Album
Noah’s Barks pages relating to music albums.
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Boris – “Akuma no Uta”
Public service announcement: I have recently removed the PX-102 copy of Akuma no Uta from my library to add the PXLP-102 copy. This PXLP-102 copy is the one known by the more popular album cover—that is, Atsuo sitting on a stool holding his guitar across his lap. Of course, we all know that this album… (read more)
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Everything but the Girl – “Walking Wounded”
Walking Wounded is a surprisingly competent downtempo album often carried by active drum and bass beats that massage the mind while the dual vocals of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn soothe your ears. It’s astonishing how well this vocal duo complement each other—it’s very easy to not consciously notice when they swap vocal duties out… (read more)
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Ecstasy of St Theresa – “In Dust 3”
‘In Dust 3’ is a great downtempo album with mysterious female vocals and eerie alien ambiance. Cold beats and strange sounds popping up at random make this album an engaging listen. (read more)
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Grinderman – “Grinderman”
Nick Cave was 50 years old when he released Grinderman, a desperate bid at recapturing his youth with unsubtle noise-rock-by-numbers freakouts such as “No Pussy Blues.” It’s a midlife crisis if I’ve ever seen one, like an old man popping Viagra because he doesn’t want to come to terms with the fact he no longer… (read more)
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Coroner – “Grin”
Coroner have no album as atmospheric and progressive as ‘Grin.’ However, it sounds somewhat like a transition to a masterpiece that was never made. (read more)
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Devin Townsend Project – “Epicloud” (2012)
Oh, boy. I have a new album to direct people to when showing them the worst the cliches of progressive metal. Epicloud features vocoder vocals, “epic” operatic backing vocals, constant switching between clean vocals and screams, loud as fuck, formulaic guitar playing pursuing volume and pleasant textures, occasional “soft” acoustic segments that are, for some… (read more)
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Astrud Gilberto – “The Astrud Gilberto Album”
Fairly typical ‘60s easy listening pop. But as an album, The Astrud Gilberto Album is better than most. Beautiful arrangements are accompanied by a sweet voice sophistically explaining feelings of love and loss as if they were gospel. You know—the usual. Of course, this isn’t musically gospel. It’s primarily bossa nova, albeit with a stronger… (read more)
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Tender Prey”
My favorite Nick Cave album, "Tender Prey" rocks the gallows. (read more)
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Mardi Gras”
On Creedence Clearwater Revival’s final album, Mardi Gras, John Fogerty bends the knee and allows his mutinous band fellows to at last feature their own material. With the creative legend taking a backseat, the results go about as well as you might expect. (read more)
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Deep Purple – “Deep Purple”
Deep Purple’s third album is the final with their original vocalist. Nonetheless, they deliver one of their most psychedelic, darkest works. (read more)