BLACK OX ORKESTAR – Everything Returns
A fantastic album exploring traditional Jewish/Eastern European folk music in a post-rock context, by a band featuring a couple of Godspeed You Black Emperor/Thee Silver Mt. Zion members. (8)
THE COMET IS COMING – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Very exciting jazz for people who don’t listen to jazz, this sounds more like Techno or Big Beat and features Shabaka Hutchings – probably the busiest/best sax guy around right now. (8)
THE COOL GREENHOUSE – Sod's Toastie
England keeps producing cool talk-sing angular post-punk bands that would probably make Mark E. Smith proud if he wasn’t such a misanthrope and a bit of a cunt, really, and these guys are among the most entertaining of the bunch. (8)
DUKE GARWOOD – Rogues Gospel
Mark Lanegan collaborator’s album will appeal to the same demographic that liked Lanegan’s work from “Blues Funeral” onwards. (7)
HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE – Overtaker
Incorporating ex-Vektor and Sabbath Assembly members into the Hammers line-up, Cobbett this time comes up with a thrash/power/prog hybrid that will please most metalheads. (7)
ISAFJØRD – Hjartastjaki
Hailing from Iceland and sounding like a hybrid between Solstafir (with Aðalbjörn Addi Tryggvason being 50% of this band) and Sigur Ros. (7)
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS – Live At The Fillmore 1997
From covers of oldies from their rock ’n’ roll adolescence, to some of the band’s greatest hits reimagined, to introducing and jamming with mythical guests/heroes like Roger McGuinn and John Lee Hooker, Petty & Band were obviously having a blast on stage those evenings at the Fillmore 25 years ago, sounding like the best bar band the world has even known. (10)
THE PRESCRIPTIONS – Time Apart
Radiohead might have spent the last 20+ years deconstructing rock music, but apparently there’s still a lot of demand for what they used to do if bands like The Prescriptions try so hard to recreate “The Bends”. (7)
SILVERHEAD – More Than Your Mouth Can Hold: The Complete Recordings 1972-1974
6-CD box set containing everything (two albums, a few singles and demos, lots of bootleggy live recordings that you’ll listen to only once) ever put on tape by forgotten glam/proto-metal band whose frontman, Michael Des Barres, is better known as Pamela’s husband and the guy who replaced Robert Palmer in Power Station at Live Aid. Historically interesting (the bass player ended up in Blondie, the guitarist in Robert Plant’s band, Des Barres on McGyver), musically non-essential. (-)
JULIE TIPPETTS – Sunset Glow
Previously known as Julie Driscoll, this is her post-Brian Auger & The Trinity psychedelic masterpiece, recorded with her jazz musician husband in 1975 and now remastered. (9)
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