CDs/DVDs
Kali Malone and Drew McDowell generate 'Magnetism' with intergenerational ambienceThursday, 06 November 2025
It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever are exposed to very, very odd and abstract soundmaking.There’s new age gong baths at even the most... Read more... |
Midlake's 'A Bridge to Far' is a tour-de-force folk-leaning psychedelic albumWednesday, 05 November 2025
“Climb upon a bridge to far, go anywhere your heart desires.” The key phrase from the title track of Midlake’s sixth studio album conveys the perception that anything is within reach should an appropriate mind-set be attained. However, later on the... Read more... |
'Vicious Delicious' is a tasty, burlesque-rockin' debut from pop hellion LuvcatMonday, 03 November 2025
Three of last year’s finest singles were by Luvcat, a classy-but-naughty Eartha Kitt-style bad girl steeped in burlesque-rock’n’roll spirit. In fact, she’s the wanton basque’n’fishnets persona that, during a decadent sojourn in Paris, possessed the... Read more... |
'Everybody Scream': Florence + The Machine's brooding sixth albumSaturday, 01 November 2025
If you were looking for the most perfectly brooding autumnal album this year, Florence Welch and her Machine may have been one of the least likely places you would have expected. However, motivated by deeply personal tumult of the past few years,... Read more... |
Cat Burns finds 'How to Be Human' but maybe not her own soundFriday, 31 October 2025
Twenty-five-year-old South Londoner and current Celebrity Traitors contestant Cat Burns is a charming performer. Her songs have a rare ability to present the most fundamental of youthful relationship ups and downs as fresh and real.... Read more... |
It’s back to the beginning for the latest Dylan BootlegThursday, 30 October 2025
The youthful subject of A Complete Unknown, which closes with him "going electric" at Newport as the culmination of a rainbow arc that began in monochrome, distant Minnesota, is currently lightly treading the boards across Europe’s arenas, concert... Read more... |
Ireland's Hilary Woods casts a hypnotic spell with 'Night CRIÚ'Thursday, 30 October 2025
Night CRIÚ evokes clandestine ceremonies in forest glades, covert rituals taking place in the depths of a cave. Crepuscular and ghostly, this is a realm where an intoned, reverberant voice meshes with ritualistic choirs, undulating brass,... Read more... |
Lily Allen's 'West End Girl' offers a bloody, broken view into the wreckage of her marriageWednesday, 29 October 2025
Even in our garish online age, most celebrities and pop stars sensibly obfuscate the details of their private lives.Not so much Lily Allen. She seems to work through her issues by laying it all out there. No tabloid can pull a scoop if you’ve... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Wendy and LucyTuesday, 28 October 2025
Wendy and Lucy is a road movie with a protagonist who’s unable to move on, and a study of friendship where one half of the partnership is mostly absent from the screen. Originally released during the 2008 financial crisis, Kelly Reichardt’s third... Read more... |
'Fevereaten' sees gothic punk-metallers Witch Fever revel in atmospheric paganist ragingSaturday, 25 October 2025
Witch Fever are a rising four-piece, originally formed in Manchester. Their debut album, 2022’s Congregation, was a raw, sludge-punk howl that represented singer Amy Walpole’s livid rejection of the stridently patriarchal Charismatic Church of her... Read more... |
Demi Lovato's ninth album, 'It's Not That Deep', goes for a frolic on the dancefloorFriday, 24 October 2025
Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney tween star who’s become an outspoken activist in an America where it’s increasingly dangerous to be one. She’s lived a rollercoaster ride of a life, rampantly exploring sexuality,... Read more... |
Yazmin Lacey confirms her place in a vital soul movement with 'Teal Dreams'Wednesday, 22 October 2025
We are in – it needs to be shouted from the rooftops every day – a golden age of British soul and jazz. It isn’t just about a few quality artists, either, but a movement. Londoner Yazmin Lacey is key within that: in the past year, she’s featured on... Read more... |
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