The Ric Sanders Trio – Standin’ On The Corner/Headspace: Album Review
PDC, clearly, early doors Ric Sanders, as he (sugar)canes his version of the blues, across two stellar albums.
Remembering Gary Brooker – The Concert: Album Review
A much missed musician is respectfully commemorated in this star studded line up performing his famous songs and their own classic hits .
Tift Merritt – Time and Patience: Album Review
Merritt merits both your time and the patience unrealised, for this surprise treasure trove of kitchen recordings.
Carsick – Tough Luck: EP Review
Second EP release from Salisbury ‘chaos merchants,’ Carsick. Five songs of Gen-Z booze-fueled angst, all set against a backdrop of tight, punchy, accomplished punk noise
Quick Takes – August 2025: Album Reviews
A quick look at a handful, or so, of album releases from Luke Morley, Halestorm, Bioscope, Assymetric Universe, Gary Numan, Spafford & Campbell, Bywater Call and Green Diesel.
The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie: Album Review
The Beths return with Straight Line Was A Lie; their fourth full length player. It’s their most poignant and melancholy output yet.
UFO – The Misdemeanor Tour: Album Review
UFO enter a period of reconciliation around one of their more divisive album releases.
Tom Smith – A Year In The Life: Album Review
A Year In The Life, from Tom Smith, is a vibrant and enjoyable jazz work, with an inventive approach to the Big Band sound.
Shipwreck Orchestra – Lost Maps & Long Barrows: Album Review
Perfection on a summer’s afternoon! Lost Maps & Long Barrows – the new album from Shipwreck Orchestra – aka multi-instrumentalist Aaron Miller (and friends) – blends prog and folk influences with orchestral ambition to create sounds that are truly unique and thoroughly satisfying
Anthony Phillips – Radio Clyde 1978: Album Review
The superb remaster of Radio Clyde 1978 captures Anthony Phillips playing and singing live in the studio, for a classic radio session.
Skerryvore – Live At Floors Castle: Album Review
Skerryvore slay any scepticism with a precision assault on the senses.
Obituary – Godly Beings – The Roadrunner Albums: Album Review
Cherry Red Records and Dissonance collate the Roadrunner albums from Obituary – a truly great run of albums that put the Floridians on the map.
Gorguts – Considered Dead / The Erosion of Sanity: Album Review
Cherry Red/Dissonance reissue the first two albums from Canadian death metallers, Gorguts.
Craig Gould – Live At Beckwith Studios: EP Review
Craig Gould mixes the old(er) and the new(er) in an impressive audio visual live package.
Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Going Down To The River…To Blow My Mind: Album Review
Third outing for Haines & Buck – doing their bit for mind altering music.