Danny Eccleston
Another album of homages, jammed fast and loose in early 2025 at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in the wake of a cancer diagnosis for the singer’s father Chuck – who died soon after on March 29. The urgency and catharsis in these tracks makes sense in that context, but there’s something else here: a deep connection with music, felt in every groove and texture.
1mo
In Of The Earth he has slipped its bonds almost entirely, crafting a holistic, electro-acoustic world music that defies categorisation.
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3mo
Rarely has ruminations on decline, in fact, sounded so vigorous.
1y
The entirety celebrates the ecstatic simplicity of that era [1950s-60s] of pop.
3y
There's something about the shape and dynamic of Hellfire that makes you want to play it again, straight away.
3y
It seems this three-piece format allows him to manoeuvre more nippily than Radiohead's stately battleship.
4y
Anima is his third solo album, outside of soundtracks, and it's his richest.
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5y
Together Through Life is an album that gets its hooks in early and refuses to let go.
5y
More than ever before, in fact, this is Madonna without a safety net.
5y
Stranger than anyone seems to want to remember, with, the friendless, hurting emptiness of “Cannot Believe It's True” and saturnine alt prog of “Do You Know, Do You Care?” far outweighing chirpy Motown cap-doff “You Can't Hurry Love”.
4y
"Not just the divorce album,” insists Collins, and listening afresh unpacks the innovative DIY atmospheres and eclectic genre palette that make it one of the finest debuts of the early '80s.
4y
ELO's late '70s were golden and their best album а moot point.
4y
Good songs; tasteful orchestrations; plus Nico’s inimitable graveyard tones, at their lugubrious best on Tim Hardin’s Eulogy To Lenny Bruce.
4y
While the Velvets would quickly resent Andy Warhol for foisting Nico on them, it's impossible to imagine the band's epochal debut without the extra chill, shadow and unAmerican otherness she brought to it.
4y
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