The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

Joseph Kyle

  • Taken from the Mental Experience release, Epitaph For Venus. Read more

  • The Verve’s third album, Urban Hymns, was an album that propelled the band to international success. It was also their veritable swan song, as they would split up a little more than a year after its release. But the band’s fate doesn’t detract from the truth that this massive box set has to offer: that… Read more

  • The Verve’s third album, Urban Hymns, was an album that propelled the band to international success. It was also their veritable swan song, as they would split up a little more than a year after its release. But the band’s fate doesn’t detract from the truth that this massive box set has to offer: that… Read more

  • A few words about the late Soul man Charles Bradley, who succumbed to cancer this past weekend. Read more

  • A little song to mark the transition from Summer to Fall. Read more

  • Taken from the Pharaway Sounds release, Baila Mi Rumba. Read more

  • Y Kant Tori Read, released in 1988, was the proper debut of Tori Amos. She would since disown the project, and the album languished for decades as a rarity. Thus, its low-key digital reissue this month warrants a revisit, and it shows that Amos’s feelings might not have been correct, as it’s a fine album… Read more

  • Y Kant Tori Read, released in 1988, was the proper debut of Tori Amos. She would since disown the project, and the album languished for decades as a rarity. Thus, its low-key digital reissue this month warrants a revisit, and it shows that Amos’s feelings might not have been correct, as it’s a fine album… Read more

  • The Replacements’ legendary guitarist, Tommy Stinson, stepped out on his own with a new band Bash & Pop. It came and went in a flash twenty years ago, but their debut, Friday Night Is Killing Me, is still an impressive record, twenty four years after its release, an impressive grand slam of straightforward, unpretentious rock… Read more

  • The Replacements’ legendary guitarist, Tommy Stinson, stepped out on his own with a new band Bash & Pop. It came and went in a flash twenty years ago, but their debut, Friday Night Is Killing Me, is still an impressive record, twenty four years after its release, an impressive grand slam of straightforward, unpretentious rock… Read more