This has been another cracking week for new releases where distilling the likely lads down to six proved a trial – still, here we go! Michaela Anne has long been lauded for her timeless voice and narrative depth, and Desert Dove takes that to the next level. The songwriting is confessional and unforgettable without being…
The 1975 have announced the follow-up to their Brit-Award winner A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The band’s fourth album, Notes On A Conditional Form, is already set to be the most anticipated album of 2020. It features the lead single ‘People’ and the Greta Thunberg call-to-arms album opener, ‘The 1975’. The band are working…
Autumn must surely be on its way – new releases are coming thick and fast again, and we had trouble narrowing it down to just six smashers for this week! We kick off with Why Me? Why Not, a clear upgrade on As You Were but not a radical departure from it, which will come…
On the 23rd of August 1999, David Bowie played an intimate set for invited guests at The Manhattan Centre’s Grand Ballroom in New York for the VH1 Storytellers series. Ten years later, in 2009, a recording of the evening was released on CD, DVD and download. Now, 20 years on, the performance will finally be…
The first of our recommendations this week come from The Lumineers, whose latest, III, is a concept album spanning three generations of a fictitious family known as the Sparks, with each of the three chapters focusing on one main character in the album’s storyline. III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of…
Giants Of All Sizes is the eighth studio album by English alternative-rock titans Elbow, and features guests including Jesca Hoop, The Plumedores and South London newcomer Chilli Chilton. Lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey describes the album as: “an angry, old blue lament which finds its salvation in family, friends, the band and new life.”…
Two Hands is the second album in less than a year from American indie rock band Big Thief. Where U.F.O.F. layered mysterious sounds and effects for levitation, Two Hands grounds itself on dried-out, cracked desert dirt. The album had to be different from its predecessor, and it was predominantly recorded live with almost no overdubs.…
This week we’ve gathered a full set of 6 lovelies to recommend to you. We start with Temples, who return with their third album, Hot Motion: a brilliantly crafted, thoughtfully recorded collection. The album’s propulsive, seemingly immediate songs soon reveal an impressive depth of ideas and energy with subsequent listens – as its title warns,…
Michael Kiwanuka’s third studio album, entitled simply Kiwanuka, is Michael serving from the heart, from the mind, and from the soul. The album was recorded in New York, LA and London with Danger Mouse and Inflo at the controls, the same production team that combined so magnificently on Love & Hate. They take the basic…
Released on 26 September 1969, Abbey Road was not the final album by The Beatles, as Let It Be followed in 1970, but it was the last one John, Paul, George, and Ringo recorded together as a band. Abbey Road’s 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a suite of beautifully presented packages. The album’s 17…