The first of this week’s bangers is Euro-Country, the new album by CMAT. This Brits/Mercury/Ivors-nominated star feels like she’s been part of the culture forever, and what has endeared fans to her heart-sore tunes and humour is her ability to combine contradictory themes and moods: wide-eye drama with self-deprecation. Country music has always been a…
First of this week’s smashers is The Beths’ new album, Expert In A Dying Field. Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting on the album positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and, more importantly, their aftermaths: the…
On The Beths’ new album, Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and, more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question…
This week’s super six opens with the latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series. Volume 16: Springtime In New York revisits an often-forgotten, rich vein in Dylan’s vast and complex catalogue, shining fresh light on the provocative new musical directions Dylan was taking as a songwriter and a recording artist between 1980…