Albums Of The Week: Les Shirley | More Is More
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Montreal power trio Les Shirley are redefining alternative rock and connecting the dots between ’80s new wave, ’90s grunge and pop-punk on new album More...
Albums Of The Week: Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary soul singer Lee Fields’ Daptone Records debut and first new album in three years, Sentimental Fool was produced by Daptone founder Bosco Mann —...
Albums Of The Week: Asylums | Signs Of Life
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Asylums have been quietly building an impressive back catalogue of albums since the release of their debut Killer Brain Waves in 2016. With three full...
Albums Of The Week: Allman Brothers Band | Syria Mosque: Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 17,...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “By January 1971, The Allman Brothers Band had established a sound and a reputation that belied the brief, 22-month existence of its founding lineup. After...
Albums Of The Week: Various Artists | Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Heavy metal? Glam? Hard rock? Make your own fuckin' call, you poser. We're not gonna do it for you. Bound For Hell is early '80s...
Albums Of The Week: Dead Cross | II
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “When Dead Cross released their self-titled debut in 2017, Mike Patton said “I’m not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore. For me...
Albums Of The Week: Guided by Voices | Scalping the Guru
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Scalping The Guru is an archival Guided By Voices release envisioned and sequenced by Robert Pollard as a cohesive album, featuring select tracks from four...
Albums Of The Week: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Changes
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For half a decade, Stu Mackenzie and his prolific atom-splitting polymaths King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have been haunted by one elusive conceptual project...
Area Resident’s Album Of The Week: The Beatles | Revolver Special Edition
Who wouldn't want to be Giles Martin?
For a quarter century, the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin has had the job of remixing their albums using modern methods,...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
My day job is doing traffic reporting on the radio in Canada's capital. Whenever anything happens near the intersection of Sussex and Boteler, I always make some sort of...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Daryl Hall | Sacred Songs
It's fun when musicians from varied backgrounds end up on one record.
Apart from Sacred Songs by Daryl Hall, I can't think of many records which offer this with as...
Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Dinner Is Ruined | Love Songs From The Lubritorium
Albums can't really change your life, but they certainly can provide a soundtrack to key periods of change. Such is the case for me with the sophomore release by...
Classic Album Review: Sinéad O’Connor | Sean-Nós Nua
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
What a long, strange...
Classic Album Review: Squarepusher | Do You Know Squarepusher?
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I can’t blame you...
Classic Album Review: Isula | Isulamea
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
What it would sound...
