LP – Limited Edition Transparent Curacao Blue Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. Finnish powerhouse Battle Beast storms forward with unrelenting force, dropping their electrifying, highly anticipated seventh studio album Steelbound.Moving fluently between classic metal, superpowered synthesizers, and symphonic realms — even embracing ’80s-tinged hard rock — these Helsinki heavy metal hitmakers have created a […]
Further distanced in time from John Coltrane’s spiritual new-jazz and the influential second Miles Davis quintet, Doug Carn showed a close affinity with r&b when recording his fourth and final Black Jazz album Adam’s Apple. Tip!Sharing his interest in r&b was a platoon of committed, resourceful jazz musicians including young star-in-the-making Ronnie Laws, who’d worked […]
There’s a palpable flurry of momentum surrounding SPRINTS. The Dublin band have enjoyed a whirlwind year, marked by back-to-back wins and rapid ascent. They unveiled their Top 20 debut album “Letter to Self” in January 2024, picked up two RTÉ Choice Award nominations for Best Irish Album and Breakthrough Irish Artist, opened for IDLES and […]
Fearless is the definitive career-spanning anthology from Ronnie Wood – legendary guitarist, master songwriter, and global rock icon.This double album tells the story of Ronnie’s extraordinary musical journey, from his earliest recordings as a teenage prodigy in the 1960s to four brand-new tracks, his first new solo material since 2010’s ‘I Feel Like Playing’.Featuring standout […]
CD Absolute gem of an album from Die Spitz on Third Man.Ferocious, versatile, raw, and unapologetic.It has the same thrill as hearing Hole for the first time. When the Venn diagram of passion, friendship, identity, and artistry collide, it can feel as if fighting words are spitting from your veins.And as postmodern society crumbles, Die […]
Ever-evolving the mythologies and magic of Dialect’s sonic sphere, Andrew PM Hunt returns with Atlas of Green, elegantly moulding unexacting details of memory and mistranslation into the framework of the British musician and composer’s creative pursuit. The album imagines a young musician named Green working in a future dawning era where lost signals and enduring […]
For fans of Twenty Sixty Six & Then, Kin Ping Meh, Epsilon, Birth Control – all four studio albums by the band in one set, including the rare Maternal Joy single – lovingly remastered – liner notes by Klemen Brznikar and an interview with NDW frontman Walter Seyffer. Nine Days’ Wonder (NDW for short) was […]
Sonny Rollins, who at the time of writing is still alive at the age of 94, is one of the giants of modern jazz, and along with John Coltrane, perhaps the most influential personality as far as the tenor saxophone in jazz is concerned.So long and varied has his stellar career been that it is […]
Chicago Underground Duo is the long-running collaborative project of composer/trumpeter/electronicist Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Isotope 217, New Future City Radio with Damon Locks) and composer/drummer/mbiraist Chad Taylor (jaimie branch’s Fly or Die, Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio).Hyperglyph is their first album in 11 years, and 8th in the absolute cabinet of […]
LP – This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. Lee Morgan’s prodigious creative output in the years following the smash success of his comeback album The Sidewinder was staggering by any measure, whether quality or quantity.In fact, […]
