New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Underworld - Strawberry Hotel
Friday, 25 October 2024
Purveyors of extraordinary energy and euphoria, Underworld never miss a beat. The new album – 30 years on from their debut, and their exposure in Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting – once again features music that will always be better live, in the midst of a bouncing throng, ablaze with smiles of joy, than on the best stereo at home, or state-of-the-heart cordless headphones.
Album: Bastille - &
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Grandiloquent indie-synth-pop outfit Bastille have been around for over a decade. Three of their four albums have been chart-toppers (the other one still made Top 5 and went Gold). They are no flash in the pan.
Album: Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Amy Taylor’s lyrics on Amyl and the Sniffers’ previous discs could hardly be described as demure – especially with song titles like “Don’t Need a...
Blu-ray: Michael Powell - Early Works
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The missing element is magic, the swooning sense of the romantic, spiritual and supernal which Michael Powell’s partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
Album: Tess Parks - Pomegranate
Monday, 21 October 2024
Tess Parks’ fourth solo album is suffused with otherness. When lyrics are direct, they are destabilised by the etiolated, freeze-dried voice...
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Album: Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
An intimate ode to the miracle of life |
Album: Kylie Minogue - Tension II
Kylie's relentless energy never fails to impress but are we hearing the law of diminishing returns in action? |
Album: Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire
Thrilling union of prodigious Norwegians |
Album: Mystery Tiime - Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love
Cold, crisp, bleak reality in a sad set of post-punk sketches |
Blu-ray: The Valley of the Bees
František Vláčil’s taut, intense medieval thriller is a classic of Czech cinema |
Album: MC5 - Heavy Lifting
Partial final reformation by proto-punk greats is a mixed bag |
Album: Justin Adams & Mauro Durante - Sweet Release
The duo’s second set cooks on a recipe of Italian Pizzica, rock, blues and Fairuz |
Album: Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood
When adventurous programming goes wrong |
Album: The Offspring - Supercharged
Another successful Pop Punk celebration |
Album: Ded Hyatt - Glossy
A genuinely boggling record mangles a world's worth of pop and avant-garde influences into... something |
Album: Permafrost - The Light Coming Through
A chill wind blows in from Norway |
Album: Goat - Goat
Mysterious Scandinavians put on their dancing shoes |
Album: Coldplay - Moon Music
Pop-rock mainstays 10th album is nauseatingly upbeat |
Album: Caribou - Honey
Almost a quarter century in, the psychedelic indie-dance individualist still setting off fireworks |
Album: The Smile - Cutouts
The trio's third album lacks the verve and intensity of 'Wall of Eyes' |
Album: Lady Gaga - Harlequin
Surprise companion album to her new film is lively, enjoyable and in great voice |
Album: Ezra Collective - Dance, No One’s Watching
A joyous celebration of dance |
Album: Jaz Karis - Safe Flight
UK soul debut whose smooth surface conceals depth and complexity |
Album: Van Morrison - New Arrangements and Duets
Van the Man starts to open up the vaults |
Blu-ray: Ikiru
Kurosawa's profound, touching meditation on mortality and memory |
Album: Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
After the death of Mimi Parker, Low’s other half comes out into the open |
Blu-ray: Crumb
Terry Zwigoff's landmark, cracked family portrait of misanthropic comix genius R Crumb |
Album: Katy Perry - 143
Return of US superstar is a damp squib |
Album: Miranda Lambert - Postcards From Texas
On her ninth solo album, the US country star is still on peak songwriting form |
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