Warm Slime (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaRidiculously, fabulously prolific, San Francisco's garage rock kingpins seem to release a record each full moon. (EPs show up on the half moon.) Lesser bands might think twice about exactly how to follow up 2009's Help a title that earned high marks all around but John Dwyer and his intrepid band mates are fearless. Yes, the 13 minute opening track stretches before you, like a dark chasm of unknown depths, but you faithfully leap in, to be richly
which was arranged by Keith Mansfield
can be seen as precursors to the poetic musings of Morrison's later 'Astral Weeks' album
The album also features the band's first Grammy award winning track
after recording a few Christian funk albums and touring all over West Africa
Together with guitarist George Darko
The only self-tiled LP released by Nigerias number-one producer of the 1970s and early 80s
they also cement Reed as a true observer with an innate talent for synthesising and distilling the world around him into pure sonic poetry
his signature mix of Nigerian roots
While the banshee howls of Cale's viola and the percussive stab of his keyboard parts were his signature sounds on The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat
a harpist and (on "Origin" and "Central Park West") five vocalists
Kick Out The Jams will rip your head to shreds
Classic Can from 1974