New releases on CD & DVD
CD: Prince - Piano and a Microphone 1983
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Knowing a deceased artist's archives are available for re-release is a double edged sword. Wil there be a shoddy flood of any and every old bit of tat a la Jimi Hendrix? Will there be half-arsed, half-finished and even fake songs bodged together by trashy but popular modern dance remixers like Michael Jackson? Will the vaults just stay infuriatingly locked? With the impossibly prolific, but often self-indulgent Prince, it is doubly worrying: who has the rights?
CD: Christine and the Queens - Chris
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Christine has become Chris. The singer has struck out part of her name to gain a part of her identity – a gesture that quivers around words like transgender, sexuality, androgyny, queer.
DVD: Mario
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Swiss director Marcel Gisler’s film tells a story that is hardly new – but neither, sadly, is it old, as in about a thing of the past. That...
CD: Malcolm Middleton - Bananas
Monday, 17 September 2018
Bananas is Malcolm Middleton’s first solo album to be built around guitar, bass, drums and all that stuff since 2009’s gorgeous Waxing Gibbous. Like...
CD: Glen Matlock - Good To Go
Sunday, 16 September 2018
Although he’s regularly performed it live, hearing the studio version of Glen Matlock’s take on Scott Walker’s “Montague Terrace (in Blue)” is a jolt...
CD: Hawkwind - Road to Utopia
The grizzled, grimey drug-rockers get an easy-listening makeover with somewhat surprising results |
Blu-ray: My Man Godfrey
One of Hollywood's greatest screwball comedies is as lively and hilarious - and pertinent - as ever |
CD: Paul Weller – True Meanings
The Changing Man returns with an album of quietly wonderful surprises |
CD: Loudon Wainwright III - Years in the Making
Intimate treasures from a long career in song |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Producers
Mel Brooks' breakthrough hits the half-century, still blissfully funny |
CD: Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers
RT's white-water ride down a new river of song |
DVD/Blu-ray: Redoubtable
The trouble with Jean-Luc... Michel Hazanavicius’ mischievous riff on Godard and 1968 |
CD: Willie Nelson - My Way
Sinatra standards delivered with unforced ease by the country don |
CD: Orbital - Monsters Exist
The first album of the third coming of the Hartnoll brothers hits the right spot |
CD: Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
All aboard for some late, great new tunes from Macca |
CD: Kandace Springs - Indigo
A nice voice in search of an artistic vision |
DVD: Mary Shelley
Quill pens and poetry voice-over: a remarkable life told with remarkable lack of originality |
CD: Waxahatchee - Great Thunder EP
Brave solo offering, full of intimacy and warmth |
CD: Teksti-TV 666 - Aidattu Tulevaisuus
Intense, inventive and impactful Finnish reimagining of familiar touchstones |
CD: Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Jason Pierce returns with more songs of heartbreak and redemption |
CD: Many Angled Ones - Suicide: Songs of Alan Vega and Martin Rev
Collection of Suicide cover versions that has abrasive rock'n'techno bite |
CD: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Bristol five-piece tear toxic masculinity a new one in searing second album |
CD: Paul Simon - In The Blue Light
As he winds down his career the master songwriter takes a look back |
Blu-ray: A Gentle Creature
Descent into hell: Sergei Loznitsa’s vivisection of Russia, past and present |
CD: Madeleine Peyroux - Anthem
Sensual vocals hit the spot |
CD: Anna Calvi - Hunter
Huge accomplishments on Calvi's third album, but has she left room for quirks? |
CD: Mogwai - KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Scottish post-rock group continues an impressive run of form |
DVD/Blu-ray: Black Peter
Affection and a sense of the absurd mark Miloš Forman's winning feature debut |
CD: Interpol - Marauder
New York’s goth princes sway between indie-pop and urgency on their sixth album |
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