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Album: Rise Against - Ricochet
Monday, 11 August 2025
Ricochet is Chicago punk veterans Rise Against’s 10th album and, unfortunately, one which suggests that despite a four-year break since Nowhere Generation, that they have hit that point where they are seriously struggling to maintain relevance. In fact, they would seem to be both short of anything special to say and for tunes to carry their message, such as it is.
Album: Alison Goldfrapp - Flux
Saturday, 09 August 2025
It’s impossible to overstate how much the early 2000s records of Goldfrapp – the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory – set the tone for the whole rest of the 21st century. The electroclash scene had already ushered in an Eternal Eighties of electropop revival, but Goldfrapp professionalised it, added heavyweight songwriting skill and superstar vocal personality.
Album: The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers
Friday, 08 August 2025
For a band who started by entirely self-producing their own records and performing in basements, it has ended up being a long and storied career so...
Album: Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll...
Thursday, 07 August 2025
This is a weird one: I do try and stay on top of pop culture, but for several years, Ethel Cain completely passed me by. You’d think I would have...
Album: Black Honey - Soak
Wednesday, 06 August 2025
The default setting for Brighton indie quartet Black Honey is pop-grunge. There are plenty of moments during their fourth album when Nineties femme-...
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Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above!
'Peak Sellers': two gems from a great comic actor in his prime |
Album: Molly Tuttle - So Long Little Miss Sunshine
The US bluegrass queen makes a sally into Swift-tinted pop-country stylings |
Album: Mansur Brown - Rihla
Jazz-prog scifi mind movies and personal discipline provide a... complex experience |
Album: Reneé Rapp - Bite Me
Second album from a rising US star is a feast of varied, fruity, forthright pop |
Album: Cian Ducrot - Little Dreaming
Second album for the Irish singer aims for mega mainstream, ends up confused |
Album: Bonniesongs - Strangest Feeling
Intriguing blend of the abstract, folkiness, grunge and shoegazing from Sydney |
Album: Debby Friday - The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Second from Canadian electronic artist and singer offers likeable, varied EDM |
Album: Indigo de Souza - Precipice
US singer's fourth ups the pop ante but doesn't sacrifice lyrical substance |
Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?
Lively new album from the third generation of Nigeria's first musical family |
Album: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper
The original Alice Cooper band are back to fly the flag for all the weirdos |
Album: Paul Weller - Find El Dorado
Inspiring curation of some pretty great covers, and hints of majesty |
Blu-ray: The Rebel / The Punch and Judy Man
Tony Hancock's two film outings, newly remastered |
Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held
The young duo extend folk’s boundaries into an expansive contemporary chamber music |
Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams
A remarkable collaboration across the ages |
Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid
Plastic-bombastic TikTok pop euphoria for the emotionally incontinent |
Album: Slikback - Attrition
Decades-deep electronic darkness from Kenyan sculptor of dystopias |
Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone
Veteran heads lay down a hypnotic gumbo of cool funkiness |
Blu-ray: Heart of Stone
Deliciously dark fairy tale from post-war Eastern Europe |
Album: Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last
Sophomore album embraces horn-driven grooves and genre-blending experimentation |
Album: Wet Leg - moisturizer
A perfectly formed classic that will definitely be on those album of the year lists |
Album: Tami Neilson - Neon Cowgirl
New Zealand country queen's latest chimes with America's heartland bars and highways |
Album: Mark Stewart - The Fateful Symmetry
The Bristol agit-prop hero on philosophical form on his final album |
Album: Gwenno - Utopia
The Welsh musical explorer surveys her life |
Blu-ray: A Hard Day's Night
The 'Citizen Kane' of jukebox musicals? Richard Lester's film captures Beatlemania in full flight |
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