reissue Archive
07 Sep 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for September, Part 6 of 8
Today I take quick looks at excellent reissue and compilation releases from three labels that excel at that kind of thing: Omnivore Recordings, Light in the Attic and Real Gone […]
17 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Wizzz! French Psychedelic 1966-1969 Volume 1
File Next to: Nuggets II: British Empire and Beyond, Roman Coppola’s CQ Soundtrack France has long been notorious for its musical insularity. Listen to a bootleg of the Beatles‘ February […]
17 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Moby — Hotel:Ambient
File next to: Brian Eno, The Orb Brian Eno once described ambient music as the aural equivalent of wallpaper; it’s designed to be experienced passively rather than attentively. It does […]
13 Jul 2015
Album Review: Thelonious Monk — The Complete Riverside Recordings
In my final year of college, I was exceedingly fortunate to have signed up for a course called American Popular Music History: Stephen Foster to the Present. There were only […]
29 Jun 2015
Album Review: The Fad — The Now Sound
If you lived through the early 1980s in the United States – and were old enough to be at least somewhat plugged in to popular culture – you were aware […]
22 Jun 2015
Album Reviews: Four from The Residents
Though they initially submitted demo recordings to major record labels (the bootleg The Warner Brothers Tapes documents the most notorious of these), the inscrutable collective that once jokingly billed themselves […]
18 Jun 2015
Album Review: Craig Fuller / Eric Kaz
There’s always a place for solid, midtempo, soft-rock. Or at least there was one before what passes for country music co-opted the style, watered it down and called it modern […]
11 Jun 2015
Album Reviews: Four MPS Jazz Reissues
MPS is the highly revered label headed by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and several associates. Founded in the mid 1960s, MPS became home for many highly-regarded jazz musicians. Between 1966 and […]
10 Jun 2015
Album Review: Wes Montgomery — The Classic Recordings 1958-1960
The world’s a much smaller place today than it was a quarter century ago. When I frequented record stores – even once the CD era began – import albums were […]
04 Jun 2015
Album Review: The Complete Stax Soul Singles Vol 3: 1972-1975
Nearly a quarter century ago (April 30, 1991 to be exact), a lavish, 9CD set called The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 was released. Housed in a large box and featuring […]