Ryan Adams
Easy Tiger
Lost Highway (2007)
The artist of the album I reviewed made it difficult to include his name in the opening sentence without thinking people would disregard the entire article, because this is his ninth studio album following three releases just two years ago in 2005. Yup, Ryan Adams released yet another album entitled Easy Tiger. It hardly feels like it's been two years since his last release, but perhaps that's because there were three of them (Cold Roses, Jacksonville City Nights, and 29) in one year that all sounded similar enough to have been on one entire album. The Cardinals performed as Adams' backing band on Easy Tiger. The band worked on two previous albums with Adams, Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights, in 2005. Adams shared the spotlight with Sheryl Crow as backing vocals on the song "Two," which of course makes it the first single off of Easy Tiger. I found a few of the lyrics to certain songs ironic and humorous because they sum up this album and the previous albums rather well. After nine studio albums that all sound pretty similar, I have to wonder if Adams wrote certain lines to blatantly mock himself. In the track "Halloween Head," … Read more
Misericordiam
Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility
Twelve Gauge (2007)
Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility is six tracks of blistering death metal that lasts a mere fourteen minutes. And … Read more
Crowd Deterrent / Creepout
Split
Hard Ass (2007)
Two of the world's most underrated hardcore bands team up for fourteen tracks of no-frills and no-fuss hardcore. First up … Read more
The Homefront
Sacrifice
Detonate (2007)
Massachusetts-based hardcore outfit The Homefront has quite a pedigree of previous bands: Have Heart, Guns Up!, and Verse. And if … Read more
