Motorpsycho, Little Lucid Moments
Little Lucid Moments is a relentless effort from a band making heroic guitar music for the young or dynamic.
The Isley Brothers, 3 + 3 / Go For Your Guns
This 2 on 1 set is genius writ large.
The Notwist, Devil, You & Me
A masterpiece of electronic songcraft.
Miley Cyrus - Breakout
Artist: Miley Cyrus 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: 3.5 Stars
Bushman, Get It In Your Mind
Get It In Your Mind is Bushman's strongest album for a while.
De La Soul
Niedawno świętowali dwudziestolecie działalności muzycznej. Mają na koncie siedem świetnych albumów studyjnych, ogromny komercyjny sukces oraz status żywej legendy....
Journey - Revelation
Artist: Journey Review: If a band sticks around long enough, it turns into a tribute band. For years, Journey have slogged around the oldies circuit with a rotating cast of singers trying to impersonate Steve Perry, who belted out the group's Seventies and Eighties hits. But this double-CD set, which also includes a live DVD, features the most unlikely Perry sound-alike yet: Arnel Pineda, a 40-year-old Filipino who spends an entire disc delivering note-for-note remakes of classics like "Don't Stop Believin'." On the se... Rating: 3 Stars
Hot Club De Paris, Live At Deadlake
Liverpool trio Hot Club de Paris' second album trails adolescent awkwardness.
Neon Neon, Stainless Style
A post-modern wonder, as sleek as its subject matter.
Seal - Soul
Artist: Seal Review: Amy Winehouse, what hath thou wrought? In the wake of the Great Beehived One's world-beating success, it seems everyone is getting in touch with his or her retro-soul muse. The latest bandwagon-jumper is Seal — who, with megaproducer David Foster playing the part of Mark Ronson, has delivered a collection of classic-soul covers, dripping with melodrama and tricked out with swooping symphonic orchestration. Seal is a fine singer, whose flavorful tenor combines the smoothness of old-school... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Various Artists, Greensleeves Spring Sampler
With tunes this good, it's a welcome re-addition to Greensleeves' regular release roster.
Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman
Artist: Ne-Yo Review: There's a difference between a ladies' man and a man who loves women, and Ne-Yo reps for the latter. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter says his latest collection of heartfelt love songs is a tribute to the Rat Pack's pressed-suit style, but it's actually a superb concept album about what a great boyfriend he can be — call it Songs in the Key of Nice. Having already penned lady-power hits for Beyoncé and Rihanna, he's the Gloria Steinem of R&B on "Miss Independent": "She move like a... 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
Alabama 3, Hits And Exit Wounds
A deadpan and brilliantly realised summary of that rare thing: a unique band.
Kayah
Zanim wydała debiutancką płytę, musiała przejść długą drogę artysty drugoplanowego. Dziś zajmuje niekwestionowane, czołowe miejsce gwiazdy pop na polskiej estradzie muzycznej....
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Artist: School Of Seven Bells Review: This New York trio of ex-Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis and twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza is the sum of hip contradictions: om-drone modernism coated with the Dehezas' antique vocal blur of Gentle Giant's prog-choir counterpoint and the harmonies of a medieval Shangri-Las. The effect is warm goth — New Order with more eros. "Chain" veers close to electro-candy Madonna, but the Neu-like zoom and robot-nun chanting in "Sempiternal/Amaranth" are more beguiling, like an evening... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Cilmi Gabriella
Do tej pory artystki z Australii stanowiły wyraźną mniejszość na scenie muzycznej. Były czymś w rodzaju ciekawostek. Czy teraz coś się zmieni?...
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Artist: Ladyhawke Review: For Phillips "Pip" Brown, the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter known as Ladyhawke, 1985 is not merely a year: It's a career choice. Ladyhawke — the name comes from a Matthew Broderick fantasy film released in, yep, 1985 — is a retro fetishist, slathering her songs in synthesizer fanfares and thudding drum machines that precisely evoke the mid-Eighties sound of Pat Benatar, Kim Wilde and the Top Gun soundtrack. Ladyhawke is a skillful craftswoman, and in songs like the grandiose... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Kylie Minogue - X
Artist: Kylie Minogue Review: Kylie Minogue has never commanded the zeitgeist like Madonna or stalked a stage with the queenly cool of Beyoncé or hurtled across octaves like Mariah. But in a two-decade career, the pint-size Aussie has ruled the British and European charts by supplying nonstop fizzy fun — she's pop divadom's party planner in chief. Minogue's tenth album arrives on the heels of her battle with breast cancer; thankfully, the experience hasn't made her music discernibly deeper. X compiles... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Hot Club De Paris, Live At Dead Lake
Liverpool trio Hot Club de Paris' second album trails adolescent awkwardness.
Hank Williams - Hank Williams Unreleased Recordings
Artist: Hank Williams Review: In 1951, if you were awake at 7:15 in the morning and your radio was within the long reach of Nashville's WSM-AM, you had Hank Williams with your farina, singing with his Drifting Cowboys and selling sacks of flour for his sponsor, Mother's Best. Williams wasn't in the WSM studio at that hour; he prerecorded the shows on days off from touring. But the 54 performances in this three-CD set pack a magical, concentrated immediacy that is, in its time and way, as electrifying as Johnny Cash's Sixties... Rating: 4.5 Stars