Buy Black Holes and Revelations An album packed with a smorgasbord of sonic styles and arrangements, Black Holes and Revelations originally sounds very modern and electronic, but deceptively finds its way to some fundamental rock and roll structure. This fourth studio album by Muse, saw the band taking a more active role in production duties … Read more
Buy Hot Fuss I got into The Killers because a girl I liked in the eighth grade dug them. It seemed smart to check out what kind of stuff she was into and I was pleasantly surprised to discover I liked them all on my own. In fact, I ended up liking them a lot … Read more
Buy Kid A Radiohead abandoned the three-guitar, “anthemic” rock style of their hugely successful 1990’s albums with an experimental, electronic approach on 2000’s Kid A. Drawing from wide influences ranging from classical to jazz to Brit pop, the group reached their highest level of critical acclaim and, thanks to some shrewd and original marketing techniques, … Read more
After making strides towards top quality material in the late 1990s, Paul McCartney reached the apex of his later career with the solid double LP, Driving Rain, in 2001. Here, one will certainly find plenty of musical diversity, both stylistically and tonally as the album spans from extremely polished to nearly improvised and each track … Read more
Buy The Crane Wife Featuring a theme loosely based on a Japanese folk tale and eclectic music rooted in many American and British traditions, The Decemberists hit commercial pay dirt with their fourth album, The Crane Wife, released 10 years ago in 2006. All songs on the album were composed by group leader and lead … Read more
Buy Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace On Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, the Foo Fighters made a concerted effort to find a different sound than that on any of their initial five albums. The album contains an alternating blend of acoustic and electric tracks, each with a great sense melody and use of shifting dynamics. … Read more
Buy Farmhouse The last studio album before the group’s temporary breakup, Phish recorded a rootsy and accessible effort with Farmhouse. The songs are much more fully developed than most of those on the group’s previous seven studio albums, which tended to be base grooves for Phish’s live jams. As such, the album was met with … Read more
Buy Modern Times As the 21st century dawned, Bob Dylan had a great resurgence of his legendary career, Modern Times. Many of the songs on this album return to rock, blues and jazz roots, with some tracks based on re-arranged versions of traditional compositions with newly added lyrics. His thirty-second overall studio album, Modern Times … Read more
Buy Funeral Funeral is a dramatic, coming-of-age album which deals with the range of emotions surrounding death and the end of innocence. This impressive 2004 debut album by Canadian rock group Arcade Fire crafts songs from the darkest moments while still searching for the slight light of optimism. The theme of this album was by … Read more