Other times you come across an album that alters everything you knew about a band. The God of the Dead by Rosetta West is just such a revelation–a daring artistic declaration that finds the Illinois blues-rock band at their most adventurous and emotionally bare. It is immediately evident that this is not merely another album full of songs, but a […]
ROCK/Review Blunt Blade – Forgiveness
It is something truly disconcerting about hearing Blunt Blade in the dark with the album Forgiveness. The seven-track adventure of the Minnesota multi-instrumentalist does not only cross boundaries, but destroys them, leaving a sonic terrain that is at once intimate and universal, haunting. By the first few bars of “Justified,” where the singer delivers the incantatory lines in a baritone, […]
METAL/Review Gus Defelice – The Sound of Inevitability
The Sound of Inevitability by Gus Defelice serves as a spectacular concept album which delivered an extraordinary musical experience to me. As soon as I pressed play the album instantly led me to an elaborate sonic realm that Gus masterfully constructed. His guitar skills remain insane throughout the album because every musical note joins harmonies and melodies with exceptional purposeful […]
FOLK/Review YVONNE LYON & BOO HEWERDINE – Things Found In Books
The emotional rawness of Things Found in Books transforms the listening experience into an encounter with lost memories stored within a forgotten book collection. The folk songwriting collaboration between Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine produced an intensely personal musical experience by writing songs around the brief memories that appeared on secondhand bookshop noticeboards. The soft mournful music touched me entirely […]