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.
Mairearad Green & Rachel Newton – Anna Bhàn : Album Review
Blood history, music and song, exquisitely, from the Gàidhealtachd, by two of the region’s finest daughters; Mairearead Green & Rachel Newton
Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight: Album Review
The ever versatile Public Service Broadcasting release The Last Flight; a tribute to the final exploits of aerial adventurer Amelia Earhart.
Sans Froid – Hello, Boil Brain: Album Review
Totally unclassifiable – an arresting debut album from Bristol-based Sans Froid.
Luke De Sciscio – Theo: Album Review
Deeply personal reflections on birth, parenthood and life itself. Singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio channels Cohen, Drake, Simon and others on his 17th album, Theo.
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Songbook: Album Review
Seventies Superstar, Gilbert O’Sullivan revisits his 55-year career and comes up with a few pared-back blinders for our enjoyment.
Si Kahn & George Mann – Labor Day : Album Review
Subtitled ‘A Tribute to Hard Working People Everywhere’, this 80th birthday celebration to Si Kahn is both exhaustive and exhausting, if mostly worth the effort.