I like the slow downed, gentle interpretation of this smart selection of wonderful and remarkable songs.

The Maggot Brain cover is really amazing, trumpet instead of guitar for the solo tune, good match. The full album is a very proper jazz trip which prooves what kind of thoroughbred musician Flea is. Also remarkable is the august line of guest musicians.

Musically accidential accident.

Crazy, a band named Muse tries to sound like Radiohead, a challenge like riding on the edge of a razor blade, or a sort of megalomania - and to top all that this band closed their second album Origin of Symmetry with a song with exact that term as title: Megalomania. The result is better than expected, with all the other musical ingredience it sounds like a fat wall of sound, appropriate to listen to it with real huge speakers, 'm going to take the liberty of saying the above mentioned ... read more

Of course is the debut of Enya not her most excellent album, but you can listen to it and realize several harbingers of things coming. And some tunes of this album are overwhelming and unforgettable: "Boadicea" - the tune that The Fugees needed to create the dance hymn "Ready or Not", also sampled by at least 68 artistst for their compositions or "The Sun in the Stream" which was used e.g. in the movies "Green Card" and "L,A. Story".

if you like let you draw into 42 minutes wonderful dreamy and athmospheric tragic magic gorgeous ambient sound experience

A Paradise In The Hold makes curious about more of this kind of music and about more music written and performed by Yasmeen Ahmed (Yazz Ahmed).

Overlooked until now but nevertheless ingenious.

A collection of songs with covers of the Stones, Michael Jackson or The Bee Gees (Love You Inside Out), all as the album title promises recorded in (or recordings started in) 1978. The voice of José accomponied by the sophisticated instrumentation and arrangement gives a pleasant, groovy, smooth listening experience.

The second and final full studio album by the almost ignoread at least overlooked band Godzuki from Detroit, Michigan is undoubtable worth a listen if you are interested in indie rock between space rock and synth-pop (the band themselves described their music as science rock). Try the title song "Your Future" or "I Feel Like Moth" and you can figure out if it's worth to dig into the album and maybe their other publications deeper.

The third full studio album Cut & Rewind by Broklyn based band Say She She convinces with pop dozend of funky disco / smooth soul songs, appropriately described by the band as "discodelic soul". In particular the first three songs "Cut & Rewind", "Under the Sun" and "Disco Life" make fun with a danceable sound suitable for parties.

Just monumental pressure - that's all what I can say about the fifth studio album by the band Ciśnienie from Katowice in Poland. The name of the band means preassure in English, what hits the nail on precisely on the head with regard to the vibe of their music. Their last album Zwierzakom was a really good one, but [angry noise] increases Ciśnienie's sound just a bit angrier, noisier and heavier and leaves me wanting more.

Very nice album by the Moroccan-Canadian singer Faouzia Ouihya. Maybe he production used a bit too much autotune (Weirdo), which is probably not necessary to support Faouzia's voice and her singing abilities. I would like to draw your attention to the successfull Sting cover "Desert Rose". At least it's worth a try.

If you are disappointed about no more new studio albums by Radiohead you could try out this band from Broklyn. Maybe it should be a good idea to start with the title song to catch what I mean. At least you get familiar with a really good new band playing great art rock songs with a psychedelic touch and a singer who is at least remarkable. I would like to add that the voice of Cameron Winter makes me think in wide part of the one of Zachary Condon.

"Heaven" is a great opener for the debut album of Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé, not only because it makes me with the drumming loop and the strings think of Massive Attack's "Unfinished Symphony". Also the second track "My Kind Of Love" continues with similar stirring. Unfortunately the full album doesn't hold what the first two tracks promise but there are some other pretty nice songs such as the slower "Daddy", the lively ... read more

Fortunately Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men are far apart from the stomp and holler musical genre to which their first two albums could have been categorizied. Songs such as "The Towering Skyscraper at the End of the Road" or "The Block" make me more think of The National's indie rock (compare "Mr. November" to "The Towering Skyscraper at the End of the Road). For a first impression I would recommend to listen to the opening track "Television ... read more

The pop classics "West End Girls", "Opportunities", "Surburbia" and the stirring opener "Two Divided By Zero" make good for some hardly more than mediocre synthpop tracks. Because of the above mentioned single hits Please was successful as debut studio album of the Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe / Neil Tennant and a remarkable example for music of the 80th.

Certainly not the best Heaven 17's album but it contents with "Trouble" a great song which is a fitting example for typical synthpop of the 80th.

Barclay James Harvest second album opens with the outstanding "She Said" but only one ("Mockingbird") or two ("Song for Dying") songs keep approximately up with this level. For "She Said" 100, for the rest rather 74 points comes to 77.

David Ian Jackson 21st record What a Racket keeps what cover and title promise: It is really an extravagant spectacle with eleven songs of theatrical entertainment wrapped in the raiment of a musical hall performance.