Carnaval de Luz, the exhilarating 16th studio album from U2, features 12 melodically rich new songs. Acknowledged as one of the most celebrated and enduring bands of all time and one of the best live acts in the world, U2 has sold over 175 million records won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. Released…
This week’s featured new releases are: Pure Reason Revolution Terrifying Angels Fabulous new album from a band who released one of my favourite ever debut albums. Bit electronic in places, big riffs in other places, with hints of that debut from 20 years ago. They’re a great live band, and I’ve been playing it…
Industrial Growth departs drastically from the earlier ambient albums, being designed to unleash sonic distortion and dissonance. “My music has been getting heavier and heavier over the years”, says Gordon Chapman-Fox, “as my music often reflects my feelings on the outside world, this is very much a visceral response to our current times.”…
A haunting, cinematic journey into a village that exists beyond time and place, Requiem for a Village is Steven Wilson’s most intimate and imaginative work yet. Blending dark folk, rock and electronica, the album unfolds as a continuous 54-minute ‘film for the ears’, populated by strange archetypes and eerie folklore. The album is…
This week’s featured new releases are: Green Lung Necropolitan One of the best rock bands out there, and going from strength to strength. Think Sabbath but younger and you are there. Excellent live, too. Gone are the days of seeing them in small venues. Really looking forward to this one, even if I will…
This hotly anticipated 18-track live album of previously unreleased recordings captures George Michael at the height of his powers. The incredible live performances from the iconic 1988 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy stop on his first solo concert tour feature hits from Faith including ‘Father Figure’, ‘One More Try’, ‘I Want Your Sex’…
Here are our featured new releases for this week: Arab Strap Half-Told Tales Ninth album from Scotland’s Arab Strap. Electro rock. Good stuff, and our release of the week. Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five (30th Anniversary) A reissue of their debut that includes an extra LP containing the legendary first attempt at…
Queens of the Stone Age have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound; it’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the…
Here are our featured new releases for this week: Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery The Roaring Waves Two guitar greats from the prog world combine for their first album together. Expect greatness and achingly beautiful guitar solos. Mastodon Marrow Deep Big riffs, crushing in parts. It’s Mastodon. It’s great! Prince Timeless Ten…
Dopamine Chamber is the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril – and what our pursuit of it…
