Chalk – Crystalpunk
The Irish duo’s debut album speaks directly to the upbringing and roots of the band members, under the shadow and around the scars of conflict, which is entangled in the industrial dance-punk hybrid encoded in the record’s DNA.
Art School Girlfriend – Lean In
Armed with the freedom and space to experiment, Polly Mackey – one of the UK’s most vital artists operating at the moment – self-produced her new album in her own East London studio, tackling alternative rock, electronic pop and experimental ambient sounds.
Gong – Bright Spirit
The third instalment in a trilogy sees Gong at their experimental best, more adventurous and more open to the dream than ever. And dreams are central here, as a way of thinking where psychedelia, love and the thin membrane between worlds feed into the music.
Kim Gordon – Play Me
Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed: a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. Play Me expands her sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock.
The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers
Reflective of their mood and expression, The Black Crowes have created a rock record that’s loose and funky, dark and heavy, sensuous and jagged, flesh and bone.
Peter Gabriel – In the Big Room
This 14-song set, recorded live in the Big Room at Real World Studios on 23 November 2003, draws on material from both the Growing Up Live tour of 2002–03 and the subsequent Still Growing Up Live tour.
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