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Stealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.
Neuroplasticity is a bit more fleshed-out than its predecessor, but the album retains ample amounts of the slow to mid-tempo spookiness that Al Spx calls “doom soul.”
Soused is such an impressive album because of its attempt to reconcile opposing aesthetic ends.
So how do four young guys successfully build upon two masterworks while simultaneously facing possible enervation due to record label woes and botched stateside promotion?
The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.
This was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
Never mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.
Jazz Remembrance: You Don’t Know Jack—From Glasgow to New York
“With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn’t tell Eric that!”
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