Category: Music Reviews – Alternative

Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Early Summer’ is Amaya’s second album. Though released in 2010, it is a personal favourite that showcases this talented singer/songwriter, her noteworthy band and their hypnotic melodies.

Reading Time: < 1 minute On her just released third studio album, ‘Lilac Everything’, Emma Louise’s voice does not have the clear, sweet high sound that we have come to associate with her singing. According to iTunes, after experimenting...

Reading Time: 2 minutes For 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly, the composition of...

Reading Time: < 1 minute             Amaya Laucirica –  Rituals – As a long standing fan of Amaya’s music I had been looking forward to this album particularly its international release was to herald her foray...

Reading Time: 2 minutes All the Reckoning For 33 years, the Cowboy Junkies have played rock/blues/country/folk music that has not grown old for those of uslucky enough to hear of this fabulous Toronto based four piece band. Amazingly,...

Reading Time: < 1 minute Unmistakeable, French born, Lou Doillon is clearly multi-talented. At 35 years of age she can look back on successful careers as a fashion model, actor, artist and multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer.    Her 2013...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Noir is a five member Sydney based band led by vocalist Jessica Mincher and guitarist Billy James. ‘Some Kind of Blues’, their first and only album, was released in 2017.  The band classifies their...

Reading Time: 2 minutes The beautiful and haunting songs on this album are sung in twelve different languages, by singers from different religious, cultural and musical traditions including rock/contemporary pop music represented by Alanis Morissette, Perry Farrell, James Taylor, and  Linda Ronstadt. This complex and multilayered album deserves to be listened to uninterupted.