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The fact that this is the 42nd studio album from Van The Man is impressive enough, but when you consider that he’s now 75 and still going strong, it’s very hard not to be impressed […]
Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell have teamed up under a new guise with James Chapman (MAPS) to create a studio album titled Burn. The record began its journey more than seven […]
The sound and style of Scottish indie legends Teenage Fanclub is one of comforting familiarity, and it’s very much business as usual on their 11th studio album Endless Arcade. Behind the scenes, however, there has […]
After three years, Royal Blood release their third album, Typhoons, which offers rocky bass riffs and more danceable tunes. Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher had said they wanted to return to their roots, back when […]
One would not expect an American Celtic punk band to take authenticity and staying true to oneself and one’s roots seriously when that band name is rooted in an alcohol-detoxification facility. Nonetheless, honesty and authenticity […]
Merseysiders, The Coral, are back with a rollercoaster double-album that leaves you pining for candy-floss, slot machines and teen love in the fading summer dusk of our childhood amusement arcades. Their 2018 album, Move Through […]
The Godfathers of alternative Fuzz rock are back with twelve new songs on an album that will delight their long term fans and have new listeners scurrying to the Dinosaur Jr hefty back catalogue. Dinosaur […]
With their triumphant fifth album, Carlisle based four-piece The Lucid Dream continues a fascinating journey that has come by leaps and bounds with each LP since the more typical psychedelic rock of their early years. […]
San Francisco-based ethereal art-pop artist Ainsley Wagoner, who writes, records, and performs as Silverware, releases her brand-new album, No Plans, on April 23. In addition to creating plush music, Ainsley is a product designer, who […]
Greta Van Fleet is a band that divides opinion. Loved and lambasted equally by critics and classic rock fans, picking up Grammy awards while being shunned as little more than a Led Zeppelin tribute. It […]
Low Island deliver well-realized electronic music accompanied by haunting beautiful melodies on their latest album If You Could Have It All Again. The music is ambient, well-produced by Jamie Jay and intricately dense with some […]
Londoner Raf Rundell’s colourful, musical optimism cleverly fuses funk, indie-pop, soul and electronica in his latest project. Looking at the cover of his second solo LP – O.M. Days – it is unusual and intriguing. […]
A few days ago, Los Angeles-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Daniel Blake released a new EP, Jakarta, five tracks revolving around the heartbreak concept. Gorgeously wrought, Jakarta includes the musical gifts of Bill Lefler (drums, piano, synth), […]
Multi-National Synth trio ‘Form’ emerged onto the music scene in 2018 with their debut album Defiance + Entropy. The threesome consisting of Keith Trigwell (England), Mark Bebb (Wales) and Rob Dust (Germany) are back with […]
There has been a retro revival of early ‘80s electronic music over the last ten years or so with a constant conveyor belt of new artists eager to create the analogue sounds of synth pioneers […]
Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner are the duo better known as Tune-Yards, and their excellent fifth album, released by 4AD, is called Sketchy. The 11 songs have been inspired by the Beastie Boys, Book and […]
In 2000, Oasis released the single “Sunday Morning Call”, seven years earlier in 1993, Oasis’ brit-pop rivals Blur released “Sunday Sunday”. The Antlers singer and primary songwriter Peter Silberman decided to do something bolder with […]
The Bitter Truth is an album that Evanescence fans have been waiting on for almost a decade, and it doesn’t disappoint. The album was planned to be released in late 2020 but due to the […]
Folk singer-songwriter Jack Symes has a knack for taking the commonplace and imbuing it with significance. He discovers meaning in fragments of life most people overlook and gives those splinters of time relevance. On his […]
In Bell Orchestre’s first release in over a decade, they dabble with classical and electronic music in one improvisational session on their latest album, House Music. Sonically it’s an accomplished work; however, the instrumentation sometimes […]
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