VARIOUS ARTISTS OCEAN CHILD: THE SONGS OF YOKO ONO WARNER MUSIC Tribute albums by multiple artists are always a tricky thing. Tricky because you have many different styles interpreting one artist’s work. Sometimes this works really well, such as [...]
Church Of Trees Pish Posh Independent The term “pish posh” is an old expression that basically means something is ‘nonsense’ or ‘something absurd’. Though it is titled as such, that does not describe this new release from Church Of Trees, Pish [...]
MISS FD AS ABOVE, SO BELOW QUANTUM RELEASE RECORDS One thing is for sure, one can never predict what Miss FD will come up with when she releases new music. On As Above, So Below, she draws upon and is “influenced and inspired by Göbekli Tepe, a [...]
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS 4 BMG Returning for their fourth record and first studio release since 2018’s Living The Dream, Slash, Myles Kennedy, and The Conspirators set their sights high on 4; ultimately delivering some [...]
Alan Parsons One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv Frontiers Music SRL Alan Parsons recently released a live album on November 5, 2021 (The Never Ending Show: Live In The Netherlands), and has followed that album with another yet another. One [...]
Chas Cronk Liberty Renaissance Records Take Chas Cronk: For decades, Chas Cronk has been in a supporting bass-playing role to iconic acts like Strawbs and Rick Wakeman. He has now stepped into the spotlight with Liberty, a collection of [...]
MASSIVE EGO THE NEW NORMAL OUT OF LINE RECORDS Synth-pop/darkwave giant Massive Ego exerts an unapologetic political voice with The New Normal, its first multi-song project since 2019. Complimented by cover art depicting two androids riddled [...]
Eddie Vedder Earthling Republic Records Best known for his work for Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder’s solo work has achieved a level of cult status with each release being revered by fans and critics alike. For his major album return – his first [...]
Tomo Before The Dawn Independent In these streaming days, if you aren’t able to read much about an artists, it doesn’t necessarily mean that listeners are not out there, giving traction to them and picking up on their music. [...]
Bastille Give Me The Future Republic Records/ Universal Music Formed in 2010, British quartet Bastille presents their fourth studio album entitled Give Me The Future. The underlying theme with this work according to frontman Dan Smith is [...]
GREAT LAKES CONTENDERS HHBTM RECORDS It seems that at the moment, if you exclude grunge, most of the music of the 90s is in some sort of a doghouse. And like any other decade in music that was residing there (at least for a while), there are not [...]
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS SEE THROUGH YOU DEDSTRANGE See Through You is fully stocked with post-punk basslines, jagged rhythm tracks, squalling guitars, disembodied vocals, and nonsensical lyrics, then dressed in a thick sludge of dissonant [...]
Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There Ninja Tune Records Ants From Up There is the second studio album from Black Country, New Road. Just four days prior to the release of the album, lead vocalist Isaac Wood left the band citing struggles [...]
The Jazz Butcher The Highest In The Land Tapete Records The Highest In The Land is a difficult album to review. Pat Fish, who started the band and was in essence, The Jazz Butcher, passed away, quite suddenly on October 5, 2021. When an album is [...]
Mary Hopkin Pieces Mary Hopkin Music Mary Hopkin has released her latest album, Pieces. It was recorded in her home studio, and she is assisted by her daughter Jessica Lee Morgan on backing vocals, guitar, and ukulele, Morgan’s partner Christian [...]
LEIF VOLLEBEKK NEW WAVES (LIVE RECORDINGS ’19-’21) SECRET CITY RECORDS Following his 2017 breakthrough album Twin Solitude with the soul-baring songs of New Ways, Leif Vollebekk continues to deliver deeply emotive indie folk music. [...]
Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene Inside Out Music/Sony Music Ian Anderson has released several solo albums in the past 19 years. However, with The Zealot Gene being the first album by Jethro Tull in almost two decades, expectations are high. Ian [...]
THE TEMPTATIONS TEMPTATIONS 60 UNIVERSAL MUSIC In 1958 Otis Williams formed a singing group with his friends, Otis WIlliams And The Distants. They didn’t have a lot of success but four years later when they changed their name to The Temptations, [...]
SPACEFACE ANEMOIA MOTHLAND Quite a few bands and artists have their favorite pastime, and usually it is yet another music project, that somehow or partly doesn’t fit with their ‘main’ project. It also can happen that this side project can become [...]
Betty Moon Undercover Evolver Music Undercover may be Betty Moon’s most ambitious yet. She is a talented and brilliant songwriter in her own right, but here she has decided to record a collection of covers. Her interpreting songs should come as [...]
BAT LIPS BAT LIPS III INDEPENDENT Having released Bat Lips II in 2019, the Austin-based metal outfit Bat Lips have returned. For their third, the trio has released the three-song EP Bat Lips III, a brutal tour de force of alternative metal. Bat [...]
COMEBACK KID HEAVY STEPS NEW DAMAGE RECORDS/NUCLEAR BLAST Hardcore leviathans Comeback Kid have been in the genre game for 20 years. With years comes experience and knowing how to work the genre field to your favour. Comeback Kid has never [...]
Various Artists C91 Cherry Red Records Almost four decades ago, back in 1986 when New Musical Express ruled the world of music journalism, the paper issued now the now-famed c86 cassette, which was full of sharp, sometimes shocking new [...]
JOHN MELLENCAMP STRICTLY A ONE-EYED JACK REPUBLIC RECORDS With his 25th album, Mellencamp portrays himself as a wisened, reflective musician. The days of “suckin’ on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez”, are far behind him and he no longer [...]
