The great lost Captain Beefheart album finally gets exhumed. So… is it any good?
Recordings
The Darkness – Hot Cakes (Pias/Liberator) CD REVIEW
The new album by The Darkness really sucks.
Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention – Absolutely Free (Zappa Records/Universal) CD REVIEW
With Universal about to issue remastered versions of Frank Zappa’s enormous catalogue, Gary Steel takes up the challenge of reviewing one of FZ’s genius album creations every day. Today’s selection: Absolutely Free.
Sunken Seas – Null Hour (Muzai) CD REVIEW
Dark, damp, leaden drone-rock from Wellington. What next?
The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow (Columbia/Sony) CD REVIEW
The Civil Wars don’t quite live up to the hype, but Barton Hollow is very nice anyway.
JONO MCCLEERY – THERE IS (Counter/Border) CD REVIEW
Gary Steel is tired of singers who fake their melancholia
Mulholland – Eugene Told Me You Were Dead (Frequency Media Group) CD REVIEW
Mulholland’s debut drive is just okay, despite the precocious talent on offer
Jayson Norris – Freedom Twenty Eight (Loop/Border) CD REVIEW
Kiwi abroad fashions an album, but hard bastard that he is, Gary Steel is unimpressed