New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams
Saturday, 19 July 2025
What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a Canadian singer-songwriter for once worthy of the label “legend” and a bunch of Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award-winners with a clutch of well-received albums under their belt.
Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid
Friday, 18 July 2025
The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of the charts longer than any song this decade.
Album: Slikback - Attrition
Thursday, 17 July 2025
In the eternal now of the strobe-lit sweatbox, innovation functions in a different way to the rest of culture. Yes of course, the thrill of the new...
Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means. For a start, the rhythm...
Blu-ray: Heart of Stone
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Heart of Stone (Das kalte Herz) was the first colour film produced by East Germany’s state film studio DEFA, a big-budget spectacular which attracted...
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Album: Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last
Sophomore album embraces horn-driven grooves and genre-blending experimentation |
Album: Wet Leg - moisturizer
A perfectly formed classic that will definitely be on those album of the year lists |
Album: Tami Neilson - Neon Cowgirl
New Zealand country queen's latest chimes with America's heartland bars and highways |
Album: Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry
The Bristol agit-prop hero on philosophical form on his final album |
Album: Gwenno - Utopia
The Welsh musical explorer surveys her life |
Blu-ray: A Hard Day's Night
The 'Citizen Kane' of jukebox musicals? Richard Lester's film captures Beatlemania in full flight |
Album: Olafur Arnalds and Talos - A Dawning
Shimmery, shiny Icelandic-Irish ambience steeped in beauty |
Album: Barry Can't Swim - Loner
Dive in to some sizzling summer dance music |
Album: Kesha - .
After a decade of tribulation, a new beginning matches stadium heft to club-pop bounce |
Album: Claudia Brücken - Night Mirror
The Propaganda singer returns with an album of elegant, varied grown-up pop |
Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)
Is the Canadian polymath hiding behind his exquisite production and arrangement skill? |
Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
A singular sonic auteur reshapes traditional Celtic music |
Album: JF Robitaille & Lail Arad - Wild Moves
A set of graceful, wry melancholy from an Anglo-Canadian singer-songwriter duo |
Album: Lorde - Virgin
Sombre self-examination and scratchy cellos fail to ignite on the New Zealander's new LP |
Album: Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums
The Boss: Finding joy in imperfections |
Album: BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation
Brian Christinzio exorcises childhood trauma |
Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers
Languorous neo-soul to chill by |
Album: Yungblud - Idols
Dominic Harrison’s latest disc fails to live up to the hype |
Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!
The rapper takes a deep breath with his latest release |
Album: HAIM - I Quit
The Californian trio convincingly continue their ascent to the top of the pop-rock tree |
Blu-ray: Darling
John Schlesinger's Sixties classic now feels problematic, but retains an icky fascination |
Album: Yaya Bey - do it afraid
The continued maturation of Yaya Bey and of modern R&B dazzles and nourishes at every turn |
Album: The Young Gods - Appear Disappear
Swiss electro-rockers unleash a techno-metal monster |
Album: Sam Binga - Sam Binga Presents Club Orthodontics
A thrilling whirlwind tour of bass culture across decades and continents |
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