CDs/DVDs
Album: Warpaint - Radiate Like ThisFriday, 29 April 2022
Radiate Like This is the first album in six years from American indie rock outfit Warpaint. The wait is, in part at least, down to Covid, which took hold just after they’d finished early recording sessions, forcing the band – like the rest of the... Read more... |
Album: Willie Nelson - A Beautiful TimeWednesday, 27 April 2022
All power to Willie Nelson – marking his 89th birthday this week with a new album, A Beautiful Time. He and Trigger have been making music together for more than half a century, Nelson releasing his first album in 1962. From his pen have come some... Read more... |
Album: Ches Smith - Interpret It WellWednesday, 27 April 2022
Drummer/vibraphonist Ches Smith’s previous release on the Pyroclastic label could not be more different from this one.Last year's Path of Seven Colors was well received: it was the Guardian’s 2021 jazz album of the year. That disc was an... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Jules et JimTuesday, 26 April 2022
François Truffaut’s Nouvelle Vague masterpiece revolves around an endlessly mutating love triangle, set in a world that encompasses the hedonism of the Belle Époque, the horror of the First World War, and the book burning that ushered in the Nazi... Read more... |
Album: Trombone Shorty – LiftedMonday, 25 April 2022
Trombone Shorty has been described as “part Jimi Hendrix, part James Brown and all New Orleans”. I can’t vouch for the New Orleans part of this description, but on the evidence of this album, part Lenny Kravitz and part Bobby Brown might be closer... Read more... |
Album: Fontaines DC – Skinty FiaSunday, 24 April 2022
Incanting, declaiming, and growling, as if actual singing might prettify the Fontaines DC’s post-punk dirges, Grian Chatten has never sounded more aggrieved than he does on the Irish combo’s third album. Disarmingly, he also sounds younger on Skinty... Read more... |
Album: Jono McCleery - Moonlit ParadeSaturday, 23 April 2022
Jono McCleery has one of those voices that once heard, demands your attention, an instrument of richness and depth, and one that has earned him many fans. The likes of Vashti Bunyan and Tom Robinson helped to crowdfund his recording debut back in... Read more... |
Album: Linnéa Talp - Arch of MotionFriday, 22 April 2022
Contrary to the title’s implication, there initially seems to be little movement in Arch of Motion. A note is held on an organ. Then another note comes in and is also held. Chords build up gradually. Maybe one or two ascending or descending notes... Read more... |
Album: Bonnie Raitt - Just Like That...Wednesday, 20 April 2022
There aren’t too many musicians, male or female, who made it into Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time”, and "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Indeed, the former was overwhelmingly male, the latter included only two... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The 400 BlowsTuesday, 19 April 2022
Many groundbreaking cinema classics remain frozen in a particular zeitgeist, but François Truffaut’s first feature, from the early days of the French New Wave, is not one of them. Released in 1959, The 400 Blows (Les 400 coups) is so adventurous in... Read more... |
Album: Spiritualized - Everything Was BeautifulMonday, 18 April 2022
The Covid pandemic’s various lockdowns may have been a living hell for some, but there were also plenty of people who thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to distance themselves from society. One of those to thrive during this time was Jason Pierce,... Read more... |
Album: Swedish House Mafia - Paradise AgainSaturday, 16 April 2022
Returning with their first new music in almost a decade, EDM supergroup Swedish House Mafia (the producer-DJ trio Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingros) deliver their debut album with a sense of vaulting ambition and anything-is-possible belief... Read more... |
