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Czech the Funk
Politics and music have more often than not been uneasy bedfellows, so when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968, some of the country’s musicians were on the receiving end. A new series of reissues by boutique label Vampisoul is shining a spotlight Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:48 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Angelique Kidjo - Õÿö
Benin's Angelique Kidjo is no stranger to world music fans, with her 2007 album Djin Djin winning a deserved Grammy Award. Her follow-up, Õÿö , pays tribute to the music that influenced her in her youth. From James Brown and Carlos Santana, Aretha Franklin Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 4:16 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Mulatu Astatke - New York -- Addis -- London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965 -- 1975
With an Inspiration Information title already released on Strut Records in 2009, this compilation of the Ethiopian jazz legend's work in the late Sixties and early Seventies is a welcome addition to the reissues of Mulatu Astatke's magnificent catalogue. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 4:01 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar
Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis have been working on film scores together since 2005 when they collaborated on the music for Australian western The Proposition . Since then they have scored 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 3:59 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Massive Attack - Heligoland
Massive Attack are back! With their first proper album in seven years, this Bristol outfit have made a major return to form. 2003's 100th Window had few interesting moments and left many fans disappointed, but the quality of Heligoland should rectify Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 3:56 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Taken by Trees - East of Eden
This is the second album by former Concretes singer Victoria Bergman since she quit the band back in 2006 and it is by far her best. Her first solo album, Open Field , which featured Electrelane front-woman Verity Susman on piano and backing vocals, was Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2010 3:53 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
7 Worlds Collide - The Sun Came Out
New Zealand brothers Neil and Tim Finn are among the world’s finest pop and rock music songwriters. Whether with Split Enz, Crowded House, The Finn Brothers or as solo artists, they have continually produced albums of rich songwriting. In 2001, Neil Finn Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:45 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Iron and Wine - Around the Well
Iron and Wine, AKA Sam Beam, has returned, not with the long awaited follow up to his monumental album The Shepherd’s Dog -- released in 2007 -- but with a double-disc compilation of rarities. Around the Well contains a whopping 24 non-album tracks, roughly Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:39 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Richard Hawley - Truelove’s Gutter
With six albums released in the last 10-years, this Brit-pop veteran has been somewhat prolific. As a member of both the Longpigs and Pulp, he established himself as one of Sheffield’s talents, but it wasn’t until his move to Mute for his 2005 album Coles Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:29 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew - Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew
In 2008, following a five-year hiatus, Tricky returned with a new album Knowles West Boy . Heralded as a return to form, the album still did not match his seminal work in the late 1990’s. Now we have the remix album, dubbed Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:25 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Jimi Tenor and Tony Allen - Inspiration Information 4
Strut Records's Inspiration Information series has produced some gems of late, most notably last year's collaboration between Ethiopian jazz star Mulatu Astatke and the London psych-jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. The concept is simple: team a musician Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:01 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Fearless and fantastic, the Lips must be one of the few remaining bands from the American indie-hardcore scene that spawned them that consistently strive for originality and truly challenging music. No surprise then that their 12th studio album, Embryonic, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:58 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Atlas Sound - Logos
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox is one prolific guy -- last year he released one of the year's finest albums with Microcastle and also managed to put out his first album under the Atlas Sound moniker. Now 2009 sees the release of the second Atlas Sound Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:56 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
You would be forgiven for being suspicious of rock veterans reforming many years after their careers faltered, but Dinosaur Jr are an exception. They are still able to crank out scintillating slabs of fuzzy rock, every part equal to those late-Eighties Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:55 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
In 2008 Wild Beasts' Limbo, Panto announced one of the most interesting rock bands to come out of the United Kingdom. Now less than a year later they are back with their second album, which unbelievably surpasses their brilliant debut. Whereas their debut Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:53 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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