New releases on CD & DVD
Album: HAIM - I Quit
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies L.A. nostalgia-fest, Licorice Pizza, has done them no harm. I Quit is, the band says, thus titled because its songs are about “quitting something that isn’t working for us anymore”.
Blu-ray: Darling
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
A look at Darling on its 60th anniversary offers a sobering reality check on the "Swinging Sixties", a reminder of the fallacy of the decade’s gaiety and supposed liberation, especially for women.
Album: Yaya Bey - do it afraid
Monday, 16 June 2025
One of the great untold stories of the past decade is just how potent a cultural force R&B has been. It might not have had the wild musical...
Album: The Young Gods - Appear Disappear
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These...
Album: Sam Binga - Sam Binga Presents Club...
Friday, 13 June 2025
When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which I ended up...
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Album: Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts - Talkin' to the Trees
Musical titan reflects on his life as he careers towards his 80th birthday |
Album: Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts
Lauded US jazz guitarist strikes a balance between the composed and the improvised |
Album: Marina - Princess of Power
Sixth album from L.A.-based Welsh singer is over-the-top but rife with pop gems |
Album: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History
Distinctive, intimate, perfectly pitched |
Album: Van Morrison - Remembering Now
As he approaches 80, a lush new set has an invigorated Van showing his mystical side |
Album: Pulp - More
The very opposite of past it, this immersive offering is perfectly timed |
Album: Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH
Hardcore, ambient and everything in between |
Album: Little Simz - Lotus
A major hurdle in the UK star's career path proves to be no barrier |
Album: Death In Vegas - Death Mask
Electronic music perennial returns with an hour of deep techno illbience |
Blu-ray: Eclipse
The BFI has unearthed an unsettling 1977 thriller starring Tom Conti and Gay Hamilton |
Album: Nick Mulvey - Dark Harvest Pt.1
Fourth album from unique singer-songwriter is patchy but contains gold |
Album: Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful
Psychedelic soft rock of staggering ambition that so, so nearly hits the brief |
Album: Sally Shapiro - Ready to Live a Lie
Dance music-inspired Swedish pop which lacks the necessary vital spark |
Blu-ray: Strange New Worlds - Science Fiction at DEFA
Eye-popping Cold War sci-fi epics from East Germany, superbly remastered and annotated |
Album: Anna Lapwood - Firedove
Broad repertoire and a strong concept |
Album: Morcheeba - Escape the Chaos
More of the same from the trip hop perennials but delivered with tunes and ease |
Album: Ammar 808 - Club Tounsi
Tunisian country roots meet urban tech |
Album: Sports Team - Boys These Days
Genial guitar pop that leans into poshness, boasts smart lyrics, but lacks musical bite |
Album: Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Picking up their never-ending, archly peculiar groove, after 15 years |
Album: Robert Forster - Strawberries
The former Go-Betweens linchpin celebrates life’s quirks and temptations |
Album: Rico Nasty - LETHAL
From chaos to control, Rico Nasty trades bite for balance |
Album: Billy Nomates - Metalhorse
East Midlands post-punker tries on some yacht rock |
Album: MØ - Plæygirl
Scandinavian singer injects a dash of outsider melancholy into her fizzing electro-pop |
DVD/Blu-ray: Slade in Flame
One of the great rock movies gets a 50th anniversary revival |
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