Album review: Jimmy Heath Love Letter This ain't no bebop disco, this ain't no Roland Kirk meditation or Sonny Rollins blast-out, but rather an elegant treatment of eight ballads from saxophonist … Jimmy Heath Love Letter • 01 Sep 20
Fake Names the real deal on life-affirming punk record Choosing a favourite song proves the nicest of dilemmas, moving on to listen to something else is tougher still. Music Review • 08 Jun 20
Pearl Jam dynamite despair on huge-hearted Gigaton The worst time to release a new record turns out to be exactly when it's most needed, with Pearl Jam's 11th album dual-powered by another … Music Review • 31 Mar 20
Higher Power put it up to big names on second album The sophomore sound of ambition writ huge. Music Review • 20 Feb 20
Bon Iver's i,i is a strange kind of wonderful A strange kind of wonderful that revels in the joy of community and creation Music Review • 10 Sep 19
Join Me in the Pines' new album is one fir the books David Geraghty has made sure there's a class album waiting for people when they get home from Electric Picnic. And as Monomania proves, he should … Music Review • 31 Aug 19
Thom Yorke sounds anaemic on new solo record ANIMA The Radiohead anti-star becomes unstuck on this perplexing new solo album Music Review • 01 Jul 19
Springsteen finds more glory nights under Western Stars Some albums are old friends from the off, and Western Stars already feels likes it was always part of the inner circle. One listen, smitten. Music Review • 14 Jun 19
Album review: Gerry Mulligan – 3 Essential Albums Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard and Night Lights are three albums chosen for this … Music Reviews • 03 Apr 19
Foals reaffirm thoroughbred status on new album Eschewing our expectations of everything now gratification and perhaps a regretful acknowledgement of ever-shorter attention spans, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 … Music Review • 11 Mar 19
Album review: Yellowjackets - Raising Our Voice There is an enduring optimism to the sound of Yellowjackets' new album, a kind of Chick Corea uplift with flashes too of a smaller scale … Music Reviews • 29 Nov 18
Slash's latest is good, but never great A good-but-never-great collection sees Slash struggling to shake off the unenviable classification of 'solid'. Music Review • 25 Sep 18
The Carters preach love and forgiveness on new album Beyonce and Jay Z team up for their first joint album, with their marital highs and lows providing the inspiration for a record that is … Music Review • 20 Jun 18
Taylor Swift brings pop perfection to Croke Park Taylor Swift was in pitch perfect form for the first of her two gigs at Croke Park. Her Reputation has never been better as she … Music Review • 18 Jun 18
Hip hop's Trump comes a cropper on new album Kanye West peers deep inside his own soul on his eighth album and finds a howling vortex of nothing Music Review • 07 Jun 18
Album review: The Voidz - Virtue Julian Casablancas release confounding second album. It pays off after repeated listens Music Review • 26 Apr 18
Chasing Trane - Original Soundtrack Chasing Trane was the illuminating 2016 documentary on the life of John Coltrane. Now comes the soundtrack on two vinyl LPs, in effect the perfect … Music Reviews • 21 Mar 18
Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette - After the Fall Recorded in New Jersey in 1998, After the Fall is an exuberant, vibrant session as piano visionary Keith Jarrett teams up with old friends Gary … Keith Jarrett • 20 Mar 18
Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Mercy The death last month of Jóhann Jóhannsson at the relatively young age of 48 has left bereft the many devotees of his hugely appealing art. … Music Review • 16 Mar 18
Franz Ferdinand on the up with new album The Glasgow band have re-bottled some of their early magic on this limber return to form Music Review • 09 Feb 18
Review: U2 - Songs of Experience The band who tried to make the devil's music find religion face up to mortality and wrestle with geopolitics on their new album - so … U2 • 06 Dec 17
