Score: 5.5/10 What started out in the 1980s as a half-demented pop foursome in Glasgow He**-bent on making your ears bleed with guitar feedback (infiltrated the mixes on infinitely catchy songs, curiously enough) is now just a duo, composed of original members and blood brothers William and Jim Reid. True to form, Glasgow Eyes is … Read more“DD Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes.”
Score: 10/10 One of the heartbreaking things to me about this new Black Keys release, Ohio Players, on which track one is entitled “This is Nowhere”; is that the Black Keys’ place of origin of Akron, Ohio is actually really beautiful. It’s located in Ohio’s Eastern half, among a copious litany of rolling hills and … Read more“DD Review: The Black Keys – Ohio Players.”
Sure, most Beck fans already know The Information rocks. It came out back in a time when the event of an artist like Beck doling a new release still created a BUZZ around town, like your favorite team making the championship, or an eclipse, or whatever. Probably more than any other instance, the luke-warm Pitchfork … Read more“Dolby’s Rupees: Beck – The Information”
Score: 9/10 In my review of Pearl Jam’s 2020 “effort” Gigaton, I made the remark that not only did it fall well short of standard, but it represented a time to hit the panic button — that to repeat the present error of forced, contrived emotion and reductive song structures would be essentially to kill … Read more“DD Review: Pearl Jam – Dark Matter.”
I have a weird request for all readers of this site. I want you to familiarize yourselves with Dayton, Ohio. Of course, I am mostly just joking, but, in general, we bloggers would mostly extol the idea of having a readership which could readily name the three most important bands from Dayton — Brainiac, The … Read more“Takeaways from My Disillusioning Little Pilgrimmage to Downtown Dayton, Ohio”
Score: 10/10 According to Wikipedia, “A la sala” is a Spanish phrase that Khruangbing bassist/vocalist Laura Lee would employ in her youth when trying to gather everyone into the living room. From this, we may be left, in our more licentious moments, to induce this album to be somewhat of a “crossing the Rubicon” signpost … Read more“DD Review: Khruangbin – A La Sala.”
10 divr – “As of Now” “As of Now” is a keen, austere adventure in minimalist jazz from Swiss unit divr. As is fitting with the trend these days, the instrumentation isn’t as “jazzy” as are the intervals, phrasings and general oblong approaches to song construction, many of which may be governed by rudiments as … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Jan. – Mar. 2024”
You might remember that saying that goes, “If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.” Of course, it’s depressing to think that we’re moving toward that conclusion as relates to Spotify, the most-preferred streaming platform in the world and the entity that’s pretty much completely taken the place of CD, in my … Read more“Spotify Blues”