Spins
Bayside Returns
Bayside Acoustic (Victory) Think losing a band member is hard? Try critiquing the shit.
Best Seen, Not Heard
Mastodon Call Of The Mastodon (Relapse) Unreleased material from heavy metal giants that was probably better left unreleased.
Classic Blunders
Jaheim Ghetto Classics (Warner Bros.) Similar as they are, a death pairing would be Jaheim and Faith Evans: neither really knows what the hell is going on, but there’s a fine greatest hits set in the future.
I Wish I Was Big
Al Anderson After Hours (Legacy/) Normally four solo albums in 48 years would not a career make, unless what you do in the meantime adds up.
Your Name Wouldn’t Happen To Be ‘Dick’
Some By Sea On Fire! (Igloo) (SideCho) While a lame relic of the ’90s, “bro’s before ho’s” remains indispensible advice.
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.
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