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 [...]
Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing RidingEasy Records Following a debut that captured the positive attention of several critics and garnered a not insignificant following, Here Lies Man’s sophomore album was always going to be a big test for [...]
Mad Caddies Punk Rocksteady Fat Wreck Chords The Mad Caddies’ new album is the summer album we’ve all been waiting for. A compilation of punk rock classics played with a beachy reggae style, this album boasts a series of perfect tunes to rock [...]
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) [...]
Blushh Thx 4 Asking Yellow K Records “It’s not fine, it never was,” Shab Ferdowsi asserts in the first line of her latest EP as indie power-pop extraordinaire Blushh. This callout to her previous release, 2017’s It’s Fine, kick-starts Thx 4 [...]
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 Mighty Mighty Bosstones While We’re At It Big Rig Records It is interesting for me that this is the second band this month that I have chosen to review that found the largest part of its fame in the 1990s, a decade now famous for being [...]
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 [...]
Buddy Guy The Blues Is Alive And Well Silvertone/RCA Records Buddy Guy stands as one of the last true traditional blues legends of his time; an era that predated the rock ‘n’ roll explosion of the mid-1960s. Few remain, and even fewer are still [...]
Nick Lowe Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside Yep Roc Records It’s confession time. I have always been a bigger fan of Nick Lowe the rocker than I am of Nick Lowe the elder statesman artist – the main reason being that there was just so much energy and [...]
The Stayawakes Dogs and Cats/Living Together Surefire Discs/badHORROR Recordings/ShoveItUpYourCult Records Transporting listeners back to the beautiful indie-pop punk scene of the early 2000s, The Stayawakes latest release Dogs and Cats/Living [...]
Black Coffee Take One Independent On their debut album, Columbus, Ohio’s Black Coffee shine as potential stars to the growing rock revival that is sweeping North America. The independent release, Take One, harkens back to the 1970s – arguably [...]
The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Capitol Records The past decade has been a very good time to be a Beach Boys fan, beginning with their 50th anniversary tour in 2012, which [...]
Thom Fekete Grow Joyful Noise Recordings Faced with his own encroaching and premature mortality, Thom Fekete never stopped writing music. His new album, Grow — released posthumously through Joyful Noise Recordings — is both a [...]
Dave Matthews Band Come Tomorrow RCA Records There is little, at this point in their long and storied careers, that the Dave Matthews Band do in terms of breaking new ground. Since launching themselves into the collective music consciousness in [...]
Jorja Smith Lost & Found ONE FAMM Jorja Smith, the 21-year-old from Walsall, England, has been making huge waves in the music industry after the recent release of her debut album, Lost & Found. Jorja Smith has strengths and weaknesses, [...]
Snail Mail Lush Matador Maryland-born Lindsey Jordan, the lead-singer and creative engine behind Snail Mail, must have had cool parents. Maybe an older sibling that was into grunge. Having only been born in 1999 herself, she has clearly been [...]
Rechorduroys Rechorduroys Five Kill Records Sometimes an ending is just the beginning of something else, and that was exactly the case when Rechorduroy’s singer and main songwriter Benjamin Garrett dissolved his band Party Boat and moved [...]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge The Midnight Hour Linear Labs When two production heavyweights like A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge collaborate, it’s something that’s worth paying attention to. That’s what [...]
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’ [...]
