Our six Valentines to you start with Nightroamer, the third album from Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, a North Carolina band who merge raw country with punk grit and pop sensibilities. They make straightforward, undiluted songs about shared hardships and unlikely victories that can bring even the most polarised people together: “We are not responsible…
The first of our recommendations this week come from The Lumineers, whose latest, III, is a concept album spanning three generations of a fictitious family known as the Sparks, with each of the three chapters focusing on one main character in the album’s storyline. III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of…
New releases for 1 July include Sara Watkins, formerly of Nickel Creek, who releases Young In All The Wrong Ways, an intensely confessional and effecting album. Crossroads Revisited features nearly 4 hours of previously unavailable on CD music from Eric Clapton’s famous guitar festival. Punk Poppers Blink-182 return at breakneck place with their seventh studio…