Alrightreads: More Albums

Joe Gross, Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

2018 / Ebook / 184 pages / USA

***

Thoughtfully gets the musicians themselves to explain what they were doing there.

Ronen Givony, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (or, The Strange Death of Selling Out)

2018 / Ebook / 232 pages / USA

**

Like regrettably clicking 'Read more' on a random punk album's YouTube comments.

Steve Tupai Francis, Kraftwerk's Computer World

2022 / Ebook / 160 pages / Australia

****

User-friendly manual to the product and associated consumer electronics/toys involved.

Timothy L. Jackson, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)

1999 / Ebook / 154 pages / USA

**

Obsessively decodes and contextualises the gayness of the symphony, sidelining the unfortunate paedo-incest angle.

Various, Album Cover Album 3

1984 / Ebook / 144 pages / Various

****

I wonder if Roger Dean & co suspected they would be meticulously cataloguing the decline of the art form. Thematic juxtapositions increasingly feel like exposés of unoriginality. Still a nice collection.