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Beyond Wine: Album Review of Titanic Rising – Weyes Blood
Beyond Wine
, May 2019
This is an album of grandeur, whose grooves can barely contain the lush, dramatic and cinematic sound that sweeps you off your feet.
Beyond Wine: Album Review of Serfs Up! – Fat White Family
Beyond Wine
, Apr 2019
It is a glorious mess that constitutes the first truly great Fat White Family album. They are easily the most interesting band at the moment. Maybe the only interesting band.
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Beyond Wine: Album Review of Beware Of The Dogs - Stella Donnelly
Beyond Wine
, March 2019
I cannot recommend “Beware Of The Dogs” highly enough. This debut album confirms the major young talent evidenced in “Boys Will Be Boys” in 2017. Go listen. Go think. Go see Donnelly on her current tour.
Beyond Wine: Album Review of Quiet Signs – Jessica Pratt
Beyond Wine
, Feb 2019
Quiet Signs is a late night album, the kind you slip on after the kids have gone to bed. Dim the lights, close your eyes and just wallow in this music.
Beyond Wine Album Review of Assume Form - James Blake
Beyond Wine
, Jan 2019
If you want to know how music sounds right now, stream Assume Form and relish one of the most innovative musicians forging his own interesting and now happier path.
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The Vinous 2018 Holiday Gift Guide
featured, Beyond Wine, FAQ
, Dec 2018
Looking for that perfect gift for the wine lover in your life? We’ve got you covered with a selection of gifts ranging from new books, to glasses, maps and much more.
Beyond Wine Album Review of Make My Bed EP - King Princess
Beyond Wine
, Dec 2018
Ladies and gentlemen and all those in between, I present a bona fide classic song: “1950” by King Princess. Its centerpiece is an effortlessly simple melody that you cannot believe has not been written before, one that immediately lodges itself in your brain.
Beyond Wine: Album Review of Be The Cowboy - Mitski
Beyond Wine
, Oct 2018
Mitski returns in 2018 with her fifth album Be The Cowboy, perhaps with expectations heightened after previous success and contemporaneous with St. Vincent’s rising profile. Be The Cowboy does not disappoint. Fourteen tracks, almost entirely clocking in at 150 seconds each, combine to create a cohesive, clever and affecting album.
Beyond Wine: Album Review of I’m All Ears - Let’s Eat Grandma
Beyond Wine
, Aug 2018
Let’s Eat Grandma. To be honest, I presumed it was a particularly inspired gothic name for a band. It was only when my daughter piped up that it was in fact a commonly used example à la Eats Shoots and Leaves to teach pupils how grammar can warp the meaning of a sentence that I understood its origin. I first caught the duo, Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, who have been childhood friends since kindergarten, on Jools Holland a couple of years ago.
Beyond Wine: Album Review of Heaven And Earth - Kamasi Washington
Beyond Wine
, Jul 2018
I keep on hearing Kamasi Washington on the radio. Like many I appreciated his work with the imperious Kendrick Lamar on his epochal To Pimp A Butterfly in 2015, which led me to the tenor saxophonist/band-leaders three-hour and appropriately titled triple album The Epic. He recently released a follow-up, Heaven and Earth that clocks in at a “brief” two-hours. And you know...I like it. OMG. I like jazz. What’s happening to me? Is it because I am now working with jazz aficionado Antonio Galloni? Did he put something in my wine? Why do I feel inclined to grow a goatee beard and don a beige roll-neck jumper? Why do I wish Rihanna sang her songs on 5/4 time with a three-hour triangle solo? Dr. Music...tell me what is happening?