Sunday, January 1 1995
Grey Delisle: The Small Time
What’s the matter with the tunes that I’m hearin’? Can’t you tell that they’re all the same? Yes, I can. I have been pondering this…
Destiny’s Child, The Writing’s on the Wall
Most of what can be said about Destiny’s Child’s sophomore effort can be summed up in a few simple words—independent, strong, and deeply expressive. Songs…
Miles Davis: Round About Midnight
When Miles Davis stopped the show at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955 with an assured reading of Thelonious Monk’s “‘Round Midnight” it announced a…
The Doleful Lions, Motel Swim
The Doleful Lions have seemingly come out of nowhere to record one of the best debut albums of the year. Produced by jangle-pop pioneer Mitch…
Darwa: More Life More Trouble
Well, here’s an interesting coincidence. I had already planned to mention in this review that Darwa reminds me of Venus Hum, whose self-titled album I…
Danny the Wildchild: Booked 001
For those who like their jungle and like it hard, Chicago DJ Danny the Wildchild unleashes an 18-track assault of rapid-fire snares and ear-melting grooves.…
Henri Dikongué: Mot’a Bobe
It doesn’t sound very promising, does it—an African singer-songwriter who cites James Taylor and George Benson as major influences? Cameroonian Henri Dikongué is part of…
Kenny Drew Jnr. Trio: Remembrance
If today’s jazz musicians have one over-riding problem it is that everything seems to have been done already. The jazz vocabulary is pretty well complete.…
D’Angelo: Voodoo
Five years ago, as Michael D’Angelo Archer brooded over his Fender Rhodes borrowing generous portions of “chronic” and tragic “Soul Man” sensibilities, critics anointed Brown…
dZihan & Kamien: Refreaked
Refreaked is a collection of remixes of tracks from dZihan & Kamien’s successful Freaks & Icons from last year. The remixes, mostly by artists who…
Benoît Delbecq 5: Pursuit
To my ears, the Benoît Delbecq 5’s Pursuit, is, in the best sense, the newest in new. It manages to push boundaries, sound fresh and…
The Deluxtone Rockets, The Deluxtone Rockets, Big Rude Jake
Big Rude Jake Big Rude Jake(Roadrunner) by Sarah Zupko deluxtonerockets-bigrudejake.jpg Last year everyone was asking me if swing were just another passing fad. Well in…
The Durutti Column: A Night in New York
A re-release of a 1986 live show in the Big Apple, A Night in New York is finally available again to the record buying public…
Doleful Lions, The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
Doleful Lions came out of nowhere last year with one of the finest debut albums of the year. The North Carolina band was as much…
Diesel Machine: Torture Test
Well kids, it’s that time of the month where yours truly gets to inform you of the latest and worst from the land of headbanging.…
Dressy Bessy: The California EP
I’m a diabetic, so I’ll refrain from using the usual spun-sugar adjectives used to describe Denver’s Dressy Bessy. True, they’re a bubblegum band, named after…
Dig, Life Like
Dig earned their fame with a potent three-guitar attack and wall of distortion. Following the 1994 smash hit “Believe” and a 1996 album, the band…
Chet Delcampo: The Fountain
Since alternative/No Depression country music is hot right now, I guess the publicity department at Chet Delcampo’s label couldn’t help putting the words, “albeit with…
Dwindle, Days Away
Imaginative. Stunning. Original. Outstanding. It’s probably more likely that I’d use these words to describe the chicken sandwich I had for lunch, or the phone…
The Divine Comedy: Regeneration
Neil Hannon, the diminutive blond Englishman who is the heart and soul of The Divine Comedy, named his band’s last studio CD Fin de Siecle.…
