First to blast out the speakers this week is The Mars Volta’s ninth studio album, which represents a significant milestone for a band that has been continually reinventing itself for more than 20 years. With Lucro sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio, they deliver an album that celebrates their roots, allowing them to reconnect with their…
This week we’ve gathered a full set of 6 lovelies to recommend to you. We start with Temples, who return with their third album, Hot Motion: a brilliantly crafted, thoughtfully recorded collection. The album’s propulsive, seemingly immediate songs soon reveal an impressive depth of ideas and energy with subsequent listens – as its title warns,…
i,i is Bon Iver’s most expansive, joyful and generous album to date. If For Emma, Forever Ago was the crisp, heart-strung isolation of a northern winter; Bon Iver, Bon Iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning spring; and 22, A Million a blistering, “crazy-energy” summer record; i,i completes the cycle: autumn-coloured, ruminative, steeped. The autumn…
It’s been harder than ever to whittle down the wealth of new releases out on 30 September to just 8 to recommend, but here we go! Sir Van Morrison possesses one of the finest voices in all music, and he uses it to good effect on his 35th studio album, Keep Me Singing. By way…
Pre-sale of the week is 22, A Million by Bon Iver, out on 30 September. Bon Iver’s new album 22, A Million, is the band’s first album in five years. “22, A Million is part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of…