New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Anne-Marie - Therapy
Saturday, 24 July 2021
Anne-Marie Nicholson is a hard-working young woman from Essex whose career description is “Global Girl-next-door Pop Star”. She has incrementally worked her way there, attended the marketing meetings. Anyone requiring a CV that exemplifies the steady, data-farmed, disciplined path to contemporary major label pop stardom, should look to hers.
Album: Jackson Browne - Downhill From Everywhere
Friday, 23 July 2021
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost 50 years since I splurged a day’s Saturday pay on For Everyman, Jackson Browne’s second album. The title track alone was worth it. A couple of years on and Late for the Sky yielded “Before the Deluge” and “Fountain of Sorrow”.
Album: Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
Thursday, 22 July 2021
The sleeve splices Little Richard and Sam Cooke in an archaic, explosive burst of ecstasy. Neo-soul star Leon Bridges’ third album doesn’t settle in...
Album: Peyton - PSA
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
For 25 years now, LA label Stones Throw records has become one of the most reliable brands in music. It began with, and has always been associated...
Blu-ray: Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love...
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
What we don’t learn about filmmaker Harry Birrell is as tantalising as what is actually revealed during the course of Matt Pinder’s beguiling 90-...
Album: Darkside - Spiral
Nicolas Jaar embraces melodies while keeping things decidedly mellow |
Album: David Crosby - For Free
Age has not withered him |
Album: Wavves - Hideaway
Ripped and torn emotions as pop-punks return to roots |
Album: Craig Fortnam - Ark
The mossy language of psychedelic folk proves strangely new |
Album: Gary Kemp - Insolo
Unlistenably middle-of-the-road post-prog bland-fest from Spandau Ballet songwriter |
Blu-ray: The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a dark thriller, both poetic and chilling |
Album: Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender
Mellow and feel-good white soul |
Album: Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse
Debut full album from Australian hit-maker is heartfelt and jovially characterful |
Album: Jam & Lewis - Vol. 1
The world-bestriding production duo pour some sugar on it |
Album: Tom Odell - Monsters
Growing singer-songwriter seeks depression's roots |
Blu-ray: West 11
A Notting Hill noir - Michael Winner's breakthrough is flawed but fascinating |
Album: Stone Giants - West Coast Love Stories
Brazilian electronic musician and producer Amon Tobin gently trips out |
Album: Härtel Trübsbach - Great Again
Great viola playing combining heavenly and daemonic |
Album: Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
Leeds via London jazz of the most audaciously cosmic kind |
Album: Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
Mvula's love letter to the Eighties is a heartfelt tour de force |
Album: Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes
Doomed love ruefully dissected by an appealing odd couple |
Album: Kevin Richard Martin - Return to Solaris
The Bug’s mainman takes an unsettling trip into outer space |
Album: Jack Savoretti - Europiana
Sun, sand and synth pop |
Album: The Grid & Robert Fripp - Leviathan
The veteran Balearic dance popsters and the one-man guitar orchestra have a whale of a time |
Album: John Grant - Boy From Michigan
Ruminative fifth album from the prickly singer-songwriter |
Blu-ray: Flowers of Shanghai
Hsiao-hsien's period piece is the director at his most dazzling |
Album: Angélique Kidjo - Mother Nature
The Grammy winner's album of new songs for a new Africa |
Album: Kings of Convenience - Peace or Love
The folk-pop duo return with an album that's occasionally too smooth to soothe |
Album: Mykki Blanco - Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep
Groundbreaking MC showcases increasing variety on their second album |
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