New Releases

Kate Bush gives us Aeriel - it only took a dozen years, but Kate is back, with a dual album no less. It is in spots, her finest hour (which is quite a feat mind you). The first single, King of the Mountain, is an art-pop dream about Elvis and Orson Welles no less. She sounds just as lovely as she ever has. We missed you Kate.

Neil Diamond 12 Songs produced by Rick Rubin. That is the only good thing I can say about Neil Diamond, is that he somehow got Rick Rubin to produce him. I still find his material boring but I am hoping thi one might win me over. the next person who starts yelping about his greatness will be force fed a vinyl copy of Hot August Nights...through their nasal passages first.

Robert Fripp Love Cannot Bear It's Fripp, so I am biased. More non-shred, but ultimately bizarre, technique laden guiatr noodling by Fripp. It will be good. It almost always is.

So Gilles Peterson Digs America, or at least thats the name of his latest mix cd collection of rare grooves and soulful excursions, focusing on classic and future classics from America, follwing his similar sojours in Brazil and Africa.

In the irony twist department, the late John Entwistle (of The Who for the idiots) has several solo projects from the 70s and 80s reissued, most appropriately Rigor Mortis Sets In.