MARK LANEGAN BAND release haunting anniversary tribute album that deepens the legacy
Mark Lanegan’s estate and Beggars Arkive have released Bubblegum XX, a 20th anniversary reissue of Lanegan’s 2004 album that makes the original even greater.
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TRAVIS’ 10th album L.A. TIMES: a good news story
Glasgow rockers Travis, winners of several Brit and Ivor Novello awards, are back with their 10th studio album L.A. Times.
THE MYSTERINES stun with AFRAID OF TOMORROWS – a grunge-inspired masterpiece
Afraid Of Tomorrows, the second album from Merseyside four-piece The Mysterines, defies categorisation.
“You don’t have a gameplan when you write songs” – Grant Nicholas of FEEDER on 30 years of music
With a new album and UK tour on the way, Feeder frontman Grant Nicholas talks to us about the Newport's band's evolution.
Tributes to Sinead and Weatherall on DAVID HOLMES’ first solo album for 15 years
David Holmes' first solo album since 2008 roots for outsiders and the displaced:a thought-provoking soundtrack for cruel, angry and turbulent times.
JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN: Irish folkie with hotly anticipated second album
After 2021’s exceptional I Would Not Live Always, expectations are very high for Look Over The Wall, See The Sky, John Francis Flynn’s second album of traditional Irish folk.
BAR ITALIA: a promising start plummets on second album of the year, THE TWITS
All the right touchstones on The Twits are there, but Bar Italia's take on Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine et al are draining.
THE WAEVE’s debut record is an insatiable blend of familiar & far-out
Blur’s guitar icon Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, formerly of The Pipettes, join forces to nudge each other into a fresh musical dimension: The Waeve.
LEFTFIELD: dance icons are back on top with THIS IS WHAT WE DO
This Is What We Do is the closest Leftfield have come to giving Leftism something to fret about, with an end result that is undeniably a Neil Barnes creation.
GEORGE FITZGERALD channels electro pioneers for starry ambient club album
For his third album under his own name, George FitzGerald walks the thin tightrope between club classics and ambient soundscapes.
Incendiary riotous fun: a double-bill of MELT YOURSELF DOWN + MAGUGU in Cardiff
Soak up the studio recordings all you want, but after a storming Cardiff show, Melt Yourself Down really need to be seen to be believed.
Genre misfits MELT YOURSELF DOWN excel themselves on fourth, heavier album
Pray For Me I Don't Fit In is a welcome return for jazz/dance/punk/kitchen sink experimentalists Melt Yourself Down