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Psychedelphia: Paradigm

Brian Robbins October 19, 2010 No Comments

Yep – Psychedelphia knows how to shape-shift and genre-morph, fo’ sure. At times, you might come close to accusing them of musical ADD, but if you put an ear to what’s happening, you can usually find the common thread that connects the various passages. And they’re versatile: they can do the spacey/loopy/how-are-they-ever-going-to-land-this-thing stuff (“Nano”) as well as breathe underwater courtesy of the air trapped inside big ol’ bass bubbles (“Submerged”).

Belle and Sebastian: Write About Love

Jeff Strowe October 18, 2010 No Comments

Belle and Sebastian have never offered easy answers, instead they just write challenging lyrics that ask the listener to follow closely and make assumptions. Write About Love is no different, another success in a long line of great musical accomplishments.

John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up

Jeff Strowe October 15, 2010 No Comments

For every “All Along the Watchtower” moments of perfection, the flip side, such as Zac Brown covering “Oh My Sweet Carolina” leaves you looking for the nearest pair of earplugs and questioning why more stringent copyright laws don’t exist. Fortunately for listeners, John Legend and The Roots have hooked up and fall into the former category by collaborating on a series of 12 funk-soul covers that pack a punch and take you back to 1972, both musically and thematically.

Fistful of Mercy: As I Call You Down

Shawn Donohue October 14, 2010 No Comments

More akin to Crosby Stills and Nash then the recent Monsters of Folk, Fistful Of Mercy play with light and airy textures minus CSN’s political bent. Songs about love dominate as do violins and ultra repetitive choruses that allow the trio to mesh harmonically but never say anything lasting.

Charles Lloyd Quartet: Mirror

Brian Robbins October 14, 2010 No Comments

73 years into this life, Charles Lloyd is truly the master of soul-fired saxophone – and the ability to infuse an ensemble with that same vibe. With Mirror, the first studio effort from Lloyd’s present band (their recorded debut was 2008’s live Rabo de Nube), the music is rich and full; both easily digestible and as deep as you want it to be at the same time.

Railroad Earth: Railroad Earth

Tyler Curtis October 13, 2010 No Comments

Railroad Earth's fifth and self titled studio release will paint a totally new picture of this New Jersey souped up string band. On Railroad Earth you will notice it is much different from their previous affectionate themed album, Amen Corner

Blonde Redhead: Penny Sparkle

Gabriel Scheer October 12, 2010 No Comments

Penny Sparkle's release date is perfectly timed, because in many ways this album is a perfectly reflective album for the transition to fall and winter; it is an album by which to contemplate things of heady nature over a glass of something dark and swirling, a fire in the background, the wind howling outside. It is an album that pushes the listener to find a mechanism for uplift in sonically-downbeat mining of the human experience.

Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

Nick Gunther October 11, 2010 No Comments

Chamber Music Society, co-produced by Ms. Spalding and Gil Goldstein, embodies a sense of wholeness as the tracks have a flowing connective nature to them. Deviating from a standard rhythm, Ms. Spalding twines multiple time signatures together on “Really Very Small” which features her free floating vocals and a reoccurring bass line complemented with a tangential piano riff.

The Avett Brothers: Live, Volume 3

Gerry Hardy October 8, 2010 No Comments

Four years after “Live, Vol 2” was recorded in 2005, the Avett Brothers this month release Live Volume 3, , and it’s interesting to compare the two releases to see what the Brothers have been up to over the past four years.

Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints: The Night the Cumberland Came Alive

Brian Palmer October 8, 2010 No Comments

Mike Farris has been to hell and back, and listening to The Night the Cumberland Came Alive is further proof of what salvation—both in the physical and spiritual sense—has done for him.

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