The speed of the Earth as it moves in orbit around the sun is 67,000 miles an hour, even though we go through our daily lives entirely unaware of our constant motion. An original member of the 60’s band, The Doughboys, Richard X. Heyman follows up last year’s power-pop leaning Copious Notes, with 15 fresh…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 28 October 2022. In the spring of 2020, singer-songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances packed up her things in Dublin and moved to rural County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. It was there, amidst the stillness, that she began…
“If it’s all you got, yeah, it’s all you gave, I got a problem with it. If you can’t do better than that, babe, I got a problem with it.” This is the catchy chorus you hear in Plains single, “Problem With It,” and it is incredibly hard to get out of your head. This…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 21 October 2022. An uncanny ability to treat their music, and the presentation of it, with great care while not seeming to take themselves terribly seriously sets Canadian indie-rock veterans Sloan apart. From the band’s earliest home studio recordings…
For many bands there is still a standard process of releasing a new record every two or three years. More recently, we have seen some artists cranking out records even faster or just releasing a single here and there to what I believe is a focus to stay relevant. Now you add a global pandemic…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 14 October 2022. Following their critically acclaimed first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos, Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington complete the set, once again with outstanding support from a reduced Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This cycle not only represents…
When Beth Orton came on the scene in the mid-nineties with her mix of folk and electronica, aided by then boyfriend and producer William Orbit, it was her distinctive vocals and provocative poetic lyrics that made her music special. The British singer/songwriter went on to collaborate with the techno band The Chemical Brothers, made a…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 7 October 2022. TSHA has dropped her long-awaited debut album Capricorn Sun. Recorded over the past two years, the record delivers on the promise of her previous EPs and singles with 12 tracks that perfectly encapsulate the emotive blend…
The psychedelic sounds of The Black Angels have been darkening our ears ever since their excellent first album Passover released in 2006. I would have been 20 years old at that point and while I was familiar with classic psychedelic sounds, I’d never heard a band go that hard into their influences. Passover should be…
Our selection of the best new music across a range of genres from the week ending 30 September 2022. A thunderstorm of a return is what the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have in store for 2022, with the release of Cool It Down, their first new music since 2013’s Mosquito. Their fifth studio album is an…
