Album Reviews

Into New Music: Singles round-up November 2024

Hot on the heels of ten excellent album recommendations, Grant McPhee is back with another batch of tunes for you. This time, however, Grant is concentrating on five singles so sit back, read on and do check out these belters…………… . Artist: Sonic Boom/ Dean & Britta Single: Snow is Falling in Manhattan Label: Carpark Records What an utterly, […]

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Into Music Review: Nick Power & Mark McKowski – Throat

Artist: Nick Power/ Mark McKowski LP: ThroatLabel: AV8 Records/Deltasonic Records The Coral may be the closest we have to a 21st Century Big in Japan, the (genuinely) legendary post-punk outfit that spawned a plethora of mind-bogglingly talented off-shoots. While The Coral ‘mothership’ attains critical and commercial success under its own right, it’s testament to the group’s membership

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Into Music Review: Arun Sood – Searching Erskine

Artist: Arun SoodAlbum: The Searching ErskineLabel: Blackford Hill Blackford Hill’s latest release is Arun Sood’s Searching Erskine which comes with a lavish 64 page book and limited edition lathe cut 7” single. ‘Searching Erskine is the result of the channelling of voices, original music, oral histories, spectral sounds, and field recordings from the island. This is

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Into Music Review: Tam Dean Burn & George T – My Favourite Place

Artists: Tam Dean Burn & George TEP: My Favourite PlaceLabel: Self released via Bandcamp  There’s a lot to be said for creatives and culture right now in Scotland and that’s certainly true through Edinburgh way and a little further down the Walk into Leith. Expressive writing and original, inventive music is alive and well in

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Into Music Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – Bright Magic

Artist: Public Service BroadcastingAlbum: Bright MagicLabel: Play It Again Sam It’s been 4 years since the last Public Service Broadcasting long player (Every Valley) was released but that will change with the imminent arrival, on 24 September, of new album, Bright Magic.    The album’s focus is the city of Berlin, considered to be the

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Into Music Album Review: The Fisherman And His Soul – Nothing Ever Stays The Same

Artist: The Fisherman And His SoulAlbum: Nothing Ever Stays The SameLabel: Subjangle (CD) Shiny Happy Records (cassette) The Fisherman And His Soul (super name which is taken from an Oscar Wilde short story) is the solo project of German multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Voss, who normally struts his stuff with Estella Rosa in their duo Nah… On

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Into Music Album Review: The Media Whores – A Light In A Dark Place

Artist: The Media WhoresAlbum: A Light In A Dark PlaceLabel: Twenty Stone Blatt Records  With three albums behind them already and the magnificent compilation A Decade Of Defiance to boot, the fourth studio release from the Mercury Music Award nominated post-punk outfit The Media Whores is one of the most hotly anticipated records of 2021.

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Into Music Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage

Artist: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Album: Carnage Label: Goliath Records  Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been collaborating one way or another for quite some time now. Mainly through Cave’s band, the Bad Seeds, their side project, Grinderman, and as a duo through a number of film scores and soundtrack work. Carnage is the

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