1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Doug Walker
Walker's pathetic demolition of Pink Floyd's The Wall is on many "worst album" lists, but MATT KELLY thinks otherwise.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Lil’ Dicky’s post-coital brain-farts
Comedy rapper Lil' Dicky's limp jokes make for an album that's not just awful. Worst still, it's forgettable writes MATT KELLY.
Polytown – a polyrhythmic classic that improves with age
Musicianly wank or an effing great album by three musicians at the top of their game? Total classic, proclaims GARY STEEL.
Stick three musos in a hotel room and what do you get?
Stick three improvising musicians in a hotel room for some spontaneous action and what do you get? Something special, writes GARY STEEL.
Dreamscapes echoing to infinity
GARY STEEL falls in love with a surprising album of evocative dreamscapes from a musician famed for his more rootsy work in The Bads.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Run DMC’s awful comeback
Does hip hop get any worse than the execrable comeback album by Run DMC? MATT KELLY thinks not and explains why.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – eyes wide shut
Widely considered their worst album, MAT KELLY somehow manages to listen to all 74 bloated minutes of the Yes album that nobody likes.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
MATT KELLY somehow manages to get all the way through the very worst of Yes and the answer is a definitive 'No!'
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Elvis’ Greatest Shit
MATT KELLY listens to a collection of Elvis Presley's worst songs and ends up finding it quite endearing, in a naff kind of way.
Easy listening art music – Darren Pickering’s Small Worlds
Sometimes musical contemplation is just what the doctor ordered and Small Worlds massaged GARY STEEL’s aural cavities in just the right way.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Shihad’s Beautiful Machine
MATT KELLY finally finds a Kiwi group to name and shame, and he reckons that this is easily the Wellington band's worst record.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Joel’s Super Ghostbusters
Reviewing an album that makes him despair for humanity MATT KELLY has a fleeting affair with Joel.
Space is the place for Stinky Jim
GARY STEEL pronounces the second pleasing concoction by Kiwi dub connoisseur Stinky Jim in the space of a year a sensorial stunner.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Onision’s I Am Trash
Shock and horror! Onision keeps his trap shut and almost makes a good album, writes a visually shocked MATT KELLY.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Black Lace’s The Blue Album
MATT KELLY has finally met his match in an album that he declares to be the worst he's ever heard... ever!
Margaret Urlich – 1989-style
As our wee tribute to Margaret Urlich (24 January 1965 – 22 August 2022) GARY STEEL revisits a piece he wrote around the release
Albums Of 1972 – EL&P’s 50-year-old Trilogy an unheralded classic
Progressive rock came of age in 1972 and one of its greatest achievements was Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s wonderful Trilogy, writes GARY STEEL.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Black Lace’s Greatest Ever Party Album
MATT KELLY is rattled by an album that demands you not think, that you just shuffle mindlessly onto the dance floor at your cousin’s
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear – Uriah Heep’s Equator
MATT KELLY points his shit-o-meter at an album that's bad to the bone, and 'dem bones are wracked with early-onset osteoporosis.
Hallelujah – a flawed film about a songwriting genius and just one song
REBEKAH DAVIES reviews a fascinating but problematic film about a songwriting genius and a song covered to the point of meaninglessness.
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