Albums

Johns Flansburgh and Linnell currently knock out new material at such a pace one wonders whether they have gambling debts to pay. This year they’ll revive their Dial-A-Song website, but…

Always quit while you’re ahead, they say, and Wild Beasts were doing pretty much that when they called last orders late in 2017. There will be some who argue they…

Sweden’s Janice Kavander recently stated that: “I don’t make super commercial music”. That claim is open for debate, and may surprise her major label advocates, especially since she’s apparently been…

Don’t be fooled by Afie Jurvanen. While the wittily rhymed Show Me Naomi may begin with producer (and Feist manager) Robbie Lackritz’s studio chatter – “Think how I feel having…

Questions, questions, questions… Is this celebration of 80s soul legend O’Neal’s second album a reissue or re-recording? Did the 1987 version seriously go three times platinum in Britain? And why…

As the soothing sounds of Rhye’s second album float past, plenty of comparisons come to mind. Take The xx, whose disdain for unnecessary ornamentation can be heard in Blood’s comforting,…

Remember when, a decade ago, Craig David was the punchline to a joke on a Channel Four TV show? You may need a reminder: the programme’s title came from David’s…

“I do not think of myself as a musician, more like a painter working away in total isolation, unknown and without success.” Thus run the liner notes to the fourth…