Galaxy Bear – Gala Xyb Ear EP
Claiming to be “your favourite band with a bear drummer”, this Auckland-based 6-piece starts the year out rocking with their debut 7-track EP.
Galaxy Bear...
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup (Flightless)
With four full-length albums under their collective belt already in 2017, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard close out the year with album number...
The Rolling Stones – On Air (Polydor)
“Like somebody reaching into my brain and turning a switch that suddenly changed my fundamental vision of life from grainy black and white into...
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest (Because)
Sung mostly in French, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new album, Rest, is no simple melancholic melodrama. There’s no bitchin’, cussin’ or swooning; no mumbling oaths or...
Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series: Trouble No More 1979-1981 (Columbia)
This was always going to be a hard sell...hours of previously unreleased live recordings from Dylan’s “Christian Period” when the former Mr Zimmerman preached...
The Cactus Channel – Stay A While (Hope Street Recordings)
The new incarnation of this ever-evolving Melbourne based seven-piece collective sees The Cactus Channel flexes their soul/lounge influences whilst searching for, and sometimes successfully...
Taylor Swift – Reputation (Big Machine)
My household was counting down the days to the new Tay Tay album following Instagram feeds, fan pages and the like. Lead single Look...
Bootsy Collins – World Wide Funk (Mascot)
"‘C’mon Baby,” sings Big Daddy Kane on Bootsy’s Hot Saucer “You really touch my soul/You got that jelly and you’re making it roll!” This...
Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart (Six Shooter)
After serving up a critically-acclaimed debut album produced by Ry Cooder, Southern California cowboy Sam Outlaw takes a surprise musical turn on his follow-up.
With...
Shed Seven – Instant Pleasures (Liberator)
Former 1990s Britpop darlings Shed Seven return with Instant Pleasures, their first new album in 16 years. The York-based band, led by the uber-cool frontman...