Music Reviews

The Week That Was The Week That Was

While Field Music lie fallow, the brothers Brewis turn to a more conceptual concern with remarkable results. Malice in Sunderland? The north's newest supergroup find glory in grimness...

Iain Moffat reviews...

Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom

Robert Wyatt is saved from obscurity.

Sean Caldwell reviews the re-issue of this classic album...

Circus Animals Desertion Circus Animals Desertion

Circus Animals' Desertion is a varied, mature and ultimately fulfilling début from one of the UK's most exciting new guitar bands; that it will be ignored if favour of a dozen over-hyped copycat bands is merely symptomatic of the UK music scene's current malaise.

David Coleman reviews...

Damien Jurado Caught In The Trees

Damien Jurado's eighth studio release sees the popular singer-songwriter embracing a bigger, more accessible sound, with positive results.

Angela Power reviews...

Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue

On her second album sans Rilo Kiley bandmates Jenny Lewis finds her comfort zone.

Brett Oronzio reviews...

Cath & Phil Tyler Dumb Supper

Over the hills and far away...

Alan Shulman reviews

Like A Fox Where's My Golden Arm?

Philly based rock/psych band, Like A Fox, take a light hit and launch a thousand wars. Then, they come up with a fairly solid rock album.

Sean Caldwell reviews...

Ellen Allien Sool

Prominent Berlin electronic producer Ellen Allien pushes the envelope on minimal electronic with Sool, her fifth studio album released on her self-founded label BPitch Control.

Tara Campbell reviews...

Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping

My promise to the reader: not to use the word eclectic in the following review.

Alan Shulman reviews...

Marnie Stern This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.