This week our recommendations cover releases for the next two weeks. The first of 26th July’s recommended releases is Duck, the seventh studio album from Kaiser Chiefs, a band primarily inspired by the new wave and punk rock music of the late 1970s and 1980s. The follow-up to their 2016 album Stay Together includes the…
i,i is Bon Iver’s most expansive, joyful and generous album to date. If For Emma, Forever Ago was the crisp, heart-strung isolation of a northern winter; Bon Iver, Bon Iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning spring; and 22, A Million a blistering, “crazy-energy” summer record; i,i completes the cycle: autumn-coloured, ruminative, steeped. The autumn…
Here we go again, with some more summer lovelies lined up for you! The Flaming Lips are one of the most innovative – or weird, take your pick! – outfits out there, and King’s Mouth: Music And Songs sees them once again treading uncharted territory. The 12 originals on this album are threaded together by…
Frank Turner’s new album, No Man’s Land, tells the fascinating stories of women whose incredible lives have all too often been overlooked, from Kassiani, a Byzantine princess, to Egyptian feminist activist Huda Sha’arawi and Nica Rothschild, a jazz-obsessed heiress who fought for the Free French. “These stories should have been told already, and I suspect…
This week’s summer smashers kick off with Sabaton’s ninth studio album, The Great War, which is the first concept album from the Swedish power-metallers. As bassist Per Sundstrom says: “This is the biggest album we have taken on so far; there is so much depth and story around the songs that we never had before.”…
For over 15 years, Alter Bridge has been known for blurring the line between hard rock and heavy metal. The band produced this album in a way the’ve never used before: Kennedy and Tremonti created complete song ideas that were then worked on by the entire band to form the fourteen songs that make Walk…
Thom Yorke announces a new album, Anima. The LP versions are pressed on 180g orange vinyl in a wide-spine single sleeve with an additional 10th track, ‘Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You For Coming’, plus a download card. The deluxe 2-LP version is packaged in a beautiful hardback book containing both the lyrics and many strange…
As we approach the height of summer and the release schedule slows, we’ve distilled our recommendations for this week down to 4, with each taken from a different genre. Kylie belongs to that elite group of pop stars who need just the one name to be recognised. Now with decades of hits under her belt,…
Good things come to those who wait: and so, this summer, Liam Gallagher returns with a new single, a documentary film, a Glastonbury performance, and, most importantly, a second solo album: Why Me? Why Not. The rest of 2019 will be a bonanza for fans of the one-time Oasis singer. One man is very happy…
We start our hot six for this week with Originals, the latest archive release from Prince, which presents his own versions of the songs he wrote for other artists. From ‘Manic Monday’ through to ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, this collection of previously unreleased recordings demonstrates again, as if there’s anyone who would doubt it, the…