Silkworm In The West (Reissue) C/Z Records/Comedy Minus One Originally released in 1994, Silkworm’s album In The West will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in celebration of its 25th anniversary, as well as including all sorts of extra bonus materials (mostly live recordings) on the included CD. For [...]
Frank Turner No Man’s Land Xtra Mile Recordings Frank Turner’s eighth solo album, No Man’s Land, is a perfect twist of historic gems and Turner’s iconic acoustic melodies. Produced by Catherine Marks and featuring an all-female cast of musicians, this album is an ode to the many incredible stories of women [...]
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Ride This Is Not A Safe Place Wichita Recordings Ride’s sixth album, the second since 2015’s sudden reunion sees them exploring new sonic territory, while at the same time making an enjoyable record for the listener. Ride for most people is up there with the other fathers and mothers of shoegaze/dream pop. In the [...]
Snow Patrol Reworked EP1 Universal Music Canada It’s hard to believe that Snow Patrol formed 25 years ago. The ebbs and flows of their international success seem clearly to have hit their stride only 13 years ago, with the release of the smash hit “Chasing Cars”. True fans of the band were not solely captivated by [...]
Primitive Race Cranial Matter Metropolis Records Primitive Race is back with a new album, its third, titled Cranial Matter, by a wide array of artists. The followup to their sophomore album Soul Pretender, it includes a wide array of remixes from a multitude of talented artists, all featuring the likes of former [...]
Electric Youth Memory Emotion Last Gang Records Lunchbox lovers Bronwyn Griffin and Austin Garrick of Electric Youth turned on a lava lamp for their latest album Memory Emotion. Having dated since eighth grade, with their breakthrough coming in 2011 when their song “A Real Hero” was heavily featured in [...]
The Franklin Electric In Your Head Last Gang Records Timeless writing that you cannot afford to escape is a quick taste of sweet candy that Montreal based duo The Franklin Electric brings to their new EP In Your Head. Right from the get-go when you start to slowly unwrap tracks such as “Made It Up In Your Head” [...]
Filter Title Of Record (20th Anniversary Reissue) Craft Recordings Twenty years ago, Richard Patrick shook the alternative rock world with the release of Title Of Record. While his band, Filter, had previously turned heads with their bombastic debut, ‘95s Short Bus, which spawned the iconic hit, “Hey Man Nice [...]
Lakes The Constance LP Independent Wedged somewhere between mid-western emo and alternative indie, Watford sextet Lakes is a band anyone who went to Warped Tour or Boston Calling should listen to. Producing their own 10-part music video series and having played in pubs all through Watford, Lakes’ new LP The [...]
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Linda McCartney Wide Prairie (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Wide Prairie, Linda McCartney’s only solo album, was originally released in October 1998, roughly five months after her passing. It was an album that she had been working on for many years. During that time, Linda would record a song here and there, but [...]
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis The Road: Original Film Score Mute Records Remastered and available for the first time on vinyl, the last of three rereleases from mastermind combo Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is unspeakably lovely and full of sorrow. The soundtrack was written by Cave and Ellis as a sincere reaction to [...]
Fever Ray Live At Troxy Rabid Records After another hiatus, Fever Ray returns with their live album Live at Troxy. Swedish artist Karin Dreijer has recorded a live performance of their fan favorites with songs from their album Plunge. Dreijer is backed by six additional performers, which she handpicked. Each [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock Craft Recordings As the 50th anniversary of the era-defining Woodstock Festival approaches, a handful of artists remain attached to pop culture’s memory of the event – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Who, Joe Cocker, Santana, and of course Jimi Hendrix. [...]
Spoon Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon Matador Records Indie rock veterans Spoon have released their greatest hits album, Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon. First formed in 1993 with nine albums under their belt, this will be a collection of their most popular and beloved songs over the years. [...]
Of Monsters And Men Fever Dream Universal Music The Icelandic juggernaut Of Monsters and Men return with their third studio album Fever Dream. While the album continues with the anthematic power pop elements that shot them to fame in 2011, it is layered with subdued melodies that highlight singer Nanna [...]
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Soundgarden Live From The Artists Den Universal Music You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who didn’t agree that seeing their favourite band live, at one of their definite peaks, had stirred up feelings of sheer exhilaration, wonder, and amazement. Beyond that, it is even rarer to find such an example where the [...]
Bus Stop Poets Leave It To The Kids Independent Combining Americana with the unabashed pop sounds of Fleetwod Mac actually sounds like a great combination. Anybody afraid of Fleetwood Mac? Or Americana for that matter? Based on Bust Stop Poets’ sophomore album Leave it to the Kids,the Detroit trio certainly are [...]
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Mike McGear McGear (Remastered & Expanded Boxset Edition) Esoteric/Cherry Red Mike McGear’s real name is Peter Michael McCartney, but goes by Mike McCartney. He is the younger brother of Paul McCartney. But he has had his own fame and successes, with Scaffold and later with the supergroup GRIMMS. By the 1980s, [...]
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Shakespears Sister Singles Party London Records Singles Party is the long awaited return of Shakespears Sister. This is a reunion I never thought I would see. Marcella Detroit (Marcy Levy) and Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) formed Shakespears Sister in 1988. They released two albums (both making the top ten in the [...]
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The Pull Of Autumn Afterglow RBM Records Second albums are difficult. The joke is you have years to complete your first and only one to write and record the second, and many second albums have disappointed. This is not the case with The Pull of Autumn’ Afterglow. Following last year’s self-titled debut, they have [...]
Good Riddance Thoughts And Prayers Fat Wreck Chords “Now, you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy?” The sentiment uttered by Gordon Gecko, from the 1987 film Wall Street, could not be more relevant today; it provides a perfect intro into Thoughts and Prayers. In a [...]
Ecce Shnak Metamorphejawns Records, Man Records Metamorphejawns, the first full-length album from the seven-piece ensemble known as Ecce Shnak (pronounced eh-kay sh-knock), sounds exactly like what an album whose most easily digestible track is titled “Velociraptor Swayze” should sound like. The saucy nine-track [...]
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Paul McCartney Amoeba Gig (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Amoeba Gig is perhaps the most welcome of the four ‘live’ albums in this batch of re-releases from Paul McCartney. Although portions of this concert have been released in the past, this is the first time the entire show has been made available and it has been [...]
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Eli Raybon Supertoys Independent In the Eighties, a geekey teen (or any other) movis was always accompanied by some (usually exquisite) electro-pop. Human League, Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark, Heaven 17, even A Flock of Seagulls (they had their moments too) — it didn’t matter, it somehow fit and no [...]
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