vinyl Archive
17 Apr 2018
Album Review: The Cyrkle — ‘The Minx’ Original Soundtrack
Here’s as unlikely a pairing as you’re likely to encounter, even within the context of 1960s pop culture. The Cyrkle were an American pop group whose greatest claims to fame […]
17 Apr 2018
Album Reviews: Two Various-Artists RSD Releases
The Other Side of Sun, Part 2 Sun Records had seen its heyday come and go by the time Shelby Singleton bought the label in the late 1960s. But purchase […]
16 Apr 2018
Album Reviews: Cocteau Twins’ ‘Head Over Heels’ and ‘Treasure’
Not to be confused with Thompson Twins, Cocteau Twins were a dream-pop band from Scotland. Between 1982 and 1996 the group released nine albums of original music, including a 1996 […]
16 Apr 2018
Album Review: Gary Numan – Dance
Casual listeners’ knowledge of Gary Numan’s body of work often doesn’t extend his hit single “Cars,” a track from his 1979 solo debut The Pleasure Principle. And that’s unfortunate, because […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Pocket Fishrmen – The Greatest Story Ever Told
Wow; here’s a weird one. Imagine, if you will, that Dead Kennedys were a comedy band. One from Austin, Texas. Now imagine that they stayed together for three decades, making […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Fovea — Pencil Me In
The blippy synth lines that open “Boss Boy” suggest that Fovea’s Pencil Me In is going to be a synthpop album. But not; that impression is corrected after about, oh, […]
11 Feb 2018
Album Review: Helen Kelter Skelter — Melter
The members of the cleverly-named band Helen Kelter Skelter may not wish that it were so, but they may well be destined to be known as “that other band from […]
03 Dec 2017
Vinyl Roundup Part Two
Today I take a look at four simply superb reissue/compilations, all on vinyl. Don’t Look Now Original Soundtrack (Waxworks) Don’t Look Now was a 1973 thriller starring Donald Sutherland and […]
02 Dec 2017
Vinyl Roundup Part One
Here’s a look at four new releases, all on my format of choice: vinyl. The Toadies – The Lower Side of Uptown (Kirtland Records) In an era populated by sensitive, […]
27 Oct 2017
Reviews: 12 Jazz Reissues (Part Two)
Alphonse Mouzon – In Search of a Dream (MPS) Powerhouse fusion drummer Mouzon made his name on sides by Les McCann (the stunning Invitation to Openness) and Weather Report’s debut, […]