The Lemon Twigs Go To School 4AD The Lemon Twigs’ second debut album, Go To School, takes you on a heartbreaking journey of a young boy named Shane who is struggling with suicidal thoughts. Oh, and did I mention that Shane is a chimpanzee? [...]
Justice Woman Worldwide Ed Banger Records/Because Music French dance DJ duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay have been one of the most sought after and acclaimed dance acts since their debut in 2011. Capable of crafting some of the most [...]
Interpol Marauder Matador Records Interpol formed in 1997 and released their first studio album in 2002 (Turn On The Bright Lights). Since then there have been member changes and four more albums. Marauder is their sixth album, and their first [...]
Tombstones In Their Eyes Nothing Here Send Me Your Head Records Nothing Here is the third release from L.A.’s Tombstones In Their Eyes. This is psychedelic rock, done 2018 style. Tombstones In Their Eyes’ current lineup is John Treanor (guitar, [...]
Alice In Chains Rainier Fog BMG It has been five years since Alice In Chains released their stellar sophomoric release with William DuVall on vocals, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. The album was a smash hit with both critics and fans who chose to [...]
The Pull Of Autumn The Pull Of Autumn RBM Records The Pull of Autumn is a supergroup of sorts, and the origins are a result of mutual admiration by two very talented artists. Luke ‘Skyscraper’ James was a fan of the band Spectral Assignment, [...]
White Denim Performance City Slang Whenever I hear a new song, my brain tries to place the common sounds, tries to pull together references to say, “hey, keep listening, you’ll like this.” White Denim’s Performance is everyone’s brain pulling [...]
Mitski Be The Cowboy Dead Oceans Mitski may be one of the most intriguing young artists making music at the moment and Be The Cowboy, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2016 album Puberty 2, is again full to overflowing with enigmatic, intriguing, [...]
Mystic Braves The Great Unknown Lolipop Records There’s a beach somewhere in Southern California where it’s been the Summer of Love for the last 50 years. The air is consistently thick with the same dizzying heat, and there is always a light [...]
STRFKR Being No One, Going Nowhere (Remixes) Polyvinyl The new take on Stkrfkr’s fifth studio album is an odd one; one that is very difficult in seeing the point of. Whatever structure they created two years ago when the unremixed album came out [...]
Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today Warner Music Into their second decade of making music, Death Cab for Cutie’s Thank You for Today is a testament to a band whose career boasts a vast catalogue of poetic lyrics mixed with sun spotted and [...]
Walter Lure & The Waldos Wacka Lacka Loom Bop A Loom Bam Boo Cleopatra Records It has been almost 25 years since Walter Lure has released a studio album. Many know the name from his time with Johnny Thunder and The Heartbreakers and his work [...]
Bear Grass Left Five Kill Records At its very centre, Bear Grass’s new album Left is some fairly standard singer/songwriter kind of stuff. That is not an insult, far from it. The album boasts some amazing melodies and hooks throughout the [...]
Water Slice Water Slice EP Independent Psychedelic-tinged, power pop songwriter Patrick Philips, also known as Water Slice, has arrived with his debut EP and it couldn’t have come at a better time of the year. From the first track, Phillips [...]
The Proclaimers Angry Cyclist Sony Music Angry Cyclist is the first collection of new music from The Proclaimers since 2015, and it is a sonic treat. Leave it to twins Charlie and Craig Reid to give us the old sneak attack – as if we didn’t see [...]
Primal Fear Apocalypse Frontiers Music Primal Fear formed in Germany in 1997. It was and is a supergroup of European heavy metal music. Ralf Scheepers of Gamma Ray (vocals) joined up with Mat Sinner of Sinner (bass and vocals), and the result [...]
Elvis Presley Where No One Stands Alone RCA/Sony Music Elvis always seemed at home singing gospel, and there are many interviews with Elvis where he references growing up singing hymns and religious music. He released some brilliant gospel [...]
Halcyon Way Bloody But Unbowed Agonia Records Atlanta natives Halcyon Way are back with their latest release, Bloody But Unbowed, delivering their unique blend of progressive and thrash metal. With driving and relentless guitars, demonic vocals, [...]
Laffey Ten Laffey Records Andrew Laffey (who goes by the name Laffey) is a producer who has branched out to being a musician in his own right. Ten is is second album (Laffey being his debut album released earlier in 2018). Ten is a short album [...]
Merry Clayton Merry Clayton Real Gone Music Strange is the fate of backup singers. Many have extraordinary talents, but rarely get anything beyond a mention in the liner notes, and rarely even get a chance to have a solo recording. The case of [...]
NOFX Ribbed – Live In A Dive Fat Wreck Cords Seeing NOFX live is always surprising – breaking from the typical concert formula of playing hits interspersed with new singles, they take pleasure in shocking the audience with obscure or [...]
Monk Higgins Extra Soul Perception Real Gone Music Studio musicians and writers are often the unsung heroes of other artists’ music, rarely seeing the limelight themselves. Sometimes there’s good reason for that: it takes a lot more to create [...]
Phantastic Ferniture Phantastic Ferniture Universal Music Phantastic Ferniture, the darkly breezy garage-pop debut album of friends Julia Jacklin, Elizabeth Hughes, and Ryan K Brennan, is a passion project in the best sense. Jacklin’s acclaimed [...]
John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew Ghosts & Memories Universal Music Australia John Schumann was the front man of the group Redgum, a group he left to form The Vagabond Crew in 2005, their name coming from a Henry Lawson poem. He also [...]
