New releases on CD & DVD
Blu-ray: Beau Travail
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
This fifth feature from Claire Denis must surely be the director’s most sheerly concentrated film.
Album: Groove Armada - Edge of the Horizon
Monday, 28 September 2020
Alongside Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada were one of the last big acts to blossom from the 1990s boom in clubland and DJ culture. They are responsible for bona fide classics in “Superstylin’”, “At the River” and “I See You Baby”, and also founded the Lovebox Festival, which was named after their fourth album.
Album: Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Friday, 25 September 2020
This is a musical homecoming for Róisín Murphy, both geographically and figuratively. She may have been raised in Dublin and spent her gig-going...
Album: Corey Taylor - CMFT
Thursday, 24 September 2020
The graveyard of tedious musical vanity projects – and the bargain bins of many record shops – is filled with solo albums by the lead vocalists of...
DVD/Blu-ray: Mademoiselle
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Mademoiselle is Jeanne Moreau, in smouldering femme fatale mode: a school-teacher and town hall secretary in a small French village, she wreaks havoc...
Album: Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
A brilliant song cycle for our times |
Blu-ray: This Gun for Hire
The patchy film noir that made Alan Ladd a screen phenomenon |
Album: This Dream of You – Diana Krall
An unsatisfactory postscript to the Krall/LiPuma years |
Album: Alicia Keys - Alicia
A confident return from the megastar polymath, but does it hint at something more? |
Album: Fish - Weltschmerz
Derek W Dick's last hurrah is a mix of successes and excesses |
DVD/Blu-ray: Where Does a Body End?
Post-punk giants Swans’ documentary is a fascinating trawl through the band’s first 35 years |
Album: Marilyn Manson - WE ARE CHAOS
The Antichrist Superstar softens up |
Blu-ray: Beanpole
Bleakness of story mediated by fragile visual beauty in outstanding Russian arthouse period offering |
Album: Toots & the Maytals - Got to be Tough
Toots back on fine form in what has become his final album |
Album: Ammar 808 - Global Control/ Invisible Invasion
Fusion between the Maghreb and South India that's so good it explodes |
Album: Doves - The Universal Want
The Manchester three-piece end a decade-long hiatus in style |
Album: Allison Neale - Quietly There
A completely delightful album |
Blu-ray: Walkabout
Fifty years on from its original release, Nicolas Roeg's solo debut gets a stunning restoration |
Album: Suzanne Vega - An Evening of New York Songs and Stories
Tom's Diner by way of Cafe Carlyle |
Album: Rui Ho - Lov3 & L1ght
Dayglo experimental pop from Chinese artist in Berlin |
The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup 2020 - old-time decadence revisited
A tasty 1970s Rolling Stones classic is revived with added ingredients |
Album: Declan McKenna - Zeros
Second album from young prodigy contains some solid songs but suffers from crassly overboard production |
Album: Tricky - Fall to Pieces
Moody vignettes transform pain into beauty |
Blu-ray: Show Boat (1936)
Paul Robeson's few scenes dominate James Whale's great backstage musical |
Album: Throwing Muses - Sun Racket
An earthy and disorientating return for the Boston trio |
Blu-ray: Safety Last!
Terrifying and exhilarating - one of the greatest silent comedies returns |
CD: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith - Peradam
The third in a beguiling trilogy of immersive albums |
Album: Katy Perry - Smile
Is it possible to grow up in public when you're at the top of the celebrity tree? |
Album: Disclosure - ENERGY
Great selection of guests add up to a decent, if sometimes predictable, album from the house revivalists |
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