CDs/DVDs
CD: Cat Stevens/Yusuf - The Laughing AppleSunday, 10 September 2017
When, in 2006, Yusuf announced his return to music, speculation was rife as to how he might now sound. At first, the music felt gentle and touchy-feely. Then came 2014's Tell 'Em I'm Gone – a strutting, blues record full of attitude. More... Read more... |
CD: Gary Numan - Savage (Songs From a Broken World)Saturday, 09 September 2017
Gary Numan famously has a devoted fanbase. For this album he had a live video feed that allowed them, for a small fee, to watch him in the studio, working on it from conception to completion. Unlike any of his peers from the post-punk years, he... Read more... |
DVD: Every Picture Tells a StoryFriday, 08 September 2017
James Scott’s filmography is wide-ranging, including the 1982 short film A Shocking Accident, based on the Graham Greene story, which won an Academy Award the following year, and other works on social questions. But these documentaries, several... Read more... |
CD: Ariel Pink - Dedicated To Bobby JamesonThursday, 07 September 2017
Dedicated To Bobby Jameson is Ariel Pink’s 11th album in almost 20 years and his first since 2014’s prog-pop pom pom. However, anyone expecting a mid-career lurch into the mainstream from LA’s musical magpie is going to be sorely disappointed.... Read more... |
CD: Nick Mulvey - Wake Up NowWednesday, 06 September 2017
Nick Mulvey’s 2014 debut album First Mind may be one of the century’s best so far. Album number two, then, has the critical bar set high. On that opening record, the ex-Portico Quartet singer-songwriter majored in complex-yet-simple songs that wove... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Lord of the FliesTuesday, 05 September 2017
This is a timely rerelease of the 1963 version of the William Golding novel, coinciding as it does with the debate about a planned remake with an all-female cast. Peter Brook’s adaptation sticks closely to the original text: according to a... Read more... |
CD: Deerhoof - Mountain MovesMonday, 04 September 2017
With the wind behind them, the San Francisco-founded band Deerhoof are one of the greatest live experiences you can have. Two decades since their first album, they still have a relentlessly experimental hunger for sonic surprise, mixing... Read more... |
CD: Tom Russell - Folk HotelSunday, 03 September 2017
Close your eyes and be transported. Not just to Greenwich Village, New York and America’s west, but to Copenhagen, Belfast and Swansea, from whence Dylan Thomas – dedicatee of “The Sparrow of Swansea” – set out on his adventures. The album was... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: The Love of a WomanFriday, 01 September 2017
In Jean Grémillon's final fiction film The Love of a Woman, Marie Prieur (Micheline Presle) arrives on the Breton island of Ushant to replace the tiny settlement's aging Dr Morel (Robert Naly). While showing Marie her new digs and surgery, Mme Morel... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: My Beautiful LaundretteThursday, 31 August 2017
This rerelease of Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette comes as part of the wider BFI programme marking the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, and its presence in that strand, as one of the foremost works of its time... Read more... |
CD: Kev Minney - Stories of the SkyWednesday, 30 August 2017
A striking and memorable debut made possible by a combination of crowd-funding and an Arts Council grant, Stories of the Sky combines 31-year-old Kev Minney’s twin obsessions, music and astronomy.Born in Northampton, and Brighton-based these last... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: Touchez Pas au GrisbiTuesday, 29 August 2017
Jean Gabin’s gangster’s paradise says more about him than the bullets he later lets fly. France’s greatest male star made a barnstorming comeback to pre-eminence as sharp-suited, drolly masterful Max in Jacques Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954... Read more... |
