Various Artists - Nobody Knows Anything - DFA presents Supersoul Recordings
Artist: Various Artists Review: Having built the most reliable brand in freakably fusion-minded dance music with artists like LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, DFA Records has decided to globalize. The debut release on its international Death From Abroad imprint collects tracks from Supersoul, a two-year-old Berlin label whose bastardized beats flaunt the same formal disregard that makes DFA so great. Because the material is from a German operation, there are minimalist 4/4 techno rhythms (Mogg and Naudascher's "Moon Unit Pt.... Rating: 3 Stars
Kings Of Leon
Gdy debiutowali, byli jedną z wielu kapel zaliczanych do nurtu nowych rockowych rewolucjonistów. Dziś Kings Of Leon to grupa, która jako jedna z niewielu przetrwała modę i zaliczana jest do puli "najgorętszych bandów" na światowej scenie rockowej....
Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
Artist: Randy Newman Review: Randy Newman has earned a nice living in recent years as a film composer, but connoisseurs covet his Seventies work, when he emerged as one of the most cutting and empathic of American singer-songwriters. So his return to political-minded material on Harps and Angels is reason to wrap yourself in the flag and cheer. Newman works with piano, an orchestra and a Dixieland-style combo, using American musical tradition to amplify irony and yank heartstrings. The best moments echo classics like... Rating: 4 Stars
Lady Pank
Debiutancka płyta "Lady Pank", wydana w 1983 przez Tonpress, zrobiła w kraju furorę. Zespół dał w tym roku 360 koncertów, nieraz występując dwa, a nawet trzy razy dziennie....
Xiu Xiu
Słuchanie muzyki Xiu Xiu z płyt i w samotności stwarza nieracjonalną pokusę nabawienia się nerwicy, depresji oraz omamów słuchowych i urojeń jak w schizofrenii paranoidalnej....
Wild Beasts, Limbo, Panto
This is a fine debut, full of surprises.
Morcheeba
Ich nazwa to kombinacja słów: "mor", czyli środek drogi (z ang. "middle of the road") oraz "cheeba", slangowy odpowiednik marihuany....
The Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely
Hardcore Stripes fans may bemoan the 'uncool' sheen of professionalism that coats this album, but this beats Icky Thump by a country mile.
Parts and Labor - Receivers
Artist: Parts and Labor Review: The Facebook generation just got its own spectacularly overblown epic in the tradition of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Channeling the motorized grooves of Can and the industrial experiments of Throbbing Gristle, these Brooklynites deliver a chilling, post-apocalyptic concept album about failing to keep up with capitalism and technology. On the synth rocker "Nowheres Nigh," singer Dan Friel shouts, "Consumption is our plight/These wasteful Westerns of our time." And "Satellites" is a rush of electro... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Various Artists, Every Mouth Must Be Fed
A rewarding collection of foundational roots, pitch-perfect in mood for its summer release.
Marika
Choć ukazująca się właśnie płyta "Plenty" jest fonograficznym debiutem Mariki jako solistki, wokalistka aktywnie działa na polskim rynku już od kilku lat. ...
Does It Offend You Yeah?, You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Like a Primark hoodie, it's immaterial whether this record will be remembered fondly in six months.
Shwayze - Shwayze
Artist: Shwayze Review: Cisco Adler, leader of Los Angeles sleaze rockers Whitestarr, is famous for his well-connected dad (producer Lou Adler), ex-girlfriends (like Mischa Barton) and his ballsy nude photo, which leaked online last year. His newest hobby is producing tracks (and an MTV reality show) for 22-year-old Malibu chill-hop rapper Shwayze, whose breezy flow is a hybrid of Young MC and Digable Planets' Butterfly. Adler's no beat master, and the tracks on Shwayze all sound like variations on thumb-strummed Jack... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Joe Higgs, Life Of Contradiction
A work of astonishing depths and bruised, aching humanity.
Jesse Malin, On Your Sleeve
While On Your Sleeve is obviously a labour of love, on the whole it's simply just laboured.
Envee
Envee - Maciej Goliński, pochodzący z Poznania muzyk, kompozytor, producent, jeden z najlepszych polskich didżejów. Multiinstrumentalista - mimo że do tworzenia muzyki wystarczy mu komputer i instrumenty elektroniczne....
The Fratellis, Here We Stand
Here We Stand is a baffling album... really, it's hard to see the point.
Fela Kuti - Lagos Baby: 1963-1969
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
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"....
James Taylor - Covers
Artist: James Taylor Review: On hits like "Handy Man," "Up on the Roof" and "How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)," James Taylor's way of interpreting other songwriters' hits has been to turn them into James Taylor songs. His honeyed drawl is supple enough to accommodate R&B and country standards, sweetening the savory tang of their rural sources. That approach guides Covers, where Taylor assays the likes of the Drifters' "On Broadway," Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne." He softens the arrangements... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Mattafix, Rhythm & Hymns
This has its share of pop hooks, but attempts to square this with Mattafix's world music sympathies don?t always come off.