Brad Webber

They Might Be Giants Factory Showroom (Elektra) (star) (star) (star) John Linnell and John Flansburgh pop off another groovy little vaudeville ditty with their fifth recording. The mirthful New York...

Kenny G The Moment (Arista) (star) 1/2 While the success of Kenny G is undeniable, why choose "The Moment" over, say, one by Wayne Shorter or any easy-listening disc from...

Pet Shop Boys Bilingual (Atlantic) (star) (star) (star) (star) Dance-music titans Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe cap off their brilliant "Bilingual" by pulling in all the best elements of their...

Tears for Fears Saturnine, Martial & Lunatic (Mercury) (star) (star) (star) Steeped in the 1980s -- a confused decade for English bands unsure whether to go the new wave or...

Electronic Raise the Pressure (Warner) (star) (star) (star) New Order crooner Bernard Sumner's singing may be imbued with next-to-no vocal dexterity, but when it's backed by guitarist/keyboardist Johnny Marr's solid...

Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go (Epic) (star) (star) (star) 1/2 Where the Manic Street Preachers struck a chord as an anthem-spouting, protopunk band with their album "Generation Terrorists," they...

Frente Shape (Mammoth) (star) (star) (star) Frente, an Australian pop outfit combining Angie Hart's waifish vocalizing and gauzy lyrics, artfully melds the frenetic and the fragile. Hart's girlish rapping on...

Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser (4AD) (star) (star) (star) 1/2 As a thematic enterprise, Dead Can Dance's "Spiritchaser" is a lush, aural examination of cultural views of the afterlife. Brendan Perry...

Orbital In Sides (ffrr) (star) (star) (star) Techno may no longer be the big rage in the United Kingdom, but at least brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital are...

Penelope Houston Cut You (Reprise)(star) (star) (star) 1/2 This is shaping up to be the era of the in-control woman, if the success of such self-directed singers as Joan Osborne...