We open our run-down of this week’s finest releases with Luck and Strange, the brand-new album by David Gilmour and his first album of new material in nine years, which was recorded over five months in Brighton. The record was produced by David and Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with Alt-J and Marika…
Our recommendations from this week’s releases start with Mercury Rev’s reimagination of Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 album The Delta Sweete, a psychedelic record depicting a Mississippi of hot biscuits, genteel table manners and working-class sense suddenly overturned by a grave sinning and suicide. Carried on an evening breeze of strings and a supple, foreboding voice…
There are some great new releases for 2nd October – unusually for the first week of the month. Mercury Rev return with a fine new album, and the brilliantly named Eagles of Death Metal – don’t worry, it’s rock not death metal! – have a new one. The hardest-working man in blues, Joe Bonamassa, has…