review Archive
26 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants II
Less than a year after releasing Like Elephants I (reviewed separately), The Movements came back with 2014’s Like Elephants II. And the two discs truly are of a piece: sonically […]
25 Nov 2014
Album Review: The Movements — Like Elephants I
Every so often an album comes along that really pushes all of the right buttons with me. And as with most listeners, for me, what exactly those buttons are constitutes […]
21 Nov 2014
Album Review: Oscar Peterson — Exclusively for My Friends [6LP box set]
Oscar Peterson was one of the most beloved figures in jazz. His recording career began in 1945, got fully underway in the 1950s, and tapered off as his health declined […]
20 Nov 2014
Album Review: Casual Strangers — Casual Strangers
A fellow music lover and good friend of mine is quite wary of what one might call deceptive packaging in music. You know, that thing where a band says that […]
19 Nov 2014
Album Review: Abelardo Barroso with Orquesta Sensación — Cha Cha Cha
Full disclosure, right up front: I know next to nothing about Cuban jazz. I enjoyed Kirsty MacColl‘s ventures into the genre, and I’ve long had a special place in my […]
18 Nov 2014
Album Review: Midge Ure — Fragile
In my last review, I took a look at a new release from Colin Hay, an artist who came to prominence in the early 1980s with his group Men at […]
17 Nov 2014
Album Review: Colin Hay — Man @ Work
If you’re a pop music listener of a certain age, you remember Men at Work. Smiling, photogenic darlings of early MTV, they broke through in that early period of the […]
14 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 5
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
13 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 4
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
12 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 3
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]