New releases for 20 September 2024

The run-down of this week’s six best releases starts with Someday, Now, on which the signature acoustic-led, sweetly-voiced singer-songwriter fare of Katy J Pearson’s albums Return and Sound of the Morning is transmuted through the desk of electronic producer Nathan Jenkins aka Bullion. After a period of burnout, self-enforced exile from music-making and solo travel,…

New releases for 31 March 2023

The first of this week’s soaraway six is The Price of Progress, which stands as The Hold Steady’s most sonically expansive record thus far while also remaining unmistakably them. The album showcases narrative rock’n’roll tales of ordinary people struggling and surviving in a modern world. The front and back of the album cover feature photographs…