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PJ Harvey

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Five Songs, 12/5/2021

PJ Harvey, "My Beautiful Leah" Is This Desire? is the album that really completed PJ Harvey's transition from kickass rock artist to just plain ol' kickass artist. Yeah, broadly, this is still a rock record, but she started doing so much more. The arrangements incorporate...

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Five Songs, 4/27/2021

Pete Rock & CL Smooth, "For Pete's Sake" From the stone-cold classic Mecca And The Soul Brother, this song is typically excellent. Every song on this record hits hard, it's incredible. PJ Harvey, "Ascending" squinting Yeah, I suppose that this IS an ascending track, isn't it?...

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Five Songs, 3/11/2021

Jungle Fire, "La Kossa" Jungle Fire, out of LA, play Afro beat and funk, clearly heavily inspired by the usual folks like Fela Kuti and James Brown. Nothing wrong with that! Anyway, this is from their 2017 album on Colemine records, and I really appreciate...

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Five Songs, 12/23/2020

Panopticon, "Blåtimen" Panopticon, the band that is actually just Austin Lunn, gained attention with Kentucky, where Lunn merged his love of Appalachian folk music with his love of black metal and produced an amalagam of the two, creating one of the most distinctive and interesting...

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Five Songs, 7/9/2018

Does it seem like I'm getting flakier with this things? I think I'm getting flakier. Whatever. I'm back! Floor, "The Key" This song is only 46 seconds. I really wish it were longer. Crimpshrine, "Rearranged" Crimpshrine didn't last long as a band, producing only one...