New releases on CD & DVD
CD: Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Sunday, 23 February 2020
Grimes is hilarious. For all the grandiose conceptualism, apocalyptic visions, high tech sonic manipulation, outré costumes, modish witchery, multiple personas, arch media baiting with her billionaire boyfriend and all the rest, she is still essentially a dork.
Album: BTS – Map of the Soul: 7
Saturday, 22 February 2020
To anyone out of their teens or without a grasp of the Korean language, BTS are probably an unknown quantity. Yet, they are probably the most successful boyband, if not the most successful band, in the world.
Album: Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man
Friday, 21 February 2020
Ozzy Osbourne stands on the front cover of his new album grinning mischievously in a horror-style bowler hat and cane. Look into the eyes,...
Album: Moonlight Benjamin - Simido
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Moonlight Benjamin, the fierce and deep-voiced vocalist from Haiti, is a powerful presence on stage. On her second album, she is once again supported...
Blu-ray: 8 ½
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
8 ½ is one of the classic films about the art of cinema. There is something about the make-believe of movies, and our buying into the dreams they...
Album: Lanterns On The Lake - Spook The Herd
The atmospheric Newcastle band wrestle with the issues of the day |
Album: Pat Metheny – From This Place
A beautiful but complex album |
Album: Tami Neilson - CHICKABOOM!
New Zealand-based country powerhouse keeps it in the family |
Album: Huey Lewis and the News - Weather
Perennial West Coast feel-good band bring the bland on possibly their final outing |
Album: Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
Kevin Parker returns with his most optimistic album yet |
Album: Elephant Stone - Hollow
Canadian space cadets go inter-planetary |
CD: Tennis - Swimmer
Deceptively simple but well-honed little symphonies |
CD: Green Day - Father of All Motherfuckers
The Californian punk trio embrace rock'n'roll as they reach their teens |
Album: La Roux - Supervision
Key 21st century British synth-pop doyen investigates frothy electro-disco to disappointing effect |
Album: Sepultura – Quadra
Brazilian metal giants explore new territories on their 15th album |
Blu-ray: Black Angel
Dan Duryea stars as a sympathetic noir fall guy in director Roy William Neill's swansong |
Album: Seth Lakeman - A Pilgrim's Tale
Folk star's Mayflower album casts off on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers' sailing |
Album: Isobel Campbell - There Is No Other
Too-deliberate return from former Belle & Sebastian mainstay and Mark Lanegan collaborator |
Album: Meghan Trainor - Treat Myself
The "All About that Bass" star mixes in some treble |
Album: Kesha - High Road
Having fought demons, pop's wild woman gets back to being enjoyably brash |
DVD/Blu-ray: Bait
Mark Jenkin's acclaimed first feature: tensions spark within a Cornish fishing village |
Album: Sam Lee, Old Wow - a hymn to Mother Nature
Sam Lee's third album reinvigorates the folk tradition |
Album: Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming
Autobiography and poetry on mesmerising debut |
Album: Black Lips - Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart
Atlanta garage rockers fully embrace their inner country and western souls |
Blu-ray: Night Tide
Surreal sorcery from a Californian original, an early role from Dennis Hopper |
Album: Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot
PSB find nostalgic reveries in the dancefloor's shadows |
Album: Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By
Slim Shady's surprise return is patchily potent |
Album: Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
All grown up now, and back on their bikes |
Album: Aoife Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction
Irish newcomer’s translucent debut album is an early candidate for 2020’s best-of lists |
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