Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
New Music Reviews (3/15) KEXP
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what s coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from
Marinah,
Heroínas (Nacional)
This impressive fourth solo album from the former frontwoman for the Catalon band Ojos De Brujo is a seamless blend of traditional folk elements with hip hop and electronic beats and textures. DY
Arab Strap –
As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
This Scottish duo’s seventh album (and first in 16 years) is a strong set of bleak post-punk with atmospheric guitars, occasional synths, violin and sax, hypnotic drum-machine beats, spoken/sung vocals and sordid, unflinchingly honest lyrics revolving around addiction, sex, aging and death. DY
Who is MacGyver star Lucas Till dating? Hello! 19/02/2021
Lucas Till has been keeping audiences on the edge of their seats in CBS s
MacGyver this season. The reboot series, made by the same team behind the original from the 80s, sees the actor play a younger, twentysomething Angus Mac MacGyver.
Find out more about Lucas Till and his love life here .
While the MacGyver star is currently believed to be single, he has had a number of high-profile relationships over the years.
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Lucas first rose to fame at age 19 when he starred as Miley Cyrus love interest in the 2009
The Blazing World Review: Carlson Young s Exhaustively Art-Directed but Enervating Adult Fantasy The Blazing World Review: Carlson Young s Exhaustively Art-Directed but Enervating Adult Fantasy
Writer-director-star Carlson Young pours much effort and feeling into this loose riff on a 17th-century sci-fi text, but who is it for?
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For a filmmaker to take a possessive credit in their debut is already a confident move; for the opening credits of the first feature by writer-director-star Carlson Young to present it as “Carlson Young’s ‘The Blazing World’” is a brazen one. That title, of course, belongs first to a somewhat more established female author: Margaret Cavendish, whose 1666 book “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World” was a foundational work of science fiction. Cavendish’s adventurous exploration of alternate dimensions has giv