Soulful rock trio Alabama Shakes sound like no time has passed at all after a decade-long break between studio records as they reignite their chemistry as a blockbuster unit.
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Alabama Shakes’ ‘I Must Be Dreaming’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard on 09/09/2026 by Kurt OrzeckFLOOD’s Best Albums of 2024 and My Two Cents
Posted in Album Reviews, Lists, Reviews with tags Brittany Howard, Kim Deal, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sleater-Kinney, Touché Amoré on 12/10/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
FLOOD recently released its list of the top 50 albums that the outlet’s contributors determined mattered most in 2024. Expect it, once again, to be regarded as one of the more authoritative and reputed chronicles of the year in music.
What follows are my reviews of releases on the list, and a related interview to boot, that FLOOD published this year:
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds‘ Wild God review (published 12.10, FLOOD)
• Kim Deal‘s Nobody Loves You More review (published 12.2, FLOOD)
• Touché Amoré‘s Spiral in a Straight Line review (published 10.11, FLOOD)
• Sleater-Kinney‘s A Little Rope Goes a Very Long Way feature (published 4.10, FLOOD)
• Brittany Howard‘s What Now review (published 2.9, FLOOD)
Infinite thanks for your support, and that of my invaluable editors at FLOOD and other outlets that tolerated my contributions, in 2024. It mattered this year more than ever before.
For my pre-2024 writings on the aforementioned artists and many more than appeared on other top 10 lists this year, go to my Interview Index and Reviews Archive.
Lastly, stay tuned for The Bad Penny‘s annual Top 10 Albums of the Year list for 2024. (That is, if you place any value in rundowns like those.)
Brittany Howard’s ‘What Now’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard on 02/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Alabama Shakes vocalist Brittany Howard’s larger-than-life-sounding voice dominates her sophomore solo album as she addresses themes of self-empowerment, self-motivation, and moving on. Read my FLOOD review here.
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