Back in 2023 Jamie Rowe dropped his new project Kalamity Kills. It was an album I supported when he launched his kickstarter. Yeah, my name is buried deep in the credits on the CD. I've been a fan of Jamie for a long time. His work with Guardian seems to be what most of the casual fans want to hear, but it was his solo work, and the power pop he crafted with London Calling that cemented me as a fan. The handful of albums with AdrianGale were unabashed '80s rock, and while awesome were deliberately nostalgic and boy howdy there were good. Jamie is hard to pin down stylistically as he seems to flit from genre to genre. His previous album was a country hybrid Welcome Home that was pretty decent, but to me it was just generic paint by numbers modern country (then again I ain't much of a country fan). Which means it was as good as anything else out there and if that was your cup of tea, your cup runneth over. That shouldn't read as a shot, I just think he's an artist cha...
A place where I just blather on about shit I either miss, or am excited about, or just found and want to share. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally don't know what I'm talking about, but sometimes I do. This generally reads like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the images ... mostly it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget