New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Francis Lung - Miracle
Thursday, 17 June 2021
After listening to Miracle on repeat, the impression which lingers is that its creator has assimilated a lot of music. First and third album Big Star, Magnetic Fields, The Left Banke, the non-rock side of Abbey Road, Nilsson, Lloyd Cole, Plush, Emitt Rhodes, the poppy side of Field Music, a smidge of Elliott Smith, the swoon of Brian Wilson.
Blu-ray: Lake Mungo
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Lake Mungo (2008) is a dread-laden Australian Gothic thriller that masquerades as a straight-faced documentary.
Album: Joan Armatrading - Consequences
Monday, 14 June 2021
Back in dark days of the first lockdown when she was birthing her new album, Joan Armatrading was the subject of a TV documentary called, not...
Blu-ray: The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)
Sunday, 13 June 2021
The German director Robert Wiene is best known for The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), perhaps the most influential piece of expressionist cinema...
Album: Maroon 5 - Jordi
Friday, 11 June 2021
Well this is bleak. Seven studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, one remix album, three EPs, 33 singles, 23 music videos, 120...
Album: Garbage - No Gods No Masters
Shirley Manson-fronted rockers sound as vital as ever |
Album: Marina - Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land
Fifth album is the best so far from a re-energised, revitalised, newly mouthy pop star |
Album: James - All the Colours of You
Covid and other contemporary ills haunt the Manchester perennials |
Blu-ray: The World of Wong Kar Wai
A set of seven magical films from Hong Kong's master auteur |
Album: Tomorrow X Together - The Chaos Chapter: Freeze
An impressively varied second album from the K-pop five-piece |
Album: Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
A big venue proposition who remain individual and creatively dynamic |
Album: The Cult of Dom Keller – They Carried the Dead in a UFO
Fierce psychedelic weirdery straight out of Nottingham |
Album: Greentea Peng - Man Made
Rebel dub soul from south London: both of the now and tapped into a deep lineage |
Blu-ray: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The cult high-school comedy that broke the mould |
Album: Liz Phair - Soberish
A welcome return from a songwriter with something to say |
Album: Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting
A strong return for the newly expanded quintet |
Album: Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
ZZ Top’s frontman still has the blues |
Album: Scotch Rolex - TEWARI
Japanese Berliner's music meets that of the East African electronic avant-garde |
Blu-ray: Masculin Féminin
Godard's playful and philosophical cinema |
Album: black midi – Cavalcade
London experimentalists evolve into new pastures |
Album: Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
Hendrix of the desert blasts away |
Album: Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
An arrestingly upbeat release from the minstrels of millennial angst |
Album: Gary Numan - Intruder
The unsinkable electro-goth loudly tackles global environmental meltdown |
Album: Lambchop - Showtunes
The always mordant Kurt Wagner reaches new levels of gloom |
Blu-ray: Radio On
British cinema's finest road movie is anti-British cinema |
Album: Blk Jks - Abantu/Before Humans
The breathless return of the Johannesburg art-rockers after over a decade away |
Blu-ray: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Superb Cold War spy thriller looks as good as ever |
Album: Jorja Smith - Be Right Back
Stop-gap mini-album from Walsall's neo-soulstress has slow-burning appeal |
Album: Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1)
Waking up the nation after lockdown |
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