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{review_band_full} - Barefoot On Diamond Road
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Album title: Barefoot On Diamond Road
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Posted: Feb 2023
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Robert Forster - The Candle and The Flame
Robert Forster
Album title: The Candle and The Flame
By John Noyd
Posted: Jan 2023
Label: Tapete Records
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Brisk, rhythmic visions incubated in folksy jangle, tough-minded couplets and cajoling choruses, Forster’s uncanny knack for cordial stories captures wistful images inside jaunty sonnets. A ruminative troubadour foraging for simple beginnings and smart departures, the former Go-Betweens co-leader’s lean feelings weave scoffing thoughts among compassionate imagination. Personified in humbled harumphs and civil wisdom, the smoldering, “Candle,” illuminates those golden over the shoulder moments where disclosed moments gain trust in a steady beat and sturdy accompaniment. The rhyming ruffian’s wonderstruck wanderlust, genuine empathy and matured concerns rally nuanced nostalgia, conducting raised glasses and furrowed brows in compact theatrics and ringing sing-alongs. Solid evidence presented in vivid symbols and pleasant resonance, Forster’s eighth solo adventure intertwines hearts and minds with weathered intelligence delivered in flowing, domestic fellowship.
mmeadows - Light Moves Around You
mmeadows
Album title: Light Moves Around You
By John Noyd
Posted: Jan 2023
Label: self-release
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Pretty, slippery, star-dusted trip-hop encased into snowflake ballets, “Light,” sparkles and glows, flowing with amazing radiance, pleasingly regal poise and sweet angelic grace. Delicate melodies enunciated in charitable clarity, mmeadows’ origami arias flit and flutter, perched in lofty after-clubbing lullabies whose fluid coos and crystal synths rest on romantic enchantments hiding behind refined Valentine landmines. Ear-candy architects Dirty Projectors’ Kristin Slipp and collaborator Cole Kamen-Green bring polished softness to cautious showstoppers and supple wonder to life’s emotional puzzles. Draped in coy choral voices navigating glossy pop melancholy and beat-sweetened fantasies, the duo’s caressing perspectives and seducing illusions appear unbelievably achievable, dramatic masquerades unveiling unproven truths fitted in recording-studio couture, a balladeer’s paradise viewed through shatterproof glass with our own reflection superimposed onto the crafted pageantry.
R. Ring - War Poems, We Rested
R. Ring
Album title: War Poems, We Rested
By John Noyd
Posted: Jan 2023
Label: Don Giovanni Records
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The intense sonic chemistry wrenched from, “Rested” vents savage aspirations by grafting gnashing catwalk-rock shrapnel to skulking sultry noise-pop shuffles. Brittle, splintered instigations riding seismic Bo Diddley twists mixing dark purrs curdled in surging murmurs, R. Ring’s marvelous second effort bursts in unexpected connections and frayed combinations. A palpitating collaboration between The Breeder’s Kelley Deal and Ampline’s Mike Montgomery, the duo brought in Bat Fang’s Laura King for a leisurely cohesive feel where muscular tugs stutter in lusty gusts and calmly detached crackles oversee the album’s relaxed feedback. A moody miasma throbbing in choppy guitars, harnessed drums and bloodletting bass, the fickle mingles with random cacophony as technical experts disassemble indie edicts, reinventing turbo-torqued engines for glorious joyrides, moonless rendezvous lit in bewitching midnight cool.
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