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Album: Debby Friday - The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Monday, 28 July 2025
Debby Friday is a Nigerian-Canadian singer-producer who found some success a couple of years ago with her debut album Good Luck. It won the Best Electronic Album 2023 Polaris Prize, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy or Brit. That album had a moody rock-tronic feel.
Album: Indigo de Souza - Precipice
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Indigo de Souza, a singer from North Carolina, has established some reputation, mostly in the States, for combining indie, pop and emotionally open lyrical heft. This is her fourth album, but her first on a larger label, Loma Vista (she was previously on Bright Eyes-associated Saddle Creek). On Precipice she lays down a fusion of chart-style femme-pop and heartfelt guitar anthems.
Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does...
Friday, 25 July 2025
There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than Mádé Kuti. He is the son of Femi, the grandson of Fela. He grew up...
Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Great (and not so great) bands reforming, either in the studio or in the live arena, is something of a trend at the moment. However, who would have...
Album: Paul Weller - Find El Dorado
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop in the mid 1990s, he’s...
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Blu-ray: The Rebel / The Punch and Judy Man
Tony Hancock's two film outings, newly remastered |
Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held
The young duo extend folk’s boundaries into an expansive contemporary chamber music |
Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams
A remarkable collaboration across the ages |
Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid
Plastic-bombastic TikTok pop euphoria for the emotionally incontinent |
Album: Slikback - Attrition
Decades-deep electronic darkness from Kenyan sculptor of dystopias |
Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone
Veteran heads lay down a hypnotic gumbo of cool funkiness |
Blu-ray: Heart of Stone
Deliciously dark fairy tale from post-war Eastern Europe |
Album: Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last
Sophomore album embraces horn-driven grooves and genre-blending experimentation |
Album: Wet Leg - moisturizer
A perfectly formed classic that will definitely be on those album of the year lists |
Album: Tami Neilson - Neon Cowgirl
New Zealand country queen's latest chimes with America's heartland bars and highways |
Album: Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry
The Bristol agit-prop hero on philosophical form on his final album |
Album: Gwenno - Utopia
The Welsh musical explorer surveys her life |
Blu-ray: A Hard Day's Night
The 'Citizen Kane' of jukebox musicals? Richard Lester's film captures Beatlemania in full flight |
Album: Olafur Arnalds and Talos - A Dawning
Shimmery, shiny Icelandic-Irish ambience steeped in beauty |
Album: Barry Can't Swim - Loner
Dive in to some sizzling summer dance music |
Album: Kesha - .
After a decade of tribulation, a new beginning matches stadium heft to club-pop bounce |
Album: Claudia Brücken - Night Mirror
The Propaganda singer returns with an album of elegant, varied grown-up pop |
Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)
Is the Canadian polymath hiding behind his exquisite production and arrangement skill? |
Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
A singular sonic auteur reshapes traditional Celtic music |
Album: JF Robitaille & Lail Arad - Wild Moves
A set of graceful, wry melancholy from an Anglo-Canadian singer-songwriter duo |
Album: Lorde - Virgin
Sombre self-examination and scratchy cellos fail to ignite on the New Zealander's new LP |
Album: Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums
The Boss: Finding joy in imperfections |
Album: BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation
Brian Christinzio exorcises childhood trauma |
Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers
Languorous neo-soul to chill by |
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