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 [...]
Halcyon Phase Tendrils Independent Tendrils is the debut album from Halcyon Phase, a duo consisting of Frank Smith (Sills & Smith) and multi-instrumentalist Phillip Victor Bova (of Bova sound, and known for his engineering and production [...]
Thorin Loeks In This Place Independent Making travelogues in musical form sounds exactly like something a singer/songwriter should do. You are presenting an outlook on what you see before you while you’re more or less constantly on the [...]
Bell Orchestre House Music Envision Records/Erased Tapes House Music is the first full-length release from Montreal six-piece Bell Orchestre in over ten years, and what a glorious return it is! Energetic and beautiful, this slice of improvised [...]
Palm Ghosts Lifeboat Candidate Ice Queen Records Generally regarded as the finest Manchester band of their generation, Joy Division spearheaded a newer form of music, creating a soundscape that was as horrifying as it was beautiful. Their tenure [...]
Jason Collett Best Of Arts & Crafts When Broken Social Scene burst on the scene at the turn of the millennium, the band made a huge splash due to the fact that the collective itself had contributions from such a diverse, talented and [...]
Church Of Trees Pause Independent On Pause, Bernard Frazer, the musical and lyrical genius behind Church Of Trees, has put together the strongest Church Of Trees album yet. While he is the cornerstone for the project, he has also enlisted a few [...]
Jon Batiste We Are Universal Music Hot off his work as the jazz coordinator for Pixar’s Soul, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert bandleader, Jon Batiste, has returned with his eighth solo album, We Are. Following his sublime 2020 release, [...]
Daniel Lanois Heavy Sun Missing Piece Group Best-known for his previous production work on U2’s album Joshua Tree, Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball, and Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind, 11-time Grammy Award winner Daniel Lanois [...]
