Category: Album Reviews – Archive

December 18, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

LET LOVE RULE (Liberation Music) 8/10 Countless songwriters use adversity as a catalyst for composing, even subconsciously wallowing in it because they can’t write without it. Archie Roach is one of the rare birds in this business to treat adversity as a challenge to be transcended. In Roach’s scheme it…

December 15, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

RROMANTICS (lololovina.wordpress.com) Three-point-five stars Lolo Lovina makes music that seems to come from an imaginary land nestled in the Balkans, yet somehow sunnier. Basically the band lets its Australianness colour its take on Romani (sometimes “Rromani”) music by infusing it with a host of parallel influences. Were it not done…

December 14, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

AIRBORNE (azobell.bandcamp.com/) 8/10 The term “elite” has been hijacked by the lunar right to have pejorative connotations in all areas except sport, when obviously excellence should be celebrated in all its guises. Take Azo Bell, who represents the pinnacle of ukulele playing in Australia. This century has seen an explosion…