CUSP – English Country: Album Review
English Country is the debut record from CUSP. It is an album with roots firmly in classic indie seeking lift off with an expansive sound and huge choruses.
Teenage Fanclub – Do Not Dare To Dream: Album Review
The Fannies get ever more timeless, free of any genre beyond their own, adding vintage psychedelia to their jangly languor.
Sam Sweeney & Grace Smith – Morning Of May: Album Review
13 bangers and smashes, mainly from the past, couped and curated into perfection by a fiddling A team of Sweeney and Smith.
Laura Cortese – Lucky Water: Album Review
Cortese wows effortlessly in a completely individual way, providing an unexpected triumph. Ambient Americana, anyone?
Good Habits – Better For Now: Album Review
Cosmic folk duo Good Habits make their long-awaited return and celebrate a new direction with their most emotionally expansive and sonically ambitious album so far.
Maria Taylor – Story’s End: Album Review
Maria Taylor overcomes personal adversity and finds solace in her innermost thoughts with Story’s End, her new album.
Our Man In The Field – Silverado: Album Review
Chance encounters, journalism, literature, film and music – experiences provide inspiration to Our Man In The Field for his new album, Silverado.
Lacrimas Profundere – Lay Me Down O Silent Fear: Album Review
Veteran gothic metal band, Lacrimas Profundere, return after a busy four year break touring and playing some of the biggest festivals in the world.
Ian Noe – Canyon Falls Trailer Band: Album Review
Kentuckian Ian Noe channels his formative influences in the story of the fictional Canyon Falls Trailer Band for his ambitious third album.
Bonfire Radicals – Spaghetti Junction: Album Review
Latest from the uncharacterisable, irrepressible, Birmingham sextet blends Balkan beats with Scottish and Scandi tunes to unique effect
Mary Gauthier – Reckoning: Album Review
With Reckoning, Gauthier fearlessly finds her day, a no holds barred salvo of shrapnel from the front line of humanity.
Tear Dungeon – Squirm: Album Review
Tear Dungeon bring the noise on Squirm. The riotous Texan’s unleash their unique brand of sonic battery and anarchy for all to see and hear.
These Wicked Rivers – Fire And Folklore: Album Review
Soul cleansing Southern Rock stuff from Derby. These Wicked Rivers send some joy (plus fire and folklore) out into the world.
Martin Simpson – Some Kind Of Jubilee: Album Review
50 not out, Simpson is staying at the crease and this lavish 2 set disc spells out exactly why.
Josh da Costa – New Wave Graveyard: Album Review
Building a quirky shrine to synth-pop, 80s glam, Josh da Costa’s debut solo album balances revered guitars and theatrical nostalgia.