The Solute Record Club: New Order – Substance
Substance is New Order’s best album. This sentiment is risky for at least two reasons:…
The Solute Record Club: New Order – Brotherhood
Brotherhood is the first New Order album that doesn’t feel like a step forward. That’s…
The Solute Record Club: New Order – Low-Life
Low-Life finds New Order working in much the same post-punk-tinged-dance mode as Power, Corruption &…
The Solute Record Club: New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
Well, that happened quickly. I knew that eventually New Order dropped the post-punk and went…
The Solute Record Club: New Order – Movement
In my blurbs about Joy Division’s work, I expressed a bit of reticence, not because…
The Solute Record Club: Joy Division – Still
From reading Wikipedia, I’ve gathered that Still is a controversial release, and I guess that’s…
The Solute Record Club: Joy Division – Closer
I’m still not sure that I’ve spent enough time on Joy Division’s wavelength to be…
The Solute Record Club: Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve got to admit that I had not heard…
The Solute Record Club: Schedule
Alright, Record Club! Unless I’m missing something, we’ve worked our way through all the new…
The Solute Record Club: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered
When critics make comparisons between untitled unmastered and Radiohead’s Amnesiac, it might just seem like…