Had this cd for a few weeks, and my GF isn't here, so since I have my place to myself, I tossed this on...Beautiful record. Dream pop with ambient, reverb laden guitar. Leslie Bear not only makes delicate music, her voice is comforting and pretty. I like this a lot. Reminds me of Hazel English's 1st record, a fave of mine. I am, and have always been a sucker for delicate girl singers. Still am. Love this record! Plus she's so freaking adorable.

I remember buying this record when it came out. Had no idea what it was going to sound like, but at the record store that I shopped at weekly, it was suggested. Id usually pick up 5-10 new records a week, so I was always up on music. Still am. Still into physical copies, I never listen to music digitally. Sadly, most indie record stores dipped thanks to Amazon. :(

So let's talk about this perfect record. I'd usually fall asleep to this record, not because it was boring, just because it was so ... read more

I haven't listened to this full record yet, but I'll give it a proper review when I do. But Goddaamn if that Silver Tongues isn't one of the best songs of 2022. I'm dead serious.

Gil Scott-Heron is a massively influential artist and innovator, yet not enough people know who he is.. This dude is a singer, poet, activist, etc. He is best know for his song/poem The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
When civil rights were at their all time high in the 60s and 70s, he was there in the forefront educating his brothers and sisters. He told it like it was, even if it made you uncomfortable, not a drop of Uncle Tom blood in this cat.
So this may not be his most well known ... read more

I've listened to this record so many times that it feels like it was made only for me. The German label(Kompakt) which put out this record, is known for many music styles e.g. techno, ambient, minimal techno, tech house, etc. On occasion, they will put out a track with a vocal.. This falls under the ambient side of the brilliant label, Kompakt. First off, please Kompakt, reissue this. Please. If you do, I'll buy another copy.
So on to the music. Sounds like nothing else that I've ever ... read more

I thought that I had this record, but I couldnt find it, so I have been listening to it online lately.. i keep thinking that I need to buy this record since I own all of his stuff except this one. But hey! I just found it today. I opened it up and threw it on. I knew(I thought) that I owned this.

Upon listening, this guy just kills it. His music is so beautiful and gentle. His singing is lovely and beautifully distant. He'll throw some violin and piano in a song against his guitar, and it ... read more

These guys. These fucking guys. I love this record. It's a synth pop band, but not some cheesy 80s bunk. The singer just kills it. Just watch them play Seasons on Letterman and be amazed at how great the singer is. Eccentric? Yes. Brilliant? For sure. Love.

The National are obviously a great band, there's no argument there. So let's talk about this gem. It's their 4th or 5th record, I cant remember....
Their layered sound is just addictive. The production is great and wonderfully nuanced. Matt Beringer's baritone is comforting like a bedtime story during a thunderstorm. His baritone is more Justin Vernon(Bon Iver-who also guests on this record by the way), and less Nick Cave.
With a majestic, swelling opener like Terrible Love, you can't go ... read more

My son Slumber wrote a review of his favorite record, Abbey Road, so I'll follow suit and try to keep my composure. I won't be able to. This will be a long one, and less about the record review, and more about life. I apologize in advance if this review is self indulgent.

With the current state of affairs e.g. the economy, social media, most of our food that we consume isnt even food, divorce rate at it's highest, alcoholism at it's highest, drug addiction at it's highest, depression at it's ... read more

I'm a huge electronic music aficionado. It's in my soul. Being from Detroit(sorry guys, we invented techno music 😀), and living in record store my whole life, I've heard it all. I can sit here for days and talk about techno, house, electto, IDM, deep House, etc . I can tell you the best records of any of these genres to buy, who my favorite artists are. It's my thing. Ok, no more bragging:) let's get to the record!

So Mattew Herbert is known for his genius sampling of anything. Dude will ... read more

Possibly the craziest record ever to walk the earth. Most people know Coltrane for records like Giant Steps, Blue Train and the godlike record, A Love Supreme. This one is so far off that vibe, that most people can't listen to more than a few minutes of it. I challenge you. Listen to this whole record front to back. It's out of this world. He was definitely spiritually on to something, but whether that's good or bad, is up to you. Ommmmm. Ommmmm!

This record. This freaking record. It's not often that I go into a music store and ask what is playing like I used to. Mostly because I have every damn thing in the world haha. And if I don't, I certainly know of it. Well I'm father's day, I took a quick little run into the Rock Shop in Plymouth meeting. And they were playing this record. I'm pretty familiar with Steely dan, and I asked the guy if this was Steely dan, which I thought was weird because I've never heard it before. He said " ... read more

Fred Thomas, a prolific songwriter from Michigan, with an encyclopedic knowledge of music, comes through hard for me on this record. He is all about feeling and emotion and songwriting, and less about perfect production. Perfect production is massively overrated, look what happened to modern radio with digital compression, auto-tune and all that bullshit. Anybody that can't sing or right music can make a record sound ready for The radio. Who cares? Anybody can also sit there and make a record ... read more

Hi. How are you? Lets start the review. So for me personally, I tend to like the lo-fi sounds more than the polished ones. I'd rather listen to the Beatles demos than their real records. Sue me. I find that it's harder to get sick of less polished music. When things are horribly mixed, its like a puzzle to me, as in, "hey, lets find the melody under this mucky noise. Yay. I did it". So off to Daniel Johnston, king of outsider music.
Man I remember his cassettes. I remember when you ... read more

Ah. Nick Rodney Drake. His songs were the soundtrack to my 20s. I don't remember why, but I think because I read about him being an unknown sad folk figure that commited suicide, I blindly bought his box set with all his music packaged in like a Christmas present, waiting for me to open it. I knew that Pink Moon was his last record, and if it wasn't purposely his suicide note, it sure sounded like it. I loved it. Played it hundreds of times, which didn't leave me any time to listen to his ... read more

One of my favorite bands of all time. A Scottish duo with a penchant to juxtapose noise and pop in the same second. They love their catchy Beach Boys-ish melodies, but they also like to create walls of noise.

Coming off their first highly influential record Psychocandy, they toned down the noise and opted for a poppier sound. And goddammit did they succeed ten fold! Darklands is a beautiful, lonely, dark(no pun intended), sad/happy masterpiece. April Skies is the same, but more upbeat. And ... read more

These guys are from the school of German Krautrock of the early '70s. This record is a little bit different than their other stuff. They always switch it up though. Lots of long songs, vocals here and there. And at the risk of spelling the song title wrong, And since there's only a few songs on this record, it's one of the last songs with a girl singing. ....Okay I just looked it up It's the title song. It's about 20 minutes long and it's a bunch of drums and guitar jamming and later it gets ... read more

Kraftwerk. Machine men. Innovative, influential, life changing German group. Without Kraftwerk, electronic music would not be the same. Really. They are one of the first bands to use all electronic instruments. Synthesizers, drum machines, calculators. They invented techno. Especially Detroit techno. Yes they did. They were doing this in the early 70s, before Disco, before House, Techno, etc. I could use a bunch of superlatives to describe them and be here all day, but I'll get to reviewing ... read more

I just bought David Bowie hunky Dory, it came out around that time Ziggy stardust, it's the only one I do not have... I actually have two copies of diamond dogs on CD, just saying

Towns Van Zandt. Tragic figure. Massively underrated
songwriter. Thankfully Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson brought some of his music to light. I chose this record to review as it's one of my favorites. But if I had the chance I would have reviewed Texas troubadour, which is a box set of all his studio records, Not including the music that he made in the '90s and 2000s, which were good, but nothing like his classic records on the Tomato label..
There's nothing I can say about him that hasn't ... read more