Slipped Discs
Discs You May Have Missed
by John Noyd
Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
Marshall CrenshawJaggedland
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.
• Marshall Crenshaw Website • Marshall Crenshaw WikiHot Club Of Cowtown - Wishful Thinking
Hot Club Of CowtownWishful 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.
• Hot Club Of Cowtown Website • Hot Club Of Cowtown WikiLita Ford - Wicked Wonderland
Lita FordWicked 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.
• Lita Ford Website • Lita Ford WikiRadney Foster And The Confessions - Revival
Radney Foster And The ConfessionsRevival
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 Website • Radney Foster And The Confessions WikiAliens - Luna
AliensLuna
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.
• The Aliens Website • The Aliens WikiWallpaper - Doodoo Face
WallpaperDoodoo 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.
• Wallpaper WebsiteHidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan
Hidden CamerasOrigin: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.
• The Hidden Cameras Website • The Hidden Cameras WikiYoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head and the Sky
Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono BandBetween 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.
• Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band Website • Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band WikiProject Skyward - Moved By Opposing Forces
Project SkywardMoved 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.
• Project Skyward WebsiteCarolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle - Let’s Just Stay Here
Carolyn Mark & N.Q. ArbuckleLet’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 Website • Carolyn Mark & N.Q. Arbuckle WikiJoao Orecchia - Hands and Feet
Joao OrecchiaHands 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.
• Joao Orecchia WebsiteBrazos - Phosphorescent Blues
BrazosPhosphorescent 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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