Reviews
Dec 09, 2021
By Matthew Berlyant
Following the career rebirth of 1994’s The Impossible Bird, 1998’s Dig My Mood firmly established Nick Lowe as a crooner, ballad singer, and adult artist that he’d only hinted at on his previous album. Containing not one upbeat track and dominated by ballads, this fantastic collection is one of Lowe’s career best and contains songs, such as the opener “Faithless Lover,” “You Inspire Me,” “I Must Be Getting Over You,” and “What Lack of Love Has Done,” that have become standards in his back catalog. More
Dec 09, 2021
By Matthew Berlyant
In the early ’90s, the future of Nick Lowe’s career was quite uncertain. After 1990’s Party of One, his only album for Reprise, he was without a record contract. Then, miraculously, the royalties from Curtis Stigers’ cover of his Brinsley Schwarz classic “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) “Peace, Love, and Understanding,” which was included on the multi-million selling soundtrack to The Bodyguard (featuring Whitney Houston’s ubiquitous take on Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”), enabled him to make records on his own terms and his own schedule, and he has followed that template since. More
Dec 09, 2021
By Matthew Berlyant
Yep Roc’s fantastic treatment and reissuing of Nick Lowe’s incredible back catalog continues with this, a beautiful pink vinyl repressing of their 2011 reissue of his second “solo” album, Labour of Lust, famously highlighted by Top 20 U.K. and U.S. hit single and opening track “Cruel to Be Kind.” That big hit isn’t the only highlight here. More
