May 6, 2014
" ... Axels And Sockets follows 2010's We Are Only Riders - whose collaborators include Kid Congo Powers, Lydia Lunch, Debbie Harry and Mick Harvey, and 2012's The Journey Is Long, featuring Barry Adamson, Warren Ellis, Isobel Campbell and Nick Cave. Axels And Sockets is the penultimate of the Sessions albums (the fourth is planned for 2015). Many of the familiar collaborators are back and this time Iggy Pop (whose salvo "Jeffrey Lee Pierce!" kicks off the album), Julie Christensen, Jim Sclavunos, Andrea Schroeder, Mark Stewart and Thurston Moore also form part of the album's line-up ..."
