The first of this week’s smashers is Prestige, the much-anticipated third album from Girl Ray, the three-piece comprising Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss. Co-produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Ben H. Allen (M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) with the band’s singer and songwriter Hankin, Prestige takes the shambolic charm of their debut, Earl…
Emma Anderson, co-founder of Lush, is one of the most underrated British songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze and Britpop. She has now teamed up with producer James Chapman (aka Maps) for her debut solo album, Pearlies, an album that combines effervescent electronic pop with psych and folk textures with lyrics covering…
Kicking off this week’s hotties is Starcatcher, which was written and recorded by Greta Van Fleet – lead singer Josh Kizska, guitarist Jake Kizska, bassist/keyboardist Sam Kizska and drummer Danny Wagner – alongside Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb at the legendary RCA Studios in Nashville, using the large recording room to capture the pure energy of…
The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light is a classic Streets album – filled with Mike Skinner’s trademark lyrical wizardry and beats honed over a decade of building his other career as a legitimate bass/rap DJ in clubs. All the songs on the album were written by Skinner but feature vocal contributions from longtime…
The first of this week’s goodies is The Greater Wings, the first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne. The album is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade,…
Israel Nash first rose to fame in Europe, where he built a loyal following with a series of critically acclaimed albums that landed him a deal with the renowned Loose Music label. As American audiences began to catch on, the Missouri native relocated to Dripping Springs, Texas, where he built his own recording studio on…
This week’s bangers open with Chaos for the Fly, the debut solo album from Grian Chatten, vocalist of Dublin’s critically acclaimed band Fontaines D.C. Rare moments of respite from a relentless touring schedule afforded Chatten the opportunity to start work on something for himself, occupying a completely different headspace from his hugely successful work within…
Sigur Rós’s first new studio album in ten years, ÁTTA, is their most intimate and emotionally direct record to date. Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you hear on ÁTTA, there’s a new compulsion and drive to…
The first of this week’s sizzlers comes from Joni Mitchell, who stunned the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer when she gave a surprise performance – her first in 20 years – delivering a heartfelt set filled with some of her greatest songs. Mitchell’s triumphant return to the stage on 24 July 2022 is now…
Wild Creatures is a career retrospective album containing twenty-three of the most impactful tracks from Neko Case’s discography. With a career spanning over twenty years, she has famously collaborated with The New Pornographers and Case/Lang/Veirs in addition to releasing many critically acclaimed solo albums, including Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Middle Cyclone and, most recently,…