A dreamy, heartbroken, introspective album full of twangy tenor and jangly guitars, frank, wide-mouthed stuff like Tom Waits, Dylan, and Billy Bragg melded.
Perfect vocal pitch, extra energetic piano arpeggios, brilliant ad lib, and an Elton John cover. The classics are here, including material from the ‘Five era.
Like a Swedish garage rock version of early Donnas, they’re cute, they rock pretty hard, but the singer yelps and hisses like a pissy kitty instead of sings.
Haunted cellists Rasputina offer their dankly corset-ed Phantom of the Opera-esque renditions of more rock’n’roll favorites on The Lost and Found 2nd Edition.
With only five songs, Panic In Detroit kicks open the swinging doors of Saloon Rock and takes on all of the underaged emo wusses in the joint… and wins.
The Ani who learned to sneer and growl has finally joined fists with the much calmer, experimental jazz and funk self she’s presented over the past few albums.