The first of our new year picks is from rock icons Alter Bridge, who follow 2022’s massive Pawns & Kings (#1 US Hard Music Albums, #2 US Billboard 200 With Hard Rock Genre, #3 US Current Rock Albums) with their hard-hitting new self-titled album. First single ‘Silent Divide’ kicks off with a charging heavy metal-tinged…
The Delines were finishing the Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom sessions when Willy Vlautin brought in a tune called ‘Walking with His Sleeves Down’, but the song didn’t quite fit the record so they set it aside along with ‘The Reckless Life’, ‘Dilaudid Diane’ (featured in their recent encores) and ‘Jumping Off in Madras’. When…
Continuing from last week, here are six more albums I thoroughly enjoyed from this year. Again some you may know, some you may hate and some you may go ‘Who??’ Click on an image to order a copy. Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere CD £13.99 / 2-LP £32.99 Exceptional prog metal from the now…
There will be no weekly album releases until the new year now. Instead I will highlight a few of the albums I have enjoyed this year. I have some in stock and I can easily order any others you’re interested in. There is no order to these, just what I think have been great albums.…
In a cramped club on the lower east side of Manhattan, armed with only an electric guitar, Jeff Buckley stunned audiences with his mysterious, emotionally uncompromising live sets, packed with eclectic covers and his own originals. The four-track Live at Sin-e EP, released in 1993, was his debut release for Columbia Records. It has now…
A number of classic albums are being reissued in the run-up to Christmas. We’ve selected an essential few along with some brand-new albums. The first comes from Babyshambles: Produced by The Clash’s Mick Jones and boasting a vocal cameo from Kate Moss, 2005’s Down in Albion evokes the sights and smells of its era while…
In the late ’90s, Mansun carved out their own corner of British music with albums like Attack of the Grey Lantern (a UK No.1), Six and Little Kix – works that built a loyal and enduring cult following with Draper at the heart of the chaos. Nearly three decades later, he’s revisiting that world and…
The first of this week’s hot six comes from Jacob Collier, who follows the kaleidoscopic ambition of Djesse Vol. 4 with The Light for Days – a stripped-back, emotionally resonant body of work that reflects the quiet core of his artistry, trading scale for intimacy and spotlighting Jacob’s unmistakable voice and a deepening relationship with…
To mark the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s groundbreaking tenth studio album, Station to Station, this limited-edition half-speed mastered LP has been cut by John Webber at AIR Studios on a customised Neumann VMS80 lathe with recapped electronics. The audio is sourced from 192kHz restored masters of the original Hit Factory tapes, with no additional…
New releases are getting thin on the ground as Christmas approaches, but here are some gems out next week. First up are Copenhagen’s foremost aural travellers, Papir, who conjure vast and melodic soundscapes using only guitar, bass and drums. One of the most unique bands in the modern European psych rock scene, they continue to…