review Archive
04 Jan 2023
Album Review: Steve Hillage – The Glastonbury Experience: Live 1979
Steve Hillage is a beloved musician, and with good reason. His work with Khan, Arzachel, Uriel, Gong and System 7 has all been innovative, compelling and tuneful, with just the […]
17 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: Archival/Reissue
Because I tend toward archival material – expanded and/or overlooked reissues, previously unreleased live and studio collections – a good bit of those kind of releases find their way to […]
13 Dec 2022
Album Review: The Comet is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Despite what some stuck-in-the-past nostalgic types might assert, there’s plenty of good (and sometimes even great) music being made today. The best artists still find ways to offer up something […]
11 Dec 2022
Album Review: The Airport 77s — We Realize You Have a Choice
The name explicitly hearkens back to the age of wide suit lapels and blockbuster stunt-casting movies. And the surnames of the three musicians in the group – Kelly, Sullivan and […]
09 Dec 2022
Album Review: Steve Hackett — Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More
There’s a sizable contingent of Genesis fans that vastly prefers the group’s earlier work – its progressive era, so to speak – over the band’s later, more pop-oriented period. They’re […]
08 Dec 2022
Album Review: Talkdemonic – Various Seasides
The name is a classic case of misdirection, and that’s just the beginning. Read up a bit on Talkdemonic and you might not be prepared for what their latest album […]
07 Dec 2022
Album Review: Connie Han — Secrets of Inanna
There was a time when jazz was edgy, boundary-pushing and even threatening (albeit in a good way). Some may disagree, but other than free jazz – which is frankly too […]
04 Dec 2022
Album Review: The Orion Experience – Cosmicandy
If Jellyfish had added bouncy dance pop to their primary influences alongside inspirations like Supertramp, Wings and Queen, they might have sounded something like The Orion Experience. Released in 2006, […]
03 Dec 2022
Album Review: J. Marinelli – Putting the World to Rights
Combine equal parts stripped-down punk and acoustic guitar troubadour vibe, and add a spash of honky-tonk c&won a few tracks, and the result might be something like J. Marinelli. Born […]
27 Nov 2022
Album Review: Harrison Kennedy – Thanks for Tomorrow
In 1967, the hit songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown to launch their own record labels, Invictus and Hot Wax. The trio assembled a group to serve as a vehicle […]