New releases on CD & DVD
Blu-ray: Liberté
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Catalan director Albert Serra’s interest in late 18th century France is well established – his previous film was The Death of Louis XIV – but the title of his new one has precious little to do with the triadic
Album: Passenger – Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted
Monday, 18 January 2021
The tears of a clown is a familiar enough metaphor – a cliché, perhaps – and as an image it adorns the sleeve of the latest album by Mike Rosenberg, better known as Passenger, the platinum-selling former Brighton busker.
Blu-ray/DVD : The Tin Drum
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Volker Schlöndorff’s brilliant adaptation of Günter Grass’s 1959 novel The Tin Drum hasn’t aged one bit: just as the book and film’s main character...
Album: Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
Saturday, 16 January 2021
What’s all this? Female voices, guitars, a song lasting over four minutes… harmonies? Have Britain’s savviest social commentators gone soft? Fear not...
Album: Skyway Man - The World Only Ends When You...
Friday, 15 January 2021
When the concept album first properly took flight, in the late 1960s, before it became slave to the bloated artifice of prog-rock, it was an...
Blu-ray: The Night Porter
Liliana Cavani's transgressive drama was widely misunderstood on its original release |
Album: Katy Carr - Providence
Post-war Hampstead takes centre stage in the conclusion to Katy Carr's trilogy |
Album: New Age Doom - Himalayan Dream Techno
Eerie drone music from the forests of British Columbia |
Album: Hilang Child - Every Mover
Directness competes with the impressionistic on Ed Riman’s second album |
Album: Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
Stockholm punks impress with heart and musical range on their second album |
Album: Steve Earle & The Dukes - JT
JT, RIP: Steve Earle's loving tribute to his son |
Albums of the Year 2020: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
The gifted young and the old reflect on troubled times |
Albums of the Year 2020: Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords
A dazzling double album from the acclaimed composer, arranger and bandleader |
DVD/Blu-ray: Are We Lost Forever
Separation, Swedish-style, in a chamber portrait of a gay couple in break-up |
Albums of the Year 2020: Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling
Sorrow and anger at a trampled American Dream |
Albums of the Year 2020: A.G. Cook – 7G
A mammoth 49 song post-post-modern riot of sound |
Albums of the Year 2020: Joensuu 1685 - ÖB
The welcome return of Finland’s spiritual explorers |
Albums of the Year 2020: AC/DC - Power Up
Was classic rock the best escape from the 2020 blues? |
Albums of the Year 2020: Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
A strangely prophetic yet comforting album for our times |
Blu-ray: Visual Acoustics
'The Modernism of Julius Shulman' salutes an eminent American architectural photographer |
Albums of the Year 2020: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Making space for the things we don't talk about in quarantine times |
Blu-ray: Short Sharp Shocks
Entertaining but patchy collection of macabre British shorts |
Blu-ray: Polytechnique
Denis Villeneuve's depiction of the 1989 femicide in Montreal gives no quarter |
Albums of the Year 2020: Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Dylan pulls out the stops for this late-period masterpiece |
Blu-ray: Crash
Cronenberg's controversial collision of cars and sex retains its power to provoke |
Albums of the Year 2020: Songhoy Blues - Optimisme
Mali’s unlikely musical superstars speak truth to power while moving hips and feet |
Albums of the Year 2020: Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark
A luminous highlight of a Brit soul renaissance |
Albums of the Year 2020: Marius Neset – Tributes
The Norwegian saxophonist finds reasons to be cheerful |
Albums of the Year 2020: Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
The music that kept spirits raised during the year of you-know-what |
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