Spins
Tunng Lashing
Tunng Mother’s Daughter & Other Songs (Ace Fu) The prodigal sons materialize out of thin air, delivering on the promise of some neighboring mates who gave up.
Moon, Dead
The Killing Moon A Message Through Your Teeth (Fearless) No relation to the Echo & The Bunneyman song, nor the spirit of. The Killing Moon take a linear path through emo and scream, scream, scream.
Love That Ian
Ian Love Ian Love (Limekiln) What about old punks makes us let them go soft on us? Forget John Doe gone country/roots. Think Bob Mould. Lou Barlow. Paul Weller. Locally, we have Hanalei and Owen, even occasional heartthrob Matt Skiba.
Stephen Fretwell CD Review
Stephen Fretwell Magpie (Fiction/Interscope) Delicate Brit singer-songwriter sounds more South Jersey than Southampton (or hometown Scunthorpe).
Tresspassers William CD Review
Tresspassers William Having (Nettwerk) SoCal gloompop outfit’s second album steps on your chest . . . two, three . . . releases.
Santana Minus Michelle Branch
Santana Santana III (Columbia/Legacy) Tidy two-disc pack adds three unissued studio recordings and full ’71 set from Fillmore West.
Metal Hearts CD Review
Metal Hearts Socialize (Suicide Squeeze) Adversarial Baltimore duo add a new dimension to the co-ed sweepstakes.
New Heights?
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely (Victory) Label’s fastest-selling band gets ducks in a row for sophomore album/professional debut.
Robbie Lee CD Review
Robbie Lee Sleep, Memory (I And Ear) Savant musician’s “mathematically governed” solo debut pulls ideas in with abandon, ends up sounding like an acid casualty.
Cashing In
Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash 16 Biggest Hits (Columbia/Legacy) There is no escape. But among the more thoughtful Cash family reissues coinciding with Walk The Line is one featuring their duets.
Double The ZZ!
ZZ Top Tres Hombres/Fandango! (Warner Bros.) Texas boogie kingpins get re-releases for back-to-back platinum albums.
Illumilite
Latrice Barnett Illuminate (Ultra) Dance club lite tracks exhibit more anonymity than soul on Five Point Plan vocalist’s solo debut.
Frankly
Frankel Chatterbox (Three Ring) Calling him “Lithium pop,” Frankel’s label isn’t doing him any favors, appropriate as it might be.
Brothers In Studs
Deadstring Brothers Starving Winter Report (Bloodshot) From Kurt Marschke’s flat sneer to the country bent of Deadstring’s divebar rock, Starving Winter Report was made with one thing in mind: Exile On Main Street.
Wave of mutation
(The Sounds Of) Kaleidoscope From Where You Were To How You Got There (Hackshop) If you can get away without humming “Hounds Of Love” during “New Language,” this 12-track debut will tumble you through a sonic undertow in an oh-so-English sway.
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