New releases on CD & DVD
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.
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 Wagner tries to locate Americans’ spiritual hearts, in a shaken, besmirched and brutalised nation. It’s a record of reflection, reconciliation and quiet rebellion.
Album: Gabriels - Angels & Queens, Part I
Saturday, 24 September 2022
Lauded by Elton John (who called their 2020 debut EP Love and Hate in a Different Time “probably one of the most seminal records I've heard in the...
Album: Beth Orton - Weather Alive
Friday, 23 September 2022
Beth Orton has never rushed her music. Her first four albums came one every three years, then since 2002 it’s averaged at a five year gap each time....
Album: Mark Peters - Red Sunset Dreams
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
The word “immersive” has, of late, been hijacked. Now used with conspicuous abandon by everyone from estate agents offering piss-poor 3-D renderings...
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 |
Album: Gabriele Mirabassi and Stefano Zanchini - Il gatto e la volpe
From a masterful Italian jazz duo, one of the great clarinet albums, in pairing with accordion |
Album: Ezra Furman - All of Us Flames
Where a classic American musical sensibility unites with anger |
Album: Fisherman's Friends - One and All
Haul in the nets, call the lifeboat for the soundtrack on the film sequel |
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