Reviews | AAA Music - Part 109
Future of the Left – I Am the Least of Your Problems
8 July 2012 | aaamusicI Am the Least of Your Problems is taken from Future of the Left’s new album, The Plot Against Common Sense. It’s a heavy, angsty and brooding track. It’s the kind of song that kind of takes over your … Read More
CHARLIE LANKESTER AND THE MOJO KILLERS – Spinning Of The Wheel
8 July 2012 | aaamusicCharlie Lankester is a committed singer-songwriter and pianist who toured with Australian band The Last Chance Café in the 1970s. Over twenty years he’s played with Linda Gail Lewis, Osibisa, Otis Grand, The Boogie Band, and The John Warwick … Read More
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
8 July 2012 | aaamusicTheatrical. Flamboyant. Outlandish. How many adjectives have been used to describe the band from Norman, Oklahoma? How many other bands manage to overcome the Lips in encapsulating psychedelic trips in notes during the past thirty years? In 2012, is … Read More
San Cisco – Awkward E.P
8 July 2012 | aaamusicCharm might just be the best get out of jail free card in a music journalists arsenal. It’s a highly subjective term that, simultaneously, everyone can get behind. In a sentence I would call this, the second E.P from … Read More
Skull And Bones – Folks
8 July 2012 | aaamusicWell, shucks. It looks like there’s a difference between being influenced by a band and merely sounding like a band. Hailing from the North-East of this fair country Folks’ first single sounds like Supergrass covering Mr Blue Sky and, … Read More
EUGENE TWIST – The Boy Who Had Everything
8 July 2012 | aaamusicEugene Twist is a singer, songwriter and musician from Glasgow whose diverse influences include Leonard Cohen, The Pixies and Buena Vista Social Club. His debut album The Boy Who Had Everything, released on 9th July, 2012 on Tough Act … Read More
Rush – Clockwork Angels
8 July 2012 | aaamusicRush’s fanbase may occasionally be viewed as the “Trekkies” of rock, but given my habit of colliding with the sofa at strange hours in the morning and stumbling across Star Trek re-runs, as well as my ability to listen … Read More
Just Drive – Alistair Griffin
8 July 2012 | aaamusicThe words ‘Anthem’ and ‘Amazing’ have been used in equal measure to describe Alistair Griffin’s single ‘Just Drive’, part of his new album ‘Albion Sky’. A more fitting describer, though, would be ‘generic’. There’s no disguising the fact that … Read More
KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN – Hidden People
8 July 2012 | aaamusicKathryn Roberts is an English folk singer from Barnsley, Yorkshire who performs as a duo with her husband Sean. In the 90s they played in Equation with Kate Rusby and Seth Lakeman. Their album Hidden People is released on … Read More
Jacques Brel – Dead Belgian
2 July 2012 | aaamusicThere’s little more satisfying than hearing a band take another artists work and make it their own but still staying true to the original artist. This is something that Dead Belgian have done with Jacques Brel’s music. I’ve often … Read More
