Slipped Discs

Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd

Reviews From: Rock
Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland

Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland

Marshall Crenshaw
Jaggedland
Label: 429 Records

Haunted by the golden age of early rock since he debuted decades ago, Marshall crafts crooning prom-night ballads and boppy paeans to love, waxing nostalgically in rockabilly twang, pistol-packed snares and turbulent, indie-pop jangle. “Jaggedland,” tracks the wistful singer pouring his wise, world-weary heart into incandescent comforts. Crenshaw visits Milwaukee’s Shank Hall Sept. 23rd.

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Hot Club Of Cowtown - Wishful Thinking

Hot Club Of Cowtown - Wishful Thinking

Hot Club Of Cowtown
Wishful Thinking
Label: Gold Strike Records

A phoenix rising from nests of effervescent finesse, “Wishful,” is packed with upbeat pluck, down-home charm and gracious glissando. Swinging between cocktail country, lonesome folk and chipper pitch-perfect jive, HCOC concoct a spiffy, hep-cat burlesque that addresses modern life in undulating harmonies. Catch the toe-tapping trio playing Beaver Dam October 20th.

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Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland

Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland

Lita Ford
Wicked Wonderland
Label: JLRG Entertainment

Hard rock boogie and wicked vixen blues reign over blistering bravado, cannonball caterwauling and tawdry anthems as Lita’s return after an eighteen year absence is a herald of rollicking riffs and stream-lined chaos. Shiny, sweaty, high-octane fun, “Wonderland,” floods the senses, churning a Mad Hatter’s bash into classic come-ons and pyrotechnical aggression.

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Radney Foster And The Confessions - Revival

Radney Foster And The Confessions - Revival

Radney Foster And The Confessions
Revival
Label: Thirty Tigers records

Sage and resolute, hard-won and road-tested; life experience informs Radney’s straight-shooting, textbook tunes. Seeking relief in hindsight enlightenment and soulful regrets, “Revival,” engages and captures, corralling its deeply-felt sympathies beneath level-headed epigrams poured over muscular melodies and rousing choruses. A well-versed honky-tonk pilgrim, Radney rallies true-blue homilies into honest, everyman sentiments.

Radney Foster And The Confessions WebsiteRadney Foster And The Confessions Wiki

Aliens - Luna

Aliens - Luna

Aliens
Luna
Label: Birdman Records

Looking Glass Alices hosting magical mystery tours the Aliens’ astral travels roam over a hodgepodge of happening sound collage. Mapping the duo’s borderline genius for twiddling percussion, orchestrated rock and English minstrels, “Luna,” showcases madcap epics slowly exploding in clouds of benevolent sentiments and hard-driving mania - shaggy Britpop blasting paranoid blues through panoramic odysseys.

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Wallpaper - Doodoo Face

Wallpaper - Doodoo Face

Wallpaper
Doodoo Face
Label: Eenie Meenie Records

Studio hoodlums commandeer the chronic and ironic, using party-fueled bravado and auto-tuned disco balls to conjugate one funky Pixar slam-down. Techno-gloss lip service carries pastel synths past eighties skating rink rhythms. Wallpaper’s ringtone craftsmanship pulls plugs and rehashes patches as retro-chic meets squeaky clean freaks for robotized revelry, hard-wired free-for-alls upgraded and infiltrated.

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Hidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan

Hidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan

Hidden Cameras
Origin:Orphan
Label: Arts & Crafts Records

Pop songs draped in self-doubt, starched marches hurtling bittersweet syncopation, THC’s insistent post-modern skiffle tackles existential dilemmas through reverberating harmonies, organizing forceful oratory into glorious buoyancy. A Greek chorus of Canadian comedians, “Origin,” unleashes a somber circus whose pratfalls lines roll off the tongue and whose dark forest voices burst into song.

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Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky

Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky

Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band
Between My Head and the Sky
Label: Chimera Music

Fables, haikus, purrs and moans, “Head,” creates steamy Edens and cyber-smooth utopias. Surrounded by a cosmopolitan cast of avant-garde forerunners, Yoko’s immaculate future music mixes philosophical tone poems with polished erotic pop as laid-back jazz, digital dance and urban rock toss impeccable improvisations into new intuitive solutions.

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Project Skyward - Moved By Opposing Forces

Project Skyward - Moved By Opposing Forces

Project Skyward
Moved By Opposing Forces
Label: Rocket Girl

Steamy dreams and writhing twilight flights glow through molasses valleys; unearthly curtains of smoldering, windswept synthesizers and narcotic bass. PS’s celestial grandeur engages galactic techno through floating ghosts and flickering twitches. Cosmic free-falling within oceanic fantasies, “Opposing,” operate pneumatic factories, crossing boundaries into alien electronics, drowsily resurfacing inside thick, moody atmospheres.

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Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle - Let’s Just Stay Here

Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle - Let’s Just Stay Here

Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle
Let’s Just Stay Here
Label: Mint Records

Frank, beautiful heartache captured inside barnstorming story-songs, “Stay,” chases modern tales down darkened alleyways as Mark shoots sparks fronting Canada’s premiere bronco-busting frontier band. Reflective and revved-up, the group’s boot-strap rebuttals are grimy reminders taken for a spin then drinks, good times flowing over toasty twang and rodeo riffs.

Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle WebsiteCarolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle Wiki

Joao Orecchia - Hands and Feet

Joao Orecchia - Hands and Feet

Joao Orecchia
Hands and Feet
Label: Other Electricities Records

Processed layers welded into seamless streams of jittery digital fidgeting, Joao’s overstocked toy box simmers alongside bantering banjos, wheezing concertinas and listing violins. Blue Man boogie for beats, blips and purring whirligigs, “Hands,” juggles cuckoo clock rock, cyber-fried lullabies and pump ‘n crunch electro-funk for effusive musical Sudoku and groovy, geo-synchronized synergy.

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Brazos - Phosphorescent Blues

Brazos - Phosphorescent Blues

Brazos
Phosphorescent Blues
Label: Autobus Records

Brazos’ alt-folk affectations give way to minimalist chamber pop; textural confections fostering poetic ambitions, ceaseless free verse tumbling over cascading counterpoint. Twittering figures build sensuous tensions while, “Phosphorescent,” generates images and visions bound to exultant beats, hobo hopes stitched with hippie mantras seething beneath solemn streets, a stage-struck bohemia of everyday opulence and casual insight.

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