Exploring Birdsong – The Thing About Feathers: EP Review
Liverpudlian prog trio make waves on their stunning debut EP. This band is definitely one to watch in 2020.
Be Bop Deluxe – Modern Music: Album Review
Release Date: 29th November 2019 Label: Cherry Red Formats: 2CD, DL, special edition 4CD/DVD mega package Cherry Red are doing the Be Bop Deluxe catalogue a real service. After the excellent reissues of Sunburst Finish and Futurama, we get another impossible to resist offering of Modern Music. Modern […]
Beans On Toast – The Inevitable Train Wreck: Album Review
The annual missive from Beans finds him rounding up the year with the usual suspects and a bout of weary inevitability.
SundaySong – Signals: Album Review
Finnish rockers return with a wildly intriguing new album from the shores of Scandinavia.
Kate Rusby – Holly Head: Album Review
As seasonal as the turkey and trimmings, there’s a new Kate Rusby Christmas album, Holly Head.
The Pineapple Thief – Hold Our Fire: Album Review
Success breeds success. Building on the triumph of Dissolution and a flowering solo career, Bruce Soord and his men bring us a live album that’s worth its salt.
Djabe and Steve Hackett: Back to Sardinia – Album Review
Make a drink of what you like best, turn the lights down low, kick everyone out of the room. Chill out with Steve Hackett and Djabe.
Harp & A Monkey – The Victorians: Album Review
Channeling some fascinating songs from the Victorian era, Harp & A Monkey follow up War Stories with another fine collection of engaging tales.
Atlantæum Flood – One Day: Album Review
Described as ‘ethereal’ and ‘beautifully cohesive’, we had to investigate Atlantæum Flood’s One Day album.
Jack Bruce – Sunshine Of Your Love, A Concert For Jack Bruce: Album Review
A huge onstage line up of greats from the annals of rock history pay a fitting tribute to Jack Bruce.
Josienne Clarke – In All Weather: Album Review
Melancholy’s minion, Josienne Clarke, arrives atop a flotilla of fuzzy synth chords on her new album, In All Weather.
The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles: Album Review
Roine Stolt and his Flower King colleagues are back with a return to traditional values on Waiting For Miracles.
Luke Jackson – Journals: Album Review
After first encountering Luke Jackson as a teenager, he’s now striking out with his fifth album at the grand old age of twenty five.
Slow Readers Club – Live At O2 Apollo, Manchester: Album Review
“A dream come true.” A rather special homecoming, commemorated in audio-visual form to keep forever. You can tell your grandkids, “I was there” and even spot (or hear) yourself in the audience.
Bird In The Belly – Neighbours And Sisters: Album Review
The Brighton folksters delight in delving deep into the folk tradition. Going places where few rarely go, Neighbours And Sisters follows up the 2018 Sunday Express Album Of The Year, The Crowing.