Various Artists Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red is one of those record labels renowned around the world for their practically immaculate reissue series, particularly when it comes [...]
The Palfreyman Collective The Palfreyman Collective Diteli Media In 2017, David Palfreyman and Nicholas Pegg released the ambitious and brilliant album Decades. Since that album Palfreyman has come up with a new project, The Palfreyman [...]
Loreena McKennitt Under A Winter’s Moon Quinlan Road Loreena McKennitt is no stranger to Christmas/seasonal albums. She has released two studio albums in the past full of Christmas and Holiday cheer. She is also no stranger to recording [...]
Joan Armatrading Live At Asylum Chapel BMG Joan Armatrading came into the consciousness of music lovers in 1972, with her debut album Whatever’s For Us. She was known as a singer-songwriter and her reputation grew throughout the past 50 years. [...]
The Human League The Virgin Years UMC The Human League formed in 1977, at the height of ‘punk’ but they were different. They may have had the ‘punk’ attitude, but with an experimental, electronic sound. The lineup was Phil Oakey (vocals), Martyn [...]
Rising Appalachia Live From New Orleans At Preservation Hall Independent Sisters Chloe and Leah Smith who are the leading lights behind Rising Appalachia, Americana independents that were able to garner quite a following outside the mainstream [...]
Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe) UMe Appetite For Destruction remains one of the greatest debut records ever, something that forever established Guns N’ Roses among the greatest rock bands but has left a nearly impossible summit [...]
Quadeca I Didn’t Mean to Haunt You Dead Air Records Working within, or trying to revive, if you will, a genre many consider dead and buried can be quite a serious obstacle for an artist, renowned or not so renowned. Sticking to a concept [...]
Jackson Mico Milas Blu Terra Apollo Records At some point, all that you have done before, all the experience you have gained the way you have evolved as an artist, should come to fruition at some point. Of course, if there is a modicum of talent [...]
Chris Cleverley Broadcast The Secret Verse Independent The times when singer songwriters would limit themselves to a single acoustic instrument and vocals and lyrics that were only talking about their hurt feelings are still here (well, a little [...]
The Police Ghost In The Machine (Vinyl Reissue) Universal Music/Polydor Originally released in 1981, Ghost In The Machine represents The Police in the middle their career. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, a series of successful albums, singles, [...]
Carla dal Forno Come Around Kallista Records Carla dal Forno’s Come Around gives off a storybook feeling, as though you’ve opened a leather bound, gently discoloured by time, fairy tale novel. Instead of images, her whimsical ‘storytelling’ is [...]
Tenci A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing Keeled Scales Whenever you encounter an artist or a band you did not have a chance to hear before, the first thing you do is try and make a comparison – who do they sound like, or to whom you can [...]
PJ Harvey B-Sides, Demos & Rarities Universal Music/Island Records Concealing almost no part of her musical progression, PJ Harvey’s B-Sides, Demos & Rarities provides us with a road map to her as an artist, as well as a person, and [...]
Pholo When The Soul Sleeps Artoffact Records Since the late ‘80s, Russian post punk bands are characterized by nostalgic auras and cold haunting melodies composed by synths textures, guitar riffs, drum machines, and brooding bass lines. Siberian [...]
Tod Lippy Closer Than They Appear Independent There are two basic criteria to judge a covers album. One is the choice of the covers, the other is the way they are (re)interpreted and/or re-imagined. And usually each of those is usually quite [...]
Jason Collett Head Full Of Wonder Arts & Crafts Whether it was his work with Broken Social Scene or solo, Jason Collett was never an artist who stood still. He always left his fans wondering what he’s going to do next. So, not to leave [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip RidingEasy Records “The Beat Goes On”, title of one of the two best songs Sonny & Cher recorded together, kind of stuck beyond the song itself, and it seems it is something that can [...]
Dan Mangan Being Somewhere Arts & Crafts Ok, so there are certain canons and formulas for any musical genre, and that includes folk music as the domain of singer songwriters, where you don’t go further than mid-tempo and favor your [...]
Lee Fields Sentimental Fool Daptone Records This is soul singing legend Lee Fields’ first new album in three years, and also his debut album for Daptone Records, though he has had 45s on the label before. It is also a strong, no-nonsense soul [...]
I Ya Toyah Ghosts Independent The three-song EP Ghosts was just released by the Chicago-based artist I Ya Toyah (née Ania Tarnowska). It is currently available on Bandcamp, and will be available on other platforms, and in physical form, in early [...]
The Mary Wallopers The Mary Wallopers Independent The Mary Wallopers hail from Dundalk, Ireland and consist of brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy, and Seán McKenna. They have been described as a contemporary Irish folk band, but, I think this is [...]
John Entwistle Rarities Oxhumed – Volume One Deko Music Probably only Who fans, and maybe people of a certain age, will remember that John Entwistle had a very solid, and long standing solo career beginning in the 1970s and continuing well [...]
The Beatles Revolver – Special Edition (Super Deluxe) Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music The Beatles entered EMI Studios on April 6, 1966 to begin work on their follow up to their brilliant, ground-breaking, and landmark album Rubber Soul. [...]
