This week’s heat-wave hotties start with The Kooks’ sixth studio album, Ten Tracks To Echo In The Dark – a fresh-sounding, electronic-tinged evolution of their iconic sound. The album is the result of several years of creative effort, during which the band partially relocated to Berlin for inspiration and collaborated with several noteworthy artists. This…
This week’s batch of lovelies opens with Fear Of The Dawn, the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White’s Third Man Studio during the course of 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering, pressed…
Fear Of The Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White’s Third Man Studio during the course of 2021. Note: The LP is available on astro blue vinyl, exclusive to independent…
This week’s garden of earthly delights opens with Boarding House Reach, an album with a spontaneous approach that takes Jack White all over the genre board. There’s moments of glitchy neo-funk, experimental gospel – yes, experimental – and a very strong influence from early ’90s hip-hop. Basically, it’s the result of one of the music…
It’s been a squeeze trying to reduce all the great releases due on 9 September to just eight, but we managed it eventually. To kick off, Teenage Fanclub make a long-awaited return and – to our complete non-surprise – their 10th album is a beauty, chock-full of songs about the stuff that really matters: life…