Emma Anderson, co-founder of Lush, is one of the most underrated British songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze and Britpop. She has now teamed up with producer James Chapman (aka Maps) for her debut solo album, Pearlies, an album that combines effervescent electronic pop with psych and folk textures with lyrics covering…
Although it’s only one day before Record Store Day, 15 April is a startling good week for new releases. A mere 45 years since the classic Santana line-up last recorded together, here they are with IV, simply its everything you’d think it would be. The unstoppable Hawkwind forge relentlessly on with The Machine Stops, a…
4 December must represent the most diverse selection of new releases so far this year, from the crafted populism of Coldplay, the pure pop-soul of Jools & Ruby, Lush’s comprehensive retrospective box set, New York noise merchants Swans and the ambient doom metal of Sunn O))). Release of the week is Bruce Springsteen’s The Ties…