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Album: The Waterboys - Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
Saturday, 05 April 2025
Mike Scott is The Waterboys. Launched by wide-eyed 1980s folk-rock, and “The Whole of the Moon”, he’s long since roamed into whatever stylistic gumbo he fancies. The latest album – the band’s 16th – is a concept piece, a 25-track sonic biography of the late Hollywood maverick Dennis Hopper.
Album: Miki Berenyi Trio - Tripla
Friday, 04 April 2025
I saw the Miki Berenyi Trio play a warmly received sold out set at the Lexington last autumn, at which many of the songs now coming out on Tripla ("three" in Hungarian) had their live previews, alongside a few from the Lush years – the likes of “Kiss Chase” and “Ladykillers” – and Piroshka, the four-piece that emerged briefly from the ashes of the 2016 Lush reunion.
Album: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death...
Thursday, 03 April 2025
Pigsx7 have hardly got a reputation for penning tender and soulful ballads, but Death Hilarious is a particularly aggressive and punishing album even...
Album: Elton John and Brandi Carlile - Who...
Wednesday, 02 April 2025
Spring may have sprung, but there’s little in life to truly raise the sprits, so this week’s release of Who Believes in Angels? the much-...
DVD/Blu-ray: The Substance
Tuesday, 01 April 2025
“I knew I wanted all the effects practical and made for real. The movie is about flesh and bones, about women’s bodies.”Coralie Fargeat, writer,...
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Album: Erlend Apneseth - Song Over Støv
Norwegian musical impressionist’s journey into the centre of a vortex |
Album: Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk
A match made in urban nightlife and the mysteries of everyday living |
Album: Will Smith - Based on a True Story
Big Willie’s back - but maybe he should’ve stayed home |
Album: Perfume Genius - Glory
Album seven from an artist carving out his own space in the most modernist of ways |
Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia
Their first album in 14 years looks hard at the past, and its role in the present |
Blu-ray: Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper's frenzied, far out space sex vampire epic |
Album: Toria Wooff - Toria Wooff
Assured but too measured debut album from Americana-inclined singer-songwriter |
Album: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco - I Said I Love You First
An album by a pair of loved-up Hollywood celebs that is, whisper it, rather good |
Album: The Horrors - Night Life
A new line-up proves no hindrance to a band bringing electro-rock zip to the darkness |
Album: Billy Hart Quartet - Just
The drum legend's group in perfect balance |
Album: Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
South Londoner’s smoky sophomore album is loaded with dope tunes |
Album: The Loft - Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same
Belated debut album from the early Creation Records mainstays |
Album: Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow
Small stories, big talent from the Alabaman storyteller extraordinaire |
Album: Steven Wilson - The Overview
Infectious prog concept LP ponders Earth's insignificance and what lies beyond |
Album: Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make Believe
An impressive welcome back to the group's imaginitive universe |
Blu-ray: The Barnabáš Kos Case
Witty and stylish Slovak black comedy, alarmingly prescient |
Album: Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story
At once a celebration and an exploration of the timeless Dust Bowl Balladeer |
Album: Lady Gaga - Mayhem
The godmother of theatre-kid pop is back! Back!! BACK!!! |
Blu-ray: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Tobe Hooper's grisly, blackly comic sequel patents a surreal Texas zone all its own |
Album: Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
Second album from Canadian metalcore band is a sonic assault yet graceful and beautiful |
Album: The Burning Hell - Ghost Palace
Reflective Canadians interpret an increasingly unfathomable world |
Album: Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light
Sitar titan blends the sounds of modern India into her travelogue triptych |
Album: Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
Tull burst out again with a set of bristling folk-prog anthems |
Album: Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
The Brighton metallers condense their 20-year career into an impactful concoction |
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