New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Liars - The Apple Drop
Monday, 02 August 2021
Despite being renowned for a somewhat fluid membership since their formation in 2000, it would seem that Liars has now become the solo concern of its only constant member, Angus Andrew. That’s not to say that Andrew has taken on all the instrumentation on this, the tenth album to be released under the Liars’ name though.
Album: Katherine Priddy - The Eternal Rocks Beneath
Saturday, 31 July 2021
The folk world is slowly coming out of its long pandemic slumber, with Sidmouth’s month-long festival starting in the midst of Storm Evert’s high-summer arrival, and tours from the likes of fiddler extraordinaire Sam Sweeney, Eliza Carthy, and acclaimed newcomer, singer, songwriter and finger-picking guitarist Katherine Priddy, whose debut album is one of the most striking in British folk for some time.
Album: Willy Mason - Already Dead
Thursday, 29 July 2021
Already Dead’s opening cut is titled “Youth on a Spit”. As it unfolds, Willy Mason declares “I feel no pain I’ve already bled / You can’t kill me I’m...
Album: Dot Allison - Heart-Shaped Scars
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Scottish singer-songwriter Dorothy Allison pretty much defines cool. Her band One Dove was the first to snare Andrew Weatherall as producer after his...
Album: Willow - Lately I Feel Everything
Monday, 26 July 2021
Willow Smith has done more during her life than the average 20-year-old. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, she bounced off her...
Album: Anne-Marie - Therapy
Homegrown pop star's second is predictable to the max |
Album: Jackson Browne - Downhill From Everywhere
Still giving a shit |
Album: Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
Liquid soul music offers bracing uplift in Texan star's third |
Album: Peyton - PSA
Perfectly smooth and subtly strange modernist Texan soul |
Blu-ray: Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War
Implausibly epic home movies, exhumed from a garden shed |
Album: Darkside - Spiral
Nicolas Jaar embraces melodies while keeping things decidedly mellow |
Album: David Crosby - For Free
Age has not withered him |
Album: Wavves - Hideaway
Ripped and torn emotions as pop-punks return to roots |
Album: Craig Fortnam - Ark
The mossy language of psychedelic folk proves strangely new |
Album: Gary Kemp - Insolo
Unlistenably middle-of-the-road post-prog bland-fest from Spandau Ballet songwriter |
Blu-ray: The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a dark thriller, both poetic and chilling |
Album: Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender
Mellow and feel-good white soul |
Album: Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse
Debut full album from Australian hit-maker is heartfelt and jovially characterful |
Album: Jam & Lewis - Vol. 1
The world-bestriding production duo pour some sugar on it |
Album: Tom Odell - Monsters
Growing singer-songwriter seeks depression's roots |
Blu-ray: West 11
A Notting Hill noir - Michael Winner's breakthrough is flawed but fascinating |
Album: Stone Giants - West Coast Love Stories
Brazilian electronic musician and producer Amon Tobin gently trips out |
Album: Härtel Trübsbach - Great Again
Great viola playing combining heavenly and daemonic |
Album: Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
Leeds via London jazz of the most audaciously cosmic kind |
Album: Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
Mvula's love letter to the Eighties is a heartfelt tour de force |
Album: Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes
Doomed love ruefully dissected by an appealing odd couple |
Album: Kevin Richard Martin - Return to Solaris
The Bug’s mainman takes an unsettling trip into outer space |
Album: Jack Savoretti - Europiana
Sun, sand and synth pop |
Album: The Grid & Robert Fripp - Leviathan
The veteran Balearic dance popsters and the one-man guitar orchestra have a whale of a time |
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