Category Archives: Music Reviews

January 07

Panabrite: The Baroque Atrium – experiments with electronic sound. (music review)

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I never thought a vocoder could produce a sound that moved me after ELO ruined them forever, but Panabrite’s The Baroque Atrium is an album filled with surprises and that’s just one of them. Panabrite is the solo recording project for Norm Chambers and this is the second album under that moniker. This is a beautifully made record […]

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January 06

Onward Chariots – This is my confession (music review)

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I’ve been cleaning my house today and none of that matters because I’ve been listening to Onward Chariots début album, This is my Confession, and its making everything ok. I’m not usually one for cheering on the first rounder, preferring bands with a little under the belt before I give them my (very serious) listening time, but there is some decent […]

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January 05

Iatrogenics – Various artists and an overwhelming optimism. (music review)

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… and thanks to fantabulous internet land, I recently received this email: Hi Lisa I saw your kind and generous review of” Iatrogenics” from EDCC  which I was hoping would have been long forgotten by now but apparently, it has come back to haunt me.  My name is Scott Knol and that is me on […]

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January 03

Han Bennink – Nerve Beats: A man becomes his drum. (music review)

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One of my most treasured discs is Dutch percussionist Han Bennink’s album Nerve Beats. Re-released in 2000, it is the extraordinary capturing of an amazing improvised solo concert in 1973 that I wish to holy Christ I was at. (I was too young, and if I was old enough to attend concerts back then I probably would have been […]

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January 02

Why I still love Queen, even after my discovery of good music.

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I had cause to reflect on Freddy Mercury tonight. My father sent me an email begging me to turn on my television which he knows is only used for films. Not much will convince me to turn on my TV but the lure of Freddy Mercury did it. I think of myself as having a rather delayed […]

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January 01

aso – Ami Yoshida and Christof Kurzmann mirror the mirrors mirror. (music review)

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Although I have never reviewed her on this blog before, I happen to be deeply fond of the music of Ami Yoshida. aso is one of the reasons for this fondness. I’ve had the disc here for a while now… almost a year…  and I confess to digging it out regularly. However writing about this […]

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November 20

Eclipsing – Dream Boat: Floating to the other side. (Music Review)

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Psych-rock (pop) is not my thing, but I’m making an exception in the case of Eclipsing, the new album out by Dreamboat duo Daniel Donahue and Paige Campbell.  Despite the depth and headiness of this album, a folk infused minimalism weaves in and out of its reach. At times it almost reminded me of Clannad […]

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November 19

777 – Ryu Hankil and Bryan Eubanks are the confessional outsider. (Music review)

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  I have had a wonderful time working my way through the Cathnor recordings.  Richard Pinell has just about as fine an ear as anyone interested in this sort of music, and what he’s put together in his catalogue are starting to hold many of my favourite recordings – recordings I return to time and […]

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November 16

In Box Drops – Music and stuff that’s landed on me this week.

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Check out some of the stuff that’s landed this week: Kail Baxley Anyone who reads this blog knows country’s not my thang, but when I like it I really like it. Kail Baxley has a pretty new album out Feb 5 that will be a double for lucky us.  Check this out.  Its pretty, no? […]

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November 14

Puff up the Volume – Talibam! Music as a refusal. (Music review)

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I’ve got a soft spot for the Talibam! guys.  You can see from my previous review I was very taken with their Launchpad Series. For me their music is an assault on the weird appropriation that goes on with music.  The “music is mine!” principle.  It belongs to me! Amid the fun and exuberance a […]

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