There’s not many more big albums coming out in 2013, now that Christmas is officially upon us and the music industry starts to focus on stocking-filler releases, but one LP I’ve had my eye on for a while is TOY’s Join The Dots. Their self-titled debut album turned out to be one of my favourites…
With Christmas just round the corner the album release schedule is predictably dominated with lots of cash-in’s like reissues, box sets and anything else that might be loosely described as a ‘stocking filler’. I’ve rounded up the pick of the releases for December below, which includes a few albums and box sets as well as…
Robbie Williams – Swings Both Ways {rating} Buy: Swings Both Ways In 2001, an incredible twelve years ago, Robbie Williams shifted gear and released a swing album of hits, adapting his previous album title by adding a letter, to create ‘Swing When You’re Winning’, a fifteen-song strong collection that was an ode to one of…
Jake Bugg – Shangri La {rating} Buy: Shangri La Jake Bugg is special. Anyone with an interest in British guitar music knows it and, thanks to the success he’s had since being thrust onto the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury 2011 when he was just 17, he’s everyone’s favourite to become the next great British…
The Killers – Direct Hits {rating} Buy: Direct Hits (Standard) Ten years ago Las Vegas foursome The Killers burst onto the scene with their indie breakthrough hit ‘Mr Brightside’, finding fame with its follow-up ‘Somebody Told Me’ and then a string of hits from their debut album ‘Hot Fuss’, with a re-release of their initial…
They got a lot of bad press for cancelling gigs in favour of hitting the studio, but today Death Grips have repaid their fans faith and then some with the free release of new album Government Plates. The release follows their two 2012 albums The Money Store and No Love Deep Web – the album…
You may remember I featured London-based psych-experimentalists Gentlemen’s ‘Children Of The Setting Sun’ in a recent New Music Roundup. Today they have made the EP that song is taken from available to stream online. The EP is called ‘Night Reels I’ and as well as ‘Children Of The Setting Sun’ it features other promisingly titled…
Since his first album under the Blood Orange moniker – 2011’s Coastal Grooves – the multi-talented Dev Hynes has become an in-demand songwriter, providing smooth and groovy tunes for the likes of Solange and Sky Ferreira. Next week he is releasing his second Blood Orange album, Cupid Deluxe, which comes with an impressive looking list…
Just in time for the weekend! The always engaging and occasionally reliable MIA has today made her new album Matangi available to stream online ahead of its release next week. Matangi is MIA’s fourth studio album, and the follow-up to her divisive 2010 LP MAYA. It features previously released tracks ‘Bad Girls‘, ‘Bring The Noize‘,…
CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe {rating} Buy: The Bones Of What You Believe To the casual listener it may not be apparent exactly why Glasgow trio CHVRCHES are rated so highly. There’s nothing new or fresh about marrying synths with sweet pop melodies after all, but they do it with such lush…
