Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – Play Up The Music: Album Review
When coals from Newcastle mingled with sugarcane in Bridgetown, this is what they sang, brought back to Blighty by B-K, in a tour de squeezy force.
Afro Celt Sound System – Ova: Album Review
“A fulfilment of the late Simon Emmerson’s life and work”. The words of Afro Celt Sound System and indisputably the truth.
Flamy Grant – CHURCH: Album Review
Christian music without judgement, hypocrisy, fire or brimstone – CHURCH, the eagerly awaited sophomore album from North Carolinian drag queen, Flamy Grant sets out values for a better world.
Chloe Matharu – Sailors & Rolling Stones: Album Review
Incorporeal blend of icy harp and crystalline vocals meet muted electronica to challenge perceptions, possibilities and genre.
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere: Album Review
Blood Incantation return with a genre smashing new album that will go down in history as one of the greatest metal records, ever. It’s a bold statement befitting of Absolute Elsewhere.
Chat Pile – Cool World: Album Review
Cool World is the second album from Chat Pile and sees them going from strength to strength expanding and furthering their brutal sound into a relentless and distinctive full body of work.
Magnetar – There Will Be No Peace In My Valley: Album Review
Album number one from Magnetar shows the talented trio melding plenty of influences into one humongous beast of a record.
Johnny Foreigner – How to Be Hopeful: Album Review
Ambitious, engaging and utterly unpredictable. Birmingham indie-rock heroes Johnny Foreigner are back again – and they’ve got something to say.
The Lost Notes – Good Luck Shoes: Album Review
Accomplished 3rd album from Brummie Americana hotshots The Lost Notes – ten new songs that tell tales of the wary, the loved, the wild and the lost.
Goat – Goat: Album Review
And they just keep getting better! Swedish psych-funksters, Goat, mix a monster mash of musical motifs on their eponymous 6th album.
Various Artists – Highlands: Album Review
Bathtime never sounded so good, as Lush launch the latest (and the last) of their Simon Emmerson helmed Celt Soundsystem, featuring Julie Fowlis.
The Calamatix – The Calamatix: Album Review
Clear, intelligent vocals, set against pulsing reggae rhythms: What’s not like? The self-titled debut album from The Calamatix is pure joy.
Stackridge – Lost & Found – The Reunion Years: 1999-2015: Boxset Review
The Final Chapter…? Esoteric conclude their retelling of The Stackridge Story with another boxset, compiling the years of the re-formed Stackridge.
Bluenose B – Minstrel Of The Wasteland: Album Review
Stephen Lawson / Bluenose B – more than just the average folkie.
Steve Knightley – The Winter Yards: Album Review
All work and no play confirms Knightley as one of our best. The Winter Yards is out now.