This week’s lovelies kick off with Zeit, composed and recorded by Rammstein during 2020’s lockdowns. Flake Lorenz confirmed that the recording sessions for the album were unplanned and that the quarantine caused by the pandemic had allowed for ‘less distraction’ and ‘more time to think of new things’. In October 2021, a song from the…
This week’s smashers start off with Small World Turning, the first new collection of songs from Thea Gilmore since 2017’s The Counterweight, which was her third successive Top-40 album. An artist of enduring international acclaim (Bruce Springsteen regularly names her as a favourite) and a justly revered lyricist, Gilmore’s musical settings have taken many ingenious…
There are some great new albums out on 19 May. We’ve seen Jane Weaver’s new album, Modern Kosmology, described as full of unwaning psychoactive pop energy – what greater recommendation can there be than that? One More Light is different from any other Linkin Park release; we get an unobstructed view into what makes the…