Electric Sea is the thirty-fifth studio album by avant-garde guitarist Buckethead. It is the sequel to his 2002 release “Electric…
Buckethead – Electric Sea (2012)
Serj Tankian – Harakiri (2012)
Though he possesses one of the most instantly recognizable singing voices in music, Serj Tankian has still spent the last five years finding his musical…
Lou Reed / Metallica – Lulu (2011)
First and foremost, Lulu is a Lou Reed album. Metallica may receive collaborative billing, and Reed has made canny…
Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
A Dramatic Turn of Events, the 11th studio long player from progressive hard rock act Dream Theater, is…
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
The title of Pink Floyd’s debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett’s favorite children’s book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical…
Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
A transitional album on which the band moved from Syd Barrett’s relatively concise and vivid songs to spacy, ethereal material with lengthy…
Pink Floyd – More (1969)
Commissioned as a soundtrack to the seldom-seen French hippie movie of the same name, More was a Pink Floyd album in its own right, reaching…
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (1969)
For many years, this double LP/CD was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live disc and a…
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Appearing after the sprawling, unfocused double-album set Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother may boast more focus, even a concept, yet…
Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971)
Atom Heart Mother, for all its glories, was an acquired taste, and Pink Floyd wisely decided to trim back its orchestral excesses for its…
Pink Floyd – Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Obscured by Clouds is the soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée, and it plays that way. Of course, it’s possible to make the argument…
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental…
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)
Pink Floyd followed the commercial breakthrough of Dark Side of the Moon with Wish You Were Here, a loose concept album about and…
Pink Floyd – Animals (1977)
Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that’s hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as…
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
Roger Waters constructed The Wall, a narcissistic, double-album rock opera about an emotionally crippled rock star who spits on an audience…
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (1983)
The Final Cut extends the autobiography of The Wall, concentrating on Roger Waters’ pain when his father died in World War II. Waters spins…
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK…
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
In one respect, it’s hard to fault David Gilmour for retooling Pink Floyd as a neo-oldies act with Momentary Lapse of Reason, since Roger Waters…
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (1994)
The second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason — keyboard player…
Pink Floyd – Pulse (1995)
Pink Floyd claim they had no intention of recording another live album when they began the Division Bell tour, but performing The…
Fair to Midland – Arrows & Anchors (2011)
Album Review On Fair to Midland’s fourth full-length effort, and their debut for Entertainment One, the … Continued
Cave In – White Silence (2011)
The sign of quality in a Cave In record is whether its title refers to death by cave-in or not. Beyond Hypothermia and Until Your Heart Stops were…
Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy (2010)
Stone Sour has always been an odd sort of experiment. Normally you’d expect the band of straight-ahead rockers to don wild costumes and…
Serj Tankian – Imperfect Harmonies (2010)
When Serj Tankian released Elect the Dead Symphony (the live orchestral version of his debut solo effort), he shifted his already nearly…