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Album: Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Saturday, 23 November 2024
The progress of Kim Deal has been one of the great delights of modern music. Much as one wishes Pixies well, they have never been the same without her distinctive voice and presence, whereas her other band The Breeders have only gone from strength to strength – and she has clearly enjoyed the heck out of it, as recently shown on the Live at Big Sur video where the whole band radiate pleasure in playing.
Album: Joan Armatrading - How Did This Happen and What Does It Now Mean
Friday, 22 November 2024
Hard to believe it’s coming up to 30 years since “Love and Affection” put Joan Armatrading in the top 10, a track from her third, self-titled, album which confirmed the arrival of a major talent. “Down to Zero” was another of the album’s enduring cuts – two timeless classics which the passing time hasn’t dimmed.
Album: FaithNYC - Love is a Wish Away
Thursday, 21 November 2024
FaithNYC is a vehicle for the singer and songwriter Felice Rosser, an original rooted in reggae,soul, punk and the New York downtown avant-garde. She...
Album: Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
The word “mahashmashana” – महामशान in Sanskrit – translates as “great burying ground.” Co-opted as the title of Josh Tillman’s sixth album as Father...
Blu-ray: Pharaoh
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Pharaoh (Faraon) is a state-funded superprodukcja, a 152-minute Polish epic, set, incongruously, in Ancient Egypt. First...
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Album: Body Count - Merciless
Ice goes on autopilot |
Album: Linkin Park - From Zero
California metal icons mark new era with captivating eighth album |
Album: Jon Batiste - Beethoven Blues
Beethoven's hits reimagined by the American musical celebrity |
Album: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens - American Railroad
American railroad history retold in a song cycle |
Album: Dolly Parton & Family - Smoky Mountain DNA - Family, Faith & Fables
Forlorn hope, and a beautiful expression of family, from the American heartland |
Blu-ray: The Oblong Box
Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in 'Witchfinder General''s phantom follow-up |
Album: Tomorrow X Together - The Star Chapter: Sanctuary
From heavenly pop to reggaeton heat, TXT's musical universe knows no bounds |
Album: Garfunkel & Garfunkel: Father and Son
Art for Art's sake |
Album: Primal Scream - Come Ahead
The Scream finally knock out the album we’ve been hoping for |
Album: Alley Cat - The Widow Project
Enter a haunted factory and quiver in the shadows with a dubstep auteur |
Album: Møster! - Springs
Norwegian supergroup merges jazz with rock’s outer edges |
Album: Chuck Prophet - Wake the Dead
Rock'n'roll master dances past the graveyard with cumbia rhythms and quizzically cocked eyebrow |
Album: Willie Nelson - Last Leaf on the Tree
The 91-year-old’s 153rd album is more than a farewell to arms – it’s a late-career classic |
Album: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Sadness and finality have rarely felt so life-affirming |
Album: Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
Depth, humour and bucket loads of cool from the former Only One |
Blu-ray: The Outcasts
A forgotten Irish folk horror is eerily magical and earthed in the soil |
Album: Pixies - The Night The Zombies Came
Quirky indie with a Halloween twist from legends of the genre Pixies |
Album: Halsey - The Great Impersonator
The US star muses on mortality via channelling her musical heroines |
Album: Underworld - Strawberry Hotel
Contagiously joyous rollercoaster from Smith and Hyde |
Album: Bastille - &
Dan Smith attempts to pare back to less bombast but doesn't always succeed |
Album: Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Australian pub rockers are a riot |
Blu-ray: Michael Powell - Early Works
British film magician's apprenticeship revealed |
Album: Tess Parks - Pomegranate
With the Brian Jonestown Massacre association concluded, psychedelic auteur reintegrates with the wider world |
Album: Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
An intimate ode to the miracle of life |
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