Michael Schenker - Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions CD

Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions music CDs. The full-length debut by New Jersey's Paulson is a bit of a puzzler at first, but a couple of listens reveals how the group mixes seemingly disparate influences into a surprisingly cohesive whole. Paulson is first and foremost an emo band taking its cues from the likes of the Cave In and Hum, but unlike those bands' dozens of imperfect clones, they manage to ring some changes on the increasingly tired soft-LOUD-soft dynamic. Most interestingly, there's an undeniable jazz influence, in the manner of some of the Chicago post-rockers, to songs like the mostly instrumental "Diaryland" and a lengthy deconstructed cover of "My Funny Valentine." Elsewhere, the layers of keyboards and heavily processed guitars, not to mention the occasionally tricky time signature shifts that underpin songs like "Optimism Is for Stupid Idiots," bring the band deeper into math rock territory. The combination of ...

Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions album. This self-titled debut album by the British Invasion All-Stars was released in 2002, but if you didn't know better, you might assume that it was recorded in the mid- to late '60s. That's because their music is a celebration of ...