Florence + The Machine has become an integral part of the global music scene and one of the most influential bands of the last decades. In the past, the band has worked with music greats such as Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Calvin Harris. The group became known for Florence Welsh’s powerful vocals and their…
The first of this week’s hottest albums is Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, the tenth solo album from Edwyn Collins. The 11-track album was recorded at his Clashnarrow Studio in Helmsdale, north-east Scotland, and was co-produced by Edwyn with Sean Read and Jake Hutton, who all play on the album. The album also features James…
This week’s six smashers start with Dropout Boogie, released one day before the twentieth anniversary of The Black Keys’ first album, The Big Come Up. As they have done throughout their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a…
This week’s super six starts with High As Hope, the long-awaited new album from Florence + The Machine and, although sprinkled with collaborators, it’s still at its core a very Florence album: confessional, poetic lyricism is very much the order of the day and this album will come to rank amongst her very finest. The…
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Florence + The Machine, Simply Red and Jamie XX all have fine releases out next week, as do Melody Gardot, Slaves, Sun Kil Moon and Helloween; however, the album of the week just has to be What Kind of Love from Danny & The Champions of the World. If you think we’ve been influenced by…