CDs/DVDs
Album: Deftones - Private MusicThursday, 21 August 2025
Deftones’ Private Music arrives as the band’s long-awaited tenth studio album, carrying with it the weight of expectation built from nearly three decades of powerful records. Known for mixing aggression, atmosphere and vulnerability in equal measure... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Finis TerraeTuesday, 26 August 2025
British audiences of a certain age will note Finis Terrae’s similarity to Finisterre, one of the 31 sea areas listed in the BBC’s Shipping Forecast. Or previously listed – it was renamed Fitzroy in 2002 to avoid confusion with another Finisterre off... Read more... |
Album: Nova Twins - Parasites & ButterfliesMonday, 25 August 2025
For Nova Twins, the alternative rock/metal duo of Amy Love and Georgia South, the years since 2020 have been a non-stop journey of evolution. Exploding from the independent UK rock scene, to sharing the stage with headline names like Bring Me The... Read more... |
Album: Blood Orange - Essex HoneySaturday, 23 August 2025
The more time goes by, the more it seems like Dev Hynes might be the antidote to what Guy Debord called “the society of the spectacle”. As is documented in the fantastic recent book Songs in the Key of MP3, Hynes is representative of a type of... Read more... |
Album: Wolf Alice - ClearingFriday, 22 August 2025
Wolf Alice are a band who consistently over-deliver. Their presentation is so staid, their cited influences so safe (The Beatles! Blur!), their politics so “bad things are bad, m’kay?”, that they give every impression they’re going to be bland and... Read more... |
Album: Eve Adams - American DustWednesday, 20 August 2025
A sticker on the cover of American Dust is says it’s “an ode to the beauty of the American Southwest,” specifically the High Desert area within the wider setting of California's Mojave Desert. North-East of Los Angeles, this region contrasts with... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Who Wants to Kill Jessie?Tuesday, 19 August 2025
"Crazy comedy" was a recognised subgenre in post-war Czech cinema. Turn to this disc’s bonus features first and watch Michael Brooke’s video essay Those Crazy Czechs, an entertaining whistle-stop guide which piqued my curiosity about films such as... Read more... |
Album: Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of EverythingMonday, 18 August 2025
UK dub maestro and producer, Adrian Sherwood is hardly what anyone might call a slacker, but it’s 13 years since the release of his last solo album, Survival and Resistance. Those who have been eagerly anticipating more of his particular take on one... Read more... |
Album: Dinosaur Pile-Up - I've Felt BetterSaturday, 16 August 2025
The history of popular music is littered with bands who fulfilled everything needed to make it. Then fate kicked them in the teeth. Goofin’ good time Brit heavy rockers Dinosaur Pile-Up have had some rubbish luck.In 2019, after slogging the circuit... Read more... |
Album: Tom Grennan - Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn't Want To BeFriday, 15 August 2025
Who’d have guessed that a dude who first came to attention a decade ago guesting on a cheesy Chase & Status drum & bass track would likely now be heading for his third chart-topping album? Tom Grennan’s done well.His first two albums lent... Read more... |
Album: Emma Smith - Bitter OrangeThursday, 14 August 2025
Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now signed to hip Brooklyn label La Reserve, with Bitter Orange, a new album of classics from the Great American... Read more... |
Album: Marissa Nadler - New RadiationsWednesday, 13 August 2025
“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song is about a farewell. The album ends with “Sad Satellite,” where the titular heavenly object is used as a metaphor... Read more... |
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