The Fratellis, Here We Stand
Here We Stand is a baffling album... really, it's hard to see the point.
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....
Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off
Walk It Off? More like sleep it off...
George Strait - Troubadour
Artist: George Strait Review: Like a bottle of Heinz ketchup on a diner counter, a George Strait album is a reassuring product. At fifty-five, dude's spent his life making fairly low-bullshit, high-yield mainstream country: Since 1981's Strait Country, his LPs have gone platinum or better thirty-two times, and the four-CD anthology Strait Out of the Box has shifted 8 million units. That's a lot of Resistol cowboy hats, pardner (although thanks to his endorsement deal, Strait no doubt gets 'em free). Troubadour is... Rating: 3 Stars
Fashion, The
W duńskim Svendborg w 1995 roku, spotkało się trzech facetów: wokalista Jakob Printzlau, basista Christian Lignell B?kholm i gitarzysta Anders Find Axelsen. Dopiero siedem lat później dobrali sobie dwóch kolejnych członków i nazwali się The Fashion....
Rodney Crowell - Sex & Gasoline
Artist: Rodney Crowell Review: Ever since 2001's The Houston Kid, country singer Rodney Crowell has been coming to terms with his private life in his music. The largely acoustic Sex & Gasoline is his meditation on femininity — not just a celebration of women, but a real attempt at empathy. In the midtempo shuffle "The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design," he imagines what it feels like to be female. Over the fingerpicked folk of "Moving Work of Art," he reveals his own tendency to objectify women. And in "I've Done... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Various Artists - Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia
Artist: Various Artists Review: Founded in 1971 by local R & B writer-producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Philadelphia International Records was designed to be a hit factory — a Motown with East Coast swagger, a Stax with silken swing — and this four-CD history tells the tale as they intended. Opening with a smash — the Soul Survivors' "Expressway (To Your Heart)," a 1967 blast of psychedelic funk from Gamble and Huff's freelance years — Love Train keeps on giving with dozens of top R&B and pop... Rating: 4.5 Stars
Feeder, Silent Cry
Feeder have definitely found and settled into their niche sound, though there are some fresh ideas on Silent Cry.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - CSNY/Deja Vu Live
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Review: The highlight of this soundtrack to CSNY: Déjà Vu, Neil Young's film about the group's 2006 Freedom of Speech Tour, comes after Young sings "Let's Impeach the President" to an Atlanta audience that suddenly divides like Congress, equally booing and cheering. The performance proves that material from Young's Living With War, an indictment of the Bush regime, wasn't just aimed at the converted. Young's songs are the true rocket-launchers on Déjà Vu Live. His squiggly guitar blasts also act as the... Rating: 3 Stars
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Artist: Tokyo Police Club Review: Many songs on this spiky Canadian quartet?s full-length debut are best appreciated with a Webster?s Unabridged Dictionary close at hand — especially with lines like ?Dead lovers salivate/Broken hearts tessellate.? Tokyo Police Club?s 2006 EP, A Lesson in Crime, earned them copious blog love and frequent comparisons to the Strokes, but Elephant Shell makes clear that the band?s ambitions are as much literary as musical. Singer-bassist David Monks? words pour out in clotted couplets... Rating: 3 Stars
Alabama 3, Hits And Exit Wounds
A deadpan and brilliantly realised summary of that rare thing: a unique band.
Czesław Śpiewa
Pierwszy singiel i od razu pierwsze miejsce Listy Przebojów Programu Trzeciego. Z takim "Debiutem" można tylko prosić o więcej. ...
Paul Weller, 22 Dreams
In one fell swoop he's thrown off his dour image, ushering in a host of new fans by delivering the best solo album of his career.
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
Neon Neon, Stainless Style
A post-modern wonder, as sleek as its subject matter.
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
Artist: Tricky Review: 2008 is shaping up as the Year Bristol Bounced Back. Earlier this year, the city's trip-hop lords Portishead released the superb album Third. Now comes the first record in five years from Tricky, who helped codify the foreboding Bristol sound along with Portishead and Massive Attack in the mid-Nineties. Tricky's hometown is much on his mind: The album title refers to the hardscrabble hood where he grew up, and he has called the album a homage to the Brit pop of his youth. You can hear the... Rating: 3.5 Stars
The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths
Artist: The Smiths Review: Overseen by Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, this compilation emphasizes the compositional might behind the miserablism of England's most idiosyncratic and influential Eighties band. Sound traces the quartet's four-year evolution from savage tenderness to refined despair: Morrissey articulates both bleak romanticism and omni-deprecating humor, while Marr accompanies him with chiming, multilayered riffs. The Smiths often relegated their most emotionally detailed and musically divergent tracks... Rating: 5 Stars
Toots and the Maytals, Light Your Light
Toots' voice sounds just as captivating as it did in the 60s.
Totentanz
Kariera grupy Totentanz dowodzi, że w Polsce można osiągnąć w krótkim czasie przyzwoitą pozycję, zachowując przy tym niezależność. Zespół powstał ledwie trzy lata temu z małym okładem, a dziś ma już na swoim koncie dwa studyjne albumy....
Joe Higgs, Life Of Contradiction
A work of astonishing depths and bruised, aching humanity.
Linkin Park snags Cornell, Bravery for tour (Reuters)
Reuters - Linkin Park, Chris Cornell and
the Bravery will perform on the main stage of the fifth annual
Projekt Revolution tour, set to begin July 16 at the Tweeter
Center outside Boston.