Sasha And The Valentines So You Think You Found Love? Independent With perhaps it’s most adequately named track ‘Witches’ set to the front, So You Think You Found Love? by Austin-based band Sasha And The Valentines opens with a bewitching [...]
Paul McCartney McCartney III Imagined MPL/Capitol Say what you will about Paul McCartney, but he never does what is expected of him. Following the success of 2020’s McCartney III, McCartney has invited some very interesting artists to interpret [...]
Deine Lakaien Dual Prophecy Productions Germany’s avant-garde darkwave duo Deine Lakaien has released its 10th full-length studio album, Dual. The double-length collection consists of one disc of cover versions the pair, made up of singer [...]
Greta Van Fleet The Battle At Garden’s Gate Lava Records There’s no denying it — Greta Van Fleet have taken a lot of flack. Whichever side of the fence you sit on, The Battle At Garden’s Gate, might just change your mind. The intro [...]
Wax Moon Hello Morning Independent There is always a musical element that presses exactly the right button with every listener. It could be a good guitar lick, a synth line or, say, a string arrangement. For quite a few listeners, it is a set of [...]
The Reds, Pinks and Purples Uncommon Weather Slumberland Records For the third year in a row, The Reds, Pinks, and Purples have released another album of gentle, hazy, DIY pop music that is mostly self-recorded and self-produced by Glenn [...]
Core Bee Sit And Drink Tarantula Tapes Normally on bass with Heavy Petter and on drums with The Speed Humps, Barrie, Ont.-based artist, Core Bee, has released his second full-length solo release, Sit And Drink. With the exception of a few guest [...]
Robert Cotter Missing You WeWantSounds Before Chic set the disco world on fire with the quintessential hit, “Le Freak” in 1978, they were The Big Apple Band, fronted by Robert Cotter. Their only record made together, Missing You, was initially [...]
Twin Tribes Altars Negative Gain/Young & Cold Records/Manic Depression Records Darkwave duo du jour, Twin Tribes, have released Altars, a remix album that encompasses their first two records. Twin Tribes, like the new era of dark wave bands [...]
Various Artists Greg Belson’s Divine Funk Cultures Of Soul Following on the success of Greg Belson’s Divine Disco, Cultures Of Soul and Greg Belson – one of the world’s leading collectors, curators, and DJs of gospel music – have returned [...]
Dry Cleaning New Long Leg 4AD Story has it South London-based Dry Cleaning has its origin in a long-ago karaoke night and a small garage in which guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and Lewis Maynard would collaborate together. After [...]
Badfinger No Matter What – Revisiting The Hits Cleopatra Records I love Badfinger. I maintain that they are one of the most underrated bands of all time, and their story is one of immense tragedy. They were an incredibly talented band who [...]
Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow (Remastered Edition) Esoteric Recordings Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson, originally released in 1976, was the first solo album by the Yes vocalist. Here he demonstrates that he is much more than just an [...]
Lamb Of God Lamb Of God (Deluxe Version) Epic Records After parting ways with founding member and drummer Chris Adler, Lamb Of God returned in 2020 with their long awaited self-titled record. Lamb Of God follows their 2015 album, the jaw [...]
Ian McNabb Utopian Fairfield Records Utopian is Ian McNabb’s 20th studio album, and his first since 2019’s Our Future In Space. The man is certainly prolific and extremely talented. McNabb has produced some incredible music over the past 30 [...]
Cathal Coughlan Song Of Co-Aklan Dimple Discs If you are able to name one of the cult artists from the Irish music scene, the name of Cathal Coughlan would be probably one of the first to come to mind. The albums he made in the ‘80s and [...]
Smith/Kotzen Smith/Kotzen BMG Richie Kotzen is no stranger to trying out different things so this album should come as no surprise. Same goes for Adrian Smith, and together they form a perfect union with the posthumous release of Smith/Kotzen. [...]
Xiu Xiu OH NO Polyvinyl Records Xiu Xiu has been around almost two decades now cranking out experimental masterpieces. Singer songwriter Jamie Stewart’s lyrics are so intimate that some songs have been a hard listen. What is not talked about [...]
Frankie & His Fingers Universal Hurt SubFamily Records Punk rock band Frankie & His Fingers has made a full comeback with its most recent studio effort, Universal Hurt. This album hearkens back to the days of mainstream punk bands [...]
Kalbells Max Heart NNA Tapes For many fans of what can be called sophisticated pop/rock, a combination of Belle & Sebastian and Stereolab would be a dream come true. An additional accent on harmony vocals and jazzy overtones would definitely [...]
Karate, Guns & Tanning Concrete Beach Independent Karate, Guns & Tanning have released their debut album, Concrete Beach, along with its hypnotic lead single “Graffiti”, which comes with a hallucinatory and surrealist animated music [...]
Joe Strummer Assembly Dark Horse Who doesn’t miss Joe Strummer? The way the world has been going, we could certainly use him now. These times were made for the likes of Joe, calling out oppressive governments, corporate greed, and systemic [...]
Tame Impala InnerSpeaker (10th Anniversary Edition) Interscope Records Although it is technically now the 11th anniversary of Tame Impala’s debut LP, we really can’t complain anytime Kevin Parker releases something. The InnerSpeaker box set [...]
Sweet Isolation Boulevard Prudential Music Group ‘We still got the rock’ sings Sweet in the song of the same name on their new album Isolation Boulevard. They are not wrong. From their first Canadian hit, “Little Willy” to their classics [...]
