new music reviews

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2025

Billy Nomates - Metalhorse

The Velvet Hands - Caller (EP)

Slung - In Ways

Anna Howie - Good For Roses

The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs & Sherbet

Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life

Hannah Rose Platt - Fragile Creatures

Pale White - The Big Sad

Milton Hide - Bungaroosh

Yann Tiersen - Rathlin From A Distance/The Liquid hour

The Chords (UK) - But Then Again (The Best f)

Voice Of The Beehive - Honey Lingers

Air Drawn Dagger - A Guide For Apparitions

Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, Stargaze - Song Of The Earth

The Darkness - Dreams on Toast

Stone Foundation - The Revival Of Survival

Girlpuppy - Sweetness

Deacon Blue - Great Western Road

The Horrors - Night Life

Welly - Big In The Suburbs

Glazyhaze - Sonic

Steve Wilson - The Overview

Hannah Wicklund - Live At The Troubadour

Freak Slug - I Blow Out Big Candles

Rolla - We Owe You Nothing (EP)

Bradley Simpson - The Panic Years

Marie Davidson - City Of Clowns

Red Sky July - Misty Morning

Myrkvi - Rykfall

Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire

Kyle Falconer - The One I Love

Honesty - U R Here

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

Blue Violet - Faux Animaux

Bilk - Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll

Pet Needs - Kind Of Acoustic

Pastel - Souls In Motion

Sophie Jameson - I Still Want To Share

Ringo Starr - Look Up

The Twang - Jewellery Quarter 24k

Beans On Toast - Wild Goose Chasers

Aisha Badru - The Sun Still Rises

Juanita Stein - The Weightless Hour

George Harrison - Living In The Material World

Fazerdaze - Soft Power

Orbital - A Beginners Guide

Wendy James - The Shape Of History

Razorlight - Planet Nowhere

Rag 'n'n Bone Man - What Do You Believe In?

Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent

Seckou Keita - Homeland

Danny & The Champions Of The World - You Are Not A Stranger Here

Berries - Berries

Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight

Gemma Hayes - Blind Faith

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2024

Soul Asylum - Slowly But Shirley

Leif Vollebekk - Revelation

Pale Waves - Smitten

Blitz Vega - Northern Gentleman

Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister 30th Anniversary Edition

Blossoms - Gary

Kaeto - Intro

Tom Meighan - Roadrunner

Sam Palladio - The Perfect Summers Day

Andrew Combs - Dream Pictures

Body Meat - StarChris

Beabedoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Millie Manders And The Shutup

Honey Joy - III

Rifles - Love Your Neighbour

Been Stellar - Scream From New York

Focus - Focus 12

John Cale - Poptical Illusion

Richard Hawley - In This Town They Call You Love

Erasure - Cowboys re release

Barry Adamson - Cut To Black

The Lovely Eggs - Eggsistentialism

Lip Critic - Hex Dealer

Gabrielle - A Place In Your Heart

Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country

Youbet - Way To Be

Frank Turner - Undefeated

The Idoru - Undertow

Shelter Boy - Mercyland

Flowered Up - A Life With Brian

James - Yummy

Gun - Hombres

The Libertines - All Quiet On The Eastern Esplenade

Yellow Days - Hotel Heaven

The K's - I Wonder If The World Knows

Palace - Ultrasound

The Buffalo Skinners - Picking Up What You're Putting Down

The Wandering Hearts - Mother

Sam Evian - Plunge

Logic 1000 - Mother

Saint Saviour - Sunseeker

Sam Lee - Songdreaming

Bananarama - Glorious

Bleachers - Bleachers

Gallagher & Squire - Gallagher & Squire

Yard Act - Where's My Utopia

Yova - Dreamcatchers

Motörhead - The Löst Tapes: The Collection (Vol. 1-5)

Idles - TANGK

Solar Eyes - Solar Eyes

Shambolics - Dreams, Schemes & Young Teams

Cast - Love Is The Call

Frontier Ruckus - On The Northline

Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1

The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy

My Life Story - Loving You Is Killing Me

Miserable Rich - Overcome

Declan McKenna - What Happened To The Beach

Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Some Things Break

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow

Brown Horse - Reservoir

Feral Family - Without Motion

Mark Vennis & Different Place - Small Town Vampire

Black Grape - Orange Head

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2023

Hazlett - Goodbye To The Valley Low

The Killers - Rebel Diamonds

Felicette - Go To Hell

Alex Nicol - Been A Long Year Vol. 1 & 2

Beans on Toast - The Toothpaste and the Tube

Allman Brown - Second Son

The Sleeping Souls - Just Before The World Starts Burning

Smoke Fairies - Carried In Sound

Richard Walters - Murmurate

Little Man Tate - Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life

Spearmint - This Candle Is For You

Auragraph - New Standard

Jeremy Dutcher - Motewolonuwok

Black Water County - The Only Life Worth Living

The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

MYRKVI - Early Warning

Bex - Scum

The Pale White - A New Breed

The Dollyrots - Night Owls

New music reviews 2023

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2023

The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True

Maple Glider - I Get Into Trouble

McKowski - Notes From A Boneyard

Girl Scout - Granny Music

The Brand New Heavies - Never Stop (Best of)

TV's Daniel - Never Change

Devendra Banhart - Flying Wig

Roberto Fonseca - A Gran Diversión

Vinny Peculiar - How I Learned To Love The Freaks

Bombino - Sahel

Margo Cilker - Valley Of Heart's Delight

Princess Goes - Come Of Age

JAWS - If It Wasn't For My Friends

Mae Muller - Sorry I'm Late

Jack Valero - This Is A Nightmare

Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise

Jah Wobble - A Brief History Of now

Liam Gallagher - Knebworth 22

Bianca James - Bianca James

William The Conqueror - Excuse Me While I Vanish

Blur - The Ballad Of Darren

Mull Historical Society - In My Mind There's A Room

Blondes - In Separation (EP)

Pigeon Wigs - Rock By Numbers

Monograms - A Fine Commitment

Django Django - Off Planet

Christine & The Queens - Paranoïa, Angels, True Love

James - Be opened By The Wonderful

Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood - Jarak Qaribak

Squid - O Monolith

A Place To Bury Strangers

A Man Called Adam - The Girl With A Hole In Her Heart

Kassi Valazza - Knows Nothing

ABC - Lexicon of Love (Live)

Morganway - Back To Basics

Shit Present - What Still Gets Me

Westerman - An Inbuilt Fault

Hail Caesar - Get Out Into Yourself

Robbing Millions - Rêve

Everything But The Girl - Fuse

St Paul & The Broken Bones - Angels In Science Fiction

Blue Orchid Reaction - Atmosphere (Single)

Billie Marten - Drop Cherries

DMA's - How Many Dreams

Foxhaunt - Division Culture EP

David Kitt- Idiot Check

Inspiral Carpets - The Complete Singles

Eric Bibb - Ridin'

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

Ryan Hamilton - Haunted By The Holy Ghost

Slow Readers Club - Knowledge Freedom Power

Mull Historical Society - Archaeology: Complete Recordings 200-2004

Erase Theory - Erase Theory

Inhaler - Cuts and Bruises

Rolling Stones - GRRR Live!

George Hennessey - If You Can't Find What Your

The Velvet Hands - Sucker Punch

Bedsit - Dead Bands EP

Thomas Truax - Dream Catching Songs

Quarry - Positioning The Sun

Mac DeMarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs

Hibou - ARC

Billy Nomates - CACTI

Fela Kuti - Shakara

New music reviews 2022

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2022

Echo And The Bunnymen - Evergreen (25th Anniversary Edition)

Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac (50th Anniversary edition)

Voice Of The Beehive - Let It Bee 35th Anniversary Edition

Tom Jenkins - It Comes In The Morning

Addie Brik - That Dog Don't Hunt

Christine And The Queens - Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles

Bruce Springsteen - Only The Strong Survive

Spear of Destiny - Ghost Population

Deux Furieuses - Songs From Planet Earth

Rayland Baxter - If I Were A Butterfly

Arliston - Even In The Shade

Aoife Nessa Frances - Protector

The Communards - Red

Asylums - Signs Of Life