If there’s one thing that 2021 has taught me, and it’s taught me a lot, it’s that you shouldn’t expect bands you like to deliver the music you expect. And…
The last release for Libertino this year is the wonderfully inspired collaboration between N’famady Kouyate and Gruff Rhys. ‘Miniyamba / Gadael y Dref’ is a haunting reworking of a tradition…
In 2011, The Black Keys’ sixth album, Brothers, hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and yielded the band multiple Grammy nominations. The story goes that, after a Saturday Night…
For the past few years, I’ve wondered what would happen if Matt Loveridge, AKA MXLX, Fairhorns, Gnar Hest, Team Brick, Knife Liibrary, made a conventional album. Part of me thought…
Lunar Vacation have shared their charmingly wonky and fuzzed out take on Wham!’s classic Christmas single ‘Last Christmas’. Released earlier this year, the band’s brilliant debut album Inside Every Fig is a Dead…
In June of this year, James released their sixteenth album All The Colours Of You – landing at number three in the UK album charts and produced by Jacknife Lee,…
Over the course of doing some research for this review it dawned on me that Shore Dive Records has been going since 2017 and is four years old. If you…
It looks like Taylor Swift won’t be competing against herself for Album of the Year at next year’s Grammy Awards. The recording academy has decided that both she and St….
It’s a cold, cold night in Birmingham, even inside the usually toasty (and rather excellent) O2 Institute 2, where tonight LA/Brooklyn legends We Are Scientists are dropping by to promote…
In a world where people prefer streaming instead of buying music, it’s become increasingly rare for artists to sell one million copies of a record. Until 30 crossed the platinum…