New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Jane Weaver - Flock
Saturday, 27 February 2021
Flock ends with “Solarised”, a glorious five-plus minutes excursion into retro-futurist pop with the artistic smarts of Saint Etienne and Stereolab. Snappy, toe-tapping drums and bubbly, funky bass guitar move it along. “Stages of Phases” is another winner. Built around a stomping glam-rock chassis, it's sense of otherness is shared by “Solarised”.
Album: Blanck Mass - In Furneaux
Friday, 26 February 2021
John Benjamin Power (formerly half of Fuck Buttons) opens his new opus with glittering synth arpeggios – reminiscent of the Seventies electronica of Tangerine Dream, Manuel Gottsching or Steve Hillage: cosmic dance floor bliss that just keeps coming.
Album: Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Thursday, 25 February 2021
A decade ago, Alice Cooper reconnected with his roots. He created a sequel to his 1975 album Welcome to my Nightmare with Bob Ezrin, the producer...
Album: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains -...
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Frànçois Marry’s sixth album as Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains evokes warm days spent lounging in fields of clover reflecting on friendship,...
Blu-ray: The Ascent
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
There’s a striking interview among the extras for this Criterion edition of Russian director Larisa Shepitko’s fourth and final feature. The director...
Album: Willie Nelson - That's Life
Willie Nelson takes another dip into the great American songbook |
Blu-ray: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's tragi-comic European epic returns |
Album: Maxïmo Park – Nature Always Wins
Less political and more introspective: the arty Geordies two decades in |
Album: Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
Mature redemption songs from a grime master |
Album: Mathieu Boogaerts - En Anglais
The spirit of Chanson comes to south London |
Album: Mogwai - As the Love Continues
The Glasgow guitar noise veterans crash into indie Valhalla |
DVD/Blu-ray: Mogul Mowgli
A powerful performance reminiscent of the young De Niro marks out this quasi-autobiographical tale |
Blu-ray: The Last Warning
Paul Leni's backstage murder farce is a magicianly tour de force |
Album: Tindersticks - Distractions
The Midlands’ perpetually disappointed romantics go minimalist |
Album: Sia - Music
Pop star's movie tie-in misses the mark |
Album: The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll
The New York quartet's latest is bewitching and raw, if not entirely original |
Album: slowthai - TYRON
Midlands MC musters juicy moments on hit'n'miss second album |
Blu-ray: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri's political foray into the Italian absurd |
Album: Django Django - Glowing in the Dark
A much needed ray of fluorescing festival fun from the indietronic troupers |
DVD/Blu-ray: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Scorsese and Dylan's smoke and mirrors can't obscure an exhilarating tour |
Album: Paul Leary - Born Stupid
Butthole Surfer keeps the freak flag flying high |
Album: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
Anthems for an imaginary festival |
Album: The Staves - Good Woman
The Staveley-Taylors kick over the traces |
Album: John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
The film director and soundtrack composer releases his first solo album in five years |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Masque of the Red Death
Horror is a many-splendoured thing in Roger Corman's 1964 film of Poe's tale |
Album: Elephant9 - Arrival Of The New Elders
Norway’s jazz-prog luminaries take their feet off the accelerator pedal |
Album: Femi Kuti and Made Kuti - Legacy+
Scions of Afro-Beat dynasty deliver the old and new |
Album: The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings
The Canadian art-rockers consider the cycle of life and death |
Album: Goat Girl - On All Fours
South London hipsters meander through 2021’s big issues |
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