New releases for 18 October 2019

On with this week’s six smashers. There’s a line on the outstanding new Mark Lanegan Band album, Somebody’s Knocking, that sticks in the listener’s mind long after the record stops spinning: “I felt its sound / down to my darkest, deepest root.” Coming towards the close of the final track ‘Two Bells Ringing At Once’…

New releases for 3 & 10 August 2018

Our 6 summer sizzlers for 3 & 10 August start with James, who are releasing their 15th(!) studio album, Living In Extraordinary Times. As Tim Booth puts it: “We knew something was up when Leicester City won the league then Brexit, then Trump. It’s as if we’d slipped into an alternate reality, a Philip K Dick…

New releases for 9 June 2017

Our crackers out on 9 June start with Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, the follow-up to London Grammar’s critically acclaimed smash from 2013, If You Wait. Heartbreak is a bit different: Lady Antebellum rented a house together and wrote it while living under the same roof; the result is their most intimate and heartfelt work…