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.”
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.”
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.”
Score: 8/10 For probably close to a decade or so, this band Elephant Stone has been like a dream to me. They would consistently pipe in with these deep, textural, moody indie rock songs, in the vein of Broken Social Scene covering The Stone Roses (from whose song their name springs), and the music would … Read more“DD Review: Elephant Stone – Back into the Dream.”
Score: 8/10 Welcome to the “age of information” wherein my favorite band releases a new album and I get wind of it only 30 days later. I guess it’s a good thing that every three months or so in my Bandcamp perusals I make a little “Check Fire Note” marking next to all the genre … Read more“DD Review: Wilco – Cousin.”
Score: 8/10 American electro-pop diva Glasser (originally born in Boston) holds a special place in my heart as being an artist I discovered on CD at our local library, circa 2010. This drove includes the auspicious likes, as it were, of White Rabbits, Starlight Mints, White Denim and probably a bunch of other squirrel-ly indie … Read more“DD Review: Glasser – Crux.”
Score: 8.5/10 For most of the last 20 years or so, the potential future of the Long Beach Dub Allstars seemed so grim and ill-fated that the announcement of this new album possessed a certain charm, I’d say, for sheer underdog status. Now, this is not to detract from the band’s former output, of which … Read more“DD Review: Long Beach Dub Allstars – Echo Mountain High.”
Score: 8/10 I’m kind of an expert on the Queens of the Stone Age and I’m kind of not, I have to admit. I mean, in a way, I know more about them than I’d like to. There’s the clattering din of that Nick Oliveri drama — the former bassist who apparently inspired the song … Read more“DD Review: Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman….”
Score: 8.5/10 At some point Bandcamp needs to really institute the policy that applies to “usernames” — no two can be identical. Anyway, I’m left to gather by all the semi-conclusive evidence on Spotify and Bandy that this is indeed a self-titled debut, from a singer/songwriter in Nashville, who records on four-tracks, and the best … Read more“DD Review: John Davis – John Davis.”