Going 15 albums strong, North Carolina singer Tori Amos is back with another compacted 13-piece record that is sure to wriggle its way into the most inner parts of your very soul. Native Invader sees the 54 year old artist reunited with her trusty piano and supplies the…
An authentically recorded concept album drenched in Americana and described by Hinson as a “modern folk opera”, Presents The Holy Strangers may not initially strike you as the ideal late summer album. However in this tale of a war-time family and their travails over an entire lifetime, there…
Although 2004’s You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine helped define the indie-disco era, it left people wanting more from Death From Above, as the band broke up soon after. The Physical World then came a decade later in what was a surprise reunion. It again embraced the exhausting sonic…
“Let’s just start this thing finally with some clarity,” said James Murphy in a statement last year. LCD Soundsystem’s Madison Square Garden show was supposed to be their final gig; a grand send off on what was a terrific ten years of music. However, this was not the case.
In the 20 years since their debut Young Team, Mogwai have dabbled in nearly every form of alternative music, including most recently with full-blown electronica in 2014’s Rave Tapes and last year’s exceptional soundtrack album Atomic. For this, their ninth studio album, they not only return to their former…
Of Norwegian-Pakistani descent and brought up in the north east of England, Nadine Shah identifies as a second generation immigrant. And she's not shy in coming forward when talking politics, or indeed mental health issues that dominated her debut (as a result of two very close friends committing suicide) and…
Hard to believe that this Nottinghamshire lad is still only 23 and that this is already his fourth album. For sure, the initial excitement about this precocious songwriter has died down considerably since that sparkling debut album, that ended up selling over half a million and is currently the 57th…
Pedalling 90s grunge but spat out for a 21st century audience, INHEAVEN seem to have been gracing ‘ones to watch’ lists for the last few years without any significant release to back it up. The time has now come then for the London band to move beyond their ‘hype’…
Sparks are a Californian duo comprised of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who rocketed to stardom through a series of colossal hits and who certainly have an ear for the unique. Their sound isn’t quite like anything I’ve ever heard and, with the release of their 23rd (yes,…
Queens of the Stone Age return for their seventh outing in what many see as an unlikely pairing with producer Mark Ronson. The first glimpse of the forthcoming record was a bizarre comedy skit on YouTube, where Josh Homme appears with the band, clad in leather and wired up…