Album Reviews

With 'The Family,' Timber delivers imaginative, visibly supple coloration and ozone-like misty resonance.

The monks retreated behind stone walls to chant their devotions. Composer Lansing McLoskey stands in the agora with his choral music on writings by Wole Soyinka.

The album focuses more on the songs than on shredding, with Bonamassa's six-string wizardry worked into the arrangements rather than blatantly front and center. Still, his masterful solos remind us that we're in the hands of one of our era's greatest blues-rock guitarists.

'Last Days Of The Night Owl' is an elegantly striking album, full of nuanced floating colors and velvety energy, along with the appealing voice of Ultan Conlon.

'The Garner Poems' is exquisitely wrought, full of puissant aesthetic precepts and robust harmonics. Don’t miss this one.

‘Lucky’ is a must-hear album for lovers of genuine country music, the kind that’s simple, charming, and evocative.

'Una Noche con Ruben Blades' is superb. If you’re into stellar music, fluent and elegant, then this is the album you’ve been seeking.

You may not 'like every song on 'War Zone' by Yoko Ono, but as with all the best art it will make you think and form an opinion.

'If I Had The Strength' is delightful, full of traditional textured tones, and compact, potent rhythms.

'Book of Bad Decisions' continues Clutch's always reliable and consistent output of hard-driving rock and roll - with elements of funk, the blues, and a surprise or two.