New releases on CD & DVD
Blu-ray: Buster Keaton - Three Films, Vol. 2
Tuesday, 07 April 2020
These three films come from Buster Keaton’s mid-1920s purple patch, the high spots of which prompted critic Roger Ebert to describe Keaton as “arguably the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies”. High praise indeed.
Album: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
Monday, 06 April 2020
The perfect introduction to Newcastle’s mighty Pigsx7 is undoubtedly to be made in the live arena, for it’s here they seriously let sparks fly with monolithic slabs of sound and an exuberance that is truly infectious. That isn’t to say that their studio output isn’t worth serious attention and Viscerals is a sonic treat with plenty to offer.
DVD/Blu Ray: The Elephant Man
Sunday, 05 April 2020
David Lynch’s second feature, his only period movie, is as good as anything else he has ever done, building on the claustrophobia of his first,...
Album: Pokey LaFarge - Rock Bottom Rhapsody
Saturday, 04 April 2020
Talk about a great big melting pot! The eighth studio album by the man born 36 ago as Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Indiana, and known to the world...
Album: Ren Harvieu - Revel In The Drama
Friday, 03 April 2020
Filmic. Lushness balanced with intimacy. Ren Harvieu’s follow-up to 2012’s Top Five Through The Night is crammed with wide-screen aural dramas. Take...
Album: Purity Ring - Womb
Diaphanous pop for difficult times |
Album: Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Shadowy Californian dreams from bassist firing at full-blast |
DVD: The Street
Hoxton worlds: insightful, poignant documentary registers social change in a London community |
DVD: Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 2
More buried treasure from the CFF archive: a treat for young and old alike |
Album: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Lipa frees her inner disco diva, and the world is a better place for it |
Album: Pearl Jam - Gigaton
Rock veterans face troubled times with embattled optimism |
Album: Sufjan Stevens &. Lowell Brams - Aporia
Magical story-telling in sound |
Album: Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
A journey of sobriety and self-acceptance, by way of Memphis and New York |
Blu-ray: Kansas City
Robert Altman's jazz-stoked 1930's homage to his hometown bares its violent underbelly |
Album: Basia Bulat - Are You In Love?
Uneven fifth studio set from the Canadian singer-songwriter |
Blu-ray: Chained for Life
A welcome though never preachy satire for the age of narcissism |
Album: Little Dragon - New Me, Same Us
Electro-R&B veterans are set adrift on memory bliss |
Album: The Weeknd - After Hours
Fourth album from R&B superstar impresses after a slow start |
Album: Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain
Bigmouth alternates between petty indignation and true artistry |
Album: Roger and Brian Eno - Mixing Colours
Absolute ambience from the pioneers of the form |
DVD/Blu-ray: Beat the Devil
John Huston's indulgent curio returns, replete with starry cast |
Album: The Chats - High Risk Behaviour
The Australian pop-punk trio's debut is short, sharp and shockingly good |
Album: Shabaka & the Ancestors - We are Sent Here by History
Spiritual and political struggle and aspiration from the Londoner's South African ensemble |
Album: Deap Lips - Deap Lips
Psychedelic electro-pop collaboration fails to really hit the spot |
DVD/Blu-ray: Last Holiday
Alec Guinness shines in underappreciated black comedy |
Album: Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova
The corrupted country-punk behind 'Show Me Heaven' is radically reborn |
Album: The Boomtown Rats - Citizens of Boomtown
Bob Geldof's gang reconvene for a wildly unlikely and mostly enjoyable ride |
Album: Baxter Dury - The Night Chancers
The singer turns storyteller with a collection of skilfully drawn vignettes |
Album: Moby - All Visible Objects
US electronic dance perennial takes a rare stumble with his bombastic latest |
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