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: 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: Beth Orton - The Ground Above
When British singer-songwriter Beth Orton returned in 2022 with the tremendous Weather Alive, it felt like a revelation. After all, more than two decades had passed since the critical...
Album of the Week: Aldous Harding - Train On The Island
On her excellent new album, Train On The Island, New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding presents some of her most evocative and affecting songs to date, and as a cohesive whole the...