JEFFREY MORGAN’S
MEDIA BLACKOUT #586.219!
Bart Davenport – Palaces (Antenna Farm) :: Burt Bacharach is more
like it and I like it, like it, yes, I do.
Bad Flirt – Virgin Talk (Kartel) :: What’s
to like? How about perky power pop fuelled by fun-filled female vocals, a wickedly witty sense of humor, an enclosed pamphlet
with a suitable-for-autographing poster, and the words “THANK YOU” in huge type on the flip side.
Holly Golightly
& The Brokeoffs – Dirt Don’t Hurt (Transdreamer) :: Murder-in-the-makin’ songs
like “My 45” show why American slothic lives on this banjofied country hoedown which was recorded with the safety
off. BLAM!
Deas Vail – White Lights (Brave New World) :: No! Psychedelic Furs meet Yes! Maybe?
The Wedding
Present – El Rey (Manifesto) :: Heavily tremoloed contemporary ’80s angst rock with a Europatina
that says: re-gift.
Rae Spoon – Superior You Are Inferior (self released) :: A woman singing self-penned
songs like “My Heart Is A Piece Of Garbage. Fight Seagulls! Fight!” and “Come On Forest Fire Burn The Disco
Down”? Crazy, man, crazy. Roll over Leonard Cohen and tell Lewis Furey the news.
The Moody Blues
– Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 (Eagle) :: Prog schlock.
SNIVELING PLATTER OF THE WEEK:
Rhino Bucket – The Hardest Town (Acetate) :: Gee, you’d think that these callow mugs would be
grievously ashamed of slavishly aping AC/DC so blatantly, right? Well, you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. I guess the name
“Vomit Bucket” was already taken, huh?
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Carlos del Junco – Steady
Movin’ (Northern Blues) :: The greatest harmonica player in the world is back with another album that only serves
to further cement his already stellar reputation—and if you think what he does in the studio is jaw-dropping, then you
just gotta see him live to get the full gist of his uncanny ability. Bonus points for writing a clever Canucklehead harp tribute
to the GFOS called “Mashed Potatoes Canada” that loiters with intent on the corner of Good God Boulevard and Hit
Me Drive.
Be seeing you!
