First out of the traps this week are Bangs & Talbot – acid jazz founding figure Chris Bangs and Style Council founding member Mick Talbot – who return with their new album, Smokin’ Aces. It follows their acclaimed 2022 debut album as a duo, Back to Business, and two rapid sell-out 7″ singles, ‘Sumthin’ Else’…
This week’s sensational six start with This Is Midpoint, the first album in which Tom Chaplin presents his whole self: as a writer, a singer, a husband, a world-beating artist with a past – and all the ups and downs that come with it – and, now, as a middle-aged man. It’s a beautiful collection…
There is a fine batch of releases due 22 January and it was tough to pick out the best. Dystopia, the new album from thrashmeisters Megadeth, is main man Dave Mustaine’s view of civilization. Fat White Family’s Songs For Our Mothers is described perfectly as an invitation, sent by misery, to dance to the beat…
