Fen Wilson Ghost Heroin Independent Ghost Heroin is Fenn Wilson’s debut album, following on the heels of 2015’s EP, Tales Of The Black Dog. Produced by acclaimed blues guitarist Shannon Bourne, Wilson has created a deeply personal and unique [...]
Russian Baths Deepfake Good Eye Records First albums are always difficult, bands are finding their way and don’t always get things right their first time in studio. The interestingly-named Russian Bath hails from New York, and provide for their [...]
Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot Records Bloodshot Records emerged on the scene 25 years ago, aiming to be a bridge. What is soul is bluegrass, what is punk is folk, what is pub rock is rockabilly. The sounds [...]
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders Get The Money RCA Records For their third record – and their first is nearly a decade – Taylor Hawkins, yes, of the Foo Fighters, has reunited his solo band, The Coattail Riders. Get The Money sees not [...]
Bishop Briggs Champion Island Records/Universal Music Canada After a rocket-like ascent into worldwide pop stardom fueled by her breakout hit “Rivers,” Bishop Briggs’ debut album, 2018’s Church of Scars, soon climbed into Billboard’s Top 10 [...]
Dave East Survival Def Jam Dave East’s highly anticipated debut album, Survival, has finally dropped. With 20 tracks and features ranging from Nas, Mozzy, E-40, Teyana Taylor, Gunna, Rick Ross, The Dream, Fabolous, Ash Leone, Jacquees, and Lil [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith Mummer Love Bella Union Mummer Love is the second album in the Perfect Vision triptych collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith. Inspired by poet Arthur Rimbaud,the group is an experimental [...]
Quiet Riot Hollywood Cowboys Frontiers Music SRL Hollywood Cowboys is the first studio album from Quiet Riot since 2017’s Road Rage, and the second studio album featuring vocalist James Durbin. Whereas Durbin was a last-minute replacement on [...]
Atlantæum Flood One Day Schoolkids Records Instrumental albums can be tricky things. They can become bland where all the songs kinda meld into one. This is clearly not the case with One Day. Atlantæum Flood have created very visual pieces with [...]
FKA Twigs Magdalene Young Turks An endowed mystical creature, a gentle sensory eargasm, and a wholesome spirit: this is the talented artist FKA twigs. Renowned for her otherworldly voice and totally idiosyncratic identity, this is the second [...]
Gene Clark No Other (Deluxe Boxset) 4AD 4AD has remastered late American singer/songwriter Gene Clark’s 1974 solo album No Other. But the question is, did they really need to? Every instrument originally used can be heard on the remastered [...]
Snow Patrol Reworked Universal Music/Polydor Records Snow Patrol’s latest release, Reworked, is just that. It is a collection of reworked classics, in essence much different and many better in some ways. “Chocolate” is a classic which we all [...]
The Joy Formidable A Balloon Called Moaning (10th Anniversary Edition) Hassle Records The Joy Formidable have released a double-album edition of their successful debut release A Balloon Called Moaning through Hassle Records.The album includes [...]
Hunting Whatever You Need Nevado Music Five years ago, Hunting was the solo project of one Bradley Ferguson, putting out wistful, melancholy folk music. In the years since, with the addition of two new band members in Vancouver, vocalist [...]
Cold War Kids New Age Norms CWKTWA/AWAL There might be something to that old superstition about the number seven being lucky, because the seventh album by Los Angeles-based band Cold War Kids, the first of a three album trilogy, certainly hits [...]
King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King (50th Anniversary Edition) Panegyric/DGM When analyzing history, 50 years is a glimpse of time barely long enough for historians to make any solid conclusions. On the other hand, when talking about [...]
Underworld Drift Series 1 Smith Hyde Productions/Caroline Records Underworld was born of the ashes of the breakup of Freur in 1988. The duo, consisting of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, have never sounded better, and they continue to come up with [...]
Ags Connolly Wrong Again Finstock Music There is much to like about Wrong Again by Ags Connolly. It starts with the sleeve, which looks like a well-worn, much-loved album. Then there is the exceptional music inside that sleeve. Wrong Again is [...]
Vetiver Up On High Mama Bird Recordings Four years since his last album Complete Strangers, Vetiver returns with Up on High, a groovy, chilled-out acoustic-driven collection of songs that feature poetic, imagistic lyrics and a hopeful tone from [...]
Bob Dylan Travelin’ Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings The 15th chapter of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series is out, and it’s the best one yet. The 10-time Grammy Award-winning musician’s newest album [...]
Leif Vollebekk New Ways Secret City Records New Ways is the honest, soul-baring release from Montreal singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk. Following the critically acclaimed introspective album Twin Solitude, Vollebekk has directed the focus [...]
Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor/Interscope Michael Kiwanuka has built himself a reputation as an innovative, talented, and soulful musician. How does one possibly follow an album like 2016’s Love & Hate? With his third release, [...]
Fergus Hambleton Neighbourhoods Current Records Neighbourhoods is Fergus Hambleton’s first album since 2015’s Written On The Wind. It is the perfect follow up, and once again he does not disappoint. This is a well-produced and well-arranged [...]
Blutengel Damokles Out Of Line Music Twenty years into their career and Germany’s Blutengel are still going strong. This year, the darkwave duo have released not one but two albums: Un:Gott earlier this year, and now mini-album Damokles. It is [...]
