Marking 40 years of The Jesus And Mary Chain, ‘Glasgow Eyes’ was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow, where Jim and William continued the creative process that resulted in their previous album, 2017’s ‘Damage and Joy’, becoming their highest charting album in over twenty years. What emerged is a record that finds […]
2 CD Isobel Campbell first emerged as a founding member of Belle & Sebastian before releasing 3 albums with Mark Lanegan (ex Queens Of The Stone Age and The Screaming Trees). In February 2020, Isobel Campbell released her critically acclaimed solo album “The Is No Other…” which was featured on Rough Trade US & UK […]
Underworld have announced details of their eleventh album, Strawberry Hotel, to be released on 25th October 2024. Welcome to Strawberry Hotel. Here, gleaming tensile techno forms clean, straight lines while scratchy acoustic guitars scuff up edges to produce ghostly audio. Poetry is snatched from the overhead, removed from the overheard; words borrowed from the ether […]
2LP In 2019, Big Thief released not one, but two contenders for Album of the Year. Both the ethereal, ghostly U.F.O.F. & it’s sibling, the rawer, ragged ‘Two Hands’ were truly exceptional examples of the group’s indie-folk-rock sound. Led by the once-in-a-generation talent of singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker (who also released two albums worth […]
3 CD Having documented the British psychedelic scene with anthologies devoted to the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, Grapefruit’s ongoing series fearlessly confronts the dawn of the Seventies with a slight rebrand. • New Moon’s In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970 features (appropriately enough) seventy tracks from the first year of […]
3 CD box set spotlighting the pioneering movement that brought the world The Beatles but has been overshadowed by their success. • Hits include The Searchers’ ‘Sweets For My Sweet’ (UK #1) and ‘When You Walk In The Room’ (UK #3), Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas’ ‘Bad To Me’ (UK #1), The Swinging Blue […]
2 LP From ‘That’s The Way It’s Got To Be’ to ‘Kick Out The Jams’, this double vinyl album takes you through four fast-moving years: a period of ferment and experimentation mapped through singles, some of them hits, some of them obscurities, some of them classics. The idea behind the series was to create an […]
“No art is worth much which doesn’t aim to change the world.” Lindsay Anderson In the 1960s the monumental success of The Beatles re-wrote the language of pop, drove a revolution in social mobility and prompted a new creative confidence in the arts. They re-defined what it was to be British. By 1966 The Beatles […]
“Contributors to the album include Michael Stipe, Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, King Princess, Fontaines DC, Matt Berninger, Courtney Barnett, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop & more. Upcoming documentary on The Velvet Underground directed by Todd Haynes will be released 15th Oct on Apple TV. It will have its world premiere at the Cannes […]
Songs of Joy and Peace is a Christmas music album by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, originally released in 2008. The album features collaborations with many other artists, including vocalists Diana Krall & Alison Krauss, James Taylor, Dave Brubeck, Chris Botti a.o. This holiday disc doesnt exclusively stick to traditional Christmas songs, but covers a wide scope […]
