Recent Articles

post thumbnail

Dave Gahan, Apple Soho Store Performance, NYC 10.23.07 : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

“Even the honey is tied up,” Dave Gahan said halfway through his remarkable show at New York’s Apple store in Soho last night to celebrate the release of his fantastic second solo record, Hourglass. Though likely an off the cuff and innocuous remark, those of us who delight in double entendres, or rather, take too [...]

24 Oct 2007 | More
post thumbnail

Babyshambles - “Shotter’s Nation” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

There are scores of fine, 19th-c. paintings by a certain Thomas Shotter Boys depicting London at its most picturesque, and wouldn’t that be a sweet tie-in if this album title was referencing those. Yes, Pete Doherty does have a soft spot for British history, but in this case, “shotter” is slang for a drug [...]

24 Oct 2007 | More
post thumbnail

Castanets - “In The Vines” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

Born from sadness and defeat, In the Vines channels the painful sincerity of old country with the scraggly vocals of a lifelong pipe-smoker, and the soulfully simple guitar picking of the old South. It’s a dusty antique that longs to be played on a Victrola or from a porch in the warm, sticky evening. [...]

24 Oct 2007 | More
post thumbnail

Dave Gahan – “Hourglass” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

  Following up his well-received 2003 solo debut Paper Monsters, Dave Gahan’s dirty, sexy, electronica-laden Hourglass couldn’t be a more perfect title for an album that has all the yearning, burning, menace and baritone that fans expect from the Depeche Mode frontman, but this time, the lanky, dancing, tattoo’d superstar is opening up wider than [...]

24 Oct 2007 | 1 comment | More
post thumbnail

The Warlocks - “Heavy Deavy Skull Lover” : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

It doesn’t get much darker than this. Continuing on with their quest for a personal vision of druggy, droned-out psych rock, The Warlocks are back as a quartet. They may be half the band they once were (in number), but their sound has become more of a forceful, epic death dance than ever. They’ve [...]

24 Oct 2007 | More