Category: Rock

• Biffy Clyro: The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

  Biffy are one of those bands who have a “sound” and are world class musicians, so we were expecting this to be “Yeah, it’s good, it’s just more Biffy, next” but they’ve managed to pull off the neat trick of producing what fans expect while sounding new and different. A neat trick if you can […]

  jerobear

  January 26, 2022

  Rock

  Biffy Clyro, The Myth Of The Happily Ever After

• Motörhead: The Löst Tapes

  We don’t know what’s worse: the fact that the members of the classic line-up of Lemmy, Philthy and Fast Eddy are all dead, or that Lemmy’s death killed Motörhead. But Motörhead recordings are far from dead and on Motörhead Day, 8th May, (say the eighth of May and Ace Of Spades quickly to see why) […]

  jerobear

  July 12, 2021

  Blues, Metal, Rock

  Congleton Chronicle, Jem Condliffe, Lemmy, Live, Madrid, Motörhead, Sala Aqualung, The Löst Tapes

• The Mono LPs: Shuffle/Play

  This is a really good album ad we’d have said you should buy it even before we realised it referenced one of our favourite films, Being There. (A 1979 satire, based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski and starring Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener, a simple man who knows only about gardening and the […]

  jerobear

  July 5, 2021

  Indie, Pop rock, Rock

  Arctic Monkeys, Cello, Coral, Liverpool, Shuffle/Play, The Mono LPs

• Jim White: Misfit’s Jubilee

  The Press release calls Mr White an “ever-elusive Americana maverick,” famous for his “dark ruminations on all things Southern”.This new album is varied, from White calling like a circus barker to a stadium-friendly song that wouldn’t sound out of place in a U2 set.The album opens with a fake tannoy train announcement but Monkey In […]

  jerobear

  March 8, 2021

  Indie, Rock

  Fighting My Ghosts Again, Highway of Lost Hats, Jim White, Misfit’s Jubilee, Monkey in a Silo, My Life's a Stolen Picture, onders Never Cease, Smart Ass Reply, Sum of What We've Been, The Divided States of America, The Mystery of You, Where Would I Be?

• Neil Young: Way Down In The Rust Bucket

  Young is now 75 and more likely bang out a well-meaning but average political album or release an archivally relevant but otherwise pedestrian live album, but this was recorded way back in 1990 at what sounds like a warm-up gig for the Ragged Glory tour, his 18th studio album. If you’re a Young fan and […]

  jerobear

  March 4, 2021

  Live, Rock

  baroque, Bite The Bullet, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Cinnamon Girl, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cortez The Killer, Country Home, Danger Bird, Days That Used To Be, Don’t Cry No Tears, early, Farmer John, Fuckin’ Up, funk, good new music, Homegrown, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Like A Hurricane, Love And Only Love, Love To Burn, Mansion On The Hill, music, Neil Young, November 13th 1990, Over And Over, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Roll Another Number For The Road, Santa Cruz, Sedan Delivery, soul, support music, Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze, T-Bone, Way Down In The Rust Bucket

• The Messenger Birds: Everything Has to Fall Apart Eventually

  The Messenger Birds follow in the footsteps and The Black Keys, The White Stripes and Royal Blood, two blokes making a lot of noise (“That’s not a rock band, that’s just two guys!” they cite “some guy named Kevin” as saying on their Bandcamp page). Like Jack White, they’re from Detroit, Michigan. The album opens […]

  jerobear

  January 9, 2021

  Pop rock, Rock

  baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Everything Has to Fall Apart Eventually, funk, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, The Messenger Birds

• Eagles: Live From The Forum

  We’ve never really been massive fans of Eagles but you’d have to be a miserable wretch not to like this new double album recorded live at the impressive Inglewood venue, practically a homecoming gig for the band. Someone who saw Eagles years ago complained to us: “It sounded just like the records”, which is perhaps […]

  jerobear

  January 7, 2021

  Pop rock, Rock

  baroque, Blues, Boys Of Summer, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Desperado, Eagles, early, funk, good new music, Hotel California, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Life In the Fast Lane, Life’s Been Good, Live From The Forum, music, Ol' 55, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Rocky Mountain Way, soul, Take It Easy, Those Shoes

• Arcade Messiah: The Host

  We first came across Arcade Messiah years ago, when we had a double (?) CD to review; we thought it was the career-end of a US cult prog band but they must have been very early releases from Arcade Messiah, and now we feel bad. Particularly as he gave this album away.Arcade Messiah is one-man […]

  jerobear

  January 3, 2021

  Indie, Prog, Rock

  Arcade Messiah, Can Of Worms, Diagnosis, Electro Magnetic Divine, Show Me The Sun, The Host, The Witch From The West, Wasteland, Wildlife

• My Grito presents … Mas Alto! A Charity Compilation

  This is in a good cause and is a more-than-decent album. The cause: sadly not a local one but still good: the album is raising cash for No Us Without You, a US charity providing food security for undocumented back-of-house staff and their families. “Undocumented hospitality workers are the backbone of the hospitality industry,” says […]

  jerobear

  December 31, 2020

  Jazz, Pop rock, Punk, Rock, Rock n roll, Soul/funk, World

  baroque, Blues, brother, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, good new music, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, My Grito presents … Mas Alto! A Charity Compilation, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul

• Narrow Head: 12th House Rock

  This is a more than a decent album; while they’re not exactly not derivative, they’re also not dull and do sound themselves rather than anyone else. The sound is a grungy shoegaze, all pretty heavy, though they can do melody. There’s also an air of slacker about it. Part of the appeal is the live […]

  jerobear

  December 30, 2020

  Rock

  12th House, 12th House Rock, baroque, Blues, brother, Bulma, buy busic, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Crankcase, Delano Door, early, Emmadazey, Evangeline Dream, funk, good new music, Hard to Swallow, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, Narrow Head, Night Tryst, Nodding Off, Ponderosa Sun Club, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Stuttering Stanley, Wastrel, Yer' Song