Scott McLennan

Folk/Rock Album Review: The Cowboy Junkies’ “Such Ferocious Beauty” — No Comfortable Retreat

June 3, 2023
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Such Ferocious Beauty ranks among the best of the Cowboy Junkies’ work — you can feel the band challenging itself, thriving in the tumult it generates.

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Heavy Metal Album Review: Enjoying the Bleak Emotional Seas of Gozu’s “Remedy”

May 24, 2023
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On Remedy, Gozu sharpens and refines the strengths in its earlier recordings as it infuses into these new songs a finesse that doesn’t undercut the power of the music’s brute force.

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Rock Album Review: Neighbor’s Debut Studio Recording Shows Plenty of Breadth and Depth

May 17, 2023
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Neighbor is steeped in what could be considered rock ’n’ roll’s golden era — the ’70s. That is when bands could be — and were damn well expected to be— both technically dazzling and broadly appealing.

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Album Review: The Rich Musical Legacy of Drummer Billy Conway

January 27, 2023
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The late Billy Conway didn’t so much work to make a song sound great as, through his adroit drumming, illuminate the qualities in the tunes that made them great.

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Music Review: The Boston Pops does “Fantasia”

May 11, 2013
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In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.

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