Album Reviews
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Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more
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Zager & Evans came out of nowhere with a smash single that offered up an eerily prophetic vision of the dystopian future-and then they went right back into oblivion. This collection compiles most of their recorded work–mostly lovely baroque pop songs by a band with a stylistic identity problem. Read more
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This reissue of the sole album by Columbus-based shoegazers The Emerald Down sends us back to our nascent zine-scribbler days, because, hey, what we said then is still true now–only thing that’s changed is that Scream The Sound is now lauded as a classic American shoegaze record. Read more
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This reissue of the sole album by Columbus-based shoegazers The Emerald Down sends us back to our nascent zine-scribbler days, because, hey, what we said then is still true now–only thing that’s changed is that Scream The Sound is now lauded as a classic American shoegaze record. Read more
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Yoko Ono’s proper solo debut album, released in 1970 alongside John Lennon’s proper solo debut album, is a stunning work of experimental rock and roll, where pure emotion blends nicely with rock and roll groove and intense, uncompromising emotion. Read more
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Yoko Ono’s proper solo debut album, released in 1970 alongside John Lennon’s proper solo debut album, is a stunning work of experimental rock and roll, where pure emotion blends nicely with rock and roll groove and intense, uncompromising emotion. Read more
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Nigerian producer and impresario Odion Iruoje will go down as one of the men who brought Fela Kuti to a wider audience, but his sole album, from 1983, is a blend of Western and African styles that sounds unlike anything that came before it–or anything that came after, for that matter. Read more
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Nigerian producer and impresario Odion Iruoje will go down as one of the men who brought Fela Kuti to a wider audience, but his sole album, from 1983, is a blend of Western and African styles that sounds unlike anything that came before it–or anything that came after, for that matter. Read more
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Wings compiles the complete singles discography of doomed musician Tim Buckley. He wasn’t a singles artist–his most beloved songs don’t appear here, as they were album cuts–this collection does a fair job of covering most of the stylistic twists and turns of Buckley’s too-short career. Read more
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Wings compiles the complete singles discography of doomed musician Tim Buckley. He wasn’t a singles artist–his most beloved songs don’t appear here, as they were album cuts–this collection does a fair job of covering most of the stylistic twists and turns of Buckley’s too-short career. Read more
The Recoup 