New music
Album: Susanne Sundfør - BlómiMonday, 24 April 2023
From Icelandic, blómi translates as “bloom” or “flower”. Other song titles from the new album by Norway's Susanne Sundfør also look Icelandic. Actually, it’s Old Norse, which informs modern Icelandic. Although one track is recited in German the... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Joe Meek And The Blue Men - I Hear A New World SessionsSunday, 23 April 2023
March 1960’s I Hear A New World EP was British pop at its most extraordinary. As its liner notes put it, it was “a strange record”: one seeking to aurally reflect life on the moon and in outer space. Musique concrète, pop and studio-only sonic... Read more... |
Album: The Orb - PrismSunday, 23 April 2023
The Orb’s story is rooted in the widescreen psychedelic explorations of Pink Floyd as much as the MDMA-fuelled musical adventures of acid house. This is music to get high to, laced with all the effects, from distortion to reverb, that play with the... Read more... |
Album: Easy Star All Stars - Ziggy StardubSaturday, 22 April 2023
You’ve got to hand it to New Yorkers Easy Star All Stars: their records do what they say on the tin. This starts with a simple reggae drum rhythm fading in, couple of echo effects, a nifty fill, then in comes David Hinds of Steel Pulse singing,... Read more... |
Album: Everything But The Girl - FuseFriday, 21 April 2023
24 years since their last album, it’s pleasing to have Everything But The Girl back. That voice! They were conceived amidst post-post-punk “new pop” conceptualism, consistently made hit albums for 15 years, and only quit because they’d become bored... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Record Store Day Special 2023Thursday, 20 April 2023
Record Store Day is nearly here. At theartsdesk on Vinyl we have a selection of goodies which are appearing exclusively in record shops. See anything you fancy?THEARTSDESK ON VINYL’S VINYL OF RECORD STORE DAY APRIL 2023Suicide A Way of Life Rareties... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl 76: Elton John, Pharoah Sanders, Hellripper, Jah Wobble, T-Rex and moreWednesday, 19 April 2023
There will be two theartsdesk on Vinyls this week. The first is here, an epic 11,000 words on a multitude of new releases in every genre, from reissues of classics to spanking new strangeness. There’s something for everyone. On Thursday we’ll have a... Read more... |
Album: Lucy Farrell - We Are Only SoundWednesday, 19 April 2023
Lucy Farrell has a singular voice, contained and controlled but subtle and expressive. Since graduating from Newcastle’s folk course in the noughties she’s performed and recorded as a duo with Jonny Kearney, as one quarter of the BBC Folk Award-... Read more... |
Goat, The Mill, Birmingham review - Scandinavian pagans see the weekend out in styleTuesday, 18 April 2023
It might be nigh on six months since Scandinavian shamen (and women) Goat released their latest opus, Oh Death, but it has taken until now for them to finally bring their energetic live show back to the UK. On Sunday’s evidence, it is a wait that... Read more... |
Album: Rodrigo y Gabriela - In Between Thoughts… A New WorldMonday, 17 April 2023
Ahead of two spring dates in the UK, Rodrigo y Gabriela release their seventh studio album, In Between Thoughts… A New World, a beguiling set of guitar-based music that has echoes through time and hints of rumba-flamenco and occasionally the heavy... Read more... |
Music Reissues Weekly: Pharoah Sanders Quartet - Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980Sunday, 16 April 2023
Promises attracted a lot of attention upon its 2020 release. The album brought together UK electronica artist Floating Points, The London Symphony Orchestra and storied US jazz individualist Pharoah Sanders, who died in September 2022. It became his... Read more... |
The Damned, Town Hall, Birmingham review - original punks bring some darkadelica to a full houseSaturday, 15 April 2023
The last time I saw the Damned live in concert was in a big tent in Finsbury Park in 1986, to celebrate the band’s 10th anniversary. It remains, without any doubt, the most violent gig that I’ve found myself experiencing to this day.The audience at... Read more... |
