Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Top Album review
Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
Produced by Joe Boyd
A couple of years ago I was present at the first rendition of these concerts – at the Barbican – and experienced a truly magical night. Read more...
All Album reviews
Kobo Town
Jumbie In The Jukebox
What a rare and wonderful thing – a contemporary and completely delightful calypso album. Read more...
WolveSpirit
Dreamcatcher
With titles like Blowin’ Up, Holy Smoke, Dreamcatcher and Spacetrippin it’s not going to take Sherlockian deductive powers to work out what this album sounds li... Read more...
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
Seesaw
All told, a stunning album. I rarely give top marks for a covers album but this is so well made and Hart’s voice so fine that it fully deserves top marks. Aweso... Read more...
Album reviews
Kelsea Little
Personal Myth
Harps aren’t in the modern sense of the word “cool”. They’re soft and sappy and are simply used for the theme songs of daytime TV melodramas. Nevertheless, that Read more...
Juicy Lucy
Get A Whiff A This
This was the third album from Juicy Lucy and at the time they were rated as a better bet than a certain Led Zeppelin as a band for the future! Read more...
Danny Bryant
Hurricane
Eventually, all guitar prodigies have to put up or fall by the wayside (you will never get them to shut up) and for a while I feared that Danny Bryant would be ... Read more...
Helldorado
Bones In The Closet
12 songs in styles varying from Western to 60’s Garage to Mexicali-surf to outright black-hearted balladry and every one telling a story that draws you in and t... Read more...
Riot|Noise
Stand For Something
There are some good noises coming out of Bristol at the moment and Riot|Noise are making a lot of them. Read more...
Billy Boy Arnold
Chicago Blues from Islington Mews 1977
Billy Boy Arnold is one of the Chicago blues greats actually born in the windy city. This album was recorded over a two-day period, and Billy Boy’s old s... Read more...
Pure Intec 2
Mixed By Carl Cox & Jon Rundell
Techno Imprint Leaps Back Into Action With Pure Intec 2 Compilation. A long-missed name amongst the Technorati elite, Intec Digital have re-emerged onto the ele... Read more...
Various Artists
Streaming Hot
Happy 16th Birthday, Angel Air Records! To celebrate another year of the UK’s independent label, founders Peter Purnell and wife Shirley de... Read more...
Deep Purple
Now What?!
With the sad demise of Jon Lord I would not have believed that Purple could continue never mind return with a monster of an album that readily deserves the init... Read more...
Johnny Hates Jazz
Magnetized
25 years after their debut, Johnny Hates Jazz release their 'proper' second album. Read more...
Brainstorm/SOS Band/Alexander O'Neal/Cherrelle
Tabu reissues
Even 30 odd years later these four sets bristle with danceable and excitable disco of the first water.
Read more...
Samba Toure
Albala
This is Toure’s third album and there is a distinctly harder edge to his music here, reflecting the war and atrocities in his Malian homeland. Read more...
Joe Satriani
Unstoppable Momentum
He has been at the top of the tree since ‘Surfing With The Alien’ and he is still making music that is complex, technical and massively difficult for ordinary m... Read more...
Album reviews
Bonnie Tyler
Rocks & Honey
Bonnie Tyler is so logical a performer for Britain in the Eurovision that one wonders if it is an anti-Welsh thing that has held her back so far Read more...
John Fiddler
State Of The Heart
John Fiddler, singer/songwriter from Medicine Head, released this, his first solo album, in 1991 – following the demise of British Lions in... Read more...
Kingdom Come
Outlier
Kingdom Come is, basically, Lenny Wolf plus guitar solos from Eric Forster these days and the change in the sound and the direction on this new album is probabl... Read more...
Sanguine Hum
Weight of the World
Complex, intriguing, exciting, delicate – how many clichés can I come up with? But the music of Sanguine Hum has all of these, and more, without ever sou... Read more...
ShockOne
Universus
Australian ShockOne releases debut album: Universus. Whilst many look to the US for their fix stadium-filling Post-DnB Madness, Australia too have been quietly ... Read more...
Gothenburg Presents w/ Say Lou Lou & Lune
Electrowerkz, Islington
Sweden. Land of Volvos, ergonomic furniture, nude saunas and cataclysmically successful electronic artists. Read more...
Civil Twilight
Holy Weather
Nashville-based and three parts South African, Civil Twilight announce their new album "Holy Weather" with the release of the first single "Fire Escape Read more...
Bo Bruce
Before I Sleep
The world of the TV ‘talent’ shows is a mean place and the people who don’t win usually don’t fair that well when they leave without their dream. Read more...
Lozk
Irrational
He is actually an audio-visual artist who specialises in electronic music and digital imaging and I don’t think there is a single cliché on the whole of ... Read more...
The Computers
Love Triangles Hate Square
With modern music now growing so vibrant in sound the various branches have their ups and downs. The gem that is soul rock have now gained a new frontrunner. Fo... Read more...
The Popdogs
Cool Cats For Pop Dogs
The quest for efficiency whilst at the same time not compromising on achieving your goals is a worthy aspiration. The Popdogs are a good solid pop band, strippe... Read more...
Soft Machine Legacy
Burden of Proof
The best yet from Soft Machine Legacy and showing that British Jazz is still alive and vibrant. Read more...
Sharks
Selfhood
It’s rare that a relatively new fledgling band can keep the momentum from a good first album onto a better second album. Countless acts over the years have fell... Read more...
Advertisement