Here are this week’s six stormers. When Paul Janeway learned he was going to be a father, he felt struck by divine inspiration. Following the tradition of greats like Aristotle, William James and John Steinbeck, who wrote letters to their future sons, the singer decided to scribe his own thoughts – of joy, of fear,…
First up this week, prog-folker Jon Boden, best-known as the lead singer of Bellowhead, releases his third solo album, Afterglow, which imagines a near future in which the luxuries and comforts of 21st-century life have become scarce and a harder, simpler existence prevails. Rock gods The Darkness return with their fifth, Pinewood Smiles; all the…
Release of the week for 15 June is a close thing between Sarah Cracknell’s Red Kite and the Keston Cobblers Club’s WIldfire, and Sarah Cracknell just gets it. The week also brings new albums from James Taylor, Giorgio Moroder (his first since 1985!), The Selecter, Hilary Duff, Kathryn Williams and Hudson Mohawke. Click here…