1995
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This three-disc set is dedicated to exploring the era of Clouds Taste Metallic, the band’s response to their unexpected hit record, “She Don’t Use Jelly,” and finds them refining their weirdness into palpable, accessible numbers. It’s a transitional record in the face of where they would go next, but twenty years on, none of its… Read more
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This three-disc set is dedicated to exploring the era of Clouds Taste Metallic, the band’s response to their unexpected hit record, “She Don’t Use Jelly,” and finds them refining their weirdness into palpable, accessible numbers. It’s a transitional record in the face of where they would go next, but twenty years on, none of its… Read more
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Twenty years after its release, Butch Vig’s project’s debut album still sounds as fresh and contemporary as it did back then. This expanded edition only furthers the point. Read more
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Twenty years after its release, Butch Vig’s project’s debut album still sounds as fresh and contemporary as it did back then. This expanded edition only furthers the point. Read more
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The breakup of Uncle Tupelo was nasty, and two camps quickly formed. While Jeff Tweedy may have had the more impactful career, Jay Farrar was initially seen as the better artist of the two. This superb deluxe reissue of his band Son Volt’s debut album proves this point. Read more
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The breakup of Uncle Tupelo was nasty, and two camps quickly formed. While Jeff Tweedy may have had the more impactful career, Jay Farrar was initially seen as the better artist of the two. This superb deluxe reissue of his band Son Volt’s debut album proves this point. Read more
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One of the best songs to fully capture the melancholy of the changing of the seasons. Read more
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The vertigo goes on and on, and what better song than one dedicated to anti-vertigo medicine? Read more
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Oasis’ second album was the masterpiece the Gallagher brothers always bragged they had in them. The expanded edition further proves the maxim, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” Read more
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Hindsight being what it is, it’s not very hard to hear what major label executives were hearing when they signed Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s Self. Twas the era of “alternative rock,” after all, and in 1995 that meant poppy guitar rock with clever, intelligent, and sometimes irreverent lyrics. In listening to debut album Subliminal Plastic Motives‘ opening Read more
The Recoup 