Album Reviews
VanWyck “Dust Chaser”
Into the desert – in search of freedom. It’s come to the point where a new release from VanWyck is a reason to sit up and pay attention. The Amsterdam based singer-songwriter has, over a series […]
Album Reviews
Album Reviews
Frank Goodman “Ranchero Radio”
Quirky, easy-listening pop music which is a real pleasure to listen to. As you sit down to listen to Frank Goodman’s “Ranchero Radio” you are transported back to the Seventies and to those light entertainment Saturday […]
Album Reviews
Nick Gusman and the Coyotes “Lifting Heavy Things”
Repackaged 1990s alt-country time travel trips have rarely felt this rewarding. It’s far easier said than done, but why does this album, the third by St. Louis outfit Nick Gusman and the Coyotes, and as fine […]
Album Reviews
The Holy Grail Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session
One of Maida Vale 4’s brilliant, arcane recordings. It would be safe to say John Peel championed Smog. Bill Callahan recorded three Peel Sessions, the first in November 94, then again in October 97 and finally […]
Album Reviews
Father John Misty “Mahashmashana”
The Misty/Tillman axis delivers another gloriously overblown tour-de-force. Fewer than ten seconds into the opening and title track of Father John Misty’s new album and we are knee-deep in thudding percussion, sweeping melodramatic string crescendos and […]