New releases for 4 June 2021

This week’s aural nuggets open with Crowded House’s seventh studio album, Dreamers Are Waiting, which was recorded in Valentine and United Studios in LA and then remotely during the first half of 2020. Crowded House is a long-standing and much-loved vehicle for the songwriting talents of Neil Finn, formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985 from…

New releases for 21 September 2018

This week’s recommended lovelies start with Billy F Gibbons. Billy is of course best-known as one-third of ZZ Top, and The Big Bad Blues sees him return to his first love, the blues. The album follows on from his Afro-Cuban-flavoured 2015 solo debut Perfectamundo and is a superb collection of down and dirty, raw rock…