New releases for 25 October 2019

This has been another stellar week for releases, and the task of picking the best 6 hasn’t got any easier. But here we go … His sixth album in just four years, Three Chords & The Truth, is further proof that Van Morrison is one of the greatest recording artists of all time and remains…

New releases for 18 October 2019

On with this week’s six smashers. There’s a line on the outstanding new Mark Lanegan Band album, Somebody’s Knocking, that sticks in the listener’s mind long after the record stops spinning: “I felt its sound / down to my darkest, deepest root.” Coming towards the close of the final track ‘Two Bells Ringing At Once’…

New releases for 11 October 2019

Once again we have winnowed 6 splendid recommendations from the chaff of this week’s releases. First is Giants Of All Sizes, the eighth studio album by Elbow. Lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey describes the album as: “an angry, old blue lament which finds its salvation in family, friends, the band and new life.” This…

New releases for 4 October 2019

Here we go again with the biggest release week for plenty of months. Our distilled 6 this week start with All Mirrors, which tracks the artistic voyage of the wonderful Angel Olsen: her beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and…

New releases for 27 September 2019

This has been another cracking week for new releases where distilling the likely lads down to six proved a trial – still, here we go! Michaela Anne has long been lauded for her timeless voice and narrative depth, and Desert Dove takes that to the next level. The songwriting is confessional and unforgettable without being…

Pre-sale of the week: The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form, out 21 February

The 1975 have announced the follow-up to their Brit-Award winner A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The band’s fourth album, Notes On A Conditional Form, is already set to be the most anticipated album of 2020. It features the lead single ‘People’ and the Greta Thunberg call-to-arms album opener, ‘The 1975’. The band are working…