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.
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Category: Album Reviews
Records we have scored.
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.
Album Reviews10/10
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Neil Young Finds Crazy Horse and Never Looks Back
A look back at Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, the record that gave the world Crazy Horse and songs that would not stay short.
Album Reviews9.3/10
Painkillers at 10: Brian Fallon’s Quiet Step Out Still Stands Essential — 9.3/10
Brian Fallon steps out alone with Painkillers, a quieter record that finds a fuller voice beyond his former band.
Album Reviews8/10
The Good, the Bad, and the Argyle at 32: The Bouncing Souls’ Debut Still Sweats
A raving, joking record of songs and quotes, twelve tracks in thirty minutes, catching a live show's fever on wax.
Album Reviews8.7/10
Rumours Reviewed: Fleetwood Mac Turn Five Broken Unions Into an 8.7/10 Record
A disclosure of five suffering hearts turned to terrible beauty—a wound shaped by design, sorrow made music.
Album Reviews9.6/10
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly Earns 9.6 of 10 — an Album That Condemns, Grieves, and Preaches in One Breath
A dreadful and true testimony rendered in sound — sorrow, defiance, and prophecy gathered into one monument of an album.