New releases on CD & DVD
DVD/Blu-ray: Iceman
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Much has been made of Iceman’s characters speaking the ancient Rhaetic dialect, unsubtitled, but that’s never a problem: Felix Randau’s no-frills revenge thriller doesn’t need any words.
CD: Cher - Dancing Queen
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Cher. Abba. The Mamma Mia films. If you're not excited by all of the above, I'm afraid we can't be friends. I will not apologise for being thoroughly giddy at the prospect of a Cher album of Abba covers.
CD: Rod Stewart - Blood Red Roses
Monday, 24 September 2018
Rod Stewart continues to hit the spot: he never fails to deliver well-crafted music that draws from the wide range of styles that he clearly loves....
CD: Tim Hecker - Konoyo
Sunday, 23 September 2018
It may be mean to say, but it seems sadness agrees with Tim Hecker. The Canadian has been a mainstay of the global experimental music world almost...
CD: Mudhoney - Digital Garbage
Saturday, 22 September 2018
Mudhoney are a constant in a changing world. When they first burst into our consciousness 30 years ago, few would have put their mortgage on the band...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Breadwinner
Riveting animated tale of life under Taliban rule |
CD: Prince - Piano and a Microphone 1983
Is this a glimmer of hope that treatment of the Paisley Park archives is going to be respectful? |
CD: Christine and the Queens - Chris
Empowering alt-pop that refuses definition |
DVD: Mario
Keeping the game straight: Swiss youth drama tells how football treats its gay players |
CD: Malcolm Middleton - Bananas
Scotland's great mordant romantic returns to his songwriting roots |
CD: Glen Matlock - Good To Go
Toughening-up needed on former Sex Pistol’s first solo album for two decades |
CD: Hawkwind - Road to Utopia
The grizzled, grimey drug-rockers get an easy-listening makeover with somewhat surprising results |
Blu-ray: My Man Godfrey
One of Hollywood's greatest screwball comedies is as lively and hilarious - and pertinent - as ever |
CD: Paul Weller – True Meanings
The Changing Man returns with an album of quietly wonderful surprises |
CD: Loudon Wainwright III - Years in the Making
Intimate treasures from a long career in song |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Producers
Mel Brooks' breakthrough hits the half-century, still blissfully funny |
CD: Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers
RT's white-water ride down a new river of song |
DVD/Blu-ray: Redoubtable
The trouble with Jean-Luc... Michel Hazanavicius’ mischievous riff on Godard and 1968 |
CD: Willie Nelson - My Way
Sinatra standards delivered with unforced ease by the country don |
CD: Orbital - Monsters Exist
The first album of the third coming of the Hartnoll brothers hits the right spot |
CD: Paul McCartney - Egypt Station
All aboard for some late, great new tunes from Macca |
CD: Kandace Springs - Indigo
A nice voice in search of an artistic vision |
DVD: Mary Shelley
Quill pens and poetry voice-over: a remarkable life told with remarkable lack of originality |
CD: Waxahatchee - Great Thunder EP
Brave solo offering, full of intimacy and warmth |
CD: Teksti-TV 666 - Aidattu Tulevaisuus
Intense, inventive and impactful Finnish reimagining of familiar touchstones |
CD: Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
Jason Pierce returns with more songs of heartbreak and redemption |
CD: Many Angled Ones - Suicide: Songs of Alan Vega and Martin Rev
Collection of Suicide cover versions that has abrasive rock'n'techno bite |
CD: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Bristol five-piece tear toxic masculinity a new one in searing second album |
CD: Paul Simon - In The Blue Light
As he winds down his career the master songwriter takes a look back |
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