Category: Album Reviews – Archive

August 8, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

KILLER (Liberation) 7/10 To become exceptional all artists must learn to see the world through others’ eyes while simultaneously becoming more perspicacious and honest about themselves. Several tracks on Killer confirm Dan Sultan (with help from multiple song-writing collaborators) has arrived there. Drover, for instance, which is set during the…

August 4, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

ROCKPOOLMIRROR (Tall Poppies) 9/10 What a brilliant source of inspiration! Each of this album’s 12 works is a response to a photograph taken by Belinda Webster in Shoalhaven Gorge. The images, often of rock formations with anthropomorphic echoes, can be equally beautiful and disquieting. Enter composer Sandy Evans and a…

August 2, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

COMES A TIME (Treasure House Music) 7/10 Does where a musician lives affect the music that he or she makes? The evidence comes down pretty thoroughly in the affirmative: compare the ponderousness of Russian opera with the flightiness of French, or the intensity of New York jazz in the 1950s…