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ALBUM REVIEW: The Green Child – ‘Shimmering Basset’: curious and mysterious psych synth-pop second
A clever, engaging pop album, in which The Green Child’s Raven and Mikey hold up a mirror to baroque-psych and synth pop history, smash it with glee, and use the shards to scry it over their shoulders
NEWS: Margo Price’s third gets July date: watch a taster
JULY 10th will finally see Margo Price’s hotly anticipated third studio album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, hit the shelves. With its original release date of May 8th trashed by the escalating disease crisis – and indeed, the album is still showing with that release date at some places online – the 27-year-old Illinoisan admits …
ALBUM REVIEW: Love, Death and Dancing – Jack Garratt
Jack reeks of vast genius and ecstatic potential yet proves himself the perennial champion of self-sabotage. I’d love to hear that scrapped album…
ALBUM REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
Car Seat Headrest – helmed by ridiculously talented and prolific songwriter Will Toledo – release much anticipated album “Making a Door Less Open” today, on Matador Records. It’s their first set of brand new songs since 2016’s awesome “Teens Of Denial” and for long-time Car Seat Headrest fans it will be both a challenging and …
ALBUM REVIEW: BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff
BC Camplight, aka Brian Christinzio, returns with a new album “Shortly After Takeoff” on 24th April via Bella Union. It is the final chapter of his ‘Manchester Trilogy’, following 2015’s “How To Die In The North” and 2018’s “Deportation Blues”. All three albums were created after the native Philadelphian had moved to Manchester. It will …
ALBUM REVIEW: of Montreal – UR FUN
In ‘San Junipero‘, the exquisite (and greatest, in my view) Black Mirror episode about love, life and death, the main characters, Yorkie and Kelly, walk through a world peppered with non-stop party music from different eras, in search of truth and redemption. Sometimes they visit a club on the margins called the Quagmire where freaks …
Album Review: Richard Hawley – Further
Sheffield’s Richard Hawley is not only the King of Sheffield (anyone want to argue with that?), he is also the King of Consistency. That might sound like damning with faint praise but it’s not; it’s the greatest of compliments in a world of regular musical mediocrity. Hawley manages to put out albums of the …
Track: Wasuremono – Self-Help plus tour dates
It’s been a busy few weeks for Bradford-on-Avon quartet WASUREMONO. Throughout this month, the group have played a handful of dates, including festivals Live at Leeds, Stag and Dagger and The Great Escape with more to follow (see bottom of the post), along with the release of their latest single, “Self-Help.” Having been spun on Steve …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Adaptor : The Spoiler Versions
Jack Adaptor : The Spoiler Versions The New album from Paul Frederick and Christopher Cordoba Supple Pipe Records SP3011 Quite incredibly this is Jack Adaptors 7th album, Paul Frederick ex Family Cat and Christopher Cordoba have been working together since 1996 with the release of their debut Jack Adaptor and Road Rail River albums …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Yachts : Suffice To Say The Complete Yachts Collection
Cherry Red By Leggy Mountbatten The Yachts Title : Suffice To Say The Complete Yachts Collection The Yachts were formed in Liverpool in April 1977, the band all fine art students had already supported the Sex Pistols under the name Albert Dock and The Cod Warriors but swiftly changed the name and band number to …