New releases on CD & DVD
CD: Imogen Heap - The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
London’s Palace Theatre this week celebrated the thousandth performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened there back in 2016.
CD: Liela Moss - My Name is Safe in Your Mouth
Monday, 12 November 2018
My Name is Safe in Your Mouth takes off with “Above You, Around You”, its fourth track. Up to that point, progress has been stately. Minimal piano refrains, distantly chiming guitars, heartbeat percussion, string swells and a plaintive, multi-tracked voice have summoned a subdued yet intense mood. Then, the curtain is drawn and an ascending musical drama spills from the speakers.
CD: Sarah Gillespie - Wishbones
Sunday, 11 November 2018
Whatever happened to real singer-songwriters? That is to say the kind of artist that raged against society’s ills in one song, and sung tenderly or...
CD: J Mascis - Elastic Days
Saturday, 10 November 2018
“I don't peak early / I don't peak at all,” goes the wryly self-aware line in the opening song here, “Take me to the Movies”. Thirty-five years since...
DVD/Blu-ray: Hitler's Hollywood
Friday, 09 November 2018
Apart from Leni Riefenstahl’s insidiously seductive celebrations of Nazism and the propaganda excesses of Veit Harlan’s Jud Süß (1940), the films...
CD: Olly Murs - You Know I Know
The likeable entertainer gives us exactly what you'd expect, with predictably ordinary results |
CD: The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land
This modern-day supergroup is a reminder of why supergroups are generally a bad idea |
DVD: Anchor & Hope
Dilemmas of love, responsibility make for bearable lightness of being on London's canals |
CD: Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - The Capitol Studios Sessions
A screen icon plays some serious jazz |
CD: Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability
Searing songs of poetry and experience from the great rock chanteuse |
DVD: Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box
Clean, healthy and (mostly) intelligent - three discs of wholesome family fun |
CD: Barbra Streisand - Walls
At 76, Streisand is still doing precisely what she does best - and it'd take a hard heart not to take notice |
CD: The Prodigy - No Tourists
After almost 30 years together, the veteran Essex rave crew are still producing the goods |
DVD: Reinventing Marvin
Moving from raw to mannered, partial Edouard Louis adaptation only partly convinces |
CD: Rosanne Cash - She Remembers Everything
A feast for the ears |
CD: The Struts - Young&Dangerous
Brit rockers' second is jam-packed with tunes and over-the-top retro references |
CD: David Crosby - Here If You Listen
A beautifully wrought album beckons us to a kinder, gentler world... at least temporarily |
CD: Robyn - Honey
Long-awaited album from beloved Scandi icon doesn’t disappoint |
CD: Ex Mykah - 16, 17
Intriguingly offbeat debut from Los Angeles scenester |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Blood of Hussain
Remarkable early films from Pakistan's Jamil Dehlavi bridge the political and the mystic |
CD: Micah P Hinson & The Musicians of the Apocalypse - When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You
Micah lays down some fine gothic country blues for the wee small hours |
CD: Gaye Su Aykol - Istiklarli Hayal Hakikattir
Surf-guitar blends with Turkish tradition |
CD: Baxter Dury, Etienne de Crécy and Delilah Holliday - B.E.D.
A small but perfectly sleazy work of sweary, cynical brilliance |
DVD: Generation Wealth
An intriguing documentary ramble through greed, money and vicarious displays of excess |
MØ - Forever Neverland
The quirky Dane's new LP contains moments of loveliness |
CD: Yoko Ono - Warzone
Yoko revisits her back catalogue but doesn’t make it any more appealing |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Comfort of Strangers
Paul Schrader channels Pinter and McEwan in mesmeric tale of Venetian macabre |
CD: Karine Polwart – Laws of Motion
Powerful new songs on movement and migration from the award-winning singer |
CD: Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
The singer's latest album features some of her most impressive songs to date |
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