New releases on CD & DVD
DVD: Al Berto
Friday, 17 August 2018
There are plenty of reasons to be apprehensive about biopics of poets. The activity of writing is most often, after all, anything but cinematic, unless its moments of creativity are forced, while the “myth” of the poet all too easily becomes stereotypical.
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CD: Moskus - Mirakler
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Last month, theartsdesk reviewed Skadedyr’s Musikk!, an eccentric album which skipped “through jazz, traditional music, atonal scrapings and wind instrument burblings.” Twelve Norwegian musicians were heard.
DVD: Arcadia
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Arcadia is the latest and the best of a series of films which draw on the archives of the BFI and the BBC, collages of often forgotten footage,...
CD: Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Oh Sees have been perennial festival favourites for over 15 years now, releasing 21 albums under seven different band names. The change of name...
CD: Slaves - Acts of Fear And Love
Monday, 13 August 2018
When Kentish hardcore punk two-piece, Slaves emerged with their debut album, Are You Satisfied?, they caused quite a stir with lairy tunes of...
CD: Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - With Animals
Spectral union of America’s master of melancholy and the British multi-instrumentalist |
CD: Gorgon City - Escape
Fully functional, if predictable, return from pop-house duo |
Blu-ray: La Belle et la bête
Iconic, influential cinematic fairytale, perfect for children of all ages |
CD: Tom Baxter - The Other Side of Blue
After 10 years, Baxter breaks the silence |
CD: Jake Shears - Jake Shears
The Scissor Sisters' singer comes back solo at full fruity tilt |
Blu-ray: Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters
Paul Schrader's masterpiece: a life lived as a work of art |
CD: Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
Experimental hip-hoppers’ sixth album has plenty to chew on |
CD: Gulp - All Good Wishes
A Super Furry Animal and friends return with a blissful follow-up |
CD: Iggy Azalea - Survive the Summer
Australian-American good-times rapper sings the cultural appropriation blues |
DVD: Western
A German-Bulgarian joint venture with a very special cadence |
CD: The Proclaimers - Angry Cyclist
Tenth album from Scottish pair has poetic teeth, righteous attitude and solid songs |
CD: Dee Snider - For the Love of Metal
Over-the-top antics from one of heavy rock's hammiest old hands |
CD: Bansangu Orchestra - Bansangu Orchestra
Joyous noises and fascinating rhythms from remarkable band of London's finest |
CD: Echo Ladies – Pink Noise
A grown-up sound that perfectly encapsulates the problems of youth |
CD: Jah Wobble - Dream World
Punk-dub-experimental bass behemoth and inveterate experimenter in introspective form |
DVD/Blu-ray: Peter Rabbit
Frenetic Beatrix Potter update gives us a leporine the author could never have imagined |
CD: All Saints - Testament
Nineties pop queens return with unforced aplomb. And William Orbit |
CD: Skadedyr - Musikk!
Magpie-minded smörgåsbord from Norway’s self-declared musical ‘pests’ |
DVD: That Summer
Before 'Grey Gardens', Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale welcome cousin Lee and friend |
CD: Breathe Panel - Breathe Panel
Brighton quartet produce an album of shoegaze-pop perfect for the summer |
CD: Tanukichan - Sundays
Decent opening shot of phased out dream-pop from California |
CD: Graham Bonnet Band - Meanwhile Back in the Garage
The former Rainbow singer preaches to the faithful |
CD: Pram - Across the Meridian
One of the country's more curious bands returns after an 11-year break |
CD: Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway – Dictator
The System of a Down songwriter's latest project should keep the troops happy |
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