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Review of ‘FREE I.H.’ – illuminati hotties
Sarah Tudzin doesn’t give listeners a thesis to pour over in search of deep meanings and other easter eggs. She’s always delivered her messages straight ahead sans mystery, and her latest release pushes that M.O. to new heights. FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting For, the new record from Tudzin’s illuminati […]
folklore: A Track-By-Track Review
Okay. I’ve never really liked Taylor Swift. With a music taste such as mine – one which involves an eclectic mix of Hozier and Rufus Wainwright with the occasional dash of Tom Rosenthal, and is almost worryingly centred on good old emotional male vocals with acoustic backing – she’s never really appealed to me. Until […]
10 Tracks You Haven’t Heard
Throughout most of my young life, I did not like popular music. Growing up, my house was filled with the melodious sounds of BBC Radio 3, and very occasionally a pop song from the 1960s. However, thanks to the flourishing hipster subculture throughout my teens, and with the help of Vevo on YouTube, I finally […]
Ranking Every Conor Oberst Album
I’ve tried to include every album and EP Conor Oberst has made, but there are some omissions to avoid repetition. 32. Water – 1993 (Conor Oberst) Here’s the thing: Conor Oberst was thirteen when he made this. Thirteen. The guitarwork is sometimes a bit off, but the songs are remarkably well-structured given his age. In […]
Revisiting Allo Darlin’s Debut Album 10 Years On
Though they released three albums over the course of their relatively short career, Allo Darlin’s self-titled debut remains their strongest work. It’s an album I can only describe as ‘lovely’. Listening to it is like meeting up with an old friend. From spring to late summer it’s essential listening for me. But rather than the […]
Treaty
Jamie Rodney Leonard Cohen’s latest- and final- album is, for my money, some of the Canadian songwriter/poet’s best work. Full of songs ruminating on love and god, death and darkness, it’s a shame I can only pick one to write about in this article. However, while I’d recommend giving the whole album a listen (especially […]
Alice Cooper’s ‘Genuine American Girl’
Jamie Rodney Perhaps surprisingly for a man who performs under a female stage name and layers of mascara, Alice Cooper has never dealt much with the subject of gender fluidity in his songs. That changed this year with the release of “Genuine American Girl”, from Cooper’s new album “Paranormal.” Cooper can sometimes be hit or miss, but in this song he […]