New releases on CD & DVD
Album: The Streets - None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive
Friday, 10 July 2020
Given the collaborator list on this album, it should be a bit of a mess.
Album: Shaggy - Hot Shot 2020
Thursday, 09 July 2020
Hot Shot 2020 has been billed as a rerub of Shaggy’s colossal turn of the century release Hot Shot. It’s not quite an accurate description of an album that has already been released in three different forms and shifted nine million copies though.
Album: bdrmm - Bedroom
Wednesday, 08 July 2020
Shoegaze stable Sonic Cathedral has, in truth, always been a much broader church than its name implies. From the psychedelic, sunshine pop of Gulp,...
Blu-ray: Tokyo Story / The Flavour of Green Tea...
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
Yasujirō Ozu’s The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice and Tokyo Story were released in 1952 and 1953 respectively. Tokyo Story regularly features in...
Album: Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow the Rules
Monday, 06 July 2020
After Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Session and the #Quarantunes “robe recitals” comes the album: Unfollow the Rules, no longer stripped back (...
Album: The Jayhawks - XOXO
The Minnesotan veterans are back with more top-drawer Americana |
Album: Polly Scattergood - In This Moment
The enigmatic musician's third album takes listeners on a gently experimental journey |
Album: Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring
Lockdown has made us all a little crazy - Willie Nelson will soothe our souls |
Blu-ray: Criss Cross
Robert Siodmak's masterpiece of film noir - a story of passion and betrayal |
Album: Paul Weller - On Sunset
Another near-perfect album from the Modfather |
Blu-Ray: Laughter in Paradise, The Green Man
Alastair Sim redeems a pair of patchy non-Ealing comedies |
Album: Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
Arch rhymes and secreted emotion from veteran LA ironists |
Album: HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
Energy and experimentation from sister trio at the top of their game |
Album: Nadine Shah – Kitchen Sink
A fresh look at women's woes from one who knows |
Album: Khruangbin - Mordechai
The Texan three-piece are hard to pin down, but easy to love |
DVD/Blu-ray: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Slow-burning passion packs a strong erotic punch in Céline Sciamma's film |
Album: Dream Wife - So When You Gonna…
Arts punks’ sophomore effort dashes expectations |
Blu-Ray: A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder and Marlene Dietrich weave that old black magic in their black market tale |
Album: John Legend - Bigger Love
Soulman as new man, in variations on clean-cut romance |
Album: [MONRHEA] - her[ART]
Debut from female Kenyan electronic producer showcases innovation and possibility |
Album: Neil Young - Homegrown
The unearthing of the singer-songwriter's long-lost album turns up moments of pure gold |
Album: Michael Franti & Spearhead - Work Hard & Be Nice
Ex-Beatnig and Disposable Hero of Hiphoprisy lurches towards the middle of the road |
Album: Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Poetry and romance for an age of disillusion |
CD: Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bob returns with an unadulturated, stone-cold masterpiece |
Album: Norah Jones – Pick Me Up Off the Floor
Strong songwriting captures the mood of the times |
Album: Larkin Poe - Self Made Man
Female-fronted blues-rock stalwarts return with the songs and enough range to carry the day |
Album: Jehnny Beth - To Love Is To Live
Former Savages leader lets her guard down |
Blu-ray: Hagazussa
A woman dubbed a witch yields to psychosis in a superior folk horror movie |
EP: Imelda May - Slip of the Tongue
Spirited poems from Irish rockabilly queen |
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