Graham Bonnet Band Meanwhile, Back In The Garage Frontiers Music This is the second studio album from Graham Bonnet Band. Their first, The Book, was released in 2016 and was well received both critically and sales wise. They have issued a couple [...]
Searmanas Searmanas Cleopatra Records Searmanas is a word that is derived from Gaelic, and it means ceremony or ceremonial. It is the perfect name for this artist. The debut album, Searmanas, has a feeling of official ceremony, an album that is [...]
The Nude Party The Nude Party New West Records The Nude Party is the debut album from The Nude Party. They have released an EP, but The Nude Party is their first full length album, and for the most part, it lives up to expectations. Based in [...]
Ray Davies Our Country: Americana Act II Sony Music Our Country: Americana Act II is not so much a sequel to the very successful 2017 release, Americana, as it is a continuation. Ray Davies has based both albums on his 2013 book Americana: The [...]
Wild Moccassins Look Together New West Records Look Together is this generation’s Rumours. Co-written by the core members of Wild Moccasins, Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann, the album lyrically and musically documents the break-up of Swann and [...]
A Flock Of Seagulls with The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Ascension August Day This seems to be a trend. A great many artists, alive and dead, are setting their music with an orchestra. The bands originating from the 1980s are not immune to [...]
HEY HEY HO HUM…LET’S JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS A CONVERSATION WITH IAN BURDEN Ian Burden has been playing music for a long time, and for a long time he was ahead of his time. He understood and continues to understand how synthesizers can [...]
ASCENSION A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE SCORE OF A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS A Flock of Seagulls was formed by guitarist and keyboardist Mike Score in 1980. He was joined by his brother, Ali (Drums); Paul Reynolds (guitar) and Frank Maudsley (bass). This is [...]
Yukon Blonde Critical Hit Dine Alone Records Critical Hit is Yukon’s fourth album, and their first since 2015’s On Blonde. For this album, they employed the services of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, The Kooks) to produce, and it was a very wise [...]
Susie Scurry The Elvis Hour Independent Melbourne, Australia’s artist Susie Scurry released her debut album under the name The Grand Magoozi, and the self-titled album was released in 2016. Here she is, writing and recording under her own [...]
The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl Alex Paterson is back with his friends under the banner of The Orb. Once again he is working with Thomas Fehlmann, and as duo they take the title of this album, No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds, [...]
Front Line Assembly WarMech Artoffact Records This is the first new music from Front Line Assembly since 2013’s Echogenetic, which was a brilliant and very successful album for the band. WarMech is not a follow-up to that album, but it is a [...]
Wilko Johnson Blow Your Mind Chess Records/Universal In 2014, much to everyone’s surprise, Wilko Johnson, who was handed a death sentence of a year in 2013 due to terminal pancreatic cancer, released an album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home) [...]
Immersion Sleepless Swim~ The band, Immersion, consists of Colin Newman (from Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact). Sleepless is their fourth studio album, and their first since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Sleepless is an [...]
Colin Stetson Hereditary: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Milan Records Scoring a film is a difficult task, and quite frankly there are not a lot of artists who can compose and arrange music for a film. Writing for a horror film is an even [...]
The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling Here We Go Love Here We Go Records The Beat formed in 1978, and released their debut album in 1980, I Just Can’t Stop It. But the release of that album lead to some problems with their name in Australia [...]
GOOD TO GO A CONVERSATION WITH GLEN MATLOCK Believe it or not, my introduction to Glen Matlock came through an album I adored when I was young called Ghosts of Princes In Tours, and it was by The Rich Kids. Matlock played bass and wrote or [...]
MAKING A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE GLOBAL COLLAPSE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY “WarMech is not really a Front Line Assembly album, it is a soundtrack, a follow-up to AirMech (2012), which was a soundtrack [...]
Various Artists Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars (Original Soundtrack Recording) Universal Music Enterprises Soundtracks of documentaries about musicians are interesting things and excellent opportunities to collect well known songs as a ‘best of’ [...]
Poptone Poptone LP Cleopatra Records Poptone is one half of Bauhaus or two thirds of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets, you can decide your reference point. The truth is Poptone is a new band featuring Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins (both from [...]
Ian Burden Hey Hey Ho Hum Rutland Artspace Limited Ian Burden was a member of The Human League from 1980 until he left the band in 1987. Hey Hey Ho Hum is his second solo album (his debut solo album, Loot!, was released in 1990). Since then he [...]
Eamon McGrath Tantramar Saved By Vinyl Tantramar is Eamon McGrath’s sixth studio album. In between albums he keeps himself busy with Julie and The Wrong Guys as well as other studio work. But it is on his solo albums where he is able to shine [...]
Shriekback Why Anything? Why This? Independent Why Anything? Why This? is the first studio album by Shriekback since 2015’s Without Real String Or Fish. Why Anything? Why This? is not only a brilliant follow-up, it just may be one of the best [...]
Near Future Ideal Home Blanc Check Records Neil Arthur has been very busy of late. Since the fall of 2017 he wrote and produced the most recent Blancmange album (the brilliant Unfurnished Rooms), as well as put together the box set of [...]
