New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Björk - Fossora
Friday, 30 September 2022
Album opener “Atapos” was released as a single earlier in September, its sharply angular beats created by Björk and Indonesian duo Gabber Modus Operandi, one of whom has since had his contributions removed following #MeToo allegations. The song’s message is about growth towards connection.
Album: Slipknot - The End, So Far
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Make no mistake about it, Slipknot are massive. 23 years after their recording debut, they’ve had 8.5 billion streams, their sixth album, 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind, hit the top of the charts in 12 countries, including the US and the UK, and their spectacular shows are a global phenomenon. In fact, it’s live that this writer really embraces Slipknot but their last album demonstrated they still had the chutzpah to knock a longplayer out of the park.
Album: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
It’s a minor tragedy that Yeah Yeah Yeahs arrived just in time to be bundled in with a spurious “new rock revolution,” because they were so much more...
Blu-ray: Love (Szerelem)
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Károly Makk’s Love (Szerelem) is full of silences and absences, this 1971 film’s premise as simple as its title is banal.The post-war setting is...
Album: Lambchop - The Bible
Monday, 26 September 2022
Lambchop’s 1997 breakthrough album took its title from Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Borrowing The Bible is a more purposefully brazen gambit, as Kurt...
Album: Gabriels - Angels & Queens, Part I
A mesmerising, superbly crafted debut album from the LA-based trio |
Album: Beth Orton - Weather Alive
Cracked introspection and grand sweep sonics on a record of memory regained |
Album: Mark Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
The multi-instrumentalist returns with an album of radiant resolution and sumptuous soundscapes |
Blu-ray: Kuhle Wampe
A classic of Weimar-era cinema, both polemical and poetic |
Album: Tim Burgess - Typical Music
Nothing typical to hear here, just an artist being passionately prolific |
Blu-ray: Nitram
Lucid portrait of the months leading up to an infamous mass shooting in Australia |
Album: Blackpink - Born Pink
The "Pink Venom" of capitalism concentrated to its purest form... yet |
Album: Marcus Mumford - (Self-Titled)
The Mumford & Sons frontman finds catharsis in his solo debut |
Album: Marina Allen - Centrifics
US singer-songwriter’s jazz-tinged second album eschews templates |
Album: Gogol Bordello - Solidaritine
Mixed heritage gypsy-punks add some hardcore punk to their sound |
Album: Suede - Autofiction
Wistful post-punk thuggery from Britpop's comeback kings |
Blu-ray: Identification of a Woman
Late Antonioni offers faded, formal beauty and a flare of eerie genius |
Album: Star Feminine Band - In Paris
Protest songs by teenage band from Benin |
Album: Santigold - Spirituals
She's back and she's still blazing a creative trail |
Album: Parkway Drive - Darker Still
A heavy metal treasure trove - euphoric and atmospheric throughout, yet punchy and energetic |
Album: Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
A fiery good-bye to the USA from the Prince of Darkness |
Album: The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn?
Greg Dulli's veterans head for the hedonistic horizon, still finding wisdom in excess |
Album: Julian Lennon - Jude
Here comes the son |
Album: Tom Chaplin - Midpoint
Music that was always middle aged ironically ages gracefully |
Album: Two Door Cinema Club - Keep On Smiling
An uneven return, but a passing grade for the electronic-infused indie trio |
Blu-ray: Desire / All My Good Countrymen - Two films by Vojtěch Jasný
A distinctive director’s take on post-war Czech life |
Album: Julia Hülsmann Quartet - The Next Door
Top-flight German jazz quartet finds freedom and natural flow |
DVD: Wayfinder
An Afrofuturist road movie through eerie, emptied English landscapes |
Album: Muse - Will of the People
Muse's ninth doesn't stick the landing despite some promise in its varied sound |
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