Author Archives: Jason Holmes

ALBUM: Larry Levan ‘Genius Of Time’

Rating: With the release of Genius Of Time, it’s apt to discuss the role of the DJ in modern music, and who better to zero in on than Brooklynite and taste maker, the late Larry Levan, a man synonymous with…

ALBUM: Yoko Ono, ‘Yes, I’m A Witch Too’

Rating: Forget who she is and to whom she was once married. Forget also that she is 83 and still resides in the Dakota Building in New York’s Upper West Side, the scene of the crime that sent shock waves…

ALBUM: Kula Shaker ‘K2.0’

Rating: Half way through listening to K2.0, you come to believe that perhaps, just perhaps, the Cowell-inspired hell of the past decade has been nothing more than a blip, perhaps even a bad dream from which you have just awoken,…

ALBUM: Guy Garvey ‘Courting The Squall’

Rating: This is a bold debut album, its maker having done whatever pleases his ear, mind and soul, and in doing so has flipped the numbskull music industry the finger. After nearly twenty five years and counted as a member…

ALBUM: Tame Impala ‘Currents’

Rating: Currents does a unique thing: it unpacks ideas at its leisure over the course of 13 tracks while refusing to co-opt the pop sound of any decade that might, or might not, be currently in vogue. And this is…

EXCLUSIVE: ALBUM: Stone Foundation ‘A Life Unlimited’

Rating: Stone Foundation – those arch purveyors of sweat-drenched soul, funk and jazz – have, of late, been patiently honing their songwriting and performing crafts on the live circuit, and August will see them releasing ‘A Life Unlimited’, their fourth…

ALBUM: Brandon Flowers – ‘The Desired Effect’

Rating: It’s only right that one puts aside Flowers’ work with The Killers before appraising his second solo LP. One might assume that he continues here to better express his ideas. One also, therefore, might expect him to seize this…