Harry Chapin Story Book: The Elektra Albums (1972-1978) Cherry Red Records This one is for the fans. Reissue and box set specialists Cherry Red Records have blessed the world with an expansive six-disc collection of the music of Harry Chapin. [...]
Killing Joke Lord Of Chaos Spinefarm Records How lucky we are. Killing Joke are recording their 16th or 17th album overall, the fourth since the original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Paul Ferguson, and Youth reunited in 2010. Lord of [...]
Your Crush Strawberry Sheets Independent Even the most hardened fans of what they consider complex music have some sort of a soft spot for some sort of, what some would call ‘pop confection.’ It could be anything – from an old [...]
Cannons Fever Dream Columbia Records In a world of division and unrest there are music projects that shine through and remind listeners that it’s okay to want to escape. Fever Dream is one such album. In their aptly named third studio [...]
Telefís a hAon Dimple Discs Calling your new project television using the English language would definitely imply you are copying the Tom Verlaine and co. legendary outfit, even though the project is made up of two quite well-known artists. So, [...]
VR Sex Rough Dimension Dais Andrew Clinco, the man behind the mythical Drab Majesty, is back with his post punk/anti-pop release, Rough Dimension. Recorded again with Ben Greenberg of Uniform fame, it checks all of the right boxes that one has [...]
Dawn Of Ashes Scars Of The Broken Artoffact Records Some say the best albums take listeners on a journey. That’s exactly what Dawn of Ashes latest album Scars of the Broken is. However, it’s not a journey to a good place. It’s a downward spiral [...]
Howard Jones The 12″ Album + 12″ers Vol. 2 Cherry Red Records Cherry Red continues to mine the Howard Jones catalogue and has come up with another brilliant release. This time they have taken the album The 12” Album, originally released in 1984 [...]
Stabbing Westward Chasing Ghosts COP International It’s been 21 years since Stabbing Westward’s last full length album, and fans have been craving new music from them for years. Fans rejoice, for the wait is finally over! Chasing Ghosts has ten [...]
John Mayall Road Show Blues (Reissue) Cleopatra Records This album has been reissued a goodly number of times since it saw the light of day in 1980, something of a fallow period for the Godfather Of British Blues following a decade when his [...]
Jerry Leger Nothing Pressing Latent Recordings It could be something in the water or having too much time to spend alone when it gets really cold so you can’t do much else but come up with some music, yet it seems that Toronto very often [...]
Widowspeak The Jacket Captured Tracks Widowspeaks’ fifth album The Jacket feels as though it’s a peek into the heart of the band, filled with a dreamy vulnerability. Molly Hamilton’s gentle and soothing vocals carry within them stories of [...]
Junk Drawer The Dust Has Come To Stay Art For Blind Records These days, it seems that the sort of guitar-driven alternative art rock is on a back burner, not many new artists taking the quite tricky road Television and/or Galaxie 500 took in [...]
Men Without Hats Again (Part 2) Sonic Envy Last year, Men Without Hats resurfaced after a nine-year absence. Although they had toured, there had not been new music from them since 2012’s Love In The Age Of War. But in 2021, they released Again [...]
Boring Girls Fuck You So Much Tarantula Tapes Hot off the heels of their third record since 2020, Montreal-based punk outfit Boring Girls have released Fuck You So Much. Released on cassette, via Ontario’s Tarantula Tapes, the five-track EP [...]
THE MONOCHROME SET ALLHALLOWTIDE TAPETE RECORDS If you ever wondered what would constitute something that would bear the name of ‘intelligent pop’, The Monchrome Set would certainly fit the bill. 16 albums (including the latest one) [...]
Strange Advance 4 StrangeSounds Records The fourth album from British Columbia-based synth, new wave, rock band Strange Advance is aptly titled 4. It is a veritable time capsule of music. Synonymous with the adage of everything old is new again, [...]
Matt Hannah House Of Illusion Independent The quality of a singer-songwriter album essentially relies on two key qualities – some good melodies supported by with as best possible musicianship and arrangements that go beyond just solo [...]
Guided By Voices Crystal Nuns Cathedral Guided by Voices Inc. Incessantly prolific as always, Guided by Voices’ 35th album shows the American indie-rockers aren’t ready to put down the guitars just yet, with Robert Pollard’s latest incarnation [...]
Wolfgang Flür Magazine 1 Cherry Red Records From 1973 until 1987, Wolfgang Flür was a member of Kraftwerk. After leaving Kraftwerk, he was involved with Yamo, collaborated with a number of artists, and released some solo records. On Magazine 1, [...]
Marianne Faithfull Vagabond Ways (Reissue) BMG Vagabond Ways was originally released in 1999 by Marianne Faithfull. For this album, she tapped Daniel Lanois and Mark Howard to produce her return to rock, or rather alternative rock. It was a very [...]
Band Of Horses Things Are Great BMG A lot of people know the feeling: a band or artist you’ve been following for a while has announced a new project—coming soon!—and you’re filled with excitement and anticipation, hoping that they still have the [...]
Joe Symes And The Loving Kind A Place To Call Our Own Truly Independent Records Joe Symes and the Loving Kind are a three-piece rock band out of Liverpool, UK. Over the past few years, they have been releasing music and touring relentlessly. [...]
Alyssa Gengos Mechanical Sweetness Egghunt Records During the nineties it became all the rage to call any combination of folkish, singer songwriter sounds with electronic musical elements folktronica. Unfortunately, things got a bit complicated [...]
