3CD – Limited Edition Box Set.45 track 3CD set of classic live recordings from Ian Curtis & Co. Almost 45 years since their untimely demise following the premature death of Ian Curtis, Joy Division remain as iconic and influential as they ever were; testament to a band of enormous substance, great depth and abundant talent. […]
The ambition of this 1972 debut is written large in band name and album title. And you know what, it was entirely justified as the songwriting chops of chief Big Star members Chris Bell & Alex Chilton was, for a moment at least, on par with their pop heroes John Lennon & Paul McCartney. But […]
I like contrast between my albums,” says Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio. “When I finish an album, I crave doing something different for the next one.” No more so is this made apparent with Wilkinson hitting a major milestone, releasing his 10th studio album. Over those ten albums he has gracefully glided between electronica, ambient, folk, […]
180g virgin vinyl, limited edition of 650 copies only – the complete album + 2 bonus tracks Betty St. Claire (1927-1972) was considered a true “find” when she made her professional debut at Detroit’s Club Congo. She later worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner and Howard McGhee, but her career ended in 1960 after the […]
Benson Boones intimate, diaristic pop songs are constantly evolving as he quickly becomes a global hitmaker. His latest single, the smash hit “Beautiful Things,” quickly soared into the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 after topping charts across the globe such as #1 Billboard Global 200 and #1 Billboard Global Excl. US for 7 […]
Benny Goodman was a clarinettist and band leader, equally at home with small bands or fronting a large orchestra, whose music covered the spectrum of jazz and popular music in the four decades spanning WWII, and who earned the nickname of “The King Of Swing” as a pioneer of that style of jazz. He was […]
Ben Bohmer is a man compelled—a composer and producer who constantly seeks to give life to new ideas through his music. His new album Bloom is a reset, a confident reassertion of his own desires and more improvisational origins. It’s a bold swathe of styles and tempos that earlier tracks in his career feel like […]
Ben Bernie was an American jazz violinist, bandleader and radio personality, who started his career in vaudeville and founded an orchestra in the early 1920s which became the resident band at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York, and was hugely popular through the 1920s and ‘30s on radio, which Bernie being marketed under the nickname […]
Acid-washed motorik drone with buried vocals from experimental duo. Follows up, thirteen years later, from critically acclaimed album Common Era. . Realistic IX, the third full-length by the duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich aka Belong, is both an expansion and excavation of their signature acid-washed songcraft. Bleached guitars, metronomic drums, and buried voices […]
For the first time ever, the greatest hits of The Housemartins and The Beautiful South come together to create Soup, an almighty collection of 22 tracks that really do put a smile on the face. (Jack Foley www.indielondon.co.uk)
