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Audio Vertigo is another good, rather than great Elbow album. It seems churlish to bemoan that.

Even within the broad church of alternative rock, Elbow are a curious, difficult to define band. They are not a singles band although they have a handful of modern classics to…

Corinne Bailey Rae flips the script with challenging fourth album.

Corinne Bailey Rae albums are rarer than hen’s teeth – her latest, Black Rainbows, is the first since 2016’s The Heart Speaks In Whispers. A self-confessed perfectionist, Bailey Rae was tinkering with Black Rainbows – which has been gestating…

Some high points can be found on the new album from The Slow Readers Club.

The diminished cultural potency of rock bands has been evident to most music fans for at least a decade. Some who are loyal to the cause bemoan its replacement at the high table of cultural…

Yo La Tengo CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE WITH SOLEMN SONGCRAFT AND AUSTERE SOUNDS.

This Stupid World, the seventeenth album by Yo La Tengo, is being marketed as a follow up to 2018’s There’s a Riot Going On. In fact, between then and now there was also 2020’s We Have Insomnia…

A ROLLICKING RETURN FOR ALVVAYS, ONE OF CONTEMPORARY GUITAR MUSIC’S SHINING LIGHTS.

A year on from the unwanted introduction into all our lives of the novel coronavirus, genuine worry began to spread among the online fandom of Canadian indie darlings Alvvays. Just what had become of the immensely likeable band…

Tan Cologne offer MORE GENTLE SOUNDSCAPES EVOCATIVE OF THE WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD.

As with their 2020 debut Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico, Tan Cologne’s sophomore album Earth Visions Of Water Spaces is a testament to the artistic collaboration of its creators, New Mexico interdisciplinary artists…