The Maladies
With you by my side, baby,
the deal just can’t go down
The Maladies
www.myspace.com/themaladiesband
There’s something a bit old testament about this new album. There is certainly some testifying going on. This one was sent to me by the band’s management and it happened to arrive just as I had a moment to spare, so I pulled [...]
CD Review
Madder Lake
Stillpoint
(Re-released by Aztec Music)
What a perfect little album this is. The vinyl original came out in 1975 and I remember very well buying it and playing it to death, though I’m less clear on why I’d even heard of it or why I thought I wanted it. Peer pressure or social osmosis, I [...]
CD Review
Lisa Mitchell
Wonder
(Warner Music)
It’s hard to talk about Lisa Mitchell without mentioning Australian Idol, so I guess I should begin by explaining why I’ve been a fan of the show. We lived overseas for the first two seasons of Idol so kind of missed the initial buzz it generated. But one thing that was really [...]
CD Review
Martha Wainwright
Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris
(Thru: Shock Records)
It is a fact universally acknowledged that a francophone pop/folk chanteuse in search of critical acclaim will at some stage record an album of Edith Piaf songs. Nothing wrong with that — who wouldn’t want to sink their chops into the Piaf songbook? — but [...]
CD Review
The Drones
Havilah
(ATP)
So this album came out late last year, but as this blog didn’t exist then, I couldn’t review it then. Besides, one of the pleasures of running this site is that there is no particular imperative to confine ourselves to brand-spanking new releases. The idea is just to talk about music and related [...]
CD Review
Special Patrol
The Stranger’s Dozen
(MGM)
Special Patrol are an Adelaide band who have been receiving plenty of airplay for their new album, The Stranger’s Dozen, especially the single, ‘Right On.’ It’s a really high quality album that deserves success, but I can’t figure out for the life of me why in god’s name they [...]
CD Review
Liz Stringer
Pendulum
(one little indian enterprises)
Liz Stringer has a really distinctive voice that tends towards the bass-end of the scale. And although first impressions suggest it is a really strong voice, repeated listens reveal a certain vulnerability. Sometimes she sounds to me like she is struggling. Still, that isn’t necessarily a [...]
CD Review
Eilen Jewell
Sea of Tears
(Signature Sounds through Shock Records)
Yes, I thought her name was Eileen too, the first twenty times I saw the name in print. My eyes just didn’t register the missing “e”.
It raises an interesting point: if your eyes can be fooled in this way — where the habit of reading [...]
CD Review
Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest
(Inertia)
Working on the principle that you should never say anything unless you have something nice to say, I should probably limit my comments to the observation that this album does in fact end.
Ignoring that principle, which is more in line with the job description here, I can tell you that I fucking hated [...]
CD Review
The Dead Weather
Horehound
(Warner Music Australia)
What a hoot this album is. If you’ve managed not to die before you got old (that is, made it past 30) you might want to ignore the rather affected gothic shtick that the entire package is dressed up in — ah, kids today — but you’ll also recognise [...]
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