Kimberly Bright - Reviews


Loves

Loves - True Love: The Most of The Loves

Overdue detailed retrospective of The Loves’ 11-year career from 2000-2011 over three dozen tracks.


Rain Parade

Rain Parade - Last Rays of a Dying Sun

One of the best original Paisley Underground bands, The Rain Parade, is finally back with a tremendous new album after 38 years


Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw - The Art of Feeling Blue

Cinematic and consistently inventive tenth album from Boston-based Irish singer-songwriter Bob Bradshaw


Ballet

Ballet  - Daddy Issues

Danceable synth-pop, indie pop and decadent themes on self-described New York 'gay nerd band' duo The Ballet


Dot Dash

Dot Dash - Madman in the Rain

Washington, D.C.'s Dot Dash channel expertly crafted early New Wave and power pop on seventh album.


David Lance Callahan

David Lance Callahan - English Primitive II

David Lance Callahan’s ‘English Primitive II’ is more a darker companion piece than a follow-up to its predecessor


Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs

Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs - Bubblegum Boogie

High baroque pop, 70's nostalgia, and emotional equilibrium against all odds on Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs' third album


Dave Edwards

Dave Edwards - Many Rivers

Patchy retrospective of four decades worth of work from East End guitarist and singer-songwriter Dave Edwards


Simon Love

Simon Love - Love, Sex and Death Etc

Simon Love’s first album in four years is pop magnificence that takes on all the major topics of life


David Lance Callahan

David Lance Callahan - English Primitive 1

The legendary Wolfhounds frontman David Lance Callahan may be an anti-hero but 'English Primitive I' proves he is a national treasure


Sun Atoms

Sun Atoms - Let There Be Light

Enjoyable dreamy, visionary psych-rock on Sun Atoms’ debut album.


Livesays

Livesays - Not What I Bargained For

Unpretentious, straightforward rock from veteran American musicians The Livesays on their fifth album


Various

Various - V4Velindre

Worthwhile and impeccably chosen 50-track mixtape to raise money for Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.


Peter Hall

Peter Hall - Light the Stars

Finely polished baroque pop fighting to remain positive in the face of life’s difficulties on Peter Hall’s debut album


Plenty

Plenty - Enough

Fascinating but overwhelming collection of new and historical material from 1980’s Liverpool post-punk art rock group Plenty


Mr Diagonal

Mr Diagonal - North Pacific

Curious multi-genre album about escapism from Robinson Crusoe one-man show Mr. Diagonal


Tvfordogs

Tvfordogs - I Only Wanted to Make You Cry

tvfordogs’ fifth album is a thrillride of educated, articulate, and edgy glam rock


One Thousand Motels

One Thousand Motels - Get In Where You Fit In

Rat Scabies’ and Christ Constantinou’s second album from their One Thousand Motels project conjures up classic Delta blues, gospel, and R&B


Conrad Clipper

Conrad Clipper - Herons' Book oF Dreams

Anonymous German composer Conrad Clipper’s second album is full of wistful piano instrumentals


Birdpen

Birdpen - All Function One

Haunting sixth album from Birdpen is a protest against technology’s stranglehold on our lives and society