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- REVIEW: Chet Baker- Embraceable You
Chet Baker is often overlooked in the grand scheme of things where Jazz is concerned. A highly gifted trumpet player, Baker was considered at one time to be the superior of Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie. As the liner notes to Embraceable You inform us, Chet Baker was voted the best trumpeter by readers of […]
- REVIEW: Panda Bear- Person Pitch
BASIC CHANNEL LUOMO DETTINGER WOLFGANGE VOIGT CAT STEVENS THE POLICE SCOTT WALKER DAFT PUNK THE TORNADOES THE ZOMBIES MOODYMAN ERIK SATIE MADLIB JONATHAN RICHMAN ROY ORBISON KING TUBBY CAETANO VELOSO BLACK DICE SAM COOKE PINK FLOYD SPARKS THE BEACH BOYS EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL THE ORB BASEMENT JAXX VASHTI BUNYAN S.E. ROGIE JAY DEE PHOENIX […]
- REVIEW: The Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Album
More than any other crooner, Tony Bennett was of the Jazz world. From his early career delivering numerous Jazz standards to this, a landmark meeting of two music legends; Bennett had the utmost respect from the Jazz world.
Widely regarded as one the most influential pianists in Jazz, Bill Evans’ influence and impact cannot be overstated. […]
- REVIEW: Daniel Johnston - “Welcome To My World”
Daniel Johnston is going to divide people on where (if anywhere) his talent lies. His ability to sing is questionable and his playing is (barely) functional at best.
Daniel Johnston’s life and work has been marked by his bi-polar disorder since the beginning of his career. Johnston’s personal problems always seemed to me to be the […]
- REVIEW: Lou Reed– “Coney Island Baby”
Lou Reed had a tendency in the 70s to always follow up a great commercial success with a deliberately difficult album in order to challenge his audience and create some space between him and the mainstream. To paraphrase Larry David “if they weren’t watching on Wednesday night at 10 then I don’t them watching on […]
- REVIEW: Animal Collective — Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective seem to attract a mixed reaction to their work. Over-zealous devotees are as common as people who wish to bludgeon the “experimental” band from Maryland to death with a shiny truncheon. Strawberry Jam which was released in September of last year, is the band’s seventh studio LP.
I came into contact with Animal […]
- REVIEW: Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku
Earlier this year, in a magazine interview, Elvis Costello declared he wasn’t going to record anymore, bemoaning the fact that mp3s had killed off the concept of the album. Methinks Mr Costello was being mischievous, or perhaps he had a late change of heart, as we have a new album from him called, Momofuku.
The album […]
- Review: Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (The Saviors’ Day)
Ordinarily, we at The Score aim to share the love on great music. It’s much more fun letting people know about something that’s moved you to tears (for the right reasons) rather than frustrated the bejesus out of you. Sometimes though, an artist is just asking for it. Sometimes, they […]
- REVIEW: Paul Brady - “The Missing Liberty Tapes”
“Some guys got it down, Leonard Cohen, Paul Brady, Lou Reed. Secret heroes.”
-Bob Dylan, from the Biograph Liner Notes
Before he veered into making pop and rock music, Paul Brady was one of the finest interpreters of Irish Traditional music. Replacing Christy Moore briefly in 1974, Brady toured with Planxty. Brady then went on to tour […]
- REVIEW: The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets is a collaboration between Alex Turner from The Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane from The Rascals. Who are The Rascals, you say,? I don’t know either as they’ve not put anything out yet, but this is certainly a canny way to put your name out there, partnering yourself with one of […]
