New York in the '70s

A concept record about the dawn of punk in the Big Apple, this has the former Auteurs frontman digging in to the past and regurgitating it with a sly smile.

2011's Nine and a Half Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s and Early '80s made good, quite literally, on the promise of its title; 2013's Rock and Roll Animals offered up an alternate universe Wind in the Willows populated by animals with names like Jimmy Pursey, Gene Vincent, and Nick Lowe, and 2014's New York in the '70s completes the psychedelic trilogy with a sordid tale/celebration of sex, drugs, and rock & roll in the Big Apple with a playlist that reads like the back jacket of a Wesley Willis album.

Album Reviews: Luke Haines - New York In The '70s