Make no mistake - this is the sound of your loved one's heart breaking. But this time around, Dolorean has packaged that sound within a more focused, more mature, and far more dynamic collection of songs. Alex James and company haven't stolen the drummer's brushes, but on Violence in the Snowy Fields, they do occasionally put them away. The mix of soft, finger-picked folk songs with downright bouncy tunes harkens back to the raw parlor soul of Wild Honey-era Beach Boys and the lush Jack Nitzche-Neil Young ...   [ read more ]

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Time Honoured Ghosts continued Barclay James Harvest's development away from the orchestral sweep of the earlier albums, although there's a little more filler than usual here. "In My Life" emphasizes BJH's penchant for ghostly descending vocal choruses and features an angular lead guitar part that would be recycled several years later in "Loving Is Easy." "Titles" remains memorably catchy in spite of its faintly irritating musical parlor trick of lyrics created entirely from Beatles so...   [ read more ]

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The great stride pianist James P. Johnson recorded quite a few piano rolls, starting in 1917. Biograph has reissued a few CDs of this material, which was mostly recorded off of player pianos back in 1970 and 1972. As is usual with most piano rolls, one cannot always trust that the music was solely performed by just one pianist; some of the passages clearly sound like three or four hands playing at once. In addition, the rhythms can be rather mechanical, particularly compared to Johnson's record...   [ read more ]

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