Category: Album Reviews

Time To Add Furnace And The Fundamentals To Those Christmas Playlists

December 10, 2019

Time to shake up those playlists of Christmas classics! Furnace and the Fundamentals – with their holiday album ‘A Very Furnace Christmas’ out on the 13th December – are here to help you make your guests do double-takes at your speaker all the way through your Christmas party – ensuring yours is one they won’t forget this season!

We Review ‘Hit The Ground’, The New Album From Laurence Archer’s Band, Grand Slam

December 9, 2019

Back in the post Thin Lizzy days, Laurence Archer wrote and performed with Phil Lynott. Sadly, Grand Slam was cut short in its prime, with Phil Lynott’s untimely death leaving a hole in the fabric of rock music to this day.

Timi Dakolo’s ‘Merry Christmas, Darling’ Is The Only Christmas Album We Need This Year

November 22, 2019

Ordinarily I would find it difficult to believe Christmas is just over a month away, but listening this morning to ‘Merry Christmas, Darling’, the new album from Timi Dakolo, I’m ready for it. Lay it on me!

Hello (Turn Your Radio On): Shakespears Sister’s ‘Singles Party (1988-2019)’ Is Your Heroine

November 20, 2019

Tonight Shakespears Sister wind up their ‘Ride Again’ UK tour with a concert at the Brighton Dome, in the grounds of the world famous Royal Pavilion. To get into the mood, we’re listening to their album, released in June this year, ‘Singles Party (1988-2019)’. To say this has everything is really putting it mildly.

Alphabeat’s ‘Don’t Know What’s Cool Anymore’ Is A Welcome Breath Of Positivity In A Worried World

November 1, 2019

Released today November 1 (how the heck is it November already…), ‘Don’t Know What’s Cool Anymore’ is the first album from the Danish sextet since 2012’s ‘Express Non Stop’. And it’s not before time. The album, available on digital download and streaming, CD, and vinyl, comprises 9 tracks of mostly upbeat pop.

‘I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This’, But Jeff Goldblum And The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Have A New Album Out

October 28, 2019

As announced at the Glastonbury Festival back in the summer, Jeff Goldblum has a new album out. ‘I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This’, the follow up to his debut, ‘The Capitol Studios Sessions’, is set for release this Friday, November 1.

Superb Gospel Pop From Canyon Worship 2019

October 25, 2019

Started by Grand Canyon University, Canyon Worship is a group project compiling original songs, written and recorded by different students each year. Beginning in 2015, it’s by necessity an evolving project, with the student body changing year on year.

Magne Furuholmen Gives Us The Christmas Album We’ve Been Waiting For With ‘White Xmas Lies’

October 25, 2019

There’s no chestnuts roasting around an open fire on a-ha’s Magne Furuholmen’s Christmas album, ‘White Xmas Lies’. Rather, it’s doom, gloom, cold winters, and family punch-ups on Boxing Day (get it?). But hey, isn’t that what Christmas is really all about anyway?

‘Here We Go’ by Walk the Earth

October 20, 2019

Multi-platinum pop act Walk the Earth return with their new album ‘Here We Go’. It features the previously released songs ‘Mike’s Song’, ‘I’ll Be There’ and their latest single, ‘Home Alone’. The band have not only garnered 1.7 million listeners, but they have also catapulted to the #1 spot on Apple music’s Breaking Pop playlist.

Los Angeles Trio TWIN XL Will Make You Feel ‘Good’ With New Album ‘How To Talk To Strangers’

October 15, 2019

Los Angeles based trio TWIN XL return with their new album ‘How to Talk to Strangers’. It features the breakthrough single ‘Good’ which has claimed the coveted #1 spot on The New Alt playlist on Spotify.

Circuit3’s ‘The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything’ Is A Dystopian Masterpiece

October 6, 2019

‘The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything’, is the latest long player from Irish artist Circuit3, and the follow-up to his previous album, ‘siliconchipsuperstar’. A Dystopian masterpiece of ten tracks, it’s out now and available as a digital download, CD, or on vinyl.

EX NORWEGIAN – Something Unreal: The Best of Ex Norwegian OUT NOW

October 2, 2019

The energetic and unique power trio “Ex Norwegian” have released their brand-new monster of an album. The album titled “Something Unreal: The Best of Ex Norwegian” consists of 25 of their greatest hits (15 tracks if you were to purchase the vinyl edition). It’s available to stream through Spotify now!