One-minute reviews – 7: Goran Bregović, Katsen, Secret Birds, King Creosote
Life is complicated, but brief. Why spend longer writing than someone will spend reading your words? Or indeed, listening to the music? Bring on the One-Minute Review! Goran Bregović – Welcome To Bregovic Dude from – where, Eastern Europe? – theatrical and operatic and laden with portent, and everything you fucking gotta hate about the Goths, […]
One-minute reviews – 6: Kittie, The Very Best, Panther, El Perro Del Mar
Back, due to no demand at all. “The new low in music criticism” (trademark pending). You can be brief. You can be brutal. But can you cut the mustard when there’s only 60 seconds on the clock and you’ve never listened to the album before? Kittie – In The Black Never realised before that listening […]
One-minute reviews – 5: Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs, Talk Normal, Visqueen
Right. Time for some rock. Indie rock, granted – but rock nonetheless. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug They can do anything they want. So they go fairground on our asses. So they run with the rhythms. So they up the oomph. They sneer. They smile. They push the vocals up too high. They forget the golden […]
One-minute reviews – 4: George Pringle, Michael Jackson, Dolores O’Riordan, Tiny Vipers
Hey, listen up. Seriously. I’m open to any and all syndication offers. Could start a whole new water cooler craze. George Pringle – Salon Des Refuses Posh girl discovers her cool uncle’s cache of old Ze and Chicks On Speed records and realises the best way to attract sexual partners is to act cool, disinterested […]
One-minute reviews – 3: Daniel Johnston, Scarce, Soulsavers, Wavves
Well, no one’s slapped a cease-and-desist order on me yet. Indeed, quite the opposite. One fellow was kind enough to remark, “I’ll take the one-minute reviews of a man who loves music (i.e. you) over a lot of critics who love, frankly, themselves. : )” and another, “most accurate Mint Chicks review yet/ever”. I asked […]
One-minute reviews – 2: Taken By Trees, Crocodiles, Heavy Trash, recs of the flesh
I think this series needs to be quite formulaic, with set criteria – like Joe Bob Briggs‘ series of Drive-In Movie Reviews during the 90s. Any suggestions? Taken By Trees – East Of Eden Lady from The Concretes gone solo voyages to remote area in Pakistan to make an album that sounds like lady from […]
One-minute reviews – 1: Rowland S. Howard, The Mint Chicks, Eddie Hinton, Reverend Horton Heat
Self-explanatory, really. Fuck reviewing albums in 140 characters or less. Anyone with half an ear and an eye for Elmore Leonard dialogue can do that. The real challenge is: can you say everything that needs to be said, given only 60 seconds on the clock? Rowland S. Howard – Pop Crimes Ex-Birthday Party guitarist dude […]
