New releases for 31 May 2024

The first of this week’s sparklers is Gravity Stairs, the eighth album from Crowded House, on which the band’s current incarnation – Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, and Finn’s sons Elroy and Liam – prove to be as sharp as ever, feeling musically adventurous and still capable of reaching the staggering highs that have…

New releases for 10 June 2022

We kick off this week’s gems with Waysides, the third collection of songs from Los Angeles-based folk singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian, who performs and records as Bedouine. The album summarises her creative headspace over the past year and a half, comprising some older material and a cover and tying together many songwriting threads that act as…