The Decemberists – We All Raise Our Voices to the Air: Album Reviews

Hot on the hind of their 2011 studio album The King Is Dead, Portland’s finest indi-folk folks The Decemberists deliver their first live album – two discs of highly literate down-home goodness.

Lionel Richie – Tuskegee: Album Reviews

Not someone usually thought of as a country musician, Lionel Richie can claim as much right as anyone to a bit of southern twang, being born and raised in Tuskagee, Alabama.

Tape/Off – …And Sometimes Gladness: Cam’s Review Corner

Brisbane’s resident maestros of fuzzed-up indie rock, Tape/Off, return with their second 5-track album, …And Sometimes Gladness, following 2010’s rambunctiously confident debut Unreel Unravel.

Dirty Projectors with Bjork – Mount Wittenberg Orca: Cam’s Review Corner

Brooklyn’s genre-bending Dirty Projectors team up with Bjork to produce a largely a cappella song cycle about whales and their displeasure about the badness of humanity.

Tara Simmons – Be Gone (Single): Cam’s Review Corner

Brisbane indie-pop visionary Tara Simmons gives us a tantalising taste of her forthcoming second album with lead single Be Gone.

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (Experience Edition): Cam’s Review Corner

With its spacey synths and long songs, Pink Floyd’s 1975 follow-up to the commercially colossal Dark Side of the Moon album proved to be a return to the band’s more explicitly prog-rock stylings of earlier works.

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon [Experience Edition]: Cam’s Review Corner

There’s little that hasn’t been said about Pink Floyd’s 1973 opus, The Dark Side of the Moon. It’s long been part of the classic rock canon, and deservedly so, especially if sales figures have anything to do with it. Not too many albums can boast an uninterrupted 15-year run on the UK Billboard charts.

U2 – Achtung Baby (Deluxe Edition): Cam’s Review Corner

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since fans expecting another dose of echo-heavy spiritual earnestness from its chief purveyors were confronted with the shrill sounds of Zoo Station tearing out of their speakers.

Bluejuice – Company: Cam’s Review Corner

Getting plenty of airplay and admiration at present, Sydney’s Bluejuice give us their third album, Company – twelve tracks of criminally catchy indy/disco/pop-rock.

Wavves – Life Sux: Cam’s Review Corner

LA’s Wavves arrived on the skate/pop/punk/skuzz scene in 2009 with their self-titled debut. They return with their third release, an 8-track mini album (if you include the two bonus tracks) by the refreshingly honest name of Life Sux. Wavves is the brain child of lead singer Nathan Williams, who writes all songs on the album, apart from opening track Bug, on which he shares a writing credit with Stephen Pope.

The Beach Boys – Smile: Album Reviews

Given that the Beatles were spurred on to produce Sergeant Pepper by the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, the mind can only boggle at the chain of inspiration that might have eventuated had the Beach Boys been able to complete their legendary ‘lost’ Smile album at the height of the 60s.

David Guetta – Nothing But the Beat: Cam’s Review Corner

Ubiquitous producer extraordinaire David Guetta is back (not that he ever seems to go away) with a two-CD set of new music; Nothing But the Beat.

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