The Strokes' fifth album is immediately appealing as they sound like they’re genuinely having fun. At times it feels like a mixtape the Strokes made for themselves: 11 songs, 11 different genre experiments.
Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, The Strokes offer a Rock & Roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas, and petulant rap-rock outfits.
LA/Joshua Tree based Sugar Candy Mountain deliver carefully built psychedelic odes in the style of Jacco Gardner and Tame Impala. Lime green LP + includes bonus track “Sucette”, previously a single-only release.
Recorded with Jason Quever of Papercuts, Sugar Candy Mountain's sophomore album sits comfortably between 60's Laurel Canyon bliss and more modern production of Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips/Tame Impala).
An album of inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs; it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than it's predecessors.
“Nimbus is a record named after a track named after a poem—none of which was planned. One followed the other out of our collective stream of consciousness. That might be a good way to understand the whole album.
“Nimbus is a record named after a track named after a poem—none of which was planned. One followed the other out of our collective stream of consciousness. That might be a good way to understand the whole album.
Headful of Sugar is an album about outsiders, searching for meaning in the desert of modern life, disillusioned but hopeful. All of the opulence we're surrounded by is just sugar, connection to others is the real sustenance.
Gatefold double LPCurrents is the highly anticipated third full-length from the much loved Australian psychedelic rockers and the follow up to 2012's Lonerism. A top live draw and critical darling, Tame Impala was a smash at Coachella and headlined Lollap
Tame Impala’s fifth full-length album, Deadbeat, available on CD. On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date
The record features a "minimalist and crunch" sound, a more "playful vocal range" than his previous work, and explores themes of self-medication in place of self-care within everyday life.
Double LP, gatefold jacketTame Impala are a rainbow sandstorm of stoned riffage, mindbending melody and blissed out adventurism from the most isolated city in the world who echo the lighter side of Cream, Blue Cheer and Kyuss. This is the band's debut alb
The Slow Rush is Kevin Parker's deep dive into the oceans of time, conjuring the feeling of a lifetime in a lightning bolt, of major milestones whizzing by while you're looking at your phone.
Them Again is the second album by the Northern Irish band, Them, whose lead singer and songwriter was Van Morrison. The album was released by Decca Records in the UK on 21 January 1966.
