The first of this week’s musical marvels is Benson Boone’s second album, American Heart. Benson solidified his status in 2024 with a string of hits, led by ‘Beautiful Things’ and its follow-up, ‘Slow It Down’. His show-stopping Coachella performance with Brian May marked the official reveal of American Heart, which is shaping up to cement…
This week’s six smashers start with Latest Record Project: Volume 1, a 28-track delve into Van Morrison’s ongoing love of blues, R&B, jazz and soul. It’s his 42nd record and his most dynamic and contemporary album in years, and it’s well worth your time. Musical pioneer Moby’s new album, Reprise, finds him revisiting and reimagining…
We’ve got a special selection for you this week. After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Australian guitar-pop five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them, on Sideways To New Italy. Returning home after the…
5 February sees the return of the indefatigable Cult with their latest, Hidden City. Elton John provides us with his 33rd – yes that’s right, 33rd – studio album, Wonderful, Crazy, Night. James Hunter has conjured up a compelling slice of old-school R&B in Hold On, Field Music return with their fifth album, and their…