First out the bag this week is The Cure. Last year’s Songs of a Lost World was the band’s first album in 16 years, and their first number-one album in the UK since 1992’s Wish. On the day of release, the band performed the album in full at London’s Troxy venue, and it’s this live…
Kicking off this week’s peaches is How Do You Burn?, the ninth studio album from The Afghan Whigs, which finds the band in peak form and making the most thrilling music of their lives. The album is virile, ready for action, and frontman Greg Dulli is as swaggering, enigmatic and darkly charismatic as ever, and…
The Ultra Vivid Lament is the 14th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky. Musically, The Ultra…
We’ve got six gems for you due on 13 April. First up is US folk icon John Prine with The Tree Of Forgiveness, his first album of original material for thirteen years. 40 years on, punk legends The Damned are, unbelievably, still with us! David Vanian and Captain Sensible worked with Tony Visconti on Evil…
Pre-sale of the week is Resistance is Futile by Manic Street Preachers, out on 6 April. Resistance Is Futile, the new album from Manic Street Preachers, is the first album to be recorded at the band’s new Door to the River Studio in Newport. Say the band: “The main themes of Resistance Is Futile are…
