“Time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but/Boring stories of glory days.” So sang The Boss at the height of his own glory days on the multiplatinum Born in the U.S.A. album. It’…
Album Review: Tricky – “Fall to Pieces”
It’s become a cliché already this year to start a review about a dark album with a line saying something like “this perfectly captures the mood of 2020” and some waffle about how it reminds us all of …
Album Review: Old 97’s – “Twelfth”
“I believe in love, but it don’t believe in me.” I’ve loved the Old 97’s ever since those deceptively simple words, easy to understand yet packed with meaning, and the crazy catchy hook beneath them, …
Album Review: Run the Jewels – “RTJ4”
“You watch the cops choke out a man like me… ‘til my voice goes from a shriek to a whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’” goes Killer Mike on “Walking in the Snow”, a song recorded months ago, and which now soun…
Album Review: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “Reunions”
We’re lucky to have a songwriter as warm and talented as Jason Isbell to share with us his journey, a not uncommon one, of troubled young drifter and alcoholic to (relatively) contented family man, as…
Album Review: Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” is a folk-rock triumph
How fitting that Katie Crutchfield would release her best album in the midst of an unprecedented (in our lifetimes at least) global storm, given that her last album was called, well, Out in the S…
Album Review: Body Count disappoint on “Carnivore”
Ice-T’s rap-metal outfit is most famous for 1992’s “Cop Killer”, from their debut album, which caused outrage at the time and had to be removed following heated criticism from many prominent figures i…