Month: April 2017
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Laura Marling: Semper Femina
We’ve missed a couple of Marling albums; she was always good but if this new album isn’t her best, we must have missed some crackers. The music is slickly delivered but intimate, and slightly downbeat. It takes in several genres; some parts are country, some folk, some jazz, a mix of English folk and 60s […]
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Always This Way, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Don’t Pass Me By, early, funk, jazz, Laura Marling, music, Next Time, Not Nearly, Nothing, Nouel, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Semper Femina, Soothing, soul, The Valley, Wild Fire, Wild Once -
Fleetwood Mac: Tango in the Night
You should all have heard this, or parts of it. It was the Mac’s second-best selling album after Rumours and some of the tracks are as well-known as the Rumours classics — Seven Wonders, Caroline, Tango in the Night, Little Lies and Family Man among them — so there’s not much to say on the […]
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Jarrod Dickenson: Ready The Horses
Good as Laura Marling is, she’s beaten into second place by this superb album from Dickenson. From the moment it starts playing, it’s a joy. Hailing from Waco, now living in Brooklyn, Dickenson has a honeyed, soulful voice and writes semi-acoustic soulful blues and country tunes. Like Marling, the music is reflective and mature, and […]
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Heroines of Love and Loss
The way things work in general is that classical albums take a couple of plays to get into, whereas it’s the pop/rock tunes that have instant appeal; until now, we’ve never had a classical album with that “must play every day” thing you get with a catchy pop tune. Until now; Not that a collection […]
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“Dido’s Lament” (arr. for voice, “The British Heroine”: No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom, Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth, archlute and cello), ariette e duetti, baroque, Blues, Bonduca, brother, Cantate, CDs, Cello Sonata in G Minor, Chaconne, Chronicle Series, Classical, Componimenti musicali de motetti concertati: O magnum mysterium, Congleton Chronicle, Diporti di Euterpe, early, funk, Il primo libro delle musiche: No. 3. Lasciatemi qui solo, jazz, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann, music, No. 9, O Death Rock Me Asleep, Occhi io vissi di voi, Op. 14, Op. 2: No. 14. L’eraclito amoroso, Op. 7: No. 4. Lamento, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Ruby Hughes, RV 42: I. Prelude: Largo, RV 42: II. Allemande: Andante, RV 42: III. Sarabande: Largo, RV 42: IV. Gigue: Allegro, Sergio Leone, soul, The Willow Song, Toccata Arpeggiata, Venus’ birds, whose mournful tunes, Z. 574, Z. 626, Z. 626: Dido and Aeneas -
Jim Parker: Travelling Light
The title says it all: Parker writes light music, and the collection takes the listener to different parts of the world. (He also wears his talent lightly, the sleeve notes being witty and self-deprecating). You might not know the name of Jim Parker but you’ll know his music; he has written for television and his […]
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Stormzy: Gang Signs and Prayer
We can see why people love Stormzy, the first grime artist to land a number one album; he’s got charm and intelligence. The aging musos in the Review Corner haven’t got much in common with a black man from London, but even as young dogs we’d not have gone down the Tip Café to meet […]
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100 Bags, 21 Gun Salute (feat. Wretch 32) [Interlude], Bad Boys (feat. Ghetts and J Hus), baroque, Big For Your Boots, Blinded By Your Grace, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Cold, Congleton Chronicle, Crazy Titch (Interlude), Don’t Cry For Me (feat. Raleigh Ritchie), early, First Things First, funk, jazz, Lay Me Bare, Mr Skeng, music, pop, Pt. 1, Pt. 2 (Feat. Mnek), Reggae, Return Of The Rucksack, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Shut Up, soul, Velvet / Jenny Francis (Interlude) -
Nick Cave: Lovely Creatures
The titular lovely creatures are the songs, and as Mr Cave told us in a Press release: “There are some people out there who just don’t know where to start with The Bad Seeds. This release is designed to be a way into three decades of music making; the songs we have chosen are the […]
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baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Deanna (2010 Remastered Version), Dig, Dig!!! (Single Edit), early, From Her to Eternity (2009 Remastered Version), funk, Higgs Boson Blues, Into My Arms (2011 Remastered Version), jazz, Jubilee Street (Video Edit Kevin Version), Kylie Minogue, Lazarus, Love Letter (2011 Remastered Version), Loverman (Single Version), music, Nature Boy (Edit), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, O Children, People Ain’t No Good (2011 Remastered Version), pop, Red Right Hand (Single Version) [1998 Remastered Version], Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Stagger Lee (2011 Remastered Version), Straight to You (2010 Remastered Version), Stranger Than Kindness (2009 Remastered Version), The Mercy Seat (Single Version) [1998 Remastered Version], The Ship Song (Single Version) [1998 Remastered Version], The Weeping Song (2010 Remastered Version), Tupelo (Single Version) [1998 Remastered Version], We No Who U R, Where the Wild Roses Grow (2011 Remastered Version) -
Hackney Colliery Band: Live
Whenever we’re down in the dumps in the Review Corner, we often play Rock With the Hot 8, by The Hot 8 Brass Band, a New Orleans outfit that blend hip-hop, jazz and funk. It’s not brass as you might expect if you’re a fan of Foden’s Band, and nor are there eight of them, […]
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Africa, All of the Lights, baroque, Blues, Bread and Circuses, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cramm, Dead Dialogue, early, funk, Gather Your Wits, Heart-Shaped Box, Hitched, It’s Normally Bigger, jazz, Jump Then Run, music, No Diggity, pop, Prodigy Medley, Reawake, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sharpener, soul, The Morning, Timelapse, When You Know -
Ferdinand Ries: Flute Quartets Vol.1
If you want to make a name for yourself, getting a job one of with the world’s greatest composers is a risky move, like being an understudy. You might have a lucky break or you might disappear without trace. Wikipedia reports that when Ries — friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven — died, he […]
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baroque, Beeethoven, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Ferdinand Ries, Flute Quartet in C Major, Flute Quartet in D Minor, Flute Quartets Vol.1 Ardinghello Ensemble, funk, jazz, music, Op. 145 No. 1, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, String Trio in E-Flat Major, WoO 35 No. 1, WoO 70 No. 1 -
Maximo Park: Risk to Exist
The Review Corner are big fans of Max Park, but this album has divided us. The hard-core fans find it a little too formulaic in places, the less ardent among us think it’s their best album, main songwriter Paul Smith upping his game quite some way. There’s no predictable indie material, which they tend to […]
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Alchemy, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, Get High (No, I Don’t), I’ll Be Around, jazz, Make What You Can, Maxïmo Park, music, pop, Reggae, Respond to the Feeling, Review Corner, reviews, Risk To Exist, rock, soul, The Hero, The Reason I Am Here, What Did We Do to You to Deserve This?, What Equals Love?, Work and Then Wait
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