Cryptworm – Infectious Pathological Waste: Album Review
Bristolian Death Metal degenerates Cryptworm vomit forth their third full-length into the underground with a nauseating amount of proficiency.
Lamb Of God – Into Oblivion: Album Review
Into Oblivion is the first new album from Lamb Of God in four years. Where does it sit in the vast discography of the Virginian metallers?
Gong – Bright Star: Album Review
Carrying a torch that still burns with a dazzling brightness, Gong complete a trilogy that serves the legacy with due reverence and psych-trimmed exuberance.
Moya Sweeney & Archie Churchill-Moss – From The Aa: EP Review
Moya Sweeney and Archie Churchill-Moss pool resources to explore the expressive possibilities of the diatonic button accordion.
Peter Gabriel – In The Big Room: Live Review
Real World Studios’s Big Room plays host to an intimate set from Peter Gabriel.
Paddy Boyle – The Sup; Songs About the Drink: Album Review
Irish folk singer Paddy Boyle accomplishes that rarest of things: He’s produced a collection of drinking songs that puts melody and craft before boisterousness. With stunning results…
Maz O’Connor – Love It Is A Killing Thing: Album Review
Spooky spectral sounds spiral into saturation for this exquisite new chapter for Maz O’Connor. Love It Is A Killing Thing marks a momentous return.
Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir: Album Review
Norway’s Rosa Faenskap return with the powerful new album “Ingenting Forblir” (Norwegian for “nothing lasts”). The album, like the band is “a declaration of love for – as well as a declaration of war against – black metal itself.
Holly Clarke – Wild, Feral & Fierce: Album Review
As someone once said of Holly Clarke, man, she can sing, and this assured solo debut nails that case proven!
The Delines – The Set Up: Album Review
And the prize for the best soundtrack is……….. Or will be, when it’s made. The Delines do The Set Up.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – We Are Together Again: Album Review
Sparkles in the sweat, diamonds in the dust, gold in the grit; service as usual from the Louisiana heir apparent, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.
Katherine Priddy – These Frightening Machines: Album Review
These Frightening Machines is the third album from West Midlands singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy, and it continues her musical development with an increasing variety of styles and arrangements for her delicate, tuneful and lyrically intelligent music.
Gogol Bordello – We Mean It, Man!: Album Review
Album #10 from Lower East Side Romani/folk/punk whirlwind, Gogol Bordello. A huge defiant statement against tyranny. Their best album yet? It could be…
Georgia Shackleton – From The Floorboards: Album Review
Using a very special violin, acclaimed violinist/songwriter Georgia Shackleton celebrates the 125th anniversary of a distinguished relative’s voyage of discovery. From the Floorboards is a journal of historical achievement, tales of endurance and the lure of the sea
Gus Englehorn – The Broken Balladeer: Album Review
Gus Englehorn harnesses the winds of creativity as he assumes the mantle of the broke balladeer.