Album Reviews9.2/10
Pure Forward Motion: The Bouncing Souls’ ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation’ at 25
Songs done quick, thirty minutes total, nothing wasted, one band asking nothing of your mind but joy.
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Category: Album Reviews
Records we have scored.
Album Reviews10/10
Blue at 55: Joni Mitchell’s Perfect Record Still Asks Only for Attention
Ten songs, one voice, no distance left between singer and listener — a plain, sad, perfect record.
Album Reviews7/10
Brian Fallon Strips the Hymns to Voice and Piano on Night Divine, and Restraint Does Most of the Work — 7/10
Brian Fallon quiets his voice for ten sacred songs, bare and cut in forty minutes — a solemn hour of old melodies held back.
Album Reviews9.5/10
The ’59 Sound at 18: Not a Weak Song on It — 9.5/10
A record of car radios and dead friends, twelve songs long, not one wasted upon the ear.
Album Reviews6.3/10
Pink Floyd’s 1969 Soundtrack for Barbet Schroeder’s Debut Film Caught the Band Mid-Metamorphosis, 57 Years On
A soundtrack review of Pink Floyd's 1969 record More, a fevered work caught between gentle melody and dark, driving experiment.
Album Reviews9.9/10
Neil Young Made a Perfect 10 with After the Gold Rush, and 56 Years On It Still Sounds That Way
A record of quiet guitar, piano, and fierce song, wherein a man moves through every voice within his soul, a grand and lasting work.
Album Reviews10/10
Nine Tracks, Not One Wasted Note: Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On at 55
A record of grief, war, and the world's sad state, told in gentle song by a voice that never once raised itself in vain rage.
Album Reviews9/10
Sleepwalkers at Its Own Pace: Brian Fallon’s Steadiest Record Earns Its 9
Brian Fallon's Sleepwalkers weighs clear writing and a melancholy voice against classic rock ground he has long walked.
Album Reviews8.8/10
Local Honey: Brian Fallon Trades the Highway for the Porch — 8.8/10
A quiet porch record: Local Honey trades sweep for plain truth, and love long settled into ease.
Album Reviews9/10
Maniacal Laughter: 23 Minutes, Nothing Wasted — 9/10
Twelve songs, 23 minutes, nothing wasted: an old review of The Bouncing Souls' Maniacal Laughter, judged anew.
Album Reviews10/10
Sixty Years On, Revolver Still Marks the Moment the Beatles Traded the Stage for the Studio
A record of many songs wherein a band ceases to merely perform and begins, with strange art, to build each tone anew.
Album Reviews7/10
Pink Floyd’s A Saucerful of Secrets at 58: Two Bands on One Record, 7/10
A record caught between two voices: Pink Floyd's second album, weighed song by song, from strange lights to a broken farewell.