New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Kings of Leon - When You See Yourself
Thursday, 04 March 2021
Over the course of seven albums and nearly two decades, Kings of Leon have gone from spiky, short bursts of adrenaline-fuelled garage rock to swollen stadium pomp, full of big builds and grandiose gestures.
Album: Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Wednesday, 03 March 2021
Shortly after Arab Strap split up in 2006, Malcolm Middleton was quoted saying “I don’t think we should ever get back together”. That’s the sort of fighting talk that’s just begging to be cast up by tired old hack music writers tasked with reviewing the inevitable comeback – but the trick, in this case, was that the comeback was never inevitable. The Falkirk duo built a reputation on electro-acoustic songs about drink, drugs and shagging.
Blu-ray: Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald...
Tuesday, 02 March 2021
Jindřich Polák ’s 1963 film Ikarie XB-1 (also available from distributor Second Run) still seems fresh, a cerebral, visually arresting sci-fi which...
DVD: T S Eliot - The Search for Happiness
Monday, 01 March 2021
“How it went with the women,” Martin Amis’s phrase for what most straight men are likely to contemplate in the evenings of their lives, would have...
Album: Jane Weaver - Flock
Saturday, 27 February 2021
Flock ends with “Solarised”, a glorious five-plus minutes excursion into retro-futurist pop with the artistic smarts of Saint Etienne and Stereolab....
Album: Blanck Mass - In Furneaux
Healing the disorientation of our pandemic times |
Album: Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
50+ years into his career the veteran shock rocker's latest is contagiously entertaining |
Album: Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Banane Bleue
French-born singer-songwriter Frànçois Marry’s soft focus celebration of internationalism |
Blu-ray: The Ascent
Rich insights into Larisa Shepitko's final masterpiece in a new Criterion edition |
Album: Willie Nelson - That's Life
Willie Nelson takes another dip into the great American songbook |
Blu-ray: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's tragi-comic European epic returns |
Album: Maxïmo Park – Nature Always Wins
Less political and more introspective: the arty Geordies two decades in |
Album: Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
Mature redemption songs from a grime master |
Album: Mathieu Boogaerts - En Anglais
The spirit of Chanson comes to south London |
Album: Mogwai - As the Love Continues
The Glasgow guitar noise veterans crash into indie Valhalla |
DVD/Blu-ray: Mogul Mowgli
A powerful performance reminiscent of the young De Niro marks out this quasi-autobiographical tale |
Blu-ray: The Last Warning
Paul Leni's backstage murder farce is a magicianly tour de force |
Album: Tindersticks - Distractions
The Midlands’ perpetually disappointed romantics go minimalist |
Album: Sia - Music
Pop star's movie tie-in misses the mark |
Album: The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll
The New York quartet's latest is bewitching and raw, if not entirely original |
Album: slowthai - TYRON
Midlands MC musters juicy moments on hit'n'miss second album |
Blu-ray: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri's political foray into the Italian absurd |
Album: Django Django - Glowing in the Dark
A much needed ray of fluorescing festival fun from the indietronic troupers |
DVD/Blu-ray: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Scorsese and Dylan's smoke and mirrors can't obscure an exhilarating tour |
Album: Paul Leary - Born Stupid
Butthole Surfer keeps the freak flag flying high |
Album: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
Anthems for an imaginary festival |
Album: The Staves - Good Woman
The Staveley-Taylors kick over the traces |
Album: John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
The film director and soundtrack composer releases his first solo album in five years |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Masque of the Red Death
Horror is a many-splendoured thing in Roger Corman's 1964 film of Poe's tale |
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