Album of The Week
Album of the Week: Beck - Ride Lonesome
Will the real Beck Hansen please stand up? Shapeshifter, decoy, moving target. The notion of permanence has never been part of Beck’s DNA. We know the chameleon-like jumps from Odelay’s...
Album of the Week: This Is Lorelei - The Singer in My Band
Nate Amos, best known as one half of indie-electronic duo Water From Your Eyes, returns with the second album from his solo project This Is Lorelei. The Singer in My...
Album of the Week: Arab Strap - Half-Told Tales
Arab Strap continue their remarkable resurgence with yet another brilliant release. The Scottish duo release Half-Told Tales this week, their third new album in six years, following 2024’s I’m...
Album of the Week: Westside Cowboy - It Goes On
To say Westside Cowboy, the Manchester-based four-piece of Reuben Haycocks, Aoife Anson O'Connell, Jimmy Bradbury and Paddy Murphy, have enjoyed a meteoric rise in the indie music sphere would be...
Album of the Week: Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend
The last time Phoebe Bridgers released a solo album was June 2020, as the world was deep in the midst of the isolation-inducing Covid-19 lockdown. That album, Punisher, was a universally...
Album of the Week: The Durutti Column - Renascent
The title of Vini Reilly’s first new music in 14 years under the Durutti Column moniker, Renascent, derives from the Latin re (back) and nasci (to be born): reborn, born again, back to birth. For...
Album of the Week: Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - A ? Of When
A ? Of When is a woozy, sun-drenched journey where psychedelic experimentation meets timeless pop beauty.
Album of the Week: Madonna - Confessions II
All hail! The Queen of Pop returns this week with her first new studio album in seven years. Confessions II is not only one of the finest pop records of...