CDs/DVDs
Album: Gregory Porter - All RiseWednesday, 26 August 2020
It’s not all just about that great voice. Gregory Porter also has a mighty generosity of spirit, plus empathy, warmth and optimism. And he has gathered a superb team around him to make a strong album with plenty of scale and depth.All Rise (... Read more... |
DVD: Fanny Lye Deliver'dTuesday, 25 August 2020
There’s something very familiar and also a little disappointing about Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Set in the years following the English Civil War, the story follows a young couple who enter the home of a stern, God-fearing family, disrupting their lives... Read more... |
Album: AK/DK - Shared ParticlesMonday, 24 August 2020
AK/DK’s third album, Shared Particles is a lo-fi electro-punk monster with a psychedelic splatter that has the dancefloor clearly within its crosshairs and the muscle to deliver on its intentions. These punchy, relentless grooves with distorted,... Read more... |
Album: Yello - PointSaturday, 22 August 2020
Some of the greatest acts of all time are the ones which find a sound and never need to alter it. Motörhead, Dinosaur Jr, Status Quo... and in the electronic world, Switzerland’s finest, Yello. It’s over 40 years since they first set millionaire... Read more... |
Album: Bebel Gilberto - AgoraThursday, 20 August 2020
The title, translated from the Portuguese, is “now” – an immediacy that, on first listen, seems apt for Bebel Gilberto’s lush and loose Agora. Originally scheduled for a May release, the Brazilian singer’s first album in six years sings with a... Read more... |
Album: Chuck Prophet - The Land That Time ForgotWednesday, 19 August 2020
Rock’n’roll’s spirit is mother’s milk to Prophet, imbuing everything he touches. His old band Green On Red had stopped being roots rivals to R.E.M. long before their 1992 split, but alongside their co-leader Dan Stuart’s solo trilogy embellishing... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Man Who LaughsTuesday, 18 August 2020
Batman’s cartoonists cribbed the Joker’s face from Conrad Veidt’s rictus grin, backswept hair and crazed stare in this 1928 silent classic. Director Paul Leni’s film can’t though be reduced to either a supervillain’s footnote, or a prelude to... Read more... |
Album: Solveig Slettahjell – Come In From the RainMonday, 17 August 2020
Norwegian singer Solveig Slettahjell has a feeling for slow. Her 2001 debut album was called Slow Motion Orchestra, and in the years since then she has turned her very fine sense of how to convey the essence and the meaning of songs at a very... Read more... |
Blu-ray: EquusSunday, 16 August 2020
It’s quite unusual for the extras on a DVD release to talk down the main attraction. But that appears to be the case with the BFI’s package for Equus, Sidney Lumet’s 1977 adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed stage play. “I didn’t like... Read more... |
Album: Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once WasSaturday, 15 August 2020
During the first decade of this century Conor Oberst was critically anointed as a successor to the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. It didn’t seem to make him very happy. His project Bright Eyes, with musical prodigies Nate Walcott... Read more... |
Album: Burna Boy - Twice as TallFriday, 14 August 2020
There’ve been plenty of global breakout successes from Nigeria in the past decade; D’banj, Davido, Wizkid and more – but by far the most recognisable to the international audience is Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy. And doesn’t he know it. His last album... Read more... |
Album: Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of EndingsThursday, 13 August 2020
Together for over 20 years and with a string of incredibly successful albums, the Scottish trio return with a ninth release that offers more of the relatively sophisticated bombast they've consistently delivered, not least in perfectly-paced... Read more... |
