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The Bad Fire
2 LP 1 God Gets You Back 2 Hi Chaos 3 What Kind Of Mix Is This? 4 Fanzine Made Of Flesh 1 Pale Vegan Hip Pain 2 If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others 3 18 Volcanoes 1 Hammer Room 2 Lion Rumpus 3 Fact Boy Mogwai’s “The […]
Mortal Primetime
2 LP Beloved NYC rock band Sunflower Bean return reinvigorated with Mortal Primetime, the most hard-fought and vulnerable album of their career. In the three years since their last LP Headful of Sugar, the members of Sunflower Bean – Julia Cumming, Nick Kivlen, and Olive Faber -drifted from one another as they pursued new projects […]
Forever Howlong
Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong Album of the Week (Staff Review) The last time British collective Black Country, New Road released an album, it coincided with the departure of their vocalist and principal lyricist, Isaac Wood. Having recorded For the First Time (2021) and Ants From Up There (2022)—two critically acclaimed albums with Wood at the helm—the […]
Underachievers Please Try Harder
“Underachievers Please Try Harder” is the album on which Stuart Murdoch continued showing his support for the band with the cover photo; the album produced by Geoff Allan (Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub, The Delgados, Arab Strap And Belle & Sebastian); the album that quickly surpassed 100,000 copies sold, a number that causes a bit of vertigo […]
Look To The East Look To The West
Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their […]
Its Only A Love Song
“I love the idea of something being so romantic that it almost hurts,” says C (for Chris) Duncan of the music he adores. Glasgows classically trained multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter honours that idea with tremendous reserves of panache and feeling on his fifth album, Its Only a Love Song, released through Bella Union on 24th January […]
No One Waved Goodbye
Amid the early 2000s Scottish music scene that birthed Camera Obscura, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian, Tacoma Radar were the quiet achievers. Their sole album, No One Waved Goodbye – a mesmerizing collection of hushed melancholy, is now hailed as a cult classic. Reissued for the first time, this deluxe double album features No One Waved Goodbye, […]
Late Developers
Belle and Sebastian hit the ground running in 2023 with new album Late Developers, released this Friday, January 13th. Arriving almost back-to-back to 2022’s Top Ten album ‘A Bit of Previous’, ‘Late Developers’ comes on like its predecessor’s sun-kissed cousin. It is a full-hearted embrace of the bands brightest tendencies that is not only fresh […]
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Gatefold sleeve, pressed on transparent pale blue vinyl. This 25th Anniversary edition also includes an exclusive art print of behind-the-scenes photos from the promotional video for the album, taken by band member Sarah Martin. wenty-five years after its original release, Belle and Sebastian have produced their most popular album in limited pale blue artwork with […]
