This week’s smashers kick off with The Winding Way, the highly anticipated new studio album from The Teskey Brothers. Four years after the boys from Warrandyte’s globe-conquering second album, Run Home Slow (2019), which followed their debut album Half Mile Harvest (2017), the artistic vision of vocalist Josh Teskey and his brother, guitarist and engineer…
The cream of 12 February’s crop starts with Tyron is a tale of two halves exposing human complexity. Just as with the narrative of slowthai’s own life, there are always two sides to every story. Side one re-introduces us to the classic hubris, machismo, and braggadocio typical of rap music. Side two takes what you…
The year has really kicked into action with loads of releases for 26 January. Our first recommended release is All Melody, the seventh studio album from Nils Frahm, whose new bespoke studio has allowed him the freedom to explore without restriction. Merging musical flavours like jazz, house and dub all orbit Frahm’s classically influenced core.…
Release of the week for 4 May just has to be Heartbreak Pass, the new album by Howe Gelb’s collective Giant Sand. This is his first release since his solo effort, The Coincidentalist. There are also brand new releases by Mumford & Sons, Django Django, My Morning Jacket, Palma Violets, Lucy Spraggan, Lau and Nordic…