Tom Doyle
Way beyond pastiche, this is soul music filled with passion and attention to period detail.
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3w
Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young.
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1mo
Befitting the audiophile sonic explorer that Vernon is - sound reliably excellent.
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2mo
A compelling set clearly completed in the aftermath of a storm.
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2mo
If U2 have in the past couple of decades wrestled with doubts about their modern-day relevancy, here they’re clearly enlivened by their urgent return to songs of protest. Sounding sharper than they have done in years, they’re more up for the fight than perhaps ever before.
3mo
Live God does what the best live albums do: capturing both the thrills and spills of the performance and the audience’s rapturous response to it.
6mo
Sean Ono Lennon produces expansive boxset documenting his parents' most incendiary period.
8mo
Ultimately, it’s the reworkings of the original studio tracks that are the main draw here, and a great example of what these box sets do best: rescuing cultural artefacts, carefully restoring them and illuminating them from new and fascinating angles.
8mo
If Winter’s voice may be a tad tart for some tastes – weirdly, part Thom Yorke, part Mick Jagger, with flashes of Van Morrison - there’s no mistaking there’s mercurial brilliance at work here.
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8mo
Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.
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8mo
Even with zero knowledge of what is going on lyrically, these songs are often beautifully evocative.
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9mo
Throughout, singer Ellie Roswell is a compelling presence, and the result is Wolf Alice's best yet.
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9mo
The duo’s drafting in of pro songwriters on 13th album No Rain, No Flowers spotlights their ambition, but also undeniably hones the tunes.
10mo