New releases on CD & DVD
Morrissey - California Son
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Unfortunately, it’s now reached the point where it’s impossible to mention Morrissey without politics overshadowing music. His recent wearing of a For Britain Party lapel pin on US TV is only the latest in a catalogue of public stances that seem to indicate he’s a fan of the far right.
Blu-Ray: The Night of the Generals
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Anatole Litvak’s The Night of the Generals (1967), beautifully restored to 4K, is a tortuous and at times entertaining mash-up of the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Berlin a few years earlier.
CD: Honeyblood - In Plain Sight
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
At its best, the music of Glasgow band Honeyblood often sounded like a girl gang you weren’t cool enough to be a part of - making the news that...
Blu-ray: The Woman in the Window
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
The Woman in the Window (1944) was the first of the two riveting film noirs in which Fritz Lang directed Edward G Robinson as a timid New York...
CD: Sting - My Songs
Monday, 20 May 2019
Some say that every successful rock star's career can be divided into three phases. First comes the youthful exuberance. Next, there's mature...
CD: Flying Lotus - Flamagra
Californian beat scene monarch continues his cosmic drift |
CD: The Waterboys - Where the Action Is
Mike Scott muses on his youthful musical, literary and geographical influences |
DVD/Blu-ray: Maurice
Merchant Ivory's celebrated EM Forster adaptation hits home with new maturity |
CD: Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
The Canadian global cult pop star lets her songs breathe |
CD: Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
Minneapolis singer-rapper offers up the self-love album of the summer |
DVD/Blu-ray: November
Dark Estonian fairy tale, visually delightful but short on scares |
CD: Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Debut that reaches achieves a whole new level of endless morose heartbreak |
CD: K-X-P - IV
Wilful Finnish response to the challenge set by musical technology |
CD: Imperial Wax - Gastwerk Saboteurs
Ex-Fall guys prove themselves to be no mere sidesmen |
CD: Whitesnake - Flesh & Blood
David Coverdale's heavy rock troopers return with a mixed offering |
CD: Holly Herndon - PROTO
Third album finds composer asking: can AI make art? |
Blu-ray: The Big Clock
Brilliantly constructed comedy noir, ripe for rediscovery |
CD: Esperanza Spalding – 12 Little Spells
Jazz for the body and soul |
CD: Clinic – Wheeltappers and Shunters
The Liverpudlian post-punk outfit's return is stuffed full of ideas and imagination |
CD: Eliza Carthy - Restitute
Stark and conceptual new outing for British folk perennial |
Blu-ray: Everybody in Our Family
Bitter but enthralling family drama from the Romanian New Wave |
CD: Leo Sayer - Selfie
Seventies superstar's self-produced latest fails to ignite |
CD: Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
Art school indie darlings lose a member but find new depths |
Blu-ray: Khrustalyov, My Car!
Alexei German’s 1998 phantasmagoria strikes at the heart of the Stalinist horror |
CD: Editors – The Blanck Mass Sessions
An interesting collaboration plays it surprisingly safe |
CD: Amon Amarth - Berserker
Successful Swedish metallers dipped deep in Norse mythology deliver an entertaining ride |
Blu-ray: Ikarie XB 1
Impressive restoration of a cerebral 1960s Czech space opera |
CD: P!nk - Hurts 2B Human
Idiosyncratic pop star plays with genres on eighth album |
CD: Kornél Kovács - Stockholm Marathon
Tropical house taken to Sweden and made interesting |
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