Steve Kilbey

Songs from Another Life (SK & Gareth Koch) (December 2021)

I read a lovely review of this album by someone very knowledgeable in music matters, and then this morning I bought myself these songs from another life on iTunes. Oh! The beauty! They seem to have sucked up the air out of dried up music …

Ecce Homo: (Self)Portrait of (a) Man (September 2021)

I Shall Not Want

The Hall of Counterfeits starts off not much unlike its hailed example and prototype of thirty years back by the name of Remindlessness, a gorgeous album by a man in his prime, inspired by a potent, male drive pulsating throughout the whole work. As a girl in Remindlessnessland …

A Sweet Rendezvous of Imagination and Reason on Jupiter 13 (SK & Martin Kennedy) (March 2021)

I don’t like the word “psychedelic” and its commonplace, fashionable use in matters of music. I’m sure it’s useful to describe certain types of music, but it’s just too easy and falls short of the endless, innate qualities of music itself…

Steve and the Women: The Return of the Troubadour (September 2020)

At first, when I saw the title “Eleven Women”, I thought of girlfriends, wives, mothers or daughters, lovers, all the usual women men often struggle with during their lives. But this album is not quite what you might expect …

A Girl in Remindlessnessland (June 2020)

The Memory of a German Piano

As a neophyte in the world of music of The Church and Steve Kilbey, I must admit that the album Remindlessness was a hard nut to crack for me. What I heard at first was this male, pulsating machine, somewhat cold, guided by