The music world will be focusing on the sad passing of one Los Angeles musician, Ray Manzerak of the Doors, but today’s review looks at another Los Angeles artist, Anny Celsi. She’s featured on these pages before, and is now back with her third album, January.
January is a month of new beginnings, as well as endings, and sometimes a massive post-festive comedown, but for Anny Celsi, it is one of musical consolidation. There are familiar styles -sunshine pop, country flavored rock -but done with a fresh approach and melodies that sound like instant hits.
Au Revoir, My Darling kicks off the album with a instant classic pop sound that will soon playing over in your head, while Travelogue evokes the romanticism of travel. Ghosts In The Room has a fantastic horn-driven production, while Wait is achingly beautiful and the closer Citybird has country leanings but a great understated pop sound.
It’s another great record for Anny Celsi -you can buy the album on her website, and you should also check out her back catalogue.
It’s the 47th anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds today; of course, if I was ruler of the world, it would be a public holiday, but for now, we can just appreciate the greatest album ever released. Today, I’m thinking about something written about Pet Sounds when it was rated the best album ever in New Musical Express, a few years after I really started loving the album.
Last October, I had the good intention to review each Beach Boys album on the 50th anniversary of their release. Of course, in those early days, the albums came out pretty thick and fast -with Surfin’ U.S.A. following Surfin’ Safari by some five months. So I’m about a month late, but still more than four months before the next one (Surfer Girl).
The 50th anniversary tour live album seems to well on it’s way to an active release with a cover, and a 
The Brian/Al/David show is taking more shape, with 
