JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #982.878.564.196!
Poison – Seven Days Live (Armoury) :: What can you say about
an album that actually dares to list one of its eleven songs as: “Drum Solo”? You said it.
Walls Of Jericho – Redemption (Trustkill) :: Five femme-fueled power ponderances
asking that musical question: is Candace Kucsulain the new Nico?
Fear
Nuttin Band – Yardcore (Bodog) :: Jahve nuttin d’feah bwah dis Korny wrekord widjil leeve fuh
evva indie infuhmmy, mon.
3 Doors Down – 3 Doors
Down (Universal Republic) :: There’s a lot of potential here for the kinda classic riff-laden crunge rock that
Columbia and Warner Bros. used to regularly release during the mid ’70s—but only if they ditch all the barf-bag
ballads first.
And The Moneynotes – New Cornucopia!
(Prairie Queen) :: Imagine a kooky, countrified, vaudevillian cross between wittily written Sparks and musically playful Boiled
In Lead with an all too brief added dash of Lennonesque guitar.
Less
Than Jake – Gnv Fla (Sleep It Off) :: Soulful speed-freakin’ ska widda bouncy English Beat!
The Fashion – The Fashion (Red Ink) :: Now why do I get
the feeling that these cool cats would’ve fit in perfectly on Bowie’s Nineteen-Eighty Floor Show?
Walter Meego – Voyager (Red Ink) :: Seriously soaked
in synths, this is the best Eurotrash electropop since the end of the ’80s.
The
Green Hour Band – The Green Hour Band (Kingdom) :: And this is the greatest garagedelic rock album
I’ve heard all week. These poor little Greenies have hallucinated an LP that sounds like Their Satanic Majesties
Request as recorded by the Beatles and released on ESP Disc. It’s far-out, man.
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Priya Thomas – Priya Thomas Is Blood Heron (Boiling
Pt) :: Poetess Priya is Canada’s answer to Patti Smith, only she’s a much better singer; a much better writer;
and a whole lot smarter. Plus, she lives up to the song title “Your Guitar, My Undoing” by unleashing a blistering
solo the likes of which hasn’t been heard since Fripp lost a grip on Here Come The Warm Jets.
Be seeing you!
