review Archive
15 Aug 2021
Album Review: Laura Nyro — Go Find the Moon
Standing in sharp contrast to the sharp and seasoned performer of 1994 found on Trees of the Ages is the Laura Nyro heard on Go Find the Moon: The Audition […]
14 Aug 2021
Album Review: Laura Nyro — Trees of the Ages
Laura Nyro was a talent of staggering dimensions. Not only was the New York singer-songwriter possessed of a preternatural ability to write enduing melodies – many of which were hits […]
10 Aug 2021
Album Review: The Beat Farmers — Tales of the New West
One of the more fascinating characteristics of ‘80s new wave / college rock / alternative (or whatever you’d care to call it) was the manner in which it folded in […]
09 Aug 2021
Album Review: Various Artists — Higher Than a Mountain
It can’t have been easy being Andy Gibb. It would be challenging enough to have a famous older sibling scoring hit after hit and then trying to have a music […]
08 Aug 2021
Album Review: Sweet — Isolation Boulevard
Artists often have very good reasons for re-recording their hit songs. The vagaries of the music industry are such that artists – even ones who wrote their own material – […]
07 Aug 2021
Album Review: Tia Carroll — You Gotta Have It
Soulful and funky are handy adjectives often used to describe above-average blues. And those words deserved to be employed yet again in a review of Tia Carroll’s You Gotta Have […]
06 Aug 2021
Album Review: Mark & the Clouds — Waves
Many artists have chosen the retro path. They write new, original tunes but aim for a sound and style that evokes the past. And like any other creative set of […]
29 Jul 2021
Album Review: Richard X Heyman — Copious Notes
Richard X Heyman started making great solo records right out of the gate. Anyone who enjoys highly melodic rock with sterling pop values, hooks galore and just the right amount […]
25 Jul 2021
Album Review: Circus Mind — Joy Machine
An excursion into the funk-rock universe, Circus Mind’s Joy Machine feels like a party. Signature licks – lengthy ones, sometimes – -form the basis of this inviting and energetic release. […]
24 Jul 2021
Album Review: Various Artists — Big Stir Singles: The Tenth Wave
And the hits just keep comin’, as they say. It’s too easy to label Big Stir as a power pop label. And in fact doing so is (a) too limiting […]