CDs/DVDs
'Deadbeat': Tame Impala's downbeat rave-inspired latestSaturday, 18 October 2025
Anxiety and self-doubt have been constant themes for Kevin Parker, the Australian musician who now finds himself among the highest echelons of modern music. With his project Tame Impala, these themes have provided an almost unending source of... Read more... |
'Fevereaten' sees gothic punk-metallers Witch Fever revel in atmospheric paganist ragingSaturday, 25 October 2025
Witch Fever are a rising three-piece, originally formed in Manchester. Their debut album, 2022’s Congregation, was a raw, sludge-punk howl that represented singer Amy Walpole’s livid rejection of the stridently patriarchal Charismatic Church of her... Read more... |
Demi Lovato's ninth album, 'It's Not That Deep', goes for a frolic on the dancefloorFriday, 24 October 2025
Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney tween star who’s become an outspoken activist in an America where it’s increasingly dangerous to be one. She’s lived a rollercoaster ride of a life, rampantly exploring sexuality,... Read more... |
Yazmin Lacey confirms her place in a vital soul movement with 'Teal Dreams'Wednesday, 22 October 2025
We are in – it needs to be shouted from the rooftops every day – a golden age of British soul and jazz. It isn’t just about a few quality artists, either, but a movement. Londoner Yazmin Lacey is key within that: in the past year, she’s featured on... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Le Quai des BrumesTuesday, 21 October 2025
From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during which the characters stand at a threshold knowing that a tragedy will occur if they cross it.As mist settles over a highway... Read more... |
The Lemonheads' 'Love Chant' is a fine return to formMonday, 20 October 2025
The Lemonheads were one of the original punk-pop outfits and have been an on-off going concern for 40 years. However, singer, guitarist, bandleader and loveable slacker, Evan Dando’s well-documented relationship with Class A drugs also made them the... Read more... |
Heartbreak and soaring beauty on Chrissie Hynde & Pals' Duets SpecialFriday, 17 October 2025
A key part of Chrissie Hynde’s brilliance and longevity has always been her ability to keep multiple musical personas going at once. She’s the grizzled but urbane street poet in the Bob Dylan / Lou Reed mould. She’s the pop craftswoman, always in... Read more... |
The Last Dinner Party's 'From the Pyre' is as enjoyable as it is over-the-topThursday, 16 October 2025
Before we get into it, reader, can you accept that The Last Dinner Party are a band born of privilege and high academic study? Of poshness, classical composition, private education, master’s degrees in music? No? Might as well stop reading then.... Read more... |
Moroccan Gnawa comes to Manhattan with 'Saha Gnawa'Wednesday, 15 October 2025
A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo explorations and full ensemble blow-outs, Saha Gnawa (on New York's Pique-Nique label) draws on the example of Essaouira’s... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Man in the White SuitTuesday, 14 October 2025
The best Ealing comedies are surely the three darkest: specifically Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers and The Man in the White Suit. The latter pair were helmed by Alexander Mackendrick, a cosmopolitan director who’d arrived at the studios... Read more... |
Soulwax’s 'All Systems Are Lying' lays down some tasty yet gritty electro-popMonday, 13 October 2025
It’s seven years since the Belgian brothers Dewaele unleashed their fine, largely instrumental and foot-stomping Essential album on the world, but they’ve given short shrift to any ideas of sitting on their laurels in the intervening time. Their new... Read more... |
Album: Mobb Deep - InfiniteSaturday, 11 October 2025
Eight years after Prodigy’s untimely passing, Mobb Deep are gracing our sound systems once again with unreleased vocals and brand new music. With production from both Havoc, Mobb Deep’s second half, and world-renowned hip-hop powerhouse The... Read more... |
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