First BELLE AND SEBASTIAN album in 7 years is winsome polished pop
This is Belle and Sebastian's’ first album to be recorded in Glasgow in more than two decades, and they’ve evolved into a slicker outfit over time.
This is Belle and Sebastian's’ first album to be recorded in Glasgow in more than two decades, and they’ve evolved into a slicker outfit over time.
James And The Cold Gun are back for another round and if you witnessed the boundless energy they exerted in their debut show here a while back, consider yourself fair warned.
What the hell has happened with the world? That’s what Soft Cell ask with their fifth album, *Happiness Not Included.
Cardiff University professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones takes a different approach to chronicling the rise of the Persian empire: telling the story from a Persian standpoint, rather than a purely from a Western one.
This musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss is as modern a piece as you can get: this is not Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Queens.
Following Kennedy’s superb short story collection, The End Of The World Is a Cul De Sac, it’s no surprise that her debut novel has proved to be such an impressive story.
With 20 short stories featuring everything from an avenging gorgon to a little girl impaling the schoolyard bully on a spike, there is enough crime on display in Cast A Long Shadow to make even Wind Street at closing time look quiet.
The decade that brought us the last truly great chart battle and some of the most iconic songs to ever grace a gig is both brilliantly analysed and celebrated in Britpop: Decades.
A fine example of Welsh nature writing, The Herring Man is embellished by beautiful hand-drawn sketches that graciously lead you by the hand through this personal story.
Metronomy do a cracking job of highlighting their full range, spanning seaside-inspired new wave to nu-rave, across their seven albums to date.
It feels purposeful that Will Dickie and Peader Kirk's play White Sun's only audience at Chapter is also directly in its firing line.
A dread fuelled Scandi-horror that blends elements of Midsommar and Rosemary’s Baby to creepy effect, The Twin is another of Shudder Original’s scary successes.
Swedish black metal band Watain are back with new album The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain, which while solid, never quite crosses from good to great.
Following the success of At Weddings, the comforting vocal texture of Sarah Beth Tomberlin is still present during her second album, I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This.
Whilst privilege doesn't equate to an absence of suffering, it certainly means you’ve got to be saying something worthwhile with your music. Unfortunately, Lola Kirke's Lady For Sale doesn't.
Following the first rap album dedicated to dolphins, the newie from Action Bronson, Cocodrillo Turbo, aims to snap pretenders in half with its hefty jaws.
There's brooding, brawling on bruising on Alpha Games, but Bloc Party don't quite hit hard enough to leave a lasting impact on album number six.
After a long wait, the 90 minute Dua Lipa show in Cardiff felt like it whipped along, and like some of the best parties, was over too soon.
Mab Jones is back with another brace of poetry reviews for April, from Astrid Alben's Little Dead Rabbit to Hannah Hodgson's 163 Days.
This fictionalised account reimagines the ill-fated journey of 14-year-old Louisa Maud Evans, who in the late 19th century tumbled from a hot air balloon over the Bristol Channel.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire comprises entries from the journals of Alice Walker, spanning a life’s journey and memories of one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
Words have long been used to help explain our place in the world, but as Concita De Gregorio’s novel The Missing Word makes clear, for parents who have lost a child there is no name.
In this golden age of the short story, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd, but Gurnaik Johal has managed to achieve just that with his debut collection, We Move.
Baby Love is the 100th title from Jacqueline Wilson, and perhaps this iconic children’s novelist toughest read of all.
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