CDs/DVDs
Blu-ray: I Start CountingSunday, 04 April 2021
Released in 1970, David Greene’s I Start Counting is as much an examination of childhood innocence as a psychological thriller. Fans of 1960s architecture will also find plenty to enjoy - never has Bracknell looked so good on film, with starring... Read more... |
Album: They're Calling Me Home - Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco TurrisiSaturday, 03 April 2021
Now we are at the beginning of lockdown’s end and the gradual loosening of the pandemic’s grip on pretty well every aspect of our lives, what is perhaps one of the warmest and most uplifting of albums recorded under Covid conditions comes in the... Read more... |
Album: Caoilfhionn Rose - TrulyFriday, 02 April 2021
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn’t spent more time alone with their thoughts than they otherwise would have liked over the past 12 months. Manchester musician Caoilfhionn Rose has been confined a little longer: forced to take a year off... Read more... |
Album: Glasvegas - GodspeedThursday, 01 April 2021
Glasvegas deal in hyper-emotion, personal dramas playing out in Spectoresque caverns of sound. Their signature songs, “Daddy’s Gone” and “I’m Gonna Get Stabbed”, wrung wrenching feeling from singer Jamie Allan, melodramatic blood and heat pulsing... Read more... |
Album: Ryley Walker - Course In FableWednesday, 31 March 2021
Although Course In Fable is, as Ryley Walker albums go, pretty straightforward some sharp left turns indicate that the formerly Chicago-based, now New York-dwelling guitar whizz isn’t content with limiting a single musical line of attack to one song... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Silent ActionTuesday, 30 March 2021
Silent Action makes for a snappier title than the original La polizia accusa: il Servizio Segreto uccide, though the frenzied action in Sergio Martino’s 1975 thriller is anything but silent. The film opens with the grisly murders of three Italian... Read more... |
Album: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!Monday, 29 March 2021
To say that Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s new album is not even remotely commercial would be something of an understatement. However, fans of the obtuse Canadian post-rockers are unlikely to be overly concerned, as there are no significant changes... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Romeo is BleedingSunday, 28 March 2021
The problem with much neo-noir is that it’s ersatz – too self referential for its own good. Peter Medak’s noir is as dark as it gets, but the hell he portrays is a shade too knowing, tainted with irony and excess.Romeo is Bleeding (1994) showcases a... Read more... |
Album: Hannah Peel - Fir WaveSaturday, 27 March 2021
One has to wonder if Hannah Peel ever had a phase, like so many kids, of listening to music under the bedcovers. She certainly has a facility for making things that come to live in the dark, both in her own music and on her late night Radio 3... Read more... |
Album: Tune-Yards - SketchyFriday, 26 March 2021
Tune-Yards have been much-feted for bringing an original sound to pop. Quite rightly so. Over the last decade the Californian duo, led by singing percussionist Merrill Garbus, have fired out four albums (and a film soundtrack) that amalgamated... Read more... |
Album: Suzi Quatro - The Devil In MeThursday, 25 March 2021
Over 50 years into her career, Suzi Quatro could be forgiven for taking a break. And yet, last spring, staring down almost one hundred cancelled shows, her first instinct was not to put her feet up but to team up with her son Richard Tuckey on a new... Read more... |
Album: Bheki Mseleku - Beyond The StarsWednesday, 24 March 2021
Praise gets heaped on the already well known. And that often leaves others in the shadows. I’m not saying that Abdullah Ibrahim doesn’t deserve the accolades – notably, “our Mozart” from Nelson Mandela – but there have been other genius level South... Read more... |
