Release Date Buffet with a twist--it's a monthly thing now!
Release Date Buffet: 06/29/2018
The rambling impressions/past-week wrap-up/all-inclusive release date list to check what you may have missed
Release Date Buffet: 06/22/2018
The rambling impressions/past-week wrap-up/all-inclusive release date list to check what you may have missed
Release Date Buffet: 06/15/2018
The rambling impressions/past-week wrap-up/all-inclusive release date list to check what you may have missed
Band of Joy: Something Comes From Nothing
Darrell Scott may wax his lap steel guitar to its most opaque or Byron House may whack his bass guitar into didgeridoo-type drones or Marco Giovino inhabits each cut with on-beat percussion or Patty Griffin and Bekkah Bramlett may sing like spectres on the end of Plant’s lower register or Buddy Miller may manage to wrap it all into nice package with a cute li’l bow n’ all, it still sounds like this is the re-reburnishing of a car marque …
Raising Sand: A bloated effort, but an important one
No joke: the first side of this record sucks so bad it ruins the entire album.
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The Eight Joint Series: Part II
This time there was no faffing about—I wrote my fiveish questions down in my catch-all journal during the lead-up to DIIV and Ariel Pink—wholly intent on clamming out some answers from DIIV and ignoring the fact that Ariel Pink was even going to be there.
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