Radiate Like This, the much-anticipated new record from Warpaint – not to mention that it’s their first in almost 6 years – arrives with its own very modern mythology intact, continuing the strange, brilliant, beautiful story of the band and quite neatly picking up where Heads Up left off. If the previous album was the…
Our soaraway six, hand-picked from the many new releases out next week, starts with the sixth full-length studio album from Cate Le Bon – her follow-up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward – whose title, Pompeii, suggests a coming apocalypse. However, this metaphor eclipses any dissection of the immediate present, says Le Bon, although this is not…
Finding that luck, love and letting things roll works out for him just fine, Michael Head leads his Red Elastic Band into a fresh chapter with optimism and some of the best music of his career, announcing his new, Bill Ryder-Jones-produced album, Dear Scott. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
This week’s set of goodies is opened by multi-Grammy award winner Lucinda Williams with the latest installment in Lu’s Jukebox, a six-volume series of mostly full-band performances recorded live at Ray Kennedy’s Room & Board Studio in Nashville. Each volume features a themed set of songs by other artists curated by Lucinda, and in Vol.…
After blazing a trail with 2020’s critically acclaimed Good Luck Seeker, The Waterboys waste no time in delivering again with the announcement of their brand new record, All Souls Hill – nine tracks of Waterboys brilliance. This is current, on-the-money social commentary, but with an air of hope. Click here for more details and to…
This week’s new releases open with Aoife O’Donovan, co-founder of the trio I’m With Her, who continues her passion for collaboration on Age Of Apathy, an album that includes guest appearances by Madison Cunningham and Allison Russell. The album’s singles include ‘Phoenix’, ‘Passengers’ and ‘Prodigal Daughter’. Formed in 2019, Yard Act began life when friends…
Father John Misty returns with Chloë And The Next 20th Century, his fifth album and first new material since the release of God’s Favorite Customer in 2018. The album was written and recorded between August and December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Tillman and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their long-term…
Our pick of the new year’s releases opens with Elvis Costello & The Imposters, who release The Boy Named If (14 Jan), a new album of urgent, immediate songs with bright melodies, guitar solos that sting and a quick step to the rhythm. Costello tells us: “The full title of this record is The Boy…
Our pick of releases for the run-up to Christmas opens with the extraordinary performance captured on An Orchestrated Songbook in which Paul Weller exquisitely reworked and updated a quintessential selection of his vast catalogue into 75 minutes of breath-taking music that was broadcast by the BBC. The set list includes classic tracks from The Jam,…
After releasing two of the hottest singles of the year, Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Now the duo is thrilled to unveil news of their…