A Very Lonely Solstice, the new album from Fleet Foxes, captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcast as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency tightening restrictions again in response to increasing COVID-19 cases. Pecknold describes the set as…
The first of this week’s peaches comes from Paul Cauthen, who first earned his reputation as a fire-breathing truth-teller with the acclaimed roots-rock band Sons of Fathers, but it wasn’t until the 2016 release of his solo debut, My Gospel, that he truly tapped into the full depth of his prodigious talents. Vice Noisey dubbed…
Muse frontman Matt Bellamy says: “Will Of The People was created in Los Angeles and London and is influenced by the increasing uncertainty and instability in the world. A pandemic, new wars in Europe, massive protests & riots, an attempted insurrection, Western democracy wavering, rising authoritarianism, wildfires and natural disasters and the destabilization of the…
This week’s spring selection bursts open with Cowboy Junkies – long admired for the carefully chosen cover versions of songs that have been part of their repertoire from the very beginning – who release Songs Of The Recollection, which consists of nine covers: some newly recorded and others curated from previous album projects. This inspired,…
Dropout Boogie will be released one day before the twentieth anniversary of The Black Keys’ first album, The Big Come Up. As they have done their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a number of first takes that…
This week’s zingers start with Torpedo, which signals a band refreshed, inspired by the new and not resting on the strength of their considerable successes. Like so many of Feeder’s high points, Torpedo is a communal experience that considers the processes through which we deal with what’s in front of us. Musically it acts as…
A Bit Of Previous is the tenth studio album by Belle & Sebastian and their first full-length in seven years. This may be surprising to anyone following the recent life pursuits of the Glasgow 7-piece: a trilogy of EPs; a soundtrack for the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird; The Boaty Weekender – a…
We kick of this week’s releases with Keep On With Falling, the first album of all-new music in 24 years from The Boo Radleys, whose reformation earlier this year got a hugely warm welcome. Rising from cult-shoegaze band to the very forefront of British guitar pop inside one eventful decade, The Boo Radleys began their…
When Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin, one of the most vital new voices in rock, began to consider the themes of her new album, three vivid words began to emerge: joy, fear and endlessness. The artwork of the band’s third full-length, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, is a surreal image that evokes the ducks…