light in the attic Archive
15 Nov 2018
Hundred-word Reviews, November 2018 Part 1
More hundred-word reviews. If you’ve wandered in here before, you know the drill: they’re all worthwhile and deserve deeper coverage. These ten are all archival, reissue or compilation releases. Oakland […]
06 Nov 2018
Notable Vinyl Releases, Part One
These three are reissues. Hank Jones – Arigato Jones’ recording career as a jazz pianist began in 1947 and continued until age 91 with the aptly-named Last Recording in 2010. […]
26 Feb 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for February 2016, Part 5
This latest week-long dive into my backlog of worthy music for review wraps up with five archival releases. Vulgar Boatmen – You and Your Sister First things first: the album […]
01 Jan 2016
Album Mini-review: Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn – Cubist Blues
File next to: Tav Falco and Panther Burns, Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chain One of the more unlikely musical summits in recorded history, this one-off album was made in two […]
20 Nov 2015
Album Mini-review: The City — Now That Everything’s Been Said
File next to: Carole King, Laura Nyro, Brooklyn Bridge Carole King‘s landmark 1971 LP Tapestry is admired even by those who don’t generally go in for that sort of thing. […]
30 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… L’Amitié (yet again aka Françoise Hardy) By all accounts, the half-originals/half-covers approach was working well for Françoise Hardy. So was the idea of having twelve – […]
29 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… Le Premier Bonheur du Jour (aka Françoise Hardy) A critical and commercial success at home (and modestly so beyond France’s borders), Françoise Hardy‘s debut led quickly […]
28 Oct 2015
Album Review: Françoise Hardy Reissue Series (Part 1)
Looking back on the 1960s, it’s easy to understand why certain countries didn’t get whipped up in the era’s rock and pop revolution quite to the extent that we did […]
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 […]