On to the pick of this week’s releases. This Dream Of You was produced in May 2020 by Diana Krall from sessions recorded in 2016 and 2017, on which she worked with her friend and longtime creative partner, Tommy LiPuma. The album features Krall in a quartet with long-time colleagues, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton and…
Letter To You is the brand new studio album from Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band, a rock album fuelled by the band’s heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound. Springsteen’s 20th studio album was recorded at his home studio in New Jersey, and is his first album including the E Street Band since 2012’s High Hopes…
The first of 11 September’s releases comes from Everything Everything, whose approach to Re-Animator was to streamline the creative process by focusing on harmonies and melodies over synths and programming. Inspiration came thick and fast: wonderment at the wider world despite the horror of its politics; existentialism and the prolonged, if fading, youthfulness of being…
Idiot Prayer is a solo piano recital by Nick Cave, recorded at the iconic London venue Alexandra Palace in June. In it, he plays songs from his extensive back catalogue, including rare tracks that most fans will be hearing for the first time. The songs are taken from across the breadth of Cave’s career, including…
We’ve got a little batch of gems for you, all out today. For his first record in … uh, well, just a little over a year(!), Bill Callahan has given us his first Gold Record. They can’t all be gold, and they’re not all six years apart either – all good! You could probably call…
Recorded primarily at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios and the iconic Electric Lady Studios in New York City, 4 represents two years of intensive writing, recording, distilling and amplifying the most potent elements of Run The Jewels’ music. The result is a collection of wall-to-wall bangers illuminating the group’s unique ability to straddle the worlds of…
There are some absolute smashers released this week too. Grammy award-winning singing sensation Gregory Porter’s 6th studio album, All Rise, is a heart-felt, joyful celebration of the evolution of his art to something even more emphatic, emotive, intimate, and universal. Along with producer Troy Miller (Laura Mvula, Jamie Cullum, Emili Sandé), Gregory takes us higher…
Our pick of the releases out on 7 August starts with Jason Molina. After moving from the American midwest to London at some point in 2006 or 2007, separated from his bandmates and friends and never one for idleness, Molina explored his new home with fervour. The ‘Eighth Gate’ was Molina’s way into London. In…
We kick of this week’s super six with Dublin’s Fontaines D.C., who – barely a year after the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album Dogrel, which earned a Mercury Prize nomination and Album of the Year 2019 at both BBC 6Music and Rough Trade record store – have returned with an intensely confident, patient…
The S&M2 concerts by Metallica with San Francisco Symphony in September 2019 were historic on multiple levels, serving as the grand opening of San Francisco’s Chase Center, reuniting the band and orchestra for the first time since the 1999 performances captured on the Grammy-winning S&M album, and featuring the first-ever symphonic renditions of songs written…