First out of this week’s treasure chest is An Ever Changing View: an expansive, immaculately conceived project that presents trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences. Halsall, who has been hailed as one of the leading figures of the UK jazz renaissance, has never seen himself…
This week our recommended releases kick off with Fontaines D.C., whose evolution, like all the best bands, seems to have happened fast with a steep, seemingly preordained, trajectory since they discovered a shared love of poetry and a common zeal for authentic self-expression at college in Dublin a mere three years ago. It is to…
Following on from the critical and commercial success of their Grammy-nominated 2015 album Born In The Echoes – the band’s 6th consecutive UK number 1 – The Chemical Brothers release their ninth studio album, No Geography. The superstar DJs go back to basics on their feral new album. Mixing it up the way only they…
Release of the week is Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free, his follow-up to my favourite album of 2014, Southeastern. The week also brings a long overdue reissue of Michael Head’s The Magical World of The Strands, a stone classic, and new albums from The Chemical Brothers, Alan Jackson, Iron And Wine & Ben Bridwell,…