“DD Review: Dead Ghosts – Automatic Changer.”

Score: 9/10 I can’t remember how but somehow probably four or five years ago (it might have been from reading the L.A. Record, likely the raddest online music journal out there) I got to following this Burger Records imprint out of Orange County, which always, whether or not I actually like the music, seems to … Read more“DD Review: Dead Ghosts – Automatic Changer.”

“DD Review: Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels.”

Score: 9.5/10 Like I imagine is the case with a lot of people, my introduction to Lucinda Williams was the critical and commercial 1998 breakthrough that was Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. New offering from this year Good Souls Better Angels travels along similar lines of country-rock hodgepodge but, I think, is more victoriously … Read more“DD Review: Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels.”

“DD Review: Cornershop – England is a Garden.”

Score: 10/10 Now, if I were gonna sit here and tell you the new Cornershop record is GOOD, that it’s not gimmicky, that it draws from a cross-section of Britpop from The Verve back to the post-punk of mid-era XTC, you’d probably have my head, and rightly so, perhaps. The malady is probably confounded by … Read more“DD Review: Cornershop – England is a Garden.”

“DD Review: Grimes – Miss Anthropocene

Score: 9.5/10 Somewhat understandably, Grimes seemed to almost petulantly and adamantly retreat from the public eye for close to about half a decade or so, following the release of Art Angels, her poppiest record still and ergo one which would have theoretically garnered her the most non-musical exposure, or, attention to aspects of her having … Read more“DD Review: Grimes – Miss Anthropocene

“DD Review: Green Day – Father of All….”

Score: 9/10 Of all the “pitfalls” that could have theoretically affected this new Green Day album, “disorienting tendencies” probably falls closer to the realm of “good problems” than “father of all motherfu**ers,” as it were. Enter opening title track, then, apropos, which, after a brief burp of standard Green Day-issue guitar fuzz, pillows out into … Read more“DD Review: Green Day – Father of All….”