Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
A week of heavy music in various forms this week - and though Adia Victoria and Moor Mother prove that doesn't have to mean big rock riffs and the like, Carcass, Employed To Serve and Merthyr band Florence Black offer a bit of that anyway.
A week of marquee releases including Manic Street Preachers album number 14 and a bumper-sized Metallica reissue/tribute album package. Plus Elvis Costello is redone in Spanish and there's comebacks from Martina Topley-Bird and Saint Etienne.
New sounds ranging from Amyl And The Sniffers' Aussie punk to Auri's Finnish metal, DJ Seinfeld's Swedish club sounds and Suuns' Canadian indietronica, with a token blast from the past courtesy of the Small Faces.
Bank holiday bangers (and things less appropriately described) by The Bug, Chubby & The Gang, Marisa Anderson & William Tyler, Voces8 and Yann Tiersen.
New albums by Welsh stalwarts from north and south alike, The Joy Formidable and Captain Accident; black metal crossover faves, Deafheaven and Wolves In The Throne Room; and folk-rock perfection from Martha Wainwright.
Reviews of new music by Mountain Movers, Quicksand, Sepultura, Suzie Ungerleider and the Goitse A Thaisce compilation: psych-rock, post-hardcore, metal, alt-country and Irish folk.
Buzz's second set of weekly album reviews this week (don't ask) includes a set of womanly pop covers by Will Young, more measured classical by Max Richter, and intense meditations on Christianity by Lingua Ignota.
The first of two sets of album reviews to be handed down to you this week, for reasons, features an eclectic crop of Dot Allison, Erasure, John Francis Flynn, Lump and Underdark.
Five new albums including jazz from Slowly Rolling Camera and Snazzback, dub reggae from Mungo's Hi Fi and classic rock from David Crosby.
Featuring! Cool Cymru revivalism from Boi; funky pan-whacking covers from Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band; an album recorded in two hours by Stephen Fretwell; and a brace of debut releases from side projects with acronymical names.
A big week for albums by relatives of more famous musicians – indeed there is not one, not four but THREE such releases in this perky little section! However, because Buzz thinks music should stand on its own merits, this familial connection has only been mentioned in one of the reviews.
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE AT THE GATES The Nightmare Of Being (Century Media) The guttural snarl that is a trademark of death metal will often hit you …
BEARTOOTH Below (Red Bull) Once a mere solo project for the band’s lead singer Caleb Shomo, Beartooth has exploded into a titan of the melodic hardcore genre in a matter …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH To Carry A Whale (Dirty Hit) There’s something about Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s songs that, despite their simplicity, really get under …
DUSTIN O’HALLORAN Silfur (Deutsche Grammophon) Pianist and score composer Dustin O’Halloran’s first venture into the world of music was playing guitar and keyboards for the hugely underrated and wistful Los …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BUGZY MALONE The Resurrection (Ill Gotten) From the opening title track of Bugzy Malone’s latest, the mood and scene is set: …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BLACKBERRY SMOKE You Hear Georgia (3 Legged) The southern roots rock band that’s fast becoming a collective, Blackberry Smoke, mark their …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE GARY NUMAN Intruder (BMG) “I tend to be ridiculously optimistic,” Gary Numan claimed recently. You’d not guess it from Intruder, his …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE MYLES KENNEDY The Ides Of March (Napalm) The Ides Of March, the second solo album from Myles Kennedy, covers a lot …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE COMORIAN We Are An Island, But We’re Not Alone (Glitterbeat) The photo on the cover, of a fella sitting in the …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE KNOMAD SPOCK Winter of Discontent (Hinterland Creative) The stars have aligned for this touching and revealing album from British/Somali singer-songwriter Knomad …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE ALAN VEGA Mutator (Sacred Bones) Sometimes ‘lost’ albums are lost for a reason, and best not found. But the eight songs …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BLACK STONE CHERRY The Human Condition (Mascot) Black Stone Cherry’s seventh studio album is a self-produced offering, straight from bassist Jon …
THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE BEABADOOBEE Fake It Flowers (Dirty Hit) Following some fantastic EPs like Space Cadet and Patched Up, Beabadoobee [above] has quickly risen …
