This week’s six smashers start with Dropout Boogie, released one day before the twentieth anniversary of The Black Keys’ first album, The Big Come Up. As they have done throughout their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a…
On with the pick of the week’s best new albums. Barely a year after Stereophonics’ last No. 1 album, Kind, frontman Kelly Jones releases Don’t Let The Devil Take Another Day, a 21-track collection featuring reinterpretations and re-workings of 18 Stereophonics classics and deep cuts plus two songs from Kelly’s 2007 solo album Only The…
We’ve got a little batch of gems for you, all out today. For his first record in … uh, well, just a little over a year(!), Bill Callahan has given us his first Gold Record. They can’t all be gold, and they’re not all six years apart either – all good! You could probably call…
This week’s six lovelies lead off with Our Pathetic Age, the result of an intensely creative period that found hip-hop and electronic innovator DJ Shadow delving further into original composition and experimentation. The first half features 10 instrumental works that balance some of Shadow’s most menacing sounds with beams of hope, including his first fully…
Our recommended releases for 12 August start with Thee Oh See’s The Weird Exits, on which the guitars manage to be both huge and ethereal all at the same time; The Amity Affliction’s This Could Be Heartbreak is certainly their most revealing release yet; legendary psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple serve up another hefty slice of…