Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats There are a number of media publications who are describing Ryan Adams’ new release, Ashes & Fire, as a ‘return to form.’ However, this record is actually an entirely logical continuation of the road Adams has travelled for his last three records (including 2007’s Easy Tiger and 2008’s [...]
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Australian-born Sally Seltmann released two LPs under her New Buffalo moniker before rising to fame as co-writer of Feist’s 2007 monster single ‘1234.’
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Bursting onto the scene with 2007’s Sticking Fingers Into Sockets EP, and followed by two of 2008’s best full-lengths (Hold On Now, Youngster and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed), Los Campesinos! quickly earned a reputation as one of indie rock’s wittiest, most energetic, and most authentic punk [...]
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Closer to the Bone, the follow-up to Kris Kristofferson’s 2007 comeback This Old Road, is a sentimental album that sees Kristofferson more about reflective contentment than larger-than-life storytelling.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Amy Millan’s first solo release, 2006’s Honey From the Tombs, was a stylistic surprise, as she seemingly turned 180 degrees from her Stars and Broken Social Scene gigs, and made a record of lonely, weary country songs. Though she did more or less pull it off, there was [...]
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“I hope you catch syphilis and die alone.”
And with that, so begins the third album from Chicago’s Scotland Yard Gospel Choir.
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Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats “Gentleman” Reg Vermue (late of The Hidden Cameras) went through something of a dry spell between the demise of his previous label, Three Gut, and releasing Jet Black, his first LP for Arts & Crafts.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Jack White’s third concurrent band, The Dead Weather, sees White return to his original instrument, drums, leaving vocal duties in the capable hands of The Kills’ Alison Mosshart, guitars to Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age), and bass to Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence.
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