SMITHS - Hatful of Hollow LP r&b Buckley’s then still very boy-ish

Buckley’s then still very boy-ish tenor voice

Ibeyi and the creation of “Harmony of Difference

and by the time they were re-recording they were both being treated conspicuously gentler by life

Blue Cheers second album fully matches its predecessors primal power

while Bob Goodsite leans in on his wah-wah and phaser pedals

SMITHS - Hatful of Hollow LP r&b Buckley’s then still very boy-ishThe Smiths must have sounded like nothing else in 1983. The band were a live tour de force but also poetic and lyrical. Match the Byrds like guitar playing and a particular kind of Manchester melancholy with a vocalist who sounds like a demented seal and there you have it. Hatful of Hollow was a wonderful compilation of the Smiths earliest moments with many tracks taken from John Peel sessions. This gives them a rawer feel to their album