It’s turning out to be quite the week for new album streams. Following hot on the heels of Johnny Marr and Atoms For Peace in releasing their albums online is hot new London band Palma Violets. Their highly anticipated debut album 180 is set for release next week, but you can now stream it before you decide…
Johnny Marr – The Messenger {rating} Buy: The Messenger When I first heard Johnny Marr was planning a solo album (his first, not counting 2003’s Healers debacle), I was worried. Since leaving The Smiths behind Marr has crafted an unrivalled legacy as the best guitar player of his generation – working with The Cribs and…
It’s one of my most anticipated albums of 2013, and tonight it’s just been made available to stream online! Listen to the full stream of AMOK below and let me know what you think of it… Atoms For Peace is the ‘supergroup’ formed by Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich, who took to Reddit earlier…
Johnny Marr is releasing his debut solo album The Messenger next week, and today he released a stream of it to listen online. The album features previously released tracks ‘The Messenger’, ‘The Right Thing Right’ and ‘Upstarts’ – which is released as a single today. Since the release of the stream this morning, I’ve listened…
My Bloody Valentine – m b v {rating} Buy: www.mybloodyvalentine.org Of all the album reviews I’ve ever written, this is by far the hardest. Where do I start? Shall I begin with the long preamble about ‘seminal’ 1991 album Loveless? Or focus mostly on the long and protracted release of this follow-up? Maybe it would…
Finally! It’s been a long time coming – 22 years to be precise – but Kevin Shields has now come good on his recent promise and delivered a new My Bloody Valentine album. MBV was released via the bands new website at midnight last night, and is available to buy in download, CD or vinyl…
Foals – Holy Fire review {rating} Buy: Holy Fire With their second album Total Life Forever, Foals cast off their ‘math-rock’ and ‘dance-punk’ tags in favour of a more epic and textured sound. They’ve now taken that even further with Holy Fire, and delivered an early contender for album of the year in the process….
The Joy Formidable – Wolf’s Law {rating} Buy: Wolf’s Law It’s been two years since Welsh trio The Joy Formidable released their debut album The Big Roar. In that time their brand of hugely anthemic power-rock has seen them become the stadium support act of choice, with Muse and Foo Fighters enlisting them to gee…
Ahead of the release of their second album Wolf’s Law next week, Welsh power-pop trio The Joy Formidable are streaming the whole thing online now. The album, the follow-up to their brilliant debut The Big Roar, features previous releases ‘This Ladder Is Ours’ and ‘Cholla’. Stream Wolf’s Law’ below and let me know what you…
No wonder HMV is on its arse. Back in the day, if an artist of the calibre and fame of producer Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) got the bright idea to put together a compilation album of rarities, he would have to go through his label, sort out the production and distribution of the CDs/vinyls, get…
