2022: With two Radiohead members, Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, I think our main thought is how much does it sound like a Radiohead record. I’ll list where it departs from their sound.:
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8.13.20 This acclaimed record is certainly Michael Alden Hadreas’s best work, which says a lot. Fused with fuzz rock, art pop, synth pop, funk and shoegaze, to name the first that come to mind, Set My Heart…might be a masterpiece.
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5.26.20 After 20 plus years Fiona Apple finally dropped her 2nd masterpiece. I am sure some of you will disagree with me in thinking she has one other... Unlike the Rolling Stone Mag’s Top 500 2020 list, with three FA titles, my 1000 has this one in the Newer Albums
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4.3.20 With a rich vox, that is a great combination of Patti Smith, Kate Bush and Erykah Badu, Meg Remy has, once again, compiled a beautiful layered experimental soulful pop release with Heavy Light. Ingredients: Spoken word collage interludes
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4/13/18: Everything on this almost 75 minute collage-like record is compelling and just plane enjoyable. Paying homage yet staying the right distance so to not trespass into emulating your influences too closely is an art in itself.
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Ryan Leas @ Stereogum: Ever since their first LP, New Brigade, appeared at the beginning of this decade, the Danish quartet Iceage have been buzzed about in particular punk and indie circles. Given they were still basically kids at the time
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12.17.17 Charlotte is the daughter of one of the most beautiful women of the 60s and 70s, Jane Birkin, and the late great French crooner composer Serge Gainsbourg (my #552 and #726). Over the decades she has made her own success as a believably revealing acto
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11/19/17: Heroes of the 70s glam era the avant Los Angeles native Mael Brothers (Sparks) released Hippopotamus in 2017 after a decade away. Sparks earlier records throughout the early to mid 70s had a sound somewhere between Queen and
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3.29.17 Joel Radin of Seattle writes: This album is so pretty it blows away the imagination. A blend of Peter Gabriel and The Blue Nile, this album has a very distinguished Northern UK sound. It sounds as if they may be from Scotland,
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