New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Elbow - Audio Vertigo
Monday, 18 March 2024On this, their 10th album, the melodious Mancunians started at the drum kit and built from there. This is no bad thing.
Album: Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves
Saturday, 16 March 2024Julia Holter has created a long line of albums that trade on sophisticated poetry, both lyrical and musical, and her latest, perhaps the most adventurous of all, inhabits a world where nothing is certain, narratives are disjointed, and the imagination of the listener is left to run free.
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