Leading off this week’s fab five is More Blood, More Tracks, the latest chapter in the highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series. This volume – the 14th – contains 11 recordings made during the sessions for the artist’s 1975 masterpiece, Blood On The Tracks, which redefined the boundaries and structures of modern pop songwriting. The…
Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable in favour of something more present. Throughout the album, Sharon Van Etten veers towards the driving, dark glimmer moods that have illuminated the edges of her music and pursues…
Our six treats for this week open with Aviary, the latest from Los Angeles composer Julia Holter. It’s an epic journey and her most breathtakingly expansive album yet. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 album Have You In My Wilderness is full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. “Amidst all the internal and…
Glastonbury 2000 documents David Bowie’s legendary Sunday-night headline performance on 25 June at the most famous festival on Earth. The full 21-song performance is released here for the first time. The set includes many of David’s greatest hits. His performance of ‘Heroes’ became a highlight of the record-breaking ‘David Bowie Is…’ exhibition and is the…
We kick off this week’s six of the best with the aptly titled Natural Rebel from Richard Ashcroft – I mean, will you just look at him! This ‘natural rebel’ was of course best-known as frontman of The Verve until they multi-imploded. “My strongest set of songs to date,” says Ashcroft about his latest collection,…
Kate Bush will release remastered versions of her album catalogue on vinyl and CD in November. This is the first (and definitive) programme of remastering and covers all Kate’s studio work with the release of many rarities and cover versions on vinyl and CD for the first time. The vinyl albums will be released in…
This week sees the release of The Stars, The Ocean & The Moon, which marks the long-overdue return of Echo & The Bunnymen. This new studio album will see The Bunnymen, still led by the indomitable Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, revisit some of their greatest songs to rearrange and transform them with co producer…
22 November 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles, otherwise known as the White Album, with the anniversary products released ahead of this on 9 November. The album has been remixed from the original analogue masters by Giles Martin. This is only the second ever multi-format reissue of a Beatles studio…
This week’s six lovelies start with Eddi Reader’s brand new studio album, Cavalier. Featuring sixteen songs, including current live favourites ‘Wonderful’, ‘My Favourite Dress’, Starlight, ‘Meg O’ The Glen’ and ‘Maiden’s Lament’, the new album was recorded and produced in Glasgow by Eddi with John Douglas. Eddi is currently celebrating her 40th(!) year as a…
Yes – you read that right, the full title of the new Smashing Pumpkins album, in all caps. Maybe we can just call it Shiny & Bright Vol.1 for ease – but officially Billy insists it must be referred to at all times as SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL.1: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO…