New releases on CD & DVD
Album: Isabell Gustafsson-Ny - Rosenhagtorn
Friday, 26 July 2024
In a discussion recently a friend compared generative AI to self-driving cars back in 2017: the makers were convinced, perhaps rightly, that they had solved 99.9% of the problem, and therefore would have a viable product within the year. The problem for self-driving cars back then, and generative AI now, is that the last 0.1% is something special. Intractable.
Album: 137 - Strangeness Oscillations
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Something of a jazz supergroup this one: with drum virtuoso, the ubiquitous Seb Rochford, Jim Bar of Get the Blessing, Adrian Utley – formerly of Portishead, a prolific collaborator and producer, but with a heart rooted in jazz, and sax and flute-player Larry Stabbins, among other credits a co-founder of Working Week, recently returned from 10 years’ sailing around the world.
Album: The Very Things GXL - Mr Arc-Eye (Under a...
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Back in the mid-80s, a group of lads from Worcestershire, who’d previously been known as the Cravats, were putting an exceedingly strange spin on the...
Album: Kevin Fowley - À Feu Doux
Monday, 22 July 2024
“Ne pleure pas, Jeannette” is a version of the 15th-century French song "La pernette se lève." It tells the story of Jeannette, whose parents want...
Album: Deep Purple - =1
Saturday, 20 July 2024
Ever since their 2013 album Now What?! hard rock veterans Deep Purple have been on a roll, both creatively and commercially. They’ve seemed a...
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Album: Slowly Moving Camera - Silver Shadow
Trip-hop jazz trio release a sonic cinematic spirit |
Album: Lava La Rue - Starface
Cosmic pop star harks back to a time when eclecticism came easily |
Album: The Raveonettes - Sing…
The Raveonettes add their twist to 10 popular tracks with new cover album |
Album: Orange Goblin - Science Not Fiction
Spirited biker rock from London’s metal veterans |
Album: Chris Cohen - Paint a Room
Former Deerhoof man fashions a shimmering gem |
Album: Catherine Russell and Sean Mason - My Ideal
New life for old songs from superb singer and pianist |
Album: AJ Lee & Blue Summit - City of Glass
Tight, light, airy and persuasive bluegrass-Americana from California |
Blu-ray: Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta)
Iconic, multi-layered Hungarian love story returns |
Album: Joe Goddard - Harmonics
The Hot Chip mainstay serves up a feast - but are there too many cuisines at once? |
Album: Kiiōtō - As Dust we Rise
Jazz-tinged union of the former lynchpins of Lamb and Urban Cookie Collective |
Album: Kokoko! - Butu
Music to raise the spirits of the forest |
Album: Enter Shikari - Dancing on the Frontline
Electronic-hardcore-rock fusion pioneers resist sitting on their hands |
Album: Kasabian - Happenings
Eighth album from Leicester electro-rockers lacks heft |
DVD/Blu-Ray: Back to Black
Sam Taylor-Johnson's enjoyable but soft-focused take on the Amy Winehouse story |
Album: Jeff Mills - The Eyewitness
40+ albums in and the Detroit luminary is still creating bamboozling mesmerism |
Album: Imagine Dragons - Loom
Nevada mainstream giants return with a little that is different, but a lot that is familiar |
Album: Camila Cabello - C,XOXO
She's rattling the bars of her creative cage, but they're not breaking |
Album: Johnny Cash - Songwriter
The Man in Black returns |
Album: Linda Thompson - Proxy Music
Music by appointment to folk-rock royalty, from family and friends |
Blu-ray: Army of Shadows
Melville's French Resistance epic still shocks and thrills |
Album: Madeleine Peyroux - Let's Walk
Ninth album from US singer is a quietly likeable set of retro jazz-blues contemplations |
Album: Zara McFarlane - Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan
McFarlane's best album to date |
Album: Wytch Pycknyck - Wytch Pycknyck
Debut from south coast quartet renders heavy rock as stunningly messed-up psychedelia |
Album: Pepe Deluxé - Comix Sonix
Psychedelic electronica that doesn’t play by anyone’s rules |
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