New releases on CD & DVD
Album: St Vincent - Daddy's Home
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
From her indie roots to the Grammy-winning angular art-rock of her self-titled 2014 album and the new wave glam of MASSEDUCTION, St Vincent has refused to allow her work to be pigeonholed.
Album: The Black Keys – Delta Kream
Monday, 10 May 2021
Blues legends Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside have long provided inspiration for singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, otherwise known as The Black Keys. They provided source material for the opening tracks of their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, while the 2008 EP Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough wore its influence on its sleeve. Literally.
Album: Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
Saturday, 08 May 2021
Shabaka Hutchings is a busy man. Not only does he head up the calypso-reggae-hip-hop-jazz mash-up that is Sons of Kemet, there’s also The Comet is...
Album: Squid - Bright Green Field
Friday, 07 May 2021
It seems fitting that Brighton, a city of youth culture and protest, is the starting point for a band like Squid. Their debut album Bright Green...
Album: Rag'n'Bone Man - Life by...
Thursday, 06 May 2021
Rory Graham was always stoically familiar with life’s knocks. With a stage-name inspired by Galton and Simpson’s fatalistic family tragicomedy...
Album: Van Morrison - Latest Record Project Volume 1
The king of Celtic soul suffers a bad case of lockdown blues |
Blu-ray: Raw
Bloody, compelling French horror in Julia Ducournau's feature debut |
Album: Ziúr - Antifate
Fantastical industrial cabaret from the cellars of Berlin |
Blu-ray: The Chalk Garden
Who wouldn't want Deborah Kerr as a nurturing governess? |
Album: Sufjan Stevens - Convocations
Rich and complex requiem for a dad |
Album: Martial Solal - Coming Yesterday
The great French jazz pianist's last concert |
Album: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis - She Walks in Beauty
Everyone’s favourite Nan crashes the goth poetry club |
Blu-ray: To Sir, with Love
Rose-tinted but affecting look at life in a late 1960s secondary modern |
Album: Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade
Line-up changes are no obstacle to sustained excellence |
DVD/Blu-ray: County Lines
An insider's angle on the impact of Britain's biggest drugs problem |
Album: The Coral - Coral Island
Merseyside veterans' faded fairground concept is steeped in pop craft |
Album: Gojira - Fortitude
French metallers deliver a sonically crafted pummelling their fans should enjoy |
Album: Tom Jones - Surrounded by Time
The man with the big voice looks age in the eye |
Album: Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
Amherst's favourite grunge sons serve up another near flawless album |
Blu-ray: Straight Shooting / Hell Bent
Two John Ford Westerns starring Harry Carey, progenitor of true grit |
Album: Field Music - Flat White Moon
David and Peter Brewis draw inspiration from their own lives |
Album: Toumani Diabate and the London Symphony Orchestra - Kôrôlén
West Africa at the Symphony |
Album: AJ Tracey - Flu Game
West London's superstar rapper tries to find his mature style with mixed success |
Blu-ray: I Was at Home, But...
Cold comfort in this story of family grief from Berlin director Angela Schanelec |
Album: Imelda May - 11 Past the Hour
Irish star makes a rare musical blunder into whiffy 'classic rock' and balladry on her latest |
Album: Lady Dan - I Am the Prophet
Breaking free of patriarchy on Austin country-folk debut |
DVD/Blu-ray: Catch Us If You Can
John Boorman's debut skewered the capitalist exploitation of youth culture |
Album: Alan Vega - Mutator
Ex-Suicide frontman’s posthumous solo album is a sublime blast |
Album: Cheap Trick - In Another World
A rambunctious new offering from the age-defying rock veterans |
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