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The Lobby | MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA - BIRDS OF FIRE (1973) | Bad Eyes Gallery Record Review
Gong. Hi, welcome to Birds of Fire (1973, Columbia), brought out to the world two years after one of rock and jazz history’s supreme...

Mario
Jan 26, 20247 min read


The Lobby | JANIS JOPLIN - I GOT DEM 'OL KOZMIC BLUES AGAIN MAMA! (1969)
You know, I’m gonna have to start doing more recent stuff soon cause yapping about the bygones can get real tiring when you’re all spent...

Mario
Jan 10, 20245 min read


The Lobby | MIKE OLDFIELD - OMMADAWN (1975) | Bad Eyes Gallery Record Review
I’m being very generous to myself in selecting an album of this length and, oddly enough, simplicity. The most fascinating part about...

Mario
Nov 29, 20236 min read


The Lobby | PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. / LIVE IN TOKYO (1983) | Bad Eyes Gallery Record Review
I beared witness to this band’s Metal Box around two hours ago in order to brush up on their capabilities in the studio before...

Mario
Nov 8, 20237 min read


The Lobby | THE MOODY BLUES - DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED (1967) | Bad Eyes Gallery Record Reviews
The hour of unchecked classics and moderately fettered experiences have begun. I’ve tempered an ear or two to that spooky shit for the...

Mario
Oct 27, 20236 min read


The Lobby | STRANGE ADVANCE - WORLDS AWAY (1982) | Bad Eyes Gallery Record REVIEW
The woman on the cover is gazing up at the Hexahedron cities, the ultimate brainchild among Paolo Soleri’s fusions of architecture and...

Mario
Oct 10, 20237 min read


The Lobby | WEEKLY REPORT, 8/15/2023
Already been four months? Time sure flies when you’re doing sweet F.A., so let’s buckle down for another pit stop before we inevitably...

Mario
Aug 17, 20235 min read


The Lobby | YO LA TENGO - THIS STUPID WORLD (2023)
Now, I had an unfinished scribble of a text regarding this one really popular Low album from the 90s but I wasn’t moved enough to bother...

Mario
Aug 2, 20237 min read


The Lobby | JOHN COLTRANE & ERIC DOLPHY - EVENINGS AT THE VILLAGE GATE (1961)
We have been propelled around 72 years back into a brief 80-minute modal respite with two jazz titans of totalitarian proportions:...

Mario
Jul 26, 20235 min read


The Lobby | DICK SLESSIG COMBO - WICHITA LINEMAN (2004)
I’ve spent this last month in a sloven, tiresome haze with a potentially numerous sort of things to say, yet an infinitely limited...

Mario
Jul 5, 20235 min read


The Lobby | JESSIE WARE - THAT! FEELS GOOD! (2023)
Whispers, emanating over and over into my now conscious ears. I shuffle about, observing the spellbound shuffling tarantisms present in...

Mario
May 24, 20236 min read


The Lobby | Depression 'n' Music, Pt. 1
We’re slumped over on a hard, wood table with the lights shut. The darkness that laminates each wall of our humble cabin is oppressive,...

Mario
May 12, 20236 min read


The Lobby | PORTRAYAL OF GUILT - DEVIL MUSIC (2023)
Not a nanosecond is wasted when entering One Last Taste of Heaven, with a rather excellent first stint of post-sacrificial hellbound...

Mario
May 4, 20236 min read


The Lobby | WEEKLY REPORT, 4/24/2023
Wanna see where ideas come to die hideous demises? Welcome back to the tar pit, my unnamed and unknown somehow-readers. Let’s cut the...

Mario
Apr 26, 20235 min read


The Lobby | PORCUPINE TREE - GLASS ARM SHATTERING (2005)
This is a song I’ve been compelled to write about as of 30 minutes ago. I was writing about the new Space Camp album one day, and the...

Mario
Apr 19, 20237 min read


The Lobby | SWANS - LOVE OF LIFE (1992)
The gothic-rock entourages of Swans would further continue with Love of Life (1992, Young God). This particular album is peppered with...

Mario
Apr 11, 20236 min read


The Lobby | BOYGENIUS - THE RECORD (2023)
I tend to give an album a week before I consider writing about it, but this fuzz ought to be addressed eventually. There always comes a...

Mario
Apr 5, 20238 min read


The Lobby | COMUS - FIRST UTTERANCE (1971)
Right, let’s have some fun. All this hokey present-day hullabaloos gotta have at least one breath of downtime available. Luckily, we’ve...

Mario
Mar 29, 20236 min read


The Lobby | RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - 12 (2023)
"From now on, I will be living with cancer. But, I am hoping to make music for a little longer." A lot of shit went down lately for...

Mario
Mar 21, 20235 min read


The Lobby | MODEL/ACTRIZ - DOGSBODY (2023)
Dogsbody (2023, True Panther) would be the debut album of Model/Actriz. Donkey Show immediately assumes martial rhythms and utterly...

Mario
Mar 14, 20237 min read
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