Album Reviews

If When Rivers Meet were feeling any pressure in following up 2023’s UK Official Album Charts Top 10 entry ‘Aces Are High’, then they are certainly not showing it on the new album ‘Addicted To You’. Instead, buoyed by the acclaim and confidence that being the first independent Rock/Blues band …

On his debut solo album ‘Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes And Wine’, The Struts frontman Luke Spiller has jettisoned the glam pyrotechnics that make the Derby quartet such an enjoyable and formidable force in modern rock music. Instead, Spiller has opted to go with a more personal and …

Although Status Quo have been awarded National Treasure status for some time, Francis Rossi has always been an underrated and undervalued songwriter. At the top of his game for what must be seven decades now, his partnership with Bob Young – often referred to in the early days as the …

It’s astonishing to think that out of all the British metal bands who are part of the scene right now, Employed to Serve aren’t massive stars yet. For 14 years, they’ve created some of the most intriguing and refreshing metalcore that continues to evolve with each new release. They’re a …

It might have taken 15 years and 6 albums, but the hype machine surrounding Tobias Forge and Ghost has finally gone into overdrive. Thus, meaning that the release of studio album number 6 ‘Skeletá’ is a bona fide worldwide event. Midnight openings at record stores around the world; huge billboards; …

It’s either sheer coincidence or fantastic marketing that a new album from the Duke of Spook himself, Wednesday 13, lands not only in the same week as the new Ghost album, and the first trailer for the long-awaited second season of the Netflix smash ‘Wednesday’, but more importantly, it lands …

As far as stop-gaps go, Epica’s 2022 mini-album, ‘The Alchemy Project’, was incredibly effective. Not only did the seven-song effort make the four-year gap between studio albums more easy on the palate, but it also delivered arguably the best collaborative effort of the decade with Charlotte Wessels and Myrkur joining …

Those Damn Crows have always shown excellent progression from one album to the next. 2023’s ‘Inhale/Exhale’ was a huge step up from what came before it, and studio album number four, ‘God Shaped Hole’, continues this progression. Months on the road in Germany playing arenas and huge outdoor gigs with …

Formed in the early 90s in Laguna Beach, California, it is fair to say that in the last few years, ANYONE gained most column inches because both Taylor Hawkins and current Yes frontman Jon Davison were part of that original line-up. The one constant through the decades, though – and …

“I’m a rock and roll party cowboy/And I ain’t gonna read no Tolstoy/Coz I’m a rock and roll party cowboy/And I ain’t going to eat no Bok choy.” Enter the well-worn phrase, “The Darkness are back” right about now. Except that’s not exactly true because Suffolk’s most famous sons have …