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Peter Hammill's ‘Incoherence' is compulsive in its re-release

Jan 9, 2025 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Peter HammillIncoherenceEsoteric (2-CD Set)Everyone seems to be doing it, digging deep into the archive for their most misunderstood or misaligned music, then giving it a sparkly once-over with a dust rag.
'Fragile Outtakes' is a solid release for RSD’s 2024 Black Friday event

Nov 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

'Fragile Outtakes'Generate Key TakeawaysYesFragile OuttakesAtlantic/Rhino (RSD Exclusive Release)Now this is interesting. Intriguing, even. And a blessing for anyone who didn’t fork out for the box set. The Super Deluxe edition of Yes’s fourth album Fragile, released back in May, was certainly a sight to behold, even if … well, the problem with too many super deluxe editions is they do intend to go on a bit.
DC reggae duo Born Jamericans back for Record Store Day Black Friday 2024

Nov 27, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Generate Key TakeawaysBorn JamericansKids From ForeignCraft Recordings Of all the gaps that yawn through the “vinyl revival” catalog, few are as wide as that which consumes the 1990s-2000s. Yes, a lot of the era’s heaviest hitters have seen their CD (and maybe a super limited-edition LP) catalog revived in some startlingly nauseating color combination, with 180-gram vinyl and a gaudy hype sticker.
Linda Ronstadt's 'Heart Like a Wheel’ album turns 50, remains timeless

Nov 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

The U.K. pressing of Ronstadt's first U.S. No. 1. Generate Key TakeawaysReleased 50 years ago this month, Linda Ronstadt’s fifth solo album, Heart Like a Wheel, was (confusingly for label watchers) also her last for Capitol Records, released one year after her debut for Asylum Records, Don’t Cry Now. Nevertheless, even more than its predecessor, it was very much the first full flowering of that sterling sequence of LPs that would occupy her through the remainder of the decade.
Hawkwind remixed and remarkable

Oct 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

HawkwindDoremi Fasol Latido(Atomhenge 3 CDs)If “Silver Machine” was Hawkwind’s breakthrough single, 1972’s Doremi, their third LP altogether, should have been their breakthrough album. Instead, it barely improved upon the performance of its predecessor (#14, as opposed to #19 on the UK chart), and it didn’t hang around, either. In Search of Space in 1971 remained on that same chart for close to five months. Doremi was gone in five weeks. AdvertisementAdvertisementAnd why?
If you like your music “Chewy Chewy," this box set compilation is for you!

Oct 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Various artistsPour A Little Sugar On It - the Chewy Chewy Sounds of American BubblegumGrapefruit (3 CD Set)Sometimes, it’s not the music that an artist makes, but the company they keep that makes all the difference. Look at Melanie, for example. Pioneer of the singer-songwriter boom as it emerged from the American folk scene, she spent the first four years of her career being compared to Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lotte Lenya and Edith Piaf.
The greatest punky reggae party in one CD set

Sep 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Various artistsRoots Rock Rebels - When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982Cherry Red (3 CD Set)It was always a no-brainer, the relationship between the first wave of U.K. punk in 1976-1977, and the ongoing Jamaican roots movement. Both musics were positioned on the outskirts of society; both regarded revolution (cultural if not physical) as the answer to many of society’s problems; and both — in spirit, if not always in word — were ferociously political.
Seventy Years of Spite and Sophistication

Aug 25, 2024 | quillette.com | Dave Thompson |Brian Stewart |Jay Sophalkalyan |Nick Enfield

As Elvis Costello enters his eighth decade on 25 August, it is sobering to reflect that he has now been a part of our musical furniture for almost half a century. He always looked older than he was, even at the beginning. Between the suit, the Buddy Holly spectacles, and the short hair in those first months of punk-whipped â77, he more closely resembled a bank clerk than a rock star, and it was only when he opened his mouth to sing that it became apparent just how misleading the image was.
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’

Jul 3, 2024 | quillette.com | Matt Johnson |Greg Koabel |Sean Welsh |Dave Thompson

In a recent essay for the New York Times, David Brooks lamented what he sees as the deficiencies of liberalism.
The Birth of Quebec

Jul 3, 2024 | quillette.com | Greg Koabel |Sean Welsh |Dave Thompson |Jonathan Kay

What follows is the twentieth instalment of The Nations of Canada, a serialised Quillette project adapted from Greg Koabel’s ongoing podcast of the same name. Previous instalments in this series have focused on the growing alliance between Samuel de Champlain and his Wendat and Algonquin trading partners during the late 1610s and 1620s.