Blog: HappyParts

Review by Mark Deming For someone who is presumably a member of the nobility, Sir Lord Von Raven sure doesn't seem very attuned to social niceties. A quick spin of his first album, Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean , suggests he's loud and boisterous in public, he speaks with impropriety about the fair sex, and I'd venture he enjoys expanding his consciousness through artificial means. But he does know a few things about rock & roll, and Please Throw Me Back shows he can throw a pretty good party; this album delivers some [...]