New releases on CD & DVD

Album: Bon Iver - SABLE ƒABLE

Mark Kidel Thursday, 10 April 2025

With a sound that's instantly recognisable, Justin Vernon – known as Bon Iver - continues to astonish. Purveyor of wonder, sculptor of enchanting sounds, he treads a miraculous path between melancholy and joy and has established himself as one of the great voice of contemporary indie pop.

Album: Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong

Ibi Keita Wednesday, 09 April 2025

Black Country, New Road’s Forever Howlong is an ambitious reinvention that both captivates and, at times, frustrates. Following Isaac Wood’s departure, the band leans into a more collaborative and folk-inspired direction, trading their post-punk chaos for something more delicate and introspective. It’s a bold move, and one that yields some truly beautiful moments, even if the overall experience doesn’t fully resonate.

Album: Sofia Härdig - Lighthouse of Glass

Kieron Tyler Monday, 07 April 2025

The titular “lighthouse of glass” is a place where the narrator is “crying into the sun,” in which there is a need to “stand by my solitude.”...

Blu-ray: Yojimbo / Sanjuro

Graham Rickson Sunday, 06 April 2025

Akira Kurosawa described his 1961 hit Yojimbo as a tale of “rivalry on both sides, and both sides are equally bad… we are weakly caught in the middle...

Album: The Waterboys - Life, Death and Dennis...

Thomas H Green Saturday, 05 April 2025

Mike Scott is The Waterboys. Launched by wide-eyed 1980s folk-rock, and “The Whole of the Moon”, he’s long since roamed into whatever stylistic gumbo...

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Album: Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla

Tim Cumming Friday, 04 April 2025

Debut set from Lush singer-songwriter’s new trio

Album: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

Guy Oddy Thursday, 03 April 2025

Geordie rockers’ pulverising psych metal is guaranteed to rattle windows

Album: Elton John and Brandi Carlile - Who Believes in Angels?

Liz Thomson Wednesday, 02 April 2025

Elton John & Brandi Carlile step out in style

DVD/Blu-ray: The Substance

Markie Robson-Scott Tuesday, 01 April 2025

French director Coralie Fargeat on the making of her award-winning body-horror movie

Album: Erlend Apneseth - Song Over Støv

Kieron Tyler Monday, 31 March 2025

Norwegian musical impressionist’s journey into the centre of a vortex

Album: Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk

Graham Fuller Sunday, 30 March 2025

A match made in urban nightlife and the mysteries of everyday living

Album: Will Smith - Based on a True Story

Ibi Keita Saturday, 29 March 2025

Big Willie’s back - but maybe he should’ve stayed home

Album: Perfume Genius - Glory

Joe Muggs Thursday, 27 March 2025

Album seven from an artist carving out his own space in the most modernist of ways

Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia

Tim Cumming Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Their first album in 14 years looks hard at the past, and its role in the present

Blu-ray: Lifeforce

Nick Hasted Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Tobe Hooper's frenzied, far out space sex vampire epic

Album: Toria Wooff - Toria Wooff

Kieron Tyler Monday, 24 March 2025

Assured but too measured debut album from Americana-inclined singer-songwriter

Album: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco - I Said I Love You First

Thomas H Green Saturday, 22 March 2025

An album by a pair of loved-up Hollywood celebs that is, whisper it, rather good

Album: The Horrors - Night Life

Thomas H Green Friday, 21 March 2025

A new line-up proves no hindrance to a band bringing electro-rock zip to the darkness

Album: Billy Hart Quartet - Just

Sebastian Scotney Thursday, 20 March 2025

The drum legend's group in perfect balance

Album: Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny

Guy Oddy Wednesday, 19 March 2025

South Londoner’s smoky sophomore album is loaded with dope tunes

Album: The Loft - Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same

Kieron Tyler Saturday, 15 March 2025

Belated debut album from the early Creation Records mainstays

Album: Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow

Joe Muggs Friday, 14 March 2025

Small stories, big talent from the Alabaman storyteller extraordinaire

Album: Steven Wilson - The Overview

Graham Fuller Thursday, 13 March 2025

Infectious prog concept LP ponders Earth's insignificance and what lies beyond

Album: Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make Believe

Ellie Roberts Wednesday, 12 March 2025

An impressive welcome back to the group's imaginitive universe

Blu-ray: The Barnabáš Kos Case

Graham Rickson Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Witty and stylish Slovak black comedy, alarmingly prescient

Album: Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story

Liz Thomson Monday, 10 March 2025

At once a celebration and an exploration of the timeless Dust Bowl Balladeer

Album: Lady Gaga - Mayhem

Joe Muggs Saturday, 08 March 2025

The godmother of theatre-kid pop is back! Back!! BACK!!!

Blu-ray: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Nick Hasted Friday, 07 March 2025

Tobe Hooper's grisly, blackly comic sequel patents a surreal Texas zone all its own

Album: Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea

Tom Carr Thursday, 06 March 2025

Second album from Canadian metalcore band is a sonic assault yet graceful and beautiful

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