We open our six scorchers for this week with As The Moon Rests, the follow-up to London-based singer-songwriter A.A. Williams’s 2020 debut Forever Blue. That debut was a brilliantly dramatic, unique and intimate walk on the dark side that fused bold and smouldering hues of post-rock and post-classical: by turns glacial and volcanic, blissful and…
This week’s six lovelies start with an album was cut in only six days. “It was so fast it was a blur,” says Jonathan Wilson – hence the title, Dixie Blur. “And there really is a magic that occurs when musicians play together in a room and create that one consistent thing in time, something…
21 July brings the following gems: The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band have hit on a winning groove with their eighth album, Lay It Down, that mixes traditional blues shuffles and soulful workouts with countrified ballads. Chris Robinson Brotherhood’s third album of new material in little more than 2 years, Barefoot In The Head, sees the…
There are some fine new releases for 23 October. If you like your pop witty and exceptionally well crafted then Paul Heaton and Jacqueline Abbot’s new release, Wisdom, Laughter and Lines, is for you. Joanna Newsom’s latest, Divers, continues prove what a singular songwriter she is. Killing Joke’s Pylon snarls in all the right places,…