Long Distance Calling – How Do We Want To Live?: Album Review
Long Distance Calling deliver a progressive post-rock masterpiece on their seventh album, as they ask How Do We Want To Live?
KOYO – You Said It: Album Review
KOYO release their second album. You Said It, that sees them moving on significantly from their excellent debut.
Be Bop Deluxe – Axe Victim, Deluxe: Album Review
The fourth of an excellent repackaging series of the Be Bop Deluxe catalogue with the 1974 debut, Axe Victim, getting the treatment.
Airbag – A Day At The Beach: Album Review
Four years since the release of the superb Disconnected, Airbag deliver the goods again on their fifth full-length album, A Day At The Beach.
Jupiter Hollow – Bereavement: Album Review
The weighty concept behind Bereavement, the new album from Canadian duo Jupiter Hollow belies a record that’s full of punch and fire.
The Animal State – Genus: Album Review
Some jazzy prog rock on the debut album, Genus, from Col Mullins, also known as The Animal State.
The James Oliver Band – Twang: Album Review
Twang by The James Oliver Band is a set of 11 no-nonsense, good, honest, back-to-roots rockers, played with passion and great good humour.
Michael McDermott – What In The World…: Album Review
What In The World is the latest offering on the state of the world by Michael McDermott.
Kyros – Celexa Dreams: Album Review
There’s a strong vein of Eighties polish and synth-pop on the new album, Celexa Dreams, from London quartet Kyros.
Minnie Birch – You’re Not Singing Anymore: Album Review
Football and folk music. An unbeatable combo and pulled into the same bed by Minnie Birch on Volume 1 of You’re Not Singing Anymore.
Buzzcocks – Sell You Everything 1991-2014: Album Review
A shedload of albums, singles, rarities and unreleased music from the Buzzcocks archive. As usual, lovingly collated by the fine people at Cherry Red.
Larkin Poe – Self Made Man: Album Review
Self Made Man is the fifth album from Larkin Poe and it’s a stonker.
Mrs Piss – Self-Surgery: Album Review
Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie rejoin forces in the guise of Mrs Piss. Self-Surgery is a disturbing set of songs done on their own terms, in their own way, with no overthinking.
Heartbreaker Please – Teddy Thompson: Album review
Heartbreaker Please is the seventh studio album from Teddy Thompson, his first since 2016’s Little Windows collaboration with Kelly Jones.
Rush – Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary: Album Review
The fortieth anniversary of Rush’s Permanent Waves is marked with a retrospective set and needless to say a trawl through the memory banks.