This week’s smashers start off with Small World Turning, the first new collection of songs from Thea Gilmore since 2017’s The Counterweight, which was her third successive Top-40 album. An artist of enduring international acclaim (Bruce Springsteen regularly names her as a favourite) and a justly revered lyricist, Gilmore’s musical settings have taken many ingenious…
Our recommended new releases for 2 June are a fine bunch. Keep It Hid, the second solo album from Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, is a love letter to his adopted hometown, Nashville. Many of the songs were co-written with the legendary John Prine, and it’s a fine piece of work. Roger Waters’ latest solo…
Release of the week was a bit of a difficult one, very tempted by the Mighty Fall’s Sub Lingual Tablet, but in the end I’ve gone with Thea Gilmore’s retrospective with a difference, Ghosts & Graffiti. This week also brings a retrospective from Eric Clapton, a rare glimpse into the rehearsal process for a Leonard…