Quebra-Cabeça is challenging music that requires, and rewards, close listening and careful attention. While it may seem intimidating and relentless, multiple listens open up a…
Remember cassettes? If not today, you will soon. The format, maligned by elitists and audiophiles in its own time as a cheaper, second-string alternative to…
A technical landmark and a vicious piece of satire, but not an easy listen. Genre: Psychedelic rock/free jazz/doo-wop/avant-garde Country: United States Release date: March 4,…
For all its poverty and deprivation, the Congo, as a land whose people are largely considered worthless to the global market, offers the musicians who…
The music album is dead. We’ve heard this refrain before, from Rolling Stone, from the lords of Silicon Valley, from legions of analysts, journalists, investors,…
A taxidermy of dead music so well-done you’ll almost forget it’s dead. Genre: Neo-progressive rock/metal Country: United States Release date: July 7, 1992 (reissued 2013)…
Intriguing, beguiling, often beautiful—but is beautiful good enough? Genre: Progressive rock/contemporary classical Country: United Kingdom Release date: December 1974 Label: Bell Records Format: 12” vinyl…
Despite the usual narratives about “raw” music, it is in fact the very technical proficiency that King Crimson bring to their instruments that gives Red…