The Fratellis In Your Own Sweet Time Cooking Vinyl It makes you shake your hips and loosen up almost instantly. The Fratellis fifth studio album is completely different from their last Americana-inspired one. Glitzier and scattered with pop [...]
Don McLean Botanical Gardens BMG One never knows what Don McLean will do next or when, for that matter. Botanical Gardens is his first studio album since 2009’s Addicted To Black. So it has been a while for McLean but it has been well worth the [...]
The Bonnevilles Dirty Photographs Alive Natural Sounds Records Dirty Photographs is the first album from the Belfast based The Bonnevilles since 2016’s Arrow Pierce My Heart. It is their fifth album overall, and one can see that since their [...]
The Loons Blue Ether/Saturday’s Son Dirty Water Records Celebrating being together for twenty years — fifteen of which with the same lineup — The Loons has released their latest single. Much like the vintage rock vibe that the band [...]
The Orange Kyte The Orange Kyte Says Yes! Little Cloud Records This is a very unique album and The Orange Kyte have a very unique sound. The band consists of Stevie Moonboots [vox, bass, guitars] and Dave Mulvaney [drums, percussion], and Mat [...]
Screaming Females All At Once Don Giovanni Records Screaming Females’ All At Once is an excellent overall album, though with a few notable weaknesses. The group’s latest work encompasses many different styles and sounds, and often attempts to [...]
Fungus Hill Cosmic Construction On Proxima B Independent Buckle your seatbelts, this is not your usual rock album. Fungus Hill have brought us something different, yet something old. Cosmic Construction On Proxima B is a concept album, a science [...]
Five Alarm Funk Boots & Wheels Independent Vancouver based funk sensations, Five Alarm Funk, have released a two song EP titled Boots & Wheels. The short release is the first since last year’s full album, Sweat, and documents the bands [...]
George FitzGerald All That Must Be Double Six Records George FitzGerald has released his second studio album, All That Must Be, recorded under the label Double Six Records. The album is a smooth mystical trip from one song to the next one. Here [...]
Acid Dad Acid Dad Greenway Records New York City’s Acid Dad have returned with their first ever full length, self-titled album. Acid Dad follows the alternative rock outfit’s 2016 debut EP, Lets Plan A Robbery, and gives fans a long awaited [...]
Sam Levin I Am Clarence Productions Sam Levin has an infuriating amount of talent. At 16, he has the vocal range of a singer with decades of experience, he writes melodies which are as catchy as anything on the radio, and he has a clear [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat 2 Universal Music Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty (“The King Of The Teens”, “King of The Youth”) has the admirable ability not to take himself too seriously, but unfortunately a lot of his humour seems to have deserted him on this [...]
Judas Priest Firepower Columbia Records For their much awaited follow-up to their 2014 release, Redeemer Of Souls, metal pioneers Judas Priest have released Firepower, a fourteen track record that delivers some of the best songs Judas Priest has [...]
Dear Rouge Phases Universal Music A few years have now passed since 2015’s Black to Gold garnered electronic rock duo Dear Rouge acclaim, accolades, and airplay. Now the Vancouver based band is taking a stab at the charts once again with [...]
Young Fathers Cocoa Sugar Ninja Tune Nothing is easy about Edinburgh-based, genre-defying trio Young Fathers, though that ultimately is what is most arresting about them. Winning the Mercury Prize in 2014 and being heavily supported by trip-hop [...]
Scenic Route To Alaska Tough Luck popTrip Records Tough Luck, the fourth full length album release from Scenic Route to Alaska, takes thoughtful depth and sophisticated rhythm to a whole new level, creating an album that shines from start to [...]
Erasure World Beyond Mute Records In 2017, Erasure released their 17th studio album, World Be Gone. It was a big success, both critically and commercially in their native U.K. (it made the Top Ten). Vince Clarke, the one half of Erasure who is [...]
Jimi Hendrix Both Sides Of The Sky Legacy Recordings In 1994, MCA records gathered up all of Hendrix’s blues-rock outtakes and compiled them on an album, titled simply Blues. 24 years later it still stands as one of the best, if not the best, [...]
Stonerpop Physical Business Stonerpop Records Stonerpop is a duo that sounds like they should be from somewhere in Europe, but in fact they are based in Louisiana. The group is comprised of Jimmie Maneuva (keyboards, programming and backing [...]
Three Days Grace Outsider RCA Records Everyone has times in their life where they just want to escape from everything. Now there is an album for you to help with those times of feeling stuck and annoyed with life. Three Days Grace has released [...]
Editors Violence PIAS There is a relevance to music that comes from a place of clear authenticity; from self-reflection upon and embracing of your strengths; from the balancing of what new sounds and techniques are available with the abilities [...]
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Tearing At The Seams Stax Records Tearing at the Seams is an album with two feet (or perhaps, as there are 7 band members, 14 feet) rooted firmly in the past. It is fitting then that the band’s label is [...]
Myles Kennedy Year Of The Tiger Napalm Records Having fronted and played guitar for Alter Bridge as well as being Slash’s go-to choice for two solo records and a pair of stellar tracks on his 2010 self-titled solo record, Myles Kennedy has [...]
Ministry AmeriKKKant Nuclear Blast To say that America has been in a sense of disarray since the election of their current president, Trump, is an understatement. Every day or so seems to offer a new fiasco, ranging from taunting North Korea [...]
