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Album: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco - I Said I Love You First
Saturday, 22 March 2025
Selena Gomez is the enormously successful Disney child star who grew up to be a Hollywood actor and global pop sensation. As notably, she’s the third most followed person on Instagram, the most popular woman, with 421 million followers. Benny Blanco is the golden boy American producer-songwriter whose many, many hits run the gamut from Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” to Ed Sheeran’s “Happier” to Kesha’s “Tik Tok”. The pair got engaged last December.
Album: The Horrors - Night Life
Friday, 21 March 2025
For fans of The Horrors, the headline here is that, 20 years into the career, for their sixth album, the band have lost two of their founding members.
Album: Billy Hart Quartet - Just
Thursday, 20 March 2025
There was a telling remark in Wynton Marsalis’s recent interview with Katty Kay for the BBC show “Influential”. Talking about how jazz functions in...
Album: Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Going by the sounds of her new album, it wouldn’t unreasonable to assume that Greentea Peng enjoys sucking on a spliff every once in a while. Tell...
Album: The Loft - Everything Changes, Everything...
Saturday, 15 March 2025
“Sitting on a sofa, cigarettes and beer, ten years disappear…agreeing to agree, just to get along.” By going into the difficulties of resuscitating...
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Album: Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow
Small stories, big talent from the Alabaman storyteller extraordinaire |
Album: Steven Wilson - The Overview
Infectious prog concept LP ponders Earth's insignificance and what lies beyond |
Album: Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make Believe
An impressive welcome back to the group's imaginitive universe |
Blu-ray: The Barnabáš Kos Case
Witty and stylish Slovak black comedy, alarmingly prescient |
Album: Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story
At once a celebration and an exploration of the timeless Dust Bowl Balladeer |
Album: Lady Gaga - Mayhem
The godmother of theatre-kid pop is back! Back!! BACK!!! |
Blu-ray: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Tobe Hooper's grisly, blackly comic sequel patents a surreal Texas zone all its own |
Album: Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
Second album from Canadian metalcore band is a sonic assault yet graceful and beautiful |
Album: The Burning Hell - Ghost Palace
Reflective Canadians interpret an increasingly unfathomable world |
Album: Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light
Sitar titan blends the sounds of modern India into her travelogue triptych |
Album: Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
Tull burst out again with a set of bristling folk-prog anthems |
Album: Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
The Brighton metallers condense their 20-year career into an impactful concoction |
Album: Abel Selaocoe - Hymns of Bantu
A celebration of the ancestors, African and European |
Album: Doves - Constellations for the Lonely
Prog-rock existential wranglings from the grizzled Mancunians |
Album: bdrmm - Microtonic
Post-shoegazing quartet’s third album evokes the communal musical experience |
Blu-ray: Drugstore Cowboy
Gus Van Sant's non-judgmental indie classic about a gang of narcotics addicts |
Album: Artemis - Arboresque
A safe album from a band with a necessary message |
Album: Heather Nova - Breath and Air
A mellower, acoustic sound that contemplates life's rhythms |
Album: Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
A psychedelic curiosity that’s unlikely to wear anyone’s stylus down |
Album: Sam Fender - People Watching
The North Shields indie star's third album is a solid, sincere evolution |
Album: Basia Bulat - Basia's Palace
Canadian singer's seventh album musters dreamy pop that simultaneously arrives and floats away |
Blu-ray: Golem
This Polish 1979 Meyrink adaptation is a visually striking dystopian drama |
Album: Tim Hecker - Shards
Finessed expressiveness as a compilation of soundtrack work coheres |
Album: Park Jiha - All Living Things
Music and nature in synergy |
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