TEXAS & SPOONER OLDHAM’s joint soulful authenticity fits like a glove in collab compilation
Texas and Spooner Oldham is a combination which fits like a glove on compilation album, The Muscle Shoals Sessions.
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Texas and Spooner Oldham is a combination which fits like a glove on compilation album, The Muscle Shoals Sessions.
If you’re looking for evidence that aliens are here, start with Shabazz Palaces, beaming hip-hop from a distant galaxy on new album, Exotic Birds Of Prey.
High Llamas' Sean O’Hagan's melodies rotate and distort embedded in Hey Panda, a weird, clean, modern wonder of an album.
Sunken Lands is a tale of time and water, an exploration of how the past, present, and future are not linear but an uproarious ocean of shared experience.
With El Magnifico, producer and songwriter Ed Harcourt has moved away from the instrumental, cinematic soundscapes of his last, highly recommended album Monochrome To Colour.
As Strange Things Are Happening makes clear, Richard Norris might not be a household musical name, but's he's still a countercultural lodestone.
The scene this band grew up as part of is one that many are nostalgic about, yet through their musical evolution, Sum 41 proved they could transcend it.
I Heard Her Call My Name talks, with honesty and lack of self-pity, about Lucy Sante’s internal struggle and her difficulties with transitioning late in life.
Situating itself in Wales' grand and varied landscapes, with Tir, Carwyn Graves lays out the ecology and history of this country by exploring each layer.
Yorkshire's finest postpunk prodigies Yard Act ramp up the energy on an otherwise quiet Sunday night at Cardiff's Y Plas.
Mab Jones compiles the best new poetry this March: from vital contemporary voices on the scene, their verse ranging from the devastating to the evocative to the faintly absurd.
Bonnie and Clyde, folk heroes of the Great Depression, make interesting subjects for a musical, although, on the evidence of this production, I’m not sure the execution completely works.
Lobster, the newest collection by the highly prolific author and poet Hollie McNish feels honest, fresh and like a conversation with your wittiest friend.
As Saturday night was the first date of a nationwide tour for Declan McKenna, Cardiff’s Students Union gets to christen a handful of new songs.
From even more dungeon synth to improv drumming to sludgy fuzz, here's what's been rattling around Wales' music scene lately.
Kevin Allen – the man behind Welsh phenomenon Twin Town – returns to Wales with bizarre comedy La Cha Cha.
With large and infectious hooks, VR Sex's third album, Hard Copy, is one for rockers of many persuasions.
Aged only 16, Pontypool’s Caleb McDuff is making history as the UK’s only male Deaf racing driver. We find out more about him ahead of his Donington debut.
Gossip's Real Power brings together pop, indie and disco, with their punk convictions intact, stamped with Beth Ditto’s unmistakably punchy vocals.
Julia Holter claimed that her sixth LP, Something In The Room She Moves, has “a corporeal focus”, yet like its predecessors it feels like another out-of-body experience.
With three new reissues out, it goes without saying that if the Butthole Surfers were active today, they’d be cancelled sooner than you could say, “I’m outraged by this stuff.”
Adrienne Lenker doesn’t shy away from vulnerability on Bright Future, a delicately made record that envelopes listeners in tales of childhood, heartbreak, and love.
The music of T. Rex’s Marc Bolan forms the spine of comedy-drama Bolan's Shoes, partly filmed in Wales and featuring a smattering of Welsh actors.
The Underground Sea collects rarely-seen work by John Berger on the topic of coal mining, evidently with the 40th anniversary of the strike in mind.