HOME

REVIEWS

singles/downloads

Follow SXP on Twitter

SoundsXP Presents

Next show:

BAD FRIDAY!
Peluché,
Dead Coast,
Les Sueques,
Calva Louise,
Flights of Helios,
Videocean,
Dirty Blondes
+ SoundsXP DJs

The Windmill, Brixton
Good Friday, 14th April 2017
3pm till late

Buy tickets here

On Our iPod

Latest Forum Posts

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Album Review

Dolores O'Riordan
No Baggage Cooking Vinyl

Article written by James G - Sep 18, 2009

You know what? ‘No Baggage’ is a masterpiece. The easiest thing in the world would be to slag it off. To become all sniffy and high-minded about it. One could easily tear apart the spot-the-rhymes-coming-a-mile off lyrics ('tranquilizer / desensitize her' for example). Likewise the mid-paced build up with the stilted syllables of each verse. The ominous ‘B’ sections and the anthemic choruses. The typos in the otherwise glossy sleeve, festooned with pictures of our Dolores, at one with nature... Yes, it would be all too easy to play the role of inverted snob, and ridicule this. But, when it comes to putting out a Dolores O'Riordan album, well, you couldn't do much better than this. Eleven songs, two piano-led and quiet, the remainder personal rockouts with standard D.O.R. BIG choruses. Immaculate production lets us appreciate THAT voice. In particular on 'Fly Through', the potential hit.

Do I like this album? Certainly not. But that doesn't mean it's not a masterpiece...

Links:
http://www.doloresoriordan.ie/
http://www.myspace.com/doloresoriordan

LATEST FEATURES

Remembering the Radio Trent Rock Show

LATEST NEWS

Wedding Present headline Refugee Rock benefit

Blitzen Trappen visualise sound of new album

Extended Katsenjamming

Yuck Spit Out New Album Update, Share First Track

Need Replacements For Your Old Vinyl? Alt-Rock Pioneers' Reissues Coming Soon

Music & Booze At Old Spitafields Independent Music Market This Saturday

Micachu and The Shapes New Album Could Be Good... Or Bad

Public Image Ltd.'s New Album Can Only Mean Trouble (And Rants About Plumbers...)

Alive & On Fire: The Dead Weather Announce First Album In Five Years

A Spectre From The Past With Veruca Salt's New LP? Listen In Full!

LATEST FREE MP3s

Foxtails Brigade "Far Away and Long Ago"

North By North "Pistoletta"

Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen "Nach dem Spiel"

Theatre Royal "The Days Grow Hotter"

Oliver Gottwald "Freunde fürs Leben"

Heart/Dancer "Outro"

Clowwns "Idiot Bouncing"

Double Denim "Wide Open"

Flout "Rainchecks"

The Scenes "City Of White Blankets"

© Sounds XP

Design by Darren O'Connor and Adam Walker