Disturbed - Indestructible
Artist: Disturbed Review: In June, these Chicago metalheads had the Number One album in America. It's not hard to see why: With meticulously constructed guitar skronk, serrated verses and cathartic refrains on cuts like "Enough," the album has clear pop appeal in its own dour way. Singer David Draiman says Indestructible is Disturbed's darkest record yet — it was partly inspired by the band's experiences performing for troops overseas — and he does his best to back up the drama. Wailing like a leather- and... Rating: 2 Stars
Feist scoops up 1,2,3,4,5 Canadian music awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Feist dominated Canada's music
awards on Sunday, scooping up five Junos for a year in which
the singer-songwriter shot to international stardom when Apple
Inc. used her single "1234" in iPod TV ads.
Dr. Dog - Fate
Artist: Dr. Dog Review: "Let go of the old ones/We've got some new ones," sings Scott McMicken on "The Old Days," a woozy parlor-room piano-rock reverie. The Philadelphia band's albums have always sounded like they should be filed alongside "old ones" like the Band, the Beach Boys, the Beatles and the Bonzo Dog Band, but Fate feels less like a straight tribute to Dr. Dog's elders and more like a finely tuned collage. "The Breeze" begins as a trembling folkie ballad for acoustic guitar, piano and harmonica, then... Rating: 3 Stars
Gonzales Jose
Wzrastająca w ostatnich latach popularność folku pokazuje, że mimo wszechobecnej wysoko rozwiniętej technologii w XXI wieku ludzie dalej poszukują w muzyce prostoty, szczerości i emocjonalności. ...
Weezer, The Red Album
The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
Badu is back and still balancing the retro/progressive contradiction better than anyone.
Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy
Artist: Lee Ann Womack Review: Lee Ann Womack does low-key better than most of her country contemporaries. The gentle mien of Call Me Crazy suits her nuanced singing — the subtle swoops and honeyed drawls that build momentum without bothering to rock out. Lyrically, Womack mostly shuffles between sadness and devotion, mourning a dead marriage on "Either Way" and admitting she's smitten on "I Found It in You." But producer Tony Brown adds some soul to the hard-drinking ballad "Solitary Thinkin' " and builds an ambient... Rating: 3 Stars
Cure, The
Trzydzieści lat minęło jak jeden dzień. Dawniej jedni z prekursorów zimnej fali, dziś żywa legenda stanowiąca inspirację dla niezliczonej ilości artystów....
Bushman, Get It In Your Mind
Get It In Your Mind is Bushman's strongest album for a while.
Duffy
Czy kobiety zdolne do wielkiego śpiewania rodziły się w latach 80. tylko w Wielkiej Brytanii? Takie wrażenie można odnieść po karierach Amy Winehouse, Amy MacDonald czy wreszcie Duffy....
Ashford & Simpson, The Warner Bros. Years: Hits, Remixes & Rarities
For rare groove aficionados it doesn?t get any better than this...
Last Shadow Puppets, Age Of The Understatement
Turner and Kane shake off all those blatant copyists and stay at least three steps ahead of any competition. Wonderful?
Blake Shelton - Startin' Fires
Artist: Blake Shelton Review: It's not hard to figure out why Blake Shelton is leading country's next generation of stars. He's a blue-eyed CMT dreamboat with a famous girlfriend (Miranda Lambert), and he's equally adept at schmaltz-dipped ballads and laugh-out-loud novelty hits. His fifth album leans toward slow, thoughtful stuff, like "Home Sweet Home," in which Shelton flees the Nashville circus for the comforts of a breadbasket backwater. But he's at his best in funny songs like "Green," a proud-to-be-a-redneck anthem... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
Dymiter Marcin
Gdyby zrobić ranking postaci, które w ciągu ostatnich dwóch dekad nadawały ton polskiej scenie niezależnej (od mód i wymogów radiowych playlist), Marcin Dymiter (ur. 1971), magister polonistyki powinien znaleźć się w czołówce....
Morcheeba
Ich nazwa to kombinacja słów: "mor", czyli środek drogi (z ang. "middle of the road") oraz "cheeba", slangowy odpowiednik marihuany....
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
Fela Kuti - Logos Baby
Artist: Fela Kuti Review: This set shows Afrobeat's chieftain before he became the most musically and politically radical musician in African history. Disc One, recorded shortly after Fela's college years in London, collects jazzy, percolating dance tunes that split the difference between Nigerian high-life lilt and the hotter sound of London calypso. The brassy ballroom jam "Bonfu (Short Skirt)," featuring Fela's early band Koola Lobitos, shows he was a skirt-chaser long before he married 27 women simultaneously. "Amaec... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Boyz II Men, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
Comparisons to the originals will always be made and are often less than complimentary.
Death Vessel - Nothing is Precious Enough For Us
Artist: Death Vessel Review: No, Joel Thibodeau is not a girl. Though the Death Vessel mastermind, whose falsetto matches his pixielike stature and long hair, is probably used to people making that mistake. On Thibodeau's Sub Pop debut, his voice is as delicate as Juliana Hatfield's, threading wispy notes into haunting ballads that crib from the backwoods folk of acts like Iron and Wine. The result evokes a makeshift jam session in an Appalachian cabin: fingerpicked ditties like "Block My Eye" and "Jitterakadie" use railroa... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Bregović Goran
Goran Bregović już dawno zrzucił maskę gwiazdy rocka i zajął się aranżowaniem swojej starej muzyki, na ciągle modne folkowe rytmy z Bałkanów....