JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET: playful big-band jazz with sublime substance
Man In The Hot Seat, recorded with amazing clarity at Abbey Road, is a satisfying, convincing blend of JTQ’s acid jazz roots and the predominant influence of ‘70s soundtracks.
Man In The Hot Seat, recorded with amazing clarity at Abbey Road, is a satisfying, convincing blend of JTQ’s acid jazz roots and the predominant influence of ‘70s soundtracks.
Noise & Flowers is both a brilliant introduction to Young’s music with modern production and a treat for completists.
Like the novels of Orwell that have inspired the imagery of DC Gore's debut release, there is something chilling and affecting that stays with you after listening.
There’s a definite clarity to Found Light that has, maybe at times, been lacking in Laura Veirs’ previous releases over the past 20+ years.
Nick Cave has been positioning himself as the next Leonard Cohen for some time now. With Seven Psalms, Cave almost goes a step beyond Cohen.
The music is bloody good, dense and full of the deep feeling that Nutini obviously needs to make that rather special voice of his soar.
Ellis Cashmore asks the difficult questions – can and should we separate the art from the artist? And, most uncomfortably, are we responsible for Michael Jackson’s destruction if we, as consumers, aided in his creation?
Twenty years after its initial publication, this unparalleled visual guide to the cultural phenomenon that was Ziggy Stardust has been revamped to celebrate the half-century since the Spiders From Mars crashlanded into British living rooms.
Returning this summer with Tresor, Cardiff’s dreampop icon Gwenno found herself pondering issues of language, identity and self-doubt.
Florence + The Machine have done well to lambast themselves without losing any of their apparently genuine uniqueness on Dance Fever.
After the fantastic opener Dangerous, which pokes fun at Morrison’s status as the pot-stirring, sneering cynic, the rest of the new album is obsessed with lying politicians and a brainwashed nation.
Patrick Watson has created another beautifully crafted album that pushes his soft piano, light vocal, ambient electronic style further to the leftfield.