Duffy, Rockferry
After three years of musical growth, Duffy has found her voice - now it?s time to enrich it by living.
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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
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....
Operator Please, Yes Yes Vindictive
Operator Please have created some unashamedly sunny music.
Marika
Choć ukazująca się właśnie płyta "Plenty" jest fonograficznym debiutem Mariki jako solistki, wokalistka aktywnie działa na polskim rynku już od kilku lat. ...
Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners
Artist: Graham Nash Review: "How do you write about breaking up with Joni Mitchell?" asks Graham Nash in the liner notes to his first solo album. Good question. His 1970 split with the willowy Canadian singer-songwriter was the seed of this modest 33-minute solo debut, which proves the cliché that unfortunate events can generate excellent art. The stripped-down piano ballads "Better Days" and "Simple Man" ("I just want to hold you/I don't want to hold you down") and the majestic "I Used to Be a King," spangled with Jerry... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Domu Presents Pete Simpson, Look A Little Further
The ethic here is to retain a sense of realness, both vocally and instrumentally.
Ingrid Michaelson - Be Ok
Artist: Ingrid Michaelson Review: Last year, Staten Island acoustic singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson warmed hearts (and shoulders) with "The Way I Am," a cutesy pop ballad where she promised her man, "If you are chilly, here, take my sweater." (The song was picked up for an Old Navy ad.) On Be OK, Michaelson's still generous: "You and I" finds her offering to buy pals dance lessons, her parents a home in France and "everybody nice sweaters" (again?!). And she's still a yawn: While the title track is a bright, finger-snapping... Rating: 2 Stars
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
U2 - Boy
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: 4.5 Stars
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
The Courteeners, St Jude
A northern band with a lead singer who has an outspoken opinion?
Juana Molina - Un Dia
Artist: Juana Molina Review: Imagine if Tina Fey quit comedy and sang electronics-based folk songs. That's the path Juana Molina took more than 10 years ago in her native Argentina, leaving her job as a TV comedian to pursue experimental folk. Her fifth disc is her most adventurous, combining avant-garde vocals with the atmospherics of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine. With looped guitar, hypnotic percussion and a bit of feedback, the title track sounds like two songs playing at once. The centerpiece is a trio that includ... Rating: 4 Stars
The Kooks, Konk
It's too early to count them out, but they'll need to try harder with album number three.
Woods
Czy w 2005 r. jest jeszcze ktoś, kto wydaje album na kasecie?...
White Denim - Exposion
Artist: White Denim Review: With their EPs, Austin's White Denim have built buzz as the next heroes of fuzzed-out psychedelic power blues in the style of the White Stripes and the Black Keys. But while "All You Really Have to Do" and "Shake Shake Shake" support that rep, their debut full-length shows a more versatile outfit. "Don't Look That Way at It" mixes looped guitar swarms, wordless chants and off-kilter grooves. "Wda" is a gear-shifting jam that echoes golden-era Pavement. And "All Truckers Roll" is a woozy road ant... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Maanam
Pierwsza polska hippiska, pierwsza polska punkówa, poetka patronująca szkole budowlanej, w końcu wybitna wokalistka od ponad 30 lat trwale zrośnięta z legendarną grupą Maanam, Kora do dziś pozostaje niekwestionowaną królową polskiego rocka....
The Doors - Live at the Matrix
Artist: The Doors Review: The Doors were still a club band in the late winter and spring of 1967 — not yet stars, not quite spectacle, reliant on blues and R&B covers to get through a whole evening on the bandstand. Stuck in a long limbo between the January release of their debut album, The Doors, and the summertime explosion of their second single, "Light My Fire," the group played discothèques in Los Angeles and New York and, during a legendary engagement that March, more than a dozen sets over five nights... Rating: 4 Stars
Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
Plies - Da REAList
Artist: Plies Review: Do you like Young Jeezy but think he's a little soft? Then this Florida MC and self-avowed "goon" is for you. Da Realist is Plies' second album of 2008, coming on the heels of the gold-selling Definition of Real. Over minimalist hand claps and kick drums, Plies dishes singsong choruses and asserts his goon-itude: On the creepy "All Black," he dreams of when he can "kill my first rap nigga . . . all head shots." Changes of pace include "Spend the Night," a pop-friendly sex jam where Plies tells a... Rating: 2 Stars