New releases on CD & DVD
CD: Steve Earle & The Dukes - Guy
Monday, 25 March 2019
Guy Clark is among the favourite songwriters of Bob Dylan, a Grammy-winning giant of the so-called outlaw country music movement who lived hard and died of lymphoma in 2016.
CD: The Underground Youth – Montage Images of Lust and Fear
Sunday, 24 March 2019
As Nick Cave has edged ever further towards mainstream acceptance with each of his recent Bad Seeds’ albums, so he has created something of a gothic-blues vacuum that is itching to be filled. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by The Underground Youth.
CD: Edwyn Collins - Badbea
Saturday, 23 March 2019
Edwyn Collins is in a good mood. Perhaps it’s his 2014 move back to his native Scotland where he now lives and records on the wild north-eastern...
DVD/Blu-Ray: La Vérité
Friday, 22 March 2019
For admirers of Henri-Georges Clouzot or Brigitte Bardot, this Criterion restoration of their rarely seen 1960 collaboration is a must have. La...
CD: Sleeper - The Modern Age
Thursday, 21 March 2019
While Oasis have so far resisted the temptation of the big pay-off that a Gallagher family reunion would ensure, plenty of other Britpoppers have...
CD: Shy FX - Raggamuffin SoundTape
Staggeringly assured survey of decades of soundsystem culture in a tidy package |
DVD/Blu-ray: Bergman - A Year in a Life
Master and monster: the Swedish cinema maestro dissected |
CD: Lucy Rose - No Words Left
Stark and intimate songs, but there's light at the end of this tunnel |
CD: The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Anton Newcombe is a changed man. Fortunately his music remains the same |
CD: Stephen Malkmus - Groove Denied
Wayward solo set hits the shops two years after its creator wanted it issued |
CD: UB40 - For the Many
The British reggae band release a new Labour of Love |
CD: Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe
An invitation to an inward journey |
DVD: An Elephant Sitting Still
Desolate Chinese masterpiece catches melancholic anomie over 230 mins |
CD: Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1
Smart Power Pop strikes again |
CD: Deafkids - Metaprogramação
Brazilian noisy psychedelicists play a blinder |
CD: Karen O and Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
A great album that could’ve been one of the greats |
DVD/Blu-ray: Freak Show
Overplaying gay, Alex Lawther surprises in Trudie Styler’s high school teen com |
CD: Sigrid - Sucker Punch
You may have heard this one before, but it's worth revisiting |
CD: Snapped Ankles - Stunning Luxury
A great second album from the London band who have a love-hate relationship with today |
DVD/Blu-ray: Stranger in the House
Parodic but compelling 1960s curio, with some superb BFI period extras |
CD: Stella Donnelly - Beware of the Dogs
Quiet confidence and razor-sharp wit on Australian singer's excellent full-length debut |
CD: Dido - Still On My Mind
Dido's distinctive voice soars above a mix of electronica and acoustic guitar |
CD: Hozier - Wasteland Baby!
The Irish troubadour subtly changes the formula - how does it compare? |
CD: Vök - In the Dark
Too-muted second album from downbeat Icelanders |
Blu-ray: Derek Jarman Collection, Vol Two 1987-1994
A very English saint canonised by the BFI |
CD: Our Native Daughters - Songs of Our Native Daughters
A moving, humbling reminder of the horrors of American slavery |
CD: Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
The return of the Welsh band revealing doom metal's unexpected potential |
CD: Royal Trux - White Stuff
Purest impurity from the reformed dirty duo |
DVD: The Guilty
Thrillingly tense police procedural that never leaves its one location |
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