Here we go again, with six smashers due out in the next two weeks. Performance is the new album from White Denim, a band who have long pulled hard at the parameters of rock & roll, admitting garage punk, soul, psychedelia, prog, jazz and blues while holding onto its vital good-time core. There simply is…
New releases are starting to slow as summer arrives, but there are still some goodies out on 24 June. The prolific Felice Brothers return with Life In The Dark, in which they continue to mine their particular brand of folk/country/rock/soul to great effect. DJ Shadow’s first since 2011 marks a definite shift to original composition,…
This week we have new albums by a wealth of established major artists. The Waterboys release their first studio album in three years, and there are also new releases from Fall Out Boy, Belle and Sebastian, Marilyn Manson, Gretchen Peters, Ryan Bingham, The Decemberists and Sleater / Kinney, and Ólafur Arnalds’s haunting soundtrack of TV…