New releases on CD & DVD
CD: Denys Baptiste - The Late Trane
Saturday, 24 June 2017
Denys Baptiste's deep dive into the mid-1960s work of jazz icon, sax player and composer John Coltrane also serves to mark 50 years since Coltrane's shockingly early death at the age of 40.
DVD/Blu-ray: Minute Bodies - The Intimate World of F Percy Smith
Friday, 23 June 2017
F Percy Smith was a maverick film-maker whose most important work was created in a house in suburban Southgate, North London.
CD: Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Gossip – the trio fronted by Beth Ditto from 1999 until last year – always felt a bit overshadowed by their 2006 breakthrough hit “Standing in the...
CD: Django Bates - Saluting Sgt. Pepper
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Sgt. Pepper is a popular choice for a tribute but also a dangerous one. How to say anything meaningful about a work widely agreed to be the most...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
A well-known internet sales site currently offers seven previous home cinema editions of The Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Some are DVD or Blu-ray...
CD: Steve Earle & The Dukes - So You Wanna Be An Outlaw
Earle's career is as multifaceted as Jennings' |
CD: Steve Earle & The Dukes - So You Wanna Be An Outlaw
Steve Earle returns to his roots |
CD: Lorde - Melodrama
The Kiwi songstress's long-awaited second album ticks all the right boxes |
DVD/Blu-ray: Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Social commentary and sex comedy, darker than ever despite a shiny new print |
CD: Justin Adams featuring Anneli Drecker - Ribbons
The producer and guitarist’s first solo for 16 years is a journey out of darkness |
CD: Katy Perry - Witness
US superstar's fifth album may be her best |
DVD/Blu-ray: One-Eyed Jacks
Marlon Brando's outstanding 1961 western returns in an immaculate 4K restoration |
CD: Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' - TajMo
Blues veterans asleep on the job |
CD: Goldie - The Journey Man
A fully-functioning, highly listenable album |
CD: Ride - Weather Diaries
Shoegazing trail-blazers return for another spin on the rock’n’roll merry-go-round |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Naked Civil Servant
John Hurt astounding as Quentin Crisp: welcome restoration of Jack Gold's classic television drama |
DVD/Blu-ray: Prevenge
Tremendous: Alice Lowe's directing debut is a (bloody) good film |
CD: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - The Anarchy Arias
Dismally conceived operatic revision of punk rock |
DVD/Blu-ray: My 20th Century
Mesmerisingly imaginative 1989 Hungarian film restored in luminous black and white |
CD: London Grammar - Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
London Grammar lose their shine with that difficult second album |
CD: Chuck Berry - Chuck
Last goodbye from father of teen rock'n'roll |
CD: Alt-J - Relaxer
Cambridge art-rockers extend their ambitions, but can they maintain their winning formula? |
DVD/Blu-ray: Spotlight On a Murderer
Jean-Louis Trintignant broods through Eyes Without a Face's forgotten, larky follow-up |
CD: Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?
He's suffered for his art and now it's your turn |
CD: Saint Etienne - Home Counties
The trio return with an album of shimmering melancholy and poised pop |
DVD/Blu-ray: Mulholland Drive
Restoration of Lynch's Hollywood enigma retains its haunting depths |
CD: Tubular Brass - Tubular Bells
Superb brass recreation of a 1970s classic, with added baluphonium |
CD: Binker and Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever
Prodigious concept album from the brilliant sax-drums duo |
CD: DJ Hell - Zukunftsmusik
Stunning electronic masterpiece from Bavarian techno don |
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