The first of this week’s top picks is Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts, an album is conceived as a belated follow-up to the band’s classic debut, Earth vs The Wildhearts. These are songs of defiance and hope, of ragged glory, of true heart-on-sleeve emotion; songs that sound like no-one else on this planet (or the…
Our six back-to-school belters kick off with 21st Century Love Songs, the brand new full-length studio album from The Wildhearts. It’s the follow-up to Renaissance Men, and the spiritual heir to 1994’s P.H.U.Q., where they really got to flex their creative muscle. As front-man Ginger explains: “This time we let the songs simmer until absolutely…
We start of this week’s 6 lovelies with Joy Williams, formerly one half of The Civil Wars, who brings us her second solo album, Front Porch, and it’s a smasher! Already receiving praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, this album returns to the folk-oriented emotions of her Civil Wars days and has produced 12…