We kick off our six picks for this week with Liam Gallagher, who last summer joined the list of all-time greats to record a prestigious MTV Unplugged session. Having missed Oasis’s 1996 session through illness, the show at Hull’s City Hall found Liam fulfilling some unfinished business entirely on his own terms. The electrifying atmosphere…
Fiona Apple hasn’t released a solo album since 2012’s The Idler Wheel… During those years, while working on numerous collaborations, she has been holding back new material until the right time. Now that new material finally sees the light of day on Fetch The Bolt Cutters, her fifth studio album. Track list: 1. I Want…
We’ve got a special selection for you this week. After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Australian guitar-pop five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them, on Sideways To New Italy. Returning home after the…
Dry is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician P J Harvey, originally released on Too Pure Records on 30 March 1992. The album was recorded at The Icehouse, a local studio in Yeovil. Critically lauded both on release and retrospectively, the album contains the singles ‘Dress’ and ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’. The album is now…
We swing back into the new release groove with a selection from 22 & 29 May. We start with Banana Skin Shoes (out 22 May), the ninth album from Damon Gough under his nom de guerre Badly Drawn Boy, which is a truly personal and heartfelt collection of songs, a huge statement of intent and…
Neil Young has said this album is “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes A Time,” which perfectly describes the warm, semi-acoustic feel of these twelve songs. Originally intended to be released in 1975, the album has never seen the light of day until now, and has a legendary status among Neil’s fans. Seven of…
As we get back into the weekly new release cycle, we bring you three gems released on 15 May. First up, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn stepped out of 2019 with a Top Ten album, Eton Alive, under their belt, their biggest sold-out tour to date and the swagger of a band that have never…
This week’s 6 recommended releases start with one of Rolling Stone’s most anticipated albums of 2020: the new, dynamic collection of 13 songs from Kelsea Ballerini. Aptly titled Kelsea, this is her most authentically self-aware album to date, an introspective look into the emotions of the last two years of her life for which she…
Biffy Clyro have announced their new album, A Celebration Of Endings. “This is a very forward-looking album from a personal perspective and a societal perspective,” explains frontman Simon Neil. “The title is about seeing the joy in things changing, rather than the sadness. Change means progression and evolution. You can retain everything you loved before,…
Here we go with our six picks from this week’s offerings. Although they had already released an album in April last year, Liverpudlian indie outfit Circa Waves are not only doing it all over again within the space of 12 months, but putting out a double album this time! Sad Happy is very much an…