We kick off this week’s bangers with Who Believes in Angels?, the debut collaborative album project from Elton John & Brandi Carlile. The album, which was co-written with Bernie Taupin and produced by Andrew Watt, includes ten new and original songs. This is Elton John’s 33rd and Brandi Carlile’s 8th studio album, respectively. Black Country,…
Our soaraway six, hand-picked from the many new releases out next week, starts with the sixth full-length studio album from Cate Le Bon – her follow-up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward – whose title, Pompeii, suggests a coming apocalypse. However, this metaphor eclipses any dissection of the immediate present, says Le Bon, although this is not…
Our pick of the bunch for 5 February starts with Shore is a celebration of life in the face of death, honouring Fleet Foxes’ lost musical heroes, from David Berman to John Prine to Judee Sill to Bill Withers. It’s an object levitating between the magnetic fields of the past and the future. The album…