Tag Archives: album review

Joe Bonamassa, Driving Towards The Daylight. Album Review

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 22nd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

If there is one thing you need to know about Joe Bonamassa and his music, certainly above most other facts about him, is that no matter what, in everything he does, he pretty much succeeds in getting you to believe he is one of the greatest guitarist ever.

This should not be taken as an endless glib statement that ends up in debates where people list millions of other guitarists worth their salt, the bottom line is that the 13th album in 12 short and prolific years have led to possibly the career defining album in Driving Towards The Daylight.

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(402 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Gaz Coombes, Here Come The Bombs. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 23rd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

The name may say Gaz Coombes on the front of the album sleeve for Here Comes The Bombs, but it feels a long way from the days when his group Supergrass were one of the darlings of the Brit Pop phenomenon and they he and the band were a highlight of many a festival bill.

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(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Walter Trout, Blues For The Modern Daze. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S Media. May 27th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

When it comes to modern day-post war Blues guitarists, few can touch Walter Trout. With the very obvious exception of Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout stands above most giants of the genre and his latest album Blues For The Modern Daze is a testimony to the longevity and brilliance of the man’s work and sheer volume of work he has been associated with.

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(373 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Scissor Sisters, Magic Hour. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 29th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

With the Scissor Sisters fourth studio album Magic Hour, it most certainly is the absolute truth; that if it isn’t broken then why bother getting the decorators round to spruce up the place.

Scissor Sisters have been reduced to a four piece for a couple of albums now but the sound and disco sure fire hits have not diminished, if anything, on Magic Hour the drive that propelled the band forward and suffered slightly on Tah-Dah has gained more momentum. The rhythms and insanely likeable underlying beats that pervade the songs mean they thrust the music into another level that the group’s first hit of Laura suggested they would eventually attain.

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(468 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Ultravox, Brilliant. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 29th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

For anyone who caught Ultravox on the last tour or even Midge Ure’s much coveted solo gigs in the last few years, it really won’t come as any surprise to find that the first studio album by the band in 18 years is nothing short of sensational.

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(439 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Beach Boys, That’s Why God Made The Radio. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media.  June 9th 2012

L.S. Media Rating ****

The world may have moved on, a different vibe purveys the charts and the streets of the American west coast and more importantly the music scene.  Somehow though, no matter what the decade, The Beach Boys make it possible to believe that summer is never that far away.

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(409 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Joe Walsh, Analog Man. Album Review.

Originally published on L.S. Media. June 12th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

It may be Joe Walsh’s first solo album in 20 years but Analog Man does exactly what it set out to achieve, an album full of personal musings, clever lyrics and delivered with the style and panache of man whose knows that he is good and isn’t afraid to say so.

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(453 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Lita Ford, Living Like A Runaway. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 19th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

No matter your point of view of Lita Ford, there is no difficulty in recognising the amount of personal turmoil she manages to get out of her system in the second of her comeback albums, Living Like A Runaway.

The ex-Runaways singer/guitarist was out of the scene for so long from 1995 and the 2009 release of Wicked Wonderland that the rock world wondered whether the first woman of heavy metal would ever pick up a guitar in anger again. With this new album, the answer is most certainly yes and reading through the lyrics the anger is so intense, so dramatic and so passionate that it gives the songs that little bit of extra spice that makes you thankful that you never get on her wrong side.

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(409 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Slash/ Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators. Apocalyptic Love. Album Review.

Originally published on June 19th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Unlike Slash’s debut self-titled 2010 album, Apocalyptic Love has more gravitas as a collection of songs, it is cohesive and the songs seem somehow to flow better into one another. The reason perhaps is unlike Slash, the album profits from having a stable line-up all the way through. It makes the album have more appeal than believing for a minute that the debut album was an exercise in self-indulgence.

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(377 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Offspring, Days Go By. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 28th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ***

Days Go By is the new album by American Punk Rock band The Offspring and never has an album title felt more apt in terms of how long fans of a group may have felt for its delivery.

This ninth studio album by the band has been creeping and crawling along and was in danger of becoming out of date by the time it finally hit the general public. Patience is sometimes its own reward, especially in music and the pay offs in what the audience hears can be worth every moment, every single agonising second between one album and the next.

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(360 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)