Shelly Ridenour

Jan 13, 2025 | qobuz.com | Shelly Ridenour

Lambrini Girls unleash a riotous debut, dismantling patriarchy and privilege with punk fury and sharp humor Welcome to the new riot. Lambrini Girls—Brighton-based Phoebe Lunny (vocals, guitar) and Lilly Macieira-Boşgelmez (bass) at the core, with a hired-hand drummer as needed—take apart fascist cops, misogynistic assholes, gentrification, celebrity privilege and other classic punk tropes for the modern era.

Nov 3, 2024 | qobuz.com | Shelly Ridenour

It’s been a 16-year wait since the last album from The Cure. That span of time bypassed frontman Robert Smith’s 50s and early 60s; he’s now 65 and facing down the heartaches that come with age. He’s in a place to write lyrics such as “my weary dance with age and resignation moves me slow towards a dark and empty stage.“ Appropriately, there is a grand theatricality to Songs Of The Lost World, which only came together after a slew of discarded recordings.

Oct 21, 2024 | qobuz.com | Shelly Ridenour

On her latest album, Kelly Lee Owens blends ethereal vocals with rave ready rhythms, delivering a psychedelic, radiant, club-ready sound. Much has been made of Kelly Lee Owens’ ice-queen vocals, which can read as both ethereal and chilly (what more would you expect from someone who has, in the past, literally sampled the sound of melting glaciers). But with the Welsh electronic musician and producer’s fourth studio album, Dreamstate, the effect is, well, heartwarming.

Sep 16, 2024 | qobuz.com | Shelly Ridenour

On this latest album, Krieger details her journey through change and creativity Allegra Krieger is no stranger to change. She has spoken about how she abruptly left a very focused path—music school in Boston—for a markedly more aimless one that sounds straight out of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickled and Dimed: harvesting olives, planting trees, cleaning motel rooms, waiting tables.

Sep 2, 2024 | qobuz.com | Shelly Ridenour

Nick Cave’s “Wild God” is a bold new embrace of life, grief, and musical brilliance. Eighteen albums into the Bad Seeds, Wild God is a shock to the system and it’s wonderful. Nick Cave has emerged from the existentially heavy trilogy that ended with 2019′s Ghosteen with a new appreciation of life. In the time since that last release, he has lost a second son—and apparently learned to manage grief via simple hope applied in a baroque manner.