aLfie vera mella, Author at Cryptic Rock

The Primitives – Spin-O-Rama (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaNovember 11, 2015

The Primitives catapulted to commercial popularity after the inclusion of their song “Crash” in the soundtrack of the 1994 movie Dumb & Dumber, which starred Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. However, in the New Wave/Indie Pop music scene, the English band has been active as ... Read More

Camouflage – Greyscale (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaNovember 9, 2015

The trio of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile, and Oliver Kreyssig formed Camouflage in 1984, in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. They catapulted to popularity in the New Wave/Synthpop scene immediately after the release in 1988 of their debut album, Voices & Images. With the commercial strength of the dancefloor stomper ... Read More

Cutting Crew – Add to Favourites (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaNovember 2, 2015

Many music enthusiasts who grew up in the 1980s might have already forgotten the English band Cutting Crew, but the band’s biggest hit song, “(I Just) Died in Your Arms,” will certainly be a part of the soundtrack of their teenage lives. Because of this, ... Read More

Joe Jackson – Fast Forward (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaOctober 30, 2015

Joe Jackson endeared himself to enthusiasts of New Wave music largely because of some of his musical outputs in the late ’70s and the early ’80s that fit flawlessly in the softer, Pop-oriented and Soul-infused, left side of the New Wave spectrum the genre now ... Read More

No Devotion – Permanence (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaOctober 30, 2015

When the ’90s-forming Welsh Alternative Rock band Lostprophets had to disband in late 2013 because of the conviction and consequent imprisonment of its vocalist for a heinous crime that the other members were not involved in and, accordingly, did not know about, the innocent members ... Read More

The Waterboys – Modern Blues (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaOctober 26, 2015

Unbeknownst to even many of the fans of The Waterboys, the musical journey that its leader, Mike Scott, has embarked on since the band’s legacy days in the 1980s has been steep with lineup changes, home-base relocation, and most significantly, sonic exploration. For instance, from ... Read More

aLfie vera mella

The Primitives – Spin-O-Rama (Album Review)

Camouflage – Greyscale (Album Review)

Cutting Crew – Add to Favourites (Album Review)

Joe Jackson – Fast Forward (Album Review)

No Devotion – Permanence (Album Review)

The Waterboys – Modern Blues (Album Review)

The Primitives – Spin-O-Rama (Album Review)

Camouflage – Greyscale (Album Review)

Cutting Crew – Add to Favourites (Album Review)

Joe Jackson – Fast Forward (Album Review)

No Devotion – Permanence (Album Review)

The Waterboys – Modern Blues (Album Review)

Interview – Holly Foster Wells Talks The Legacy Of Peggy Lee

Interview – Tim Butler of The Psychedelic Furs

Interview – Dan Sugarman of Ice Nine Kills

Four Tops – Still Waters Run Deep (Limited Edition Vinyl Review)

Latency (Movie Review)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (4K Ultra HD Review)