right-velvet-revolution Listening to “Let’s Make It Right,” by Troubadour Dali floated over me like the memory of a...
Kevin Gordon – Long Gone Time (2015) review
Kevin Gordon - Long Gone Time (2015) Listen: https://kevingordon.bandcamp.com/album/long-gone-time Don’t ask me why, but I was takin’ the backroads from El Paso to Albuquerque when I first heard Kevin...
Jonathan Wilson – Fanfare (2013) review
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare (Bella Union, 2013) There is no middle ground when it comes to Jonathan Wilson’s album Fanfare, listeners will either love it, or despise it....
Thelightshines – Before the Sandman Sung (2015) review
Thelightshines - Before the Sandman Sung (2015) Anyone who’s ever chemically laced the night knows what it’s like when the walls stop moving, the colours become less brilliant,...
Kurt Vile – ‘b’lieve i’m goin down…’ (2015)
'B’lieve I’m Goin’ Down' exists, and in the same breath it doesn’t. Never have I had the pleasure of hearing a more etherial album laced with intoxicating imagery...
Golden Animals – Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) review
Golden Animals - Free Your Mind and Win a Pony (2008) Free Your Mind And Win A Pony by Golden Animals, a power-pop duo who seem determined to...
The Smoking Trees – TST (2015) review
The Smoking Trees - TST (Ample Play/Burger Records, 2015) Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlNJ1NVt3eo With TST, The Smoking Trees have delivered a laid back breezy bit of relaxed sunshine pop, all laced...
Thelightshines – Now the Sandman Sings (2014) review
Thelightshines - Now the Sandman Sings (The Great Pop Supplement, 2014) Listen: http://www.thelightshinesband.com/now-the-sandman-sings/ On first listen, the shivers that ran down my spine, the visions that danced across the...
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (2015) review
Various Artists – Dis Cover – Donna Regina As Recorded By (Karaoke Kalk, 2015) With this, their twelfth album, Donna Regina [Günther and Regina Janssen] continue to evolve...