Album Reviews

With the 15th Anniversary of the release of Grace upon us, this new CD/DVD is the motherlode of unreleased live performances. Footage is culled from various in-concert and television sources; it is Jeff Buckley circa 1994-95 we witness. All tracks from Grace bar ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ are represented, including bonus alternate versions and interviews. Along [...]

Astronomy Class are back with the coolest, smoothest, most earthy sounding Aussie hip hop album to date. Pursuit of Happiness is a rootsy, grooving album that wears its reggae influences like dreads. Ozi Batla, a member of Astronomy Class, says that they make music for themselves. This feel good album is something you might play [...]

Known as ‘…AYWKUBTTOD’ or ‘Trail Of Dead’ for short (the latter rolls off the tongue slightly better), this epic rock band from Austin, Texas, has delivered an equally epic sixth studio album. This offering has it all - the giant guitar sound of 70s progressive rock, mixed with 90s, Stone Temple Pilots-esque hard rock, and [...]

From the opening vocals of singer Dougy Mandagi on ‘Love Lost’, it’s immediately clear that you don’t know The Temper Trap as well as you thought. While their EP was a radiant and energetic shot-in-the-arm of indie power-pop, it was not an indication of what would follow. Clearly the Melbourne-based four piece have reaccessed their [...]

If Linkin Park were a post-hardcore band, they’d be Vanna. Depending on what you like that may, or may not, be a good thing. When listening to Vanna’s second album A New Hope the first thing to note is the vocal combination of guitarist/clean vocalist Evan Pharmakis and scream vocalist Chris Preece. Unless you really [...]