by Shawn Ciavattone It’s not often that a piece of music can be called ‘brave’. Bravery is saved for those rare instances of assuming responsibly and acting out of selflessness. And sometimes music and musicians create such bold and powerful statements that they too can be brave. Tim Hecker’s ‘Virgins’ is such an album. Often …
There’s a freak-out brewing… by Shawn Ciavattone It’s that sleeve, right? So cool – the original illustration was by Gustav Doré for Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. How could the music possibly live up to that sleeve? Well, it does! Radical, joyous, inclusive, psychedelic, hard rock, innovative – a real freak-scene. No other psych-rock album ever grabs …
