The best of the baddest 9/10 I am no Nick Cave afficianado but it seems the man is making a real come-back into the critical consciousness with his most recent album, ‘Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!‘. Of course, critical trends mean almost nothing, and if this excellent compliation tells us anything, it’s that Cave has been writing [...]
The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
March 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-rock, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock
Tags:ballad·Barry Adamson·gothic·Leonard Cohen·melodrama·murder·Nick Cave·Punk·Warren Ellis
Feist – The Reminder
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Best of 2007, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock
Beguiling second album 8/10 Not being familar with her first solo effort or previous (pre-Broken Social Scene) encarnations in the Canadian punk scene and beyond, it was something of a surprise to come across this album. Such is the massive (frequently brilliant) overloading of Broken Social Scene’s musical pallette that Feist’s vocals are often buried [...]
Tags:ballad·Broken Social Scene·Canada·country·Electronica·French pop·jazz·Leslie Feist·Montreal·MP3·soul·Torch songs