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Old 02-11-2018, 11:29 AM   #1841 (permalink)
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Album title: Time and Emotion
Artist: Robin Trower
Genre: Blues Rock
Nationality: English
Release date: May 5
Position in Discography: Twenty-second solo
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Familiar with this artist? Heard of him
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Average RYM Score: 3.53
I don't know: sometimes ageing rockers still have it, sometimes they just sound like, well, ageing rockers. So far, this falls into the latter category. I could be listening to Clapton or Knopfler, or even Gary Moore to an extent. Don't see anything standing out about Trower, and I'm just bored here. Some blues albums have this effect on me. There are only four tracks left so I won't bail, but I won't pretend I haven't been tempted to. Get this far though, you might as well tough it out. Yeah, to be fair, there are some good tracks here, but I kind of just don't really care.

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Old 02-11-2018, 04:18 PM   #1842 (permalink)
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Album title: There's Really A Wolf
Artist: Russ
Genre: Hip-hop/R&B
Nationality: American
Release date: May 5
Position in Discography: Debut
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Average RYM Score: 1.91
Sounds all right I guess, but twenty tracks? It will need to be more than just all right for me to get through all those. “Act Now” has something about it, and on “Cherry Hill” he sings rather than raps. Another point in his favour is a total lack of guests. None. Not a one. That seems to be quite rare, especially for debut albums, so fair play to him for making it on his own terms. “Ride Slow” is almost funereal in its pace, great organ on it, like a church organ or something. Yeah, there's some good stuff here. The sentiments expressed in “Family and Friends” are refreshing, “Saved” has a nice slow, lazy rhythm to it and “One More Shot” recalls reggae and the Caribbean sound. I like “Pull the Trigger” too. Pretty impressive.

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Old 02-11-2018, 05:25 PM   #1843 (permalink)
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Album title: No Shape
Artist: Perfume Genius
The production on this album alone is worth the listen.
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Old 02-11-2018, 06:28 PM   #1844 (permalink)
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was waiting for this one

did not disappoint
pretty disappointing album tho
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Old 02-12-2018, 06:00 AM   #1845 (permalink)
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I disagree. Thought he was pretty good to be honest.
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Old 02-12-2018, 10:21 AM   #1846 (permalink)
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Album title: Slowdive
Artist: Slowdive
Genre: Shoegaze/Dream Pop
Nationality: English
Release date: May 5
Position in Discography: Fourth
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Familiar with this artist? I've heard one album and loved it
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No but slowly getting more into it
Average RYM Score: 3.63
Souvlaki was, I think, the album that made me think more deeply about shoegaze and recognise the fact that the vocal is often so seemingly muddy. Up to then, I had assumed it was just bad singing/production (as with MBV, yeah yeah I know). So I've been looking forward to doing this one. It's their first album, I'm somewhat surprised to hear, in twenty-two years, and some people have remarked it's not as good as previous efforts. I can't comment on that, as I've, as I say, only heard the one album and that several years ago, but I do remember loving it. So far, there's nothing I don't love about this one either. I think – and I'm only relying on my faulty memory here so I could well be wrong – that this seems to be a moderately faster album than Souvlaki, which was mostly slow songs I think. Just as good though.

“Sugar For the Pill” is the first song where they really slow down, and really there's not a bad track on this. Another triumph, and I look forward to hearing more of Slowdive's music. Worth waiting two decades for? Hell yeah.

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Old 02-12-2018, 11:13 AM   #1847 (permalink)
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Album title: Tajmo
Artist: Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'
Genre: Blues
Nationality: American
Release date: May 5
Position in Discography: Twenty-seventh; first collab
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Average RYM Score: 3.25
Now this is how I like my blues! To hell with Robin Trower: this is the real stuff! Engaging and absorbing from the first riff, a growly, raspy voice that just drips the blues, some fine brass, and of course that mainstay of the bluesman (other than his geetar), the harmonica. Sweet. Taj Mahal has been around since the sixties, whereas Keb' has only been playing since the nineties, so I guess we're talking an old master teaming up with a young whippersnapper, and we get the benefit of that collaboration. Got some soul and gospel too in “All Around the World”, and country in “That's Who I Am”. I will say “Shake Me In Your Arms” gets a little boring and repetitive, and given that it runs for less than four minutes, that ain't good, but I feel like it's been going for about eight by the time it winds up.

The simplicity of the acoustic “Diving Duck Blues” is followed by The Who's “Squeeze Box”, with some nice accordion and organ. “Soul” has a nice Caribbean feel to it, bouncing along with timbales, congas, shakers and ukulele; great sense of exuberance in it. That leaves “Waiting On the World To Change”, a cover of the John Mayer song, and a very good version of it too. Decent album, lots to recommend it certainly.

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