Just Mustard — We Were Just Here Album of the Week – Staff Review WE WERE JUST HERE is the new album from Dundalk band Just Mustard, their third full-length release and second for indie giants Partisan Records. It’s also, by some distance, the group’s most instantly gripping and eclectic work to date. Opening with […]
Album of the Week: Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquillizer Staff Review When American electronic producer Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) first gained attention in the late ’00s, it was through early releases such as Betrayed in the Octagon, Zones Without People and Russian Mind, later collected on the excellent Rifts (2010) compilation. Working largely with […]
The third Police album, from 1980, reached no.1 on the UK Albums Chart and featured two classic hit singles – the moving (and controversial) ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ (about an older teacher’s relationship with one of his students) and ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’.The album also features their second Grammy-winning […]
Description While the United States can indisputably lay claim to being the birthplace of film noir, arguably France and French cinema is almost as important to the development of the genre. The term ‘film noir’ – literally, ‘dark film’ – was first applied to the Hollywood crime movies of the 40s and 50s by French […]
In Olivier Peyon’s powerfully emotional drama LIE WITH ME, the successful novelist Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquédec) has returned to his hometown for the first time in decades. As a local celebrity, Stéphane has been invited to be the brand ambassador for its famous cognac distillery. On arrival he is stunned to discover that one […]
The most successful golden-era music series of all time returns with the ultimate collection.Over 60 unforgettable classics across 3 CDs, from Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, The Shadows, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison, Tom Jones, Ben E.King and many more.This definitive edition brings together the most loved and most requested songs from the Dreamboats and Petticoats […]
All 39 episodes from the childrens animated series following a group of woodland animals driven to seek refuge elsewhere due to urban developers. Series 1 episodes are: The Wood in Danger The Journey Begins Through Fire and Through Water False Haven Snare for the Unwary Who Shall Wear the Crown New Friends Old Enemies Friends […]
Album of the Week – Hilary Woods – Night CRIÚ Staff Review Night CRIÚ is the fifth solo album from Hilary Woods, the Irish musician perhaps best known to most as the former bassist of one of Ireland’s most successful indie bands of the late ’90s and early 2000s, JJ72. Having once tasted fame as […]
“Her darkest, heaviest and most personal album yet . . . a haunting, doomy exercise in loud-quiet dynamics.” Rolling Stone // Sleep paralysis plagues singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work. Across the span of her first four albums, there is an […]
First new songs since 1994 Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”.While it barely made a ripple at the time of its release in 1994, the cassette found a new life online in 2006.A not-sounderground cult obsession grew after it appeared on the blog Awesome Tapes […]
