Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends
Any way you look at it, this is a massive album.
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Artist: Animal Collective Review: Like the Grateful Dead before them, the psychedelic heads of Animal Collective are evolving from raging sonic hallucinations into gentler, more melodic trips. The ninth disc from this Brooklyn/Baltimore crew tries balancing shameless beauty with ecstatic weirdness, and when they nail it, it's breathtaking. "Summertime Clothes" is a swirling pastoral with dance-music thrust, while "Guys Eyes" is a cauldron of the Pet Sounds vocal fractals. "Lion in a Coma" and "No More Runnin" get lost in their... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Jazzie B, Presents School Days: Life Changing Tracks From The Trojan Archive
The charm of this compilation comes from its rosy glow of musical nostalgia.
Leslie Feist sweeps Canada music awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist swept the Junos, Canada's music awards, walking away with five trophies during the weekend.
Maleńczuk Maciej
Niepokończone szkoły, niepozaczynane zawody, pobyt w więzieniu, granie na ulicach, przygody z narkotykami i parę kultowych płyt w dorobku to tylko kilka z punktów rock?n?rollowego CV Macieja Maleńczuka....
L.Stadt
Łódzki kwartet powstały w Strasburgu z połączenia pasji z solidnym wykształceniem muzycznym, kultywujący wymierającą tradycję wydawania EP-ek i posiadający w swoim składzie dwóch perkusistów. Nic dziwnego, że nazywany jest nadzieją polskiej muzyki. ...
Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All
Artist: Anthony Hamilton Review: Most of today's gold-plated R&B stars are ideally suited to economic boom times. Anthony Hamilton is a down-home sort: a man to help you muddle through a recession. "We don't have to worry 'bout no groceries/We can fill up on love alone," he sings on "Cool," from his sixth album. The least flashy of the neosoul singers that emerged in the Nineties, Hamilton still has a Seventies jones (check out the Curtis Mayfield impersonation in "The News"). But his real calling card is solace, emotional and... Rating: 3 Stars
Various Artists - Camp Rock
Artist: Various Artists Review: History teaches us not to dismiss kiddie pop. Stevie Wonder was once Little Stevie Wonder, just as Lil Wayne was once little Lil Wayne, child gangsta rapper. And let's not forget ex-Mouseketeers Britney and Justin. Purists disdain teenybopper music as cynical pap, foisted on the young by Svengalis who lurk in the shadows, counting money. But bubblegum can be a great farm system, honing skills that pay dividends in later life. Lately, Disney's kiddie pop has been plenty profitable, with High... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Genesis - Genesis: 1970-1975
Artist: Genesis Review: At first, Genesis were five English ex-boarding-school mates playing complex songs about hogweed and Greek myth. They slimmed that audacity into platinum pop as members left: guitarist Anthony Phillips (1970), singer Peter Gabriel (1975) and guitarist Steve Hackett (1977). But bassist Mike Rutherford, keyboardist Tony Banks and drummer Phil Collins were never as compelling later as they were in the band that made the five LPs in this box. The country-cathedral air of 1970's Trespass and the... Rating: 4.5 Stars
Foals, Antidotes
Believe the hype, because there won't be a better British debut album this year.
Haydamaky
Ukraiński folk rock z domieszką reggae, hucuł-punk, karpatian-ska. Wszystko to oznacza: Haydamaky....
Variete
Na początku był chaos. W 1983 roku w Bydgoszczy z tego chaosu wyłoniła się grupa ZyZyZy, która szybko zmieniła nazwę na Variété est Morte, czyli "różnorodność umarła"....
Joan As Police Woman, To Survive
Joan Wasser had plenty to do to equal the brilliance of her debut, but in To Survive, she has done just that.
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Artist: Land Of Talk Review: Elizabeth Powell's sultry howl is like a stiff drink: icy, not too sweet and capable of knocking you on your ass. On Land of Talk's debut LP, she channels Cat Power and Chrissie Hynde over her band's turbulent bass-guitar-and-drums attack. Produced by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, cuts like "Yuppy Flu" and "It's Okay" are steeped in morbid imagery, but Powell's passionate delivery makes this set life-affirming: As she sings on "Got a Call," "You can't keep down a girl who loves music." Rating: 3.5 Stars
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Artist: Titus Andronicus Review: Named for an obscure Shakespeare play and flaunting song titles like "Albert Camus," this fivesome of suburban punks are proud nerds. But they know when to kick ass: "Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ" sounds like a kiss-off ballad, until the 23-year-old singer-songwriter Patrick Stickles stops short and bellows "Fuck you!" with his bandmates and they hurtle into a breakneck Celtic rocker that recalls the Pogues at their most raucous. There's emo in the tortured lyrics and E Street Band in the arr... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Republika
Historia zespołu przerwana w połowie drogi przez śmierć wokalisty, bez którego nie byłoby grupy. Jednak właśnie to smutne wydarzenie podkreśliło mocno legendę zespołu zbudowaną m.in. jednym z występów na festiwalu w Jarocinie....
Cilmi Gabriella
Do tej pory artystki z Australii stanowiły wyraźną mniejszość na scenie muzycznej. Były czymś w rodzaju ciekawostek. Czy teraz coś się zmieni?...
U2 - October
Artist: U2 Review: From the beginning, U2 aspired to profound ecstasy. But it took Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. a while to get there. Two of U2's first three albums are undeniable classics: 1980's precociously magnificent Boy for its proudly spiritual optimism in the thick of post-punk nihilism and for the Edge's reveille-treble guitar; 1983's War for its arena-rock muscle tone (honed over three years of touring) and the matured blend of soldier's ardor and pop wile in the singles "Sunday... Rating: 4 Stars
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Artist: Okkervil River Review: On this album-length sequel to last year's The Stage Names, these Austin indie rockers continue to dissect the looking-glass emptiness of life spent on the stage, as well as in the cheap seats. "Fuck long hours, sick with singing," frontman Will Sheff sings over slow-building, mariachi-style blues on "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979," a boozy, post-fame portrait of the late gay glam rocker Jobraith. Like its predecessor, The Stand Ins also... Rating: 3 Stars
Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
With such sublime depth on offer, Crystal Castles marks a nuanced emotional territory that dance music never covered before.
Perfect
Socjalistyczne władze nie przepadały za Perfectem, którego refren "Chcemy być sobą" zmieniano na koncertach w "Chcemy bić ZOMO". Faktem jest, że teksty pisane przez Olewicza i Hołdysa niezbyt pochlebnie wyrażały się o sytuacji w Polsce......