…features 25 bonus tracks — nine studio rarities and 16 live recordings captured by bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26 1975, now receiving its first official release. The live audio has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson.
…It’s a considerable trove of audiovisual material chronicling the British band’s Herculean task of following up the commercial success of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, which was in the early stages of a staggering multi-year run on the Billboard charts. After mooting a conceptual piece involving “household objects” (heard on the bonus track “Wine Glasses”), Wish You Were Here largely deals with the numbness of absence. “Welcome to the Machine” and “Have a Cigar”…
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…Longtime collaborators Jacques Greene (Philippe Aubin-Dionne) and Nosaj Thing (Jason Chung) are officially stepping out as a duo with a self-titled album centered on collaboration. “Trust is the key word and concept around this project,” says Aubin-Dionne. Verses GT isn’t just an album, it seems, but an immersive audiovisual experience (live shows, music videos, light displays — “an all encompassing banner for a new collaborative world,” trumpets their Bandcamp) painstakingly crafted across a bevy of glamorous metropolises in hot pursuit of that elusive little thing called vibe. It’s a risky proposition: A concept like this can feel a little overwrought, a little too “creative”-as-noun, a little for sale, Wales Bonner Sambas, never worn. But Aubin-Dionne and Chung are…
Works in Metal is alchemic in its offering as Lamin Fofana’s pursuit of difficult meanings come to the fore yet again. Fofana sets about the arduous process of reworking and reshaping metals, seeking long-awaited transcendence from what writer, teacher, scholar, anti-colonial, feminist activist and Surrealist Suzanne Césaire refers to as the “sordid contemporary antinomies: Whites-Blacks, Europeans-Africans, civilized-savage”. Works in Metal seeks to destroy such paradoxes and damning self-beliefs sonically through sound archives, field recordings and unique production methods as a tribute to Césaire’s prophetic writing.
‘Arc’s Blues Flame’, the album’s opener, is dominated by high synth tones and occasional kick drums suggesting a vastness, equally…
Arvo Pärt is the world’s most often heard classical composer; he trades that position numerically with John Williams, but does not, as Williams does, exist on the border between classical and another genre. His 90th birthday in 2025 has stimulated the release of some interesting albums, and this one made classical best-seller lists in the late summer of that year. One might not associate the percussive piano with the delicate shades of Pärt’s minimalist ensemble music, but pianist Georijs Osokins here (or the good marketing folks at Deutsche Grammophon) asserts that he wants to explore “the hidden relations between different pieces in Pärt’s piano output.” Thus, along with Pärt’s actual compositions for piano, from the early part of his career, he plays transcriptions…
A cover photo that makes the perfectly coiffed composer look like she’s prepped for a Dynasty cameo is merely one of many surprises this collection of Victoria Bond chamber pieces offers. In the three works featured on Dancing on Glass, the American composer exchanges the standard practice of adopting traditional templates as guides and instead gives freer reign to her imagination. That makes for music rich in originality and flair, not to mention performed with élan by violinist Pauline Him Harris, violist Chieh-Fan Yiu, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff on the titular work and by pianists Madeline Rogers and Florencia Zuloaga on the others.
Emblematic of Bond’s approach, she based the string trio setting Dancing on Glass on…
Based in Mumbai, architect turned vocalist/ songwriter Vidhya Gopal has a lifelong adoration for Hindustani music, lending her a variety of vocal influences, including thumri, qawwali and ghazal. The follow-up to her 2023 debut EP Par, Mehfil is a concept release reimagining Indian semi-classical music with a modern sensibility. Recorded in front of a live audience, Gopal is joined by an ensemble consisting of keyboards, harmonium, tabla, electric guitar, bass and percussion.
On opening tracks ‘Piya Milan’ and ‘Akeli Darr Laage’, Gopal’s voice is accompanied by piano only – with well-chosen harmonic structures imbuing the songs with a tender, cinematic quality. More instruments are introduced as the concert progresses, shifting the tone from…
According to the fifth song on their first Christmas album, seasonal shenanigans in Old Crow Medicine Show’s family are boozy and raucous.
Step aside Santa because “Grandpappy’s been a-brewing since before the war” and is “the best bootlegger for a Georgia mile”. The result is the riotous barndance fiddlin’ of “Corn Whiskey Christmas” (which brings “good cheer to all the gals and the fellas).
The song is a highlight of OCMS XMAS, a 13-track set which showcases the light-hearted side of a Nashville outfit who’ve been at the forefront of the US bluegrass revival for over two decades. This December they’re creating Irish jigs about the Krampus (“a mean old goat with horns on his head”) but, over their career, they’ve…
Since 2006, the singular Toronto rock ‘n’ roll institution Fucked Up have been releasing a series of long, sprawling, ambitious records named after years of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. Over the next year, they will finally complete that project, releasing the three final Zodiac records as an ongoing series that’ll eventually make up a five-LP series called Grass Can Move Stones. The first of the three installments is called Year of the Goat, and it was supposed to come out next week. Instead, it’s up on Bandcamp today, presumably for Bandcamp Friday reasons.
There are two tracks on Year of the Goat, and they’re about a half-hour long each.
…There’s a whole lot of lore to Year of the Goat, which is apparently just one part of…
By the mid-’60s, European touring had become a routine familiar to many of jazz’s most well-known practitioners. Thelonious Monk was already over two decades into his career when he began to visit Europe in earnest. Europeans were excited to experience Monk and his storied personality, often focusing as much on his appearance and idiosyncratic behavior ahead of the music.
The release of Bremen 1965 finds the legend on his second tour to feature stops in Germany with his seasoned quartet featuring his longtime saxophone foil, Charlie Rouse, along with bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley. Bremen, Germany was the second stop on the quartet’s world tour, which would include much of Europe, Australia, and Japan. The recording was made on…
Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family live at Konk Studios is the latest instalment in the Domino Documents series, an album featuring Fat White Family’s most incendiary moments recorded live in one day at London’s Konk Studios. The Fat White Family cast has forever been a revolving door of interesting and lively characters, each iteration brilliant in its own right, but they have never sounded better than on the 13 career-spanning tracks that make up Konk If You’re Lonely.
Fresh off the back of the trio of triumphant “Counter-Vortex 360°” shows at London’s Colour Factory in December 2024, the band decamped to Konk Studios to get the set down for posterity’s sake. What emerges is a document of a band at the top of their game, oozing swagger…
Beggars Banquet has opened the archive once again, letting a familiar duststorm roll through the room as Fields of the Nephilim’s Dawnrazor rides again.
The timing feels almost fated: the UK band will soon carry their peculiar strain of Gothic Americana and occultism back into the West for the first time in years, appearing in Houston for Dark Ceremony in April 2026. For a group whose entire aesthetic grew out of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns—that widescreen collision of dust, danger, and myth, their return out West lands like a vision completing its long arc. With that rare appearance on the horizon, this remaster sharpens the album’s grain, tension, and frontier grandeur back into present focus.
The remastered 20th-anniversary edition includes the original 16 songs plus five archival bonus tracks, featuring session tracks, rarities, and B-sides, some receiving their first official release.
No dead baby jokes about Pete Doherty‘s so-called shambles; no talk of coke-habits and skin-and-bones supermodel girlfriends (except as back-up vocalists): Down in Albion is the opposite of Up the Bracket, and not just for prepositional reasons. Departing from the Libertines’ work by slowing-down, shaping-up, Down in Albion doesn’t out-do Up the Bracket‘s gritty unruliness (and the less said about the self-titled follow-up the better), but doesn’t flop as self-indulgently/destructively as it could, either.
Doherty appropriates William Blake’s Albion…
As one half of Brooklyn-based duo Water from Your Eyes, Nate Amos makes left-field pop that feels hypermodern: wry, memey lyricism; post-ironic genre-hopping; the kind of jilted chaos and tonal jumble that characterises a social media feed. Yet the band had actually been plugging away for seven years before their 2023 breakthrough.
Amos’s solo project This Is Lorelei has been going even longer, only gaining proper traction with last year’s belated debut album Box for Buddy, Box for Star.
Now Amos is capitalising on this recent momentum with another release, this time a compilation of re-recorded songs dredged from his extensive Bandcamp back catalogue. Unlike his WFYE output, these tracks are mainly…
…remixed and remastered 10th-anniversary re-release of 2015 album, ‘Compromised’.
Having been around now for 38 years, while he’s never attained the superstar level of early predictions (only his first two albums ever registered in the UK Top 75, peaking at #54 and only three of his 15 studio releases have made the Billboard Top 100), Steve Forbert has maintained a substantial and loyal audience to the point where he can now pretty much record what he likes knowing he’ll have a certain level of sales.
And this sounds very much like he’s doing just that. Reuniting with John Simon, who produced his most successful album, 1979’s Jackrabbit Slim (which made #20), it’s unmistakably Forbert (that voice couldn’t be anyone else) while…
…remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road.
After breaking through to massive U.K. fame with his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle, and its chart-topping new wave isolationist anthem “Cars,” Gary Numan got darker, more intense, and more solemn on his second proper solo album, 1980’s Telekon. The shifts in his work were happening quickly, with both Replicas (the last of two albums Numan made with his punkier group Tubeway Army) and The Pleasure Principle being released in 1979, and the songs for Telekon being written and recorded by the end of that year, but held back for a release in September of 1980 as not to flood the market. Telekon was, in part, Numan’s response to overnight success, with songs that alluded cryptically to conclusions and…
At its most accessible, Oneohtrix Point Never‘s music is instantly recognizable, yet often difficult to comprehend, to understand, to accept.
The brainchild of Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never’s albums are a painstakingly assembled potpourri of sounds and cuts, the complexity of the composer’s experimental, sample-and-MIDI-based works often contradicted by the material he embraces (TV commercials and ad jingles, dialogue, library music, esoteric film soundtracks, Top 40 radio). It’s reflexive and responsive, the sounds — repurposed and filtered through VSTs and synths — reframed as collage.
Although he’s gracefully toed the line between the underground and the mainstream, collaborating with some of the most popular…
Listening to an Asher White record, you get the sense that she approaches songwriting like an interior designer. She treats her songs like rooms she can move throughout, rearranging their furniture — pushing the couch from one corner to another, angling a chair ever so slightly in a different direction.
“The sink thank you,” which opens her latest album, 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living, comes together like move-in day, starting as an empty room with nothing but some muffled, tentative strings before other additions begin to fill the space: slot machine sound effects, snare drums, faraway chimes, a thumping bassline, keys that sound straight out of Fiona Apple’s “Valentine,” a smattering of handclaps; until finally, White’s…
It’s 55 years since Barclay James Harvest’s debut album, and 12 years since their last outing, North, which sailed under the flag of John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest, in use since a dispute between founding members in 1998.
Lees retired from touring two years ago – but now his quartet prove they’ve plenty left in the tank as Relativity goes big on concepts, scale and length. Its self-produced, sophisticated 78 minutes glide confidently through the gentle, unhurried brand of progressive rock which made the Barclay James Harvest name.
There’s zero attempt to update their sound: the priority is delivering carefully-crafted songs of piquant melody with soothing, sonorous guitar manoeuvres. While very much a band…
The new Gillan 7-CD box set offers a comprehensive collection of the band’s work during the years from 1978 to 1982, when they rose to prominence in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) scene.
The set includes seven albums from this era, featuring studio recordings, a live album, and a wealth of B-sides and bonus material. The albums featured in this set are as follows: Gillan (The Japanese Album) – Originally released in September 1978, this was the debut of the band formed by Ian Gillan after leaving the Ian Gillan Band. It marked a shift away from jazz fusion to a heavier rock sound. Mr. Universe – Released in 1979, this was a key album that solidified their success, featuring a mix of hard rock and NWOBHM influences.
M83 release new original soundtrack for the science-fiction film Resurrection, the visionary new drama from acclaimed Chinese director Bi Gan. Resurrection premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 22 May, where it received the Prix Spécial from the jury. The soundtrack is released on Other Suns.
Written and directed by Bi Gan, Resurrection continues the filmmaker’s reputation for audacious, reality-bending cinema. The film is set in a distant future where humanity has exchanged the ability to dream for the promise of immortality. The film follows Miss Shu (Shu Qi) as she discovers a mysterious, inhuman creature (Jackson Yee) still capable of dreaming. Venturing into its visions-hallucinated, nightmarish, and achingly…