This week's releases very much encompasses a wide range of genres and musicians. You got live features, score tracks, rock, metal, synth-pop, and even remasters. I am thoroughly going to enjoy myself this week as I plan to grab a few of the albums and spin them over the next few days. Some great reviews coming in for a few of these albums and should not be missed.
New Order bringing it back to Bestival in 2012, Pet Shop Boys cranking out their 12th album, audiomachine putting their scores along with great artwork, and even Phil Anselmo not showing a single sign of age when he rocks out with The Illegals. All great albums and here's hoping you find them as enjoyable as I am.
And thus we come to the inevitable cry for justice! Well, not really. But in the same context, I urge you all to show some love, head to your local record shop, and grab a few of these albums! Not a physical kind of person (eh? eh?) then be sure to pick it up from an online source or some other legal outlet. Cheers and enjoy!
And thus we come to the inevitable cry for justice! Well, not really. But in the same context, I urge you all to show some love, head to your local record shop, and grab a few of these albums! Not a physical kind of person (eh? eh?) then be sure to pick it up from an online source or some other legal outlet. Cheers and enjoy!
It's about as far away as you can get from the multiple shades of black that cloaked the original Joy Division songs liberally sprinkled throughout the setlist, but there's a strong sense of vindication in the robust vigor of "Transmission", a feeling that this music was always destined to connect to an audience far beyond those who first claimed it. Sumner's almost certainly having far too much fun to care either way. -Pitchfork
(audiomachine - Tree of Life)
audiomachine is a boutique, motion picture advertising music production house, specializing in original music and sound design for the high end trailer market. Launched in the fall of 2005, audiomachine has quickly become the "go to" choice for many producers, editors and music supervisors in search of the perfect cue for their next blockbuster movie campaign. With our elite group of seasoned composers - capable of creating some of the most cinematic cues in the industry - we've worked hard to establish that we are a new force to be reckoned with in major motion picture advertising music. We think our rapidly growing list of credits speaks for itself - but ... you be the judge and check in often to see - and hear - what we've got going on. -audiomachine
The very idea of two quinquagenarians having any traction in the 21st-century dance-pop market is quite laughable: that landscape belongs to David Guetta and all the refitted US R&B he has inspired, and closer to home, duos such as Disclosure. The very image of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – two cucumber-cool pioneers of an 80s in which clubland overlapped with the charts – going hard, bottle of amyl in hand, is the stuff of most younger people's discomfort zones. But Electric, their 12th album, finds this duo in often quite punishing form, reinvigorated, perhaps, by the end of their 28-year contract with Parlophone. They now have their own label. They make it sound like fun. Stuart Price is behind the desk here, reprising his role as tweaker to 80s-vintage megastars. -Guardian
(Evan Brewer - Your Itinerary)
Brewer's compositional skills shine bright on this record, far exceeding that of Alone. Alone could only accomplish so much with bass(es), and while it did so with flying colors, Your Itinerary allows Brewer to really dig deep into his ideas and flesh out some really interesting material. Just the opening track for example, "The Adjacent Possible," takes a strange approach to guitar-less music, allowing two basses or more to hold down all that a guitar would while keyboard patches make quick work of a melody. There's a certain magic about a few basses in place of a guitar too: the tonal qualities in conjunction with the keyboards just…. works. -Metal Injection
(Sick Puppies - Connect)
The biggest surprise on the album is that Sick Puppies have incorporated more of a pop/mainstream flair than they have in previous releases. This addition allows the band to branch out a bit and displays the breadth of SP’s talent. Several of my faves land in this category, including “Run,” “Where Did the Time Go,” and “Connect.” The band continues to grow better and better at their craft with each and every album. -New Noise Magazine
(Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals - Walk Through Exits Only)
And, yeah, the whole thing gets a bit messy and sloppy, at times, but even when it threatens to become unlistenable ("Battalion of Zero," which features some of the man's familiar aggro-groove filtered through a chaotic extreme metal sensibility, or the title track, with its frantic, nightmarish guitar refrain), it's still a great deal of fun. By the time sprawling, 12-minute guitar-noise closer "Irrelevant Walls and Computer Screens" ends, it's clear Anselmo is doing what he wants, and the end result is even more unhinged than expected, taking the underground approach of his many side-projects over the years, adding Pantera grooves and staying miles away from anything approaching Down in sound. -Exclaim
(The Cult - Electric Peace)
In 1985 The Cult enjoyed breakthrough success with the single 'She Sells Sanctuary' and the album 'Love', establishing themselves as a new breed of Alternative rock band. When it came to recording a follow-up, the band booked into The Manor studios in Oxfordshire with Steve Brown again producing the album. The new tracks would become The Cult's third album, re-titled 'Electric', and a multi-million seller. It wasn't until the limited 'Rare Cult' box set in 2000 that fans got to hear the full album, Peace correctly sequenced. The box rapidly sold out so Peace has been unavailable for 13 years. -CM Distro
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