24: Slowdive - Slowdive

 

Slowdive - Slowdive

2017 - Dead Oceans

Welcome to Album Month - August 2022's Day 24 feature! It shall be of shoegaze legends Slowdive and their fantastic  2017 selt-titled comeback album. Get on your Doc Martens on and let's gaze, shall we?

22: Rush - Clockwork Angels

Rush - Clockwork Angels

2012 - Roadrunner

And the final week of Album Month has begun! To kick it off, I have the final new album by Rush, 2012's fantastic Clockwork Angels. I'm 10 years late to this party, and, boy, am I kicking myself for it. 😏 Let's explore it through my feels, shall we?

16: Tool - Ænima

 

TOOL - Ænima

1996 – Zoo/Volcano

And Day 16 of Album Month - August 2022 is now encoded into the interwebs. Therein I explore the second album, Ænema, by the band Tool. 

15: BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY

 

BABYMETAL - METAL GALAXY

2019 – Babymetal/BMD Fox/Toy’s Factory/Amuse

Album Month - August 2022 Day 15 has materialized, and the feature shall be the incredibly fun and awesome BABYMETAL and their 2019 release, METAL GALAXY.

12: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

12: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

1978/2018 – EMI/Harvest/Sonopresse/Portrait

We have reached the end of Iconic Women Week here in Album Month - August 2022, and, although there is no competition here at all (they are ALL incredible goddesses in their own right), I feel I have saved perhaps the most deeply influential one for last: The incomparable Kate Bush. We close out the week with her 1978 debut album, The Kick Inside.

 

11: PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

 

11: PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

2016 – Island/Vagrant

Today's foray into Iconic Women Week features the artist that I call my '5th Element' artist: the authentic and extraordinary PJ Harvey. I will be talking about her nearly controversial 2016 album, The Hope Six Demolition Project.

09: Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean

 

09: Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean 

2021 – Decca

 

Welcome to Day 02 of Iconic Women Week here in Album Month - August 2022! (Day 09 overall.) Today we are featuring one of my earthly Goddesses, Tori Amos, and her most recent album, Ocean to Ocean. Come swim with me. Tori will keep us afloat. ;-)

05: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

05: Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

2016 – XL

Day 05 of Album Month is here!, which means we’ve reached the

last album of the week! Why not end the first week with one of the

UK’s all time best bands ever, Radiohead?

Today I’m taking a dip into A Moon Shaped Pool.

04: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

04: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

2013 – The Null Corporation/Columbia/Polydor

 

Welcome to Day 04 of Album Month - August 2022! This time

we’re taking a trip to 2013--which was 9 years ago already--and exploring

 Hesitation Marks by Nine Inch Nails. You’d think that I would have heard it by

now, but here we are. To quote my favorite track on the album, “I only have

myself to blame.” Life happens and time gets away from us, I suppose.

But there’s no time like the present, so here I am, finally diving into

 this Reznorian offering and seeing if I click with it. Won't you join me? 

03: U2 - Songs of Experience

 03: U2 - Songs of Experience

2017 - Interscope/Island/Universal Canada

On to Day 03 of Album Month 2022: U2’s 2017 offering, Songs of Experience, the companion to their 2014 album, Songs of Innocence. I have to say… I really like the album cover.

02: Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point

 2022 – Concord

For Day 02 of Album Month 2022, we shall talk about one of the big comeback stories of the year, Tears For Fears, and the very personal album that came from their reunion, The Tipping Point.