CDs/DVDs
Album: Miley Cyrus - Something BeautifulFriday, 30 May 2025
A couple of months ago, I wrote here that Lady Gaga was the godmother of the new generation of ostentatiously “theatre kid” pop stars – but actually, perhaps I was wrong and Miley Cyrus deserves that title. Ever since her teens, she has consistently... Read more... |
Album: Nick Mulvey - Dark Harvest Pt.1Saturday, 31 May 2025
Nick Mulvey’s first two albums, First Mind in 2014 and Wake Up Now in 2017, are among the loveliest singer-songwriter fare released this century. With his last album, 2022’s New Mythology, his ayahuasca-fuelled search for spiritual meaning went full... Read more... |
Album: Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a LieWednesday, 28 May 2025
Ready to Live a Lie is so sonically vaporous it almost isn’t there. While the album’s 11 tracks draw from continental European musical archetypes – specifically Italian disco and Eurovision-styled balladry – there is little solidity which can be... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Strange New Worlds - Science Fiction at DEFATuesday, 27 May 2025
DEFA was East Germany’s state film studio, operating between 1946 and 1992. Among its vast output were four lavish science fiction adventures, released between 1960 and 1976 and shown here in gleaming new transfers. Each one, to varying degrees,... Read more... |
Album: Anna Lapwood - FiredoveMonday, 26 May 2025
This album Firedove (Sony Classical), surely, has to be seen as part of a bigger story: that of organist, choir director and broadcaster Anna Lapwood, who, still in her twenties – just – has become an essential part of the (often cautious and... Read more... |
Album: Morcheeba - Escape the ChaosSaturday, 24 May 2025
Morcheeba reach their 30th anniversary this year. The 1990s band, a unit once synonymous with phrases such as “trip hop” and “chill-out”, are up to album number 11. Their multi-million-selling oeuvre is based around a hazy combination of low-slung... Read more... |
Album: Ammar 808 - Club TounsiFriday, 23 May 2025
Ammar 808 is the high octane vehicle for the Tunisian-born producer Sofyann Ben Youssef, now based in Denmark. His first album Maghreb United (2018) struck hard and fast in a field already well-populated by the fusion of traditional Arab sounds and... Read more... |
Album: Sports Team - Boys These DaysThursday, 22 May 2025
How do you solve a problem like Sports Team? Taking them at face value, they’re a living metaphor for the slow music biz relegation of the working class in favour of the privileged, a bunch of snarky ex-Cambridge University students who make smug... Read more... |
Album: Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal FilmWednesday, 21 May 2025
Stereolab always walked a knife edge between deadly serious and dead silly. Their sound was constructed around the sort of reference points – French, German and Brazilian psychedelia, Radiophonic Workshop sound effects, 1960s library music – which... Read more... |
Album: Robert Forster - StrawberriesMonday, 19 May 2025
“Tell me what you see” invites Robert Forster during Strawberries' “Tell it Back to me.” The album’s eight songs do not, however, necessarily say what Forster actually sees. These vignettes about encounters between characters come across as... Read more... |
Album: Rico Nasty - LETHALFriday, 16 May 2025
Rico Nasty’s new album LETHAL signals a shift in direction, but whether it is a bold evolution or a step towards something less distinct is up for debate. Known for her fiery rage-rap and punk energy, Rico tones things down here, trading some of her... Read more... |
Album: Billy Nomates - MetalhorseThursday, 15 May 2025
Metalhorse is a concept album that uses visions of a dilapidated funfair as a metaphor for life’s various ups and downs. It especially seems to concentrate on the downs though, especially when it employs opening lines like “My best friend’s dying”... Read more... |
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