Albums of the Week

POP/PUNK

Blondie: Pollinator (BMG)

There is a song on Pollinator, Blondie’s 11th album, that is the pop/punk embodiment of 1979. Listening to Long Time, you could swear blind that nothing had changed from that year, when the band, fronted by the luminous Debbie Harry (still radiant, by the way, at the age of 71), reigned supreme as one of the major commercial success stories of US rock/pop. The irony is that the ...