Fantastic!!! Nick Cave!!! Album!!! 8/10 Nick Cave’s fourteenth album finds him trading in the gothic romanticism of his previous work for a swampy, sleazy garage-rock-influenced sound. Taking some of its cues from Cave’s recent ‘Grinderman‘ side project and some of the wild border country atmospherics of his soundtrack work with Bad Seed Warren Ellis, Dig!!! [...]
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Best of 2008, Folk/Acoustic, Pop/Rock
Tags:Best of 2008·garage rock·Grinderman·Nick Cave·The Bad Seeds·Tom Waits·Tricky·Warren Ellis
Tricky – Maxinquaye
March 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Hip Hop, Instrumental hip hop, Pop/Rock, Trip hop
“Drink till I’m drunk, smoke till i’m senseless” 10/10 Every generation has music that defines their era and in the mid-nineties it was the output of Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead that has the greatest resonance. Like watching ‘This Life’ these albums transport you to a specific time and place: pre-millenium, pre-9-11, pre-Blair… Although they [...]
Tags:Bristol Holy Trinity·Martina Topley-Bird·Massive Attack·Portishead·Tricky·Trip hop·Wild Bunch