Apr 7, 2001 Music Visions by Steven Severin (Review) The music on this CD seems very fitting for a film about Divine messages.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Warzone by The Missing Brazilians (Review) The Missing Brazilians project apparently felt that dub could be even stranger still.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Wait All Summer by The Shining Hour (Review) How many times can you listen to airy, jangly pop songs about all-around mopeyness before it all starts to coalesce into one tearjerking mass?
Apr 7, 2001 Music Beatsville by Rod Mckuen (Review) There’s not enough that can be said for this disc or Rod Mckuen’s dignified narrative genius.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Third Site by Paul Schütze (Review) Listening to Third Site has been an education on the meaning of “ambience.”
Apr 7, 2001 Music Many Worlds Are Born Tonight by Happy Rhodes (Review) This record is one of the greatest jewels of emotion and creativity to emerge from 1998.
Apr 7, 2001 Music The Beautiful EP by Jamie Rowe (Review) This sounds more like something that would’ve appealed to my high school youth group, or avid viewers of VH-1.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Small Talk at 125th and Lenox by Gil Scott-Heron (Review) This recording is special simply because it captures Gil doing what he does best.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Hello Columbus by David E. Williams (Review) Call it brilliant, call it wrong, but it will certainly cause listeners with a more delicate palate some pause.
Apr 7, 2001 Music A House for the Dead and a Porch for the Dying by David E. Williams (Review) If you’re of a sensitive disposition, you won’t like this album. Trust me.
Apr 7, 2001 Music It’s Heavy in Here by Eric Matthews (Review) Eric Matthews has achieved an interesting, mysterious pop sound that oozes suaveness and sophistication.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Speak of the Devil by Chris Isaak (Review) The album is full of songs about distant relationships and lost loved ones.
Apr 7, 2001 Music What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye (Review) A perfect example of music that can be social commentary and pleasurable listening.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Even in Silence by Jessica Bailiff (Review) Haunting female-fronted atmospheric music in the vein of Flying Saucer Attack and Low.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Ocean Songs by Dirty Three (Review) Dirty Three play a blend of swampy yet cliché-less blues, minimalist jazz, and scaled down chamber music.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Curtains by Tindersticks (Review) Tindersticks consolidate upon the wry intimacy and skewed pop sensibilities that has seen them regularly top critics’ polls.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet by Gavin Bryars (Review) Bryars does an excellent job with this album, writing pieces that strengthen and bolster the tramp’s voice without overpowering it.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Kiss My Arp by Andrea Parker (Review) Moves from successful orchestral trip-hop to harrowing-yet-monotonous techno.
Apr 7, 2001 Music Post to Wire by Heather Duby (Review) ‘Post to Wire’ sounds like something you’d expect from a label like 4AD rather than what was once the home of grunge.
Apr 7, 2001 Music The Lateness of the Hour by Eric Matthews (Review) Matthews seems to love to play with words as much as as he loves to play with orchestration and arrangements.