Reviews | AAA Music - Part 241
The Jim Jones Revue – Dishonest John
19 March 2011 | aaamusicThe Jim Jones Revue released another amazing single melting the greatest tradition of rock and roll and punk music in a pretty unique style.
Dishonest John starts like a fury of piano and guitars and the singer this time … Read More
The Candle Thieves – Breathing (Just for you)
19 March 2011 | aaamusicThe Candle Thieves start this new single with a Roland keyboard continuous sound that could appear annoying or wonderfully addicting, like a videogame sound effect, very evocative of Pacman or such games.
The vocals are velvety like any self-respecting … Read More
The Snowdroppers – Do The Stomp
15 March 2011 | aaamusicTaken from their debut album ‘Too Late To Pray’, Australian blues rock outfit The Snowdroppers drop the single ‘Do The Stomp’. The track starts of with an introduction of clapping in unison going along with the drumbeat and followed … Read More
J. Mascis – Several Shades of Why
14 March 2011 | aaamusicWhile it may at first be slightly confusing for the front-man of one of the world’s loudest bands to kick back and release an album almost entirely made up of gentle acoustic workouts with nary a heavily distorted guitar … Read More
Dinosaur Pile Up – My Rock ‘N’ Roll
14 March 2011 | aaamusicWhen this reviewer was only a budding pretentious music fan his first foray into genuinely new music, as in first singles on vinyl in six records shops with a drawn on track list, was with a band called Dinosaur … Read More
South Central – The Day I Die
14 March 2011 | aaamusicAs propulsive, in your face, hold on tight dance tracks go, South Central have just added an actually pretty awesome one to their arsenal, it takes flight in all the right places, it slows down in all the right … Read More
Kurt Elling – The Gate
14 March 2011 | aaamusicAlready a highly accomplished, well respected, award-winning artist, Kurt Elling once again showcases his talent with the impeccable new release The Gate. Elling retains the cool beauty of classic jazz whilst bringing it into the modern day with inventive arrangements … Read More
The Musgraves – Lost in Familiarity
14 March 2011 | aaamusicThe Musgraves new EP Lost in Familiarity presents the bands’ own brand of accessible folk-pop, a sound that is within reach of anyone who is able to enter their whimsical world. Lost in Familiarity is a refreshingly self-aware release that … Read More
The Dears – Degeneration Street
14 March 2011 | aaamusic
The Dears harmonize and lull like morphine with opener ‘Omega Dog’, but the underlying innocence merely underlines the gothic crash and rumble that grows on the surface like a raging squall. The guitar builds and breaks leaving the … Read More
Sophie Barker – Say Goodbye
14 March 2011 | aaamusicSay Goodbye is the first release from Sophie Barker’s highly anticipated second album Seagull. The track flows with a simple beauty as the breathy tones of Barker’s voice effortlessly drive the instrumentals to create a sublimely layered and haunting … Read More