Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976) - “The songs are cute, the riffs executed with more dynamism than usual, and the singing attractively phlegmy.”
Max Richter, Various – Behind The Counter With (2017) - “a refined mixture of canonical classics, post rock and contemporary electronic composition”
The Clientele - Music For The Age Of Miracles (2017) - “The gauzy seductive songs feel like euphoric conjuring, chinks in the doors of perceptions that reveal another hidden capital, a misty tapestry of late-night idylls, laced with a rapturous melancholy magic.”
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun (2017) - “brash, gritty, unpretentious, and thrillingly claustrophobic”
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (1974) - “her bridge of sighs between folk-rock singer-songwriter and neo-jazz experimentalist”
Various Artists - Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973-1980 (2001) - “a collection of 18 covers of American soul tunes by the famous Jamaican label's finest '60s and '70s artists”
Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares (2017) - “Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips.”
Dinosaur L - 24→24 Music (1981) - “alluringly ugly and unkempt ... it's disco at its loosest, warmest, and weirdest”
Messthetics # 1: UK '78-81 "D.I.Y." - Bands R-to-Si - “the holy grail of post-punk compilations … A barrage of D.I.Y. madness that will keep you enthralled from beginning to end.”
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers (2017) - “The Canadian apocalypticists take aim at a familiar set of targets (money, environmental destruction, warfare), the usual trigger for their scorched-earth symphonies.”
MFSB - Love is the Message (1973) - “a landmark LP for Philadelphia's early to mid-'70s soul movement”
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now (2017) - “Although Lekman's voice sometimes sounds like Morrissey doing a Kermit the Frog impression, he revels in strong songwriting and brilliant hooks played on steel drums, funky horns and hip-hop bells.”
Courtney Barnett / Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice (2017) - “an album, of scraggly, lackadaisical, and compulsively listenable rock”
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