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New Music Reviews are back on HF&MS, with my favourite artist of the last 10 years re-emerging from his hiatus after allegations of sexual misconduct were levelled at him in The New York Times in Feb 2019
evermore
It is not quite new music but I’m really enjoying this album, evermore, it feels like just really good song writing from newly awakened potty mouthed, indie goth (no, really!) Taylor Swift.
142 – Crosby, Stills and Nash
Crosby, Stills and Nash were the first Supergroup (Crosby (The Byrds), Stills (Buffalo Springfield) and Nash (The Hollies)), though they might not have realised it at the time
Shore
I’m loving Shore, the new Fleet Foxes album, the more I listen to it. It is a return to form after Crack-Up..
What’s on Tidal?
I’m a big fan of the Fleet Foxes, after Helplessness Blues affected my musical compass forever many years ago
141 – Bayou County
Everything I hated about Zappa and Beefheart, is the opposite here with John Cameron Fogarty’s Creedance Cle..
What’s on Tidal?
Definitely worth a mention in this post lockdown world is the new album from Ray LaMontagne, Monovision, tha..
140 – Trout Mask Replica
This is my listen to Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, with their influential album Trout Mask Replica. For “influential”, I usually hear “self-indulgent crap” and this album is the rule, not the exception.
139 – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Back on it, with Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Sounds good to me, I’m guessing this is when Americana, as I know it, began
138 – We’re only in it for the Money
‘We’re only in it for the Money’ is just self-indulgent hippie crap featuring the usual psychedelic tropes I’ve come to learn about on this 1001 Albums journey, namely: San Francisco…..