We crack open this week’s box of delights to reveal the aforementioned Old Kind Of Magic, the fifth long-player from Native Harrow, which arrives two years into their new life in Sussex. In this new place, they have self-produced a work that is simultaneously their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date. The…
We kick off this week’s picks with JARV IS…, whose debut album, Beyond The Pale, is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since 2009. It was written in collaboration with live audiences: as the material they were playing was in a state of flux, the band decided to record their live shows so that…
Our 6 summer sizzlers for 3 & 10 August start with James, who are releasing their 15th(!) studio album, Living In Extraordinary Times. As Tim Booth puts it: “We knew something was up when Leicester City won the league then Brexit, then Trump. It’s as if we’d slipped into an alternate reality, a Philip K Dick…