We light the touchpaper on this week’s firecrackers with Crawler, the new album from IDLES. It’s an album of reflection and healing amid a worldwide pandemic that stretched the planet’s collective mental and physical health to the breaking point. Frontman Joe Talbot says: “We want people who’ve gone through trauma, heartbreak, and loss to feel…
The first of our recommended releases this week comes from The Smashing Pumpkins. 4 years after Monuments To An Elegy, Billy Corgan has gathered together three quarters of the original line-up and Shiny And Oh So Bright is the exciting and fascinating result. Mumford & Sons release their fourth album, Delta, which features a return…
British rock supergroup The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Blur’s Damon Albarn, The Clash’s Paul Simonon, The Verve’s Simon Tong, Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and producer Danger Mouse – have announced Merrie Land, their first new album in more than a decade. The album is described as “a series of observations and reflections…