Month: January 2020

Album Review: Of Montreal – UR FUN

Ur Fun

So you’re Kevin Barnes, the man who’s always been Of Montreal’s main creative impetus. You’re gathering yourself for making album number seventeen since the release, more than twenty years ago, of the band’s debut Cherry Peel. What to do? How to get back into the saddle of a career which …

Album Review: Algiers – There Is No Year

There Is No Years

If rock n’ roll’s pioneers were almost exclusively black – Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley – then as a movement their successors have by and large been poorly served by it, constricted by its gradual slide from relevance and pushed to the margins by a form of the art …