Muruch’s Top Albums of 2018

Here are my favorite albums of 2018. Unfortunately, I lost most of the reviews when hackers took my host's server down last summer. But you can hear them all on Youtube and Spotify. I especially love the top 5. 10 St. Vincent: MassEducation (Piano Version) https://youtu.be/AdmSRfbjQlY https://open.spotify.com/album/3XwQPcRrrSNxETjuD5ka5r?si=wV6A3_OeRzW7yAa_ip7mJQ St. Vincent Official Site Buy @ Amazon 9 Kacey...

Florence + the Machine: High as Hope (Album Review)

Florence + the Machine's new album, High As Hope, is a beautiful, beguiling, and bold work of art. The standout tracks are: the gorgeously uncanny "Big God"; the lilting, ethereal "Sky Full of Song"; the exquisite piano ballad "Grace"; and "100 Years," which builds into a otherwordly, cacophonous choir of voice and percussion. The songs...

Sarah Fimm: Given Never Offered (Album Review)

Poet-painter-composer-singer-multi-instrumentalist wonder Sarah Fimm is the unique artist who manages to make every album in her prolific oeuvre innovative and exciting without ever losing the core of who she is as an artist. Her signature sound weaves a dark, gothic undercurrent with sultry, trippy beats (she’s toured with Bauhaus and Delerium), crashing piano, and her...

Brandi Carlile: The Firewatcher’s Daughter

It’s here! And it’s magnificent! Brandi Carlile’s fifth studio album, The Firewatcher’s Daughter, was just released via ATO Records and it sure is somethin’ else. Recorded almost entirely as first takes without any demoing and little rehearsal, The Firewatcher’s Daughter is an unparalleled display of musical brillance. We throw around the word “wail” so easily when it comes...

D’Angelo: Black Messiah

Now this is an album. You see, once upon a time, instead of auto-tuned pop puppets churning out vapid radio singles, there were artists who took years, sometimes decades, to conceive, create, collaborate and masterfully hone their music-making craft before even stepping one tiptoe into a studio to record an album. That is why and how there is a Kind of...

Introducing Marie Davidson…

Sultry, dark, French electro-pop by Montreal singer-songwriter and poet Marie Davidson from her debut album, Perte d'identité (which means “loss of identity")... http://soundcloud.com/marie-davidson-1/je-ne-taime-pas http://youtu.be/lTgjBqx4yuU Buy @ Bandcamp Buy Mp3s @ Amazon Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Muruch Weekly Playlist, 10-10-14

Missing from Spotify: "Are You Somebody?" By Aaliyah, "L.O.V.E. (French Version) by Nat King Cole, "I'm on Fire" by Tori Amos (Springsteen Cover), "Ring of Fire" by Universal Hall Pass (Cash Cover), "Send Me an Angel" by Lunachicks (Real Life cover), "Log Commercial" from Ren & Stimpy and "Send Me an Angel Down" by Kill...

Aretha Franklin @ The Clay Center in November!

Aretha Franklin will perform live at The Clay Center in Charleston, WV on Tues, Nov. 25th. The Queen of Soul! In Charleston, WV?! Yes! General public tickets will go on sale Monday, Oct. 13th at 10 a.m. Tickets are $65, $90, $115 and $150 and can be purchased online at the Clay Center box office...

Introducing My Mother the Carjacker…

My Mother the Carjacker has garage rock sound influenced by 90s bands like Primus. Their video for "Robots Are People, Too" is visually reminiscent of Tool's "Sober." The song is featured on My Mother the Carjacker's debut album, ...Or of Something Else. Buy @ Amazon My Mother the Carjacker Facebook

Introducing…Heiress to Atlas

L.A. duo Heiress to Atlas have a trippy, electro-rock somewhere between Placebo and MS MR. This single is from their debut EP, Vanguard. Heiress to Atlas Official Site Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');