New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Stormzy - This Is What I Mean
Monday, 28 November 2022
“All of this music, it’s nothing to do with the listener,” Stormzy announced to Louis Theroux in a recent TV interview. “All I can do is feel what I feel and document that, and whatever that is, that’s what it’s going to be.”
Album: Sophie Jamieson - Choosing
Saturday, 26 November 2022
Choosing packs a punch – the effect of which lingers. What’s captured by these 11 songs comes across as unfiltered, disconcertingly direct. And what it is that’s captured appears to be an account of someone getting to grips with how their lifestyle has had negative impacts.
Album: Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts...
Friday, 25 November 2022
There’s been a quiet storm of critical approval building around Weyes Blood. American singer Natalie Mering has been releasing music for over a...
Album: Micah P Hinson - I Lie to You
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Even the jolliest number on Micah P Hinson’s new album, a banjo-pickin’, wistful campfire jig entitled “Waking on Eggshells”, has him singing, “Give...
Blu-ray: Dragon's Return
Monday, 21 November 2022
Slovak director Eduard Grečner wrote the first draft of a screenplay for Dragon’s Return (Drak sa vracia) in 1956 but didn’t have the...
Album: Carl Cox - Electronic Generations
One of the world's best-loved DJs returns with a set of techno-centric bangers |
Album: Jamie Lenman - The Atheist
UK Alt-rock cult hero Jamie Lenman returns, smoothed out yet still honest and full of charm |
Album: Christeene - Midnite Fukk Train
Boundary-smashing in-yer-face performer's third album hits musical paydirt |
Album: Craig Fortnam - Luna One - A-Sides - Full Moon Releases October 2021 - September 2022
An extraordinary outpouring from a wellspring of chamber psyche-pop |
Album: Neil Young with Crazy Horse - World Record
The singer returns with a collection of certified classics and frustrating misfires |
Blu-ray: The Trial
Sixtieth-anniversary, 4K restoration of Orson Welles' visually exhilarating take on Kafka |
Album: Dermot Kennedy - Sonder
The singer sticks to the plan on his second album of crowd-pleasing, high-polish pop |
Album: Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony
Sisters keep doing it for themselves: Megan and Rebecca Lovell are on song |
Album: Bruce Springsteen - Only the Strong Survive
The Boss serves up 15 soul classics |
Album: STR4TA - STR$TASFEAR
Somehow a perfect facsimile of the past sounds entirely fresh |
Blu-ray: The Owl Service
Unsettling, mesmerising mixture of teenage angst and folk horror |
Album: Xhosa Cole - Ibeji
UK jazzer takes a stylistic left turn with an album of saxophone and percussion duets |
Blu-ray: The Strange Door
Charles Laughton is a spectacularly fruity villain in this swashbuckling Gothic romp |
Album: Morton Valence - Morton Valence
Eighth album from London duo who excel at beautifully doomed country songs |
Album: First Aid Kit - Palomino
A soundtrack for growing up, moving on and riding off into the sunset |
Album: Laura Jean - Amateurs
Evidence that Australian singer-songwriter should breach her own border |
Blu-ray: The Count Yorga Collection
Hip, vicious Seventies vampire update sees a Gothic count stalk LA |
Album: Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth
Introspection and maturation from the leftfield dance mainstay |
Album: Tropical Gothclub - Tropical Gothclub
QOTSA and The Dead Weather all-rounder injects hard rock with trippy vibes |
Blu-ray: The Ballad of Tam-Lin
A deserved revival for Roddy McDowall's Scottish folk horror parable |
Album: Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector
Alluring second album from the distinctive Irish singer-songwriter |
Album: Taylor Swift - Midnights
Synthpop noir and superlative phrasing from an imperious pop star |
Album: Goat - Oh Death
Scandinavian shamen return with a lively new ritual |
Album: Witch Fever - Congregation
An energised two-pronged punk-metal assault on Christianity and the patriarchy |
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