Cat Dowling - The Believer
The debut album from former Alphastates front woman is beguiling and haunting
The debut album from former Alphastates front woman is beguiling and haunting
Iggy and The Stooges - Ready to Die
Guns, money, the return of James Williamson, and even a bit of wisdom, Iggy and The Stooges come blasting back on a funny and insightful outing
Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
The Dublin quintet have produced a knockout debut album full of killer songs and at least one killer voice
The Louth band turn up the ambition and the energy on their great second album
Sonny Condell - Swallows and Farms
Swallows and Farms is perhaps the greatest solo album by Sonny Condell, a magisterial record that celebrates and self-berates, that soars and climbs by a majestic stairway.
Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty - Tunes
Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty finally got around to making an eleven-track album of standards. No guru, no method, no teacher, just guitar and piano at sprightly interplay.
Paging Dr House for another tasteful collection of dinner party blues . . .
Laura Mvula - Sing to The Moon
She appears on Other Voices' London special tonight (May 1) and with Emeli Sandé fatigue possibly setting in, Mvula deserves her own place in the moonlight
Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, whose paths have intertwined as contemporaries, friends, collaborators, lovers, and possibly even rivals, have become two halves of the same sound, and it couldn't be sweeter.
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
Two great slices of bread holding together a sandwich with a pretty so-so filling, Patrick Hanlon is left hungry by Imagine Dragons' debut.
James Blake's second album bursts with alluring vulnerability, range-defying riffs and tracks as enchanting as they are chilling
It turns out that there's a lot more to Paramore than meets the eye on this big, bright blast of an album
A mesh of influences and styles makes Yeah Yeah Yeah's fourth album a triumph
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Grant moves onto a dancefloor made for for one on his second solo album
Music video director turns singer/songwriter, a fitting transition from Woodkid who relies on the French National Orchestra and a visual-heavy imagination to explore a darker side of experimental pop.