With a mix of instrumentals and compositions featuring guest vocalists, the album has two distinct feels – one of vital rock and one of 80’s throwback. But it’s the strong guest vocal numbers, such as David Bowie’s spectral croon on “Isn’t It Evening,” adding a mysterious aura over Slicks’s subtle guitar fades that provides us with a handful of ripe moments.
Joss Stone may only be 16 years old, but with radiating pipes that can jump start a dead battery in the dead of winter, age is a mere afterthought on her debut – The Soul Sessions. Displaying the explosive anguish of Aretha Franklin, this young blonde from the Southwest of England surely hits the sweet spot, while taking the listener back to the early 70s’ era of Motown and adding her own 21st century spin.
Not to be confused with its soundtrack follow up The September Sessions, Thicker Than Water serves as Jack Johnson’s coming out party – as filmmaker and musician. Although the film is defined as a collection of images and memories hauled in for an eighteen month journey through the North Atlantic, South Pacific and the Bay of Bengal; Johnson’s music plays a small part in this compilation featuring ten different artists.
From the first glance at Gathering One
What took almost four years and seven studios to record, The Spirituality aptly leads the listener on a quest for inner peace and eternal life with songs revolving around an introspective dream-state. But the music is definitely not for the casual listener, as the abstract rhythms and convoluted vocals can border on distracting as opposed to mesmerizing.
Since the mid 90
Over the past few months, cozying up in his personal studio, piano man Ben Folds has recorded and simultaneously released three EP
Drop the smile and empty soul describes this album perfectly. It is a brilliant reminder of everything that is wrong in rock today – complete soullessness. Made up of three guys who met during high school, Smile Empty Soul is yet another ‘I
Never underestimate the power of a well-wielded fiddle. It can throw some earth into an air-and-water mix, the result being a musical concoction that breaks you out of your usual genre-hungry mold. Such is the case with Wisechild
