There’s not much new on Is This the Life We Really Want? from one of the top lyricist of our time, and delivered so much better from this man back during is halcyon Floydian days, I feel.

Although scoring nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, The Move was one of those unique British bands that never really hit in the U.S. Lead by main songwriter/vocalist/guitar player Roy Wood, this Birmingham-based outfit would come to include drummer Bev Bevan, and later on, Jeff Lynne (and even for a time keyboardist Richard Tandy), all oh whom would lead The Electric Light Orchestra.

Alphaville Strange Attractor (Universal Music LLC) The last time we heard from 80’s synth pop icons Alphaville, it was 2010 and they […]

The title track is a low down bluesy number featuring the last vocal performance of Leon Russell (and vocal from Tony Joe White), again we get Nelson’s plucking his gut string, “Trigger,” while the ender, “He Won’t Ever Be Gone”, is Nelson’s tribute to country outlaw legend Merle Haggard who dies last year. Willie and Merle created and toured on their duet album Django & Jimmie, Haggards last, which topped the charts in 2015.

Mac DeMarco This Old Dog (Captured Tracks) Mac DeMarco’s This Old Dog is off to a chill start. The introductory track, “My […]

Gorillaz Humanz (Parlophone Records Limited) Gorillaz albums are like seasons of Louie: they’re completely unique but always high quality, you never know […]

A stumbling drum beat and picked flang-y echoed guitar with Richie Kotzen’s wailing vocal, rolls into the plodding “End of Earth” opener Kotzen’s latest, Salting Earth. The lead guitar work here is bendy and effective, into the heavy big sing-able chorus proving, as we all know, Kotzen’s solid guitar prowess and big song ability. “Thunder” follows, a solid rocker, with a doubled slight harmony vocal and a strut of a bridge (and again) a big commercial chorus; it’s got a Whitesneake-80’s feel to it that just rocks!

This is the 1st official music album of Inter-Continental, founded in 2011 by Shahed Mohseni Zonoozi while a student in Cyprus. In school Zonoozi made many friends from many nations and inspired by this “cultural kaleidoscope,” he set out to amass a team of dedicated artists committed to using music and the performing arts to create unique pieces like the ten presented here.

Sonic Death Space Goth (Svet i Teni/HOME CULT) You have to love a band that introduces themselves on their Bandcamp page as […]

Goldfrapp Silver Eye (Mute) Every time Goldfrapp comes out with a new album, it’s a little bit different from the last. Constantly […]