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Anything that has something to do with the New Zealand masters The Clean will always get my attention. So when the name of Clean’s drummer Hamish…

I simply cannot stand anymore when any new or relatively new band that has a punk pop tendency is compared to Green Day as if those guys invented…

The Drums are back with abysmal thoughts. The follow-up to Encyclopedie (2014) is their fourth album and the first album without guitarist Jacob…

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

With the release of his first single Council, you immediately get the sense that Jeffrey Trainor's sophomore album is a move…

What should be more fit to be given an Americana treatment (with quite a twist, though) than America itself? Paul Messinger who hails from North…

During the first half of the 90s, British collective Slowdive established as one of the most prominent shoegaze bands, leaving three classics behind…

There is a standard tendency with rock critics, old and new - bring them up and then slam them down. I guess they take that critic word in…

99 Cents is the third studio album by Santi White, aka Santigold. The title and the cover of the album suggest a store with cheap Chinese stuff,…

You will agree that there is an ever-occurring phenomenon called a disappearing artist. I am not adverting to artistic people who were kidnapped or…

After twenty years and absolutely brilliant “Untune The Sky” mini-lp and “Instinct” album from early to mid- Nineties, Richard Davies, another among…

When Bon Iver first appeared, he scored a nickname ‘dark version of Ray Lamontagne’.  Meanwhile, Ray Lamontagne, the…

Natasha Khan known as Bat For Lashes cease to amaze the individuals who await a new album from the songstress. Bat For Lashes as a whole concept…

This year’s debut Album release, Zaba, from Glass Animals was a toe curling, shivering mix of jungle sounds and psychedelic dreams. The…

This one came practically out of nowhere when last year was closing. Actually, it originally came from Glasgow, passing through Yorkshire. Whatever,…

A dormant album Edge of the Sun from 2015 had recently got an awaken brother. The Thread That Keeps Us is shorter, focused and more diverse collection…

Irish band Walking on Cars is the band I have been waiting for. First of all, the music talent runs through their veins. Without any pretentious…

The Ghost Who Walks from 2010 was made under the mentorship of Jack White, the guy who was Karen Elson’s husband at the moment. It was Karen’s first…

British singer/songwriter James Page who goes under the name of Sivu has been diagnosed with Meniere disease, which causes disorder of one’s inner ear…

When I first encountered the music of Yo La Tengo, sometime in the first half of the 00s, they were already had a reputation of one of the most…

You know when you wait for a record, and you wait, and you wait until your anticipation slowly ceases to exist. And then, when you least expect it,…

Modern bands fascinated by all things psychedelic do not only listen to the ‘old masters’ but probably also what each other is doing. And that is a…

Remember “The Wicker Man” movie? No not the 2006 remake, but the 1973 English mystery horror classic based on the 1967 novel “The Ritual”, involving…

Do you remember The Horrors? They looked like they came from horror movies: obscure appereance, messy hairdos, pale faces and strong makeup. Nomen est…

On October 30th, 2015 The Neighbourhood released their sophomore album entitled The Neighbourhood is a group that has historically evoked a strong…

Back to vinyl, back to analog seems to be all the rage these days. Most of it is some sort of retro posturing, and as far as the music itself is…

The moment the opening track, “Riverview Fog” starts, you get the feeling that you’ve heard all this before, but that the cards have been reshuffled…

We’re getting flooded with acronyms, so why not another one? This time for a much-maligned term a “supergroup”. It had its troubles since Blind Faith…

Melancholic dudes from Texas had recorded their fourth studio album when their chief and creative director Tim Smith had a breakdown and decided to…

February is the month when cats make love (while sounding like crying babies), and I start to think that this is why all the great albums drop around…

  ‘ZABA’ is one of the best debut albums released in the past decade. When I put the record on for the first time, I had no idea who Glass…

Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…