Album Reviews

Rather than go down the traditional route of releasing a 10-12 track, 45-minute long album, Nashville duo The Bloody Nerve have chosen to release their latest music in four separate acts, with each act acting as both a standalone release and a part of a full-length album to come at …

Remember that advert from the ‘80s for Maxell where some dude is sitting in an armchair in front of a stereo and his butler comes in and slaps a tape into the player and presses play, and then the music starts up and the dude in the chair literally gets …

You have to hand it to Nathan James. He doesn’t do anything the easy way! Following straight on from one of my favourite releases of 2021 in “We Will Ride” Inglorious take the unusual step of releasing an entire album of covers. Not any covers though. An entire album of …

Having gone down the concept album route on 2018’s ‘A Dying Machine’, Mark Tremonti has returned to a more traditional album structure on new album ‘Marching In Time’; the fifth outing for his solo band known simply as Tremonti. Twelve tracks with zero connection (excluding the fact that they are …

Launching her Patreon page in May 2020, Charlotte Wessels began to use the platform to share her non-Delain material that fell out of the parameters of what a symphonic metal outfit “should” sound like. A community was created, new songs and new art were brought to life in her own …

Solace (noun): “comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness” (verb): “give comfort or consolation to”. For Gorilla Riot frontman Arjun Bhishma both descriptions of the title of the Mancunians latest EP are pretty apt; “Solace began as a solo project for me, as they are four very …

Striking while the iron is hot, Californian outfit Robert Jon & The Wreck return with a new studio album a mere 17 months after the release of their magnum opus ‘Last Light on the Highway’, and prove with ‘Shine A Light On Me Brother’ that we are indeed in the …

The number of collaborations between artists in the last few years has for obvious reasons shot through the roof. The vast majority, as well as being great fun (Gal Gadot and friends murdering ‘Imagine’ being the exception), offer those participating a chance to work with others who under normal circumstances …

The original introduction on this review was hastily edited at 18:00 hours on Thursday 2nd September, the night before The Wildhearts released their brand new album ‘21st Century Love Songs’. The original introduction was all about how ‘21st Century Love Songs’ was going to be released on the same day …

So, there are plenty of entries in the category of “famous father and child musicians” (Bob and Jakob Dylan, Bob and Damian and Ziggy Marley, John and Jason Bonham, Willie and Lukas Nelson, even Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus…), but with a few exceptions, when it comes to pairings that …