UK experimental rocker BRIDGET HAYDEN turns folk singer with THE APPARITIONS
Cold Blows The Rain is a slow and mournful album, a fixed palette of violin, harmonium and banjo clothing Bridget Hayden’s swooping, piercing vocals.
Cold Blows The Rain is a slow and mournful album, a fixed palette of violin, harmonium and banjo clothing Bridget Hayden’s swooping, piercing vocals.
Despite reports about music fans’ changing listening habits, the album currently seems like as solid a format as ever. Here's some of our writers’ favourites that they didn’t get a chance to praise on release.
Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s The Use of Photography intertwines snapshots and prose to create a deeply personal portrait of love, life, and memory.
From Jennifer Lucy Allan, Clay: A Human History veers off into creation myths, sacred geometry, Japanese Buddhism and the surface of Mars.
On the first album since 2012 from Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White as the Dirty Three, their spirit still courses.
High Llamas' Sean O’Hagan's melodies rotate and distort embedded in Hey Panda, a weird, clean, modern wonder of an album.
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.
On Hopiumforthemasses, with its silly title and silly artwork, the topics for vivisection by Ministry include inaction on climate change, white supremacy and incel toxicity.
Dive into Chelsea Wolfe's haunting vocals and dense gothic compositions in She Reaches Out To She.
The latest postcard from Zach Condon’s musical alias Beirut arrives from the northern Norwegian town of Hadsel.
Worm, Edel Rodriguez's graphic novel-formatted memoir, shows not just his evolution to unfortunately iconic artist, but also his upbringing in smalltown Cuba and escape to Florida.
Black Grape were always the better band than Happy Mondays, and new album Orange Head tosses out enough weird hooks to warrant the entry price.