Maria Peszek is a highly acclaimed Polish singer/songwriter. Maria Awaria (Maria the Failure) is a loose concept album about sex, love and femininity. All lyrics are in Polish and they are really good, witty and powerful, being an important factor in making these songs as awesome as they are. Nevertheless, I still encourage you to check this album out, even if you don't know Polish, because many tracks are brilliant from the musical side too. From the musical perspective this is a pop (or pop rock) record, with some modern jazz and electronica influences. The album is masterfully produced, so the said musical background is full of pleasant surprises on many occasions. Many of Peszek's vocal lines are catchy as hell too and should be enjoyable even without understanding of her lyrics.

A concert bootleg is probably not the very best start if you do not know Therapy? yet, in which case I encourage you to check out the albums Troublegum and Infernal Love, but should be interesting for every fan of this great band. The highlights of this album are rare songs "Auto Surgery" and "Totally Random Man" coming from an early EP, a poem by A.A. Milne sang a capella, a crazy cover of the Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" with changed lyrics, an early version of "Me Vs. You" - again with different lyrics and finally extended "Lunacy Booth" with an insane speech of Andy Cairns.

The National University Library in Turin houses several extremely important musical collections. Among these are those of Mauro Foa and Renzo Giordano, containing over 450 manuscripts of Vivaldi, many of them autographs. With the purpose of exploring this immense heritage and bringing to life many unpublished works, the Instituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte and Naïve [Opus 111] with the collaboration of the Library in Turin, have undertaken to record a complete edition on CD of Vivaldi scores held in Turin.

The final vocal line on might be "There is a light at the end of the tunnel," but there's no denying that is anything but optimistic; it's an unrelentingly dark and sometimes bluntly turgid record. Anyone familiar with the band had grown accustomed to Andy Cairns' spins on depression, anger, bitterness, and self-destruction, but even the most devoted listener probably screamed "Snap out of it!" while first listening to this third record. Darker chords and slower tempos prevail, and the pop-punk hooks are all but washed away. The sequentially buried, bouncing "Loose" is an anomaly, sounding like a refugee from that reads like a dystopian "Jack and Diane." Other than that, it's nothing but despair and heartache.

"Lonely Cryin' Only" is a song by Therapy? and a single released on A&M Records on May 18, 1998. It is featured on the album. This single reached number 32 in the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by John Hillcoat. is not the best album by Therapy? and "Lonely, Cryin', Only" is not the best song on this album. Still, it leaves many contemporary rockers' efforts behind...