Frank Turner No Man’s Land Xtra Mile Recordings Frank Turner’s eighth solo album, No Man’s Land, is a perfect twist of historic gems and Turner’s iconic acoustic melodies. Produced by Catherine Marks and featuring an all-female cast of [...]
Swampboots Defeatism! Dead Stare Records What do you expect when you hear of a band with the name Swampboots? I expected a southern rock band initially, but you don’t get that at all from their debut album. It’s more of a blend of Blink-182 with [...]
Ride This Is Not A Safe Place Wichita Recordings Ride’s sixth album, the second since 2015’s sudden reunion sees them exploring new sonic territory, while at the same time making an enjoyable record for the listener. Ride for most people is up [...]
Snow Patrol Reworked EP1 Universal Music Canada It’s hard to believe that Snow Patrol formed 25 years ago. The ebbs and flows of their international success seem clearly to have hit their stride only 13 years ago, with the release of the smash [...]
Primitive Race Cranial Matter Metropolis Records Primitive Race is back with a new album, its third, titled Cranial Matter, by a wide array of artists. The followup to their sophomore album Soul Pretender, it includes a wide array of remixes [...]
Electric Youth Memory Emotion Last Gang Records Lunchbox lovers Bronwyn Griffin and Austin Garrick of Electric Youth turned on a lava lamp for their latest album Memory Emotion. Having dated since eighth grade, with their breakthrough coming in [...]
The Franklin Electric In Your Head Last Gang Records Timeless writing that you cannot afford to escape is a quick taste of sweet candy that Montreal based duo The Franklin Electric brings to their new EP In Your Head. Right from the get-go when [...]
Filter Title Of Record (20th Anniversary Reissue) Craft Recordings Twenty years ago, Richard Patrick shook the alternative rock world with the release of Title Of Record. While his band, Filter, had previously turned heads with their bombastic [...]
Lakes The Constance LP Independent Wedged somewhere between mid-western emo and alternative indie, Watford sextet Lakes is a band anyone who went to Warped Tour or Boston Calling should listen to. Producing their own 10-part music video series [...]
Linda McCartney Wide Prairie (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Wide Prairie, Linda McCartney’s only solo album, was originally released in October 1998, roughly five months after her passing. It was an album that she had been working on for many [...]
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis The Road: Original Film Score Mute Records Remastered and available for the first time on vinyl, the last of three rereleases from mastermind combo Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is unspeakably lovely and full of sorrow. [...]
Fever Ray Live At Troxy Rabid Records After another hiatus, Fever Ray returns with their live album Live at Troxy. Swedish artist Karin Dreijer has recorded a live performance of their fan favorites with songs from their album Plunge. Dreijer is [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock Craft Recordings As the 50th anniversary of the era-defining Woodstock Festival approaches, a handful of artists remain attached to pop culture’s memory of the event – Crosby, Stills, Nash & [...]
Spoon Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon Matador Records Indie rock veterans Spoon have released their greatest hits album, Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon. First formed in 1993 with nine albums under their belt, this will be [...]
Of Monsters And Men Fever Dream Universal Music The Icelandic juggernaut Of Monsters and Men return with their third studio album Fever Dream. While the album continues with the anthematic power pop elements that shot them to fame in 2011, it is [...]
Alex Haas & Bill Laswell Smoke + Glass Sonicontinuum Bill Laswell is a well-established name in the music world as the producer/bassist has worked with almost everybody in any music genre you can imagine. On the other hand, Alex Haas, a [...]
Soundgarden Live From The Artists Den Universal Music You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who didn’t agree that seeing their favourite band live, at one of their definite peaks, had stirred up feelings of sheer exhilaration, wonder, and [...]
Ummagma Compass Leonard Skully Records Compass is the perfect title for Ummagma’s new album, with visions of a caravan travelling the world – or even other worlds – gathering and trading. This is the sound of a band that has been travelling the [...]
Bus Stop Poets Leave It To The Kids Independent Combining Americana with the unabashed pop sounds of Fleetwod Mac actually sounds like a great combination. Anybody afraid of Fleetwood Mac? Or Americana for that matter? Based on Bust Stop Poets’ [...]
Mike McGear McGear (Remastered & Expanded Boxset Edition) Esoteric/Cherry Red Mike McGear’s real name is Peter Michael McCartney, but goes by Mike McCartney. He is the younger brother of Paul McCartney. But he has had his own fame and [...]
Shakespears Sister Singles Party London Records Singles Party is the long awaited return of Shakespears Sister. This is a reunion I never thought I would see. Marcella Detroit (Marcy Levy) and Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) formed Shakespears Sister [...]
The Pull Of Autumn Afterglow RBM Records Second albums are difficult. The joke is you have years to complete your first and only one to write and record the second, and many second albums have disappointed. This is not the case with The Pull of [...]
Good Riddance Thoughts And Prayers Fat Wreck Chords “Now, you’re not naive enough to think we’re living in a democracy, are you, Buddy?” The sentiment uttered by Gordon Gecko, from the 1987 film Wall Street, could not be more [...]
Ecce Shnak Metamorphejawns Records, Man Records Metamorphejawns, the first full-length album from the seven-piece ensemble known as Ecce Shnak (pronounced eh-kay sh-knock), sounds exactly like what an album whose most easily digestible track [...]
