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When Iggy Pop comes to town my wife gets a strange gleam in her eye. To see him live...
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Mariza is a true diva: her power comes from her extraordinary voice and her complete...
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This album is like casual sex: messy, with plenty of cheap thrills. But when you wake...
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Show Your Bones is not a disaster but it's not a complete triumph either.
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There's a kind of manic pleasure here.
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Cuban born singer and Yoruba priestess offers deep, spiritual grooves tinged with...
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These songs are powerful, emotional, disciplined and impressive.
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New recording of score for classic 1950s sci-fi movie. Not one but two theremins.
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Prolific NY noiseniks lose their drummer and record a new album..
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Brooklyn quartet lauded by the likes of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore bring the noise...
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Latest from NY noiseniks takes things down a notch or two into uneasy ambient territory.
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Pianist Ellis Marsalis celebrates his retirement with the help of Wynton, Branford,...
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Sex, murder, celebrity. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger.
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Electroacoustic pieces from Colombian guitarist in collaboration with Frances Dhomont,...
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She's only 17, she's pretty, she's sold a zillion albums already, she talks a lot...
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Martine does a Streisand and covers songs from musicals and Broadway.
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Shania Twain is a much better pop singer than country singer...
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This CD is not for the faint hearted. Some may find it makes them tense. Others may...
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Bossa hits the 21st century with the debut album from Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Joao).
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Hearing Mark E. Smith shout over a rumbling beat is one of life's singular pleasures.
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Tricky and claustrophobic, but with plenty of swoons and thrills.
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Electric guitar and drums. Raw and compelling improv.
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This is a very sad album. It's like listening to two people you love arguing in the...
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A delightful return from Senegalese...
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Jobim's bossa reinvented for piano, cello and voice. Chamber music of great beauty.
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These guitars sound like America; lyrical, tuneful, gnarled and ugly, subway trains...
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Klezmer folk pushed in a raw jazzy direction by this New York based clarinet player. ...
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...when you try and listen actively to 'Feels Like Home' there's little to engage the...
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Classic Afrobeat reissue from one of the giants of African music. Serious funk and...
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Detractors have claimed that Wire are deaf old men making an unsubtle racket. This...
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Fusion album exploring India's religious traditions. Soulful, deep and respectful.
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For her second album Gemma has smoothed the rough edges off her sound and her husky...
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Mali's best female singer in full cry. The performances are great, the recording is...
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Debut album from new Portugese fado singer. Powerful, dramatic, lyrical and highly...
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One By One starts brilliantly. First track 'All My Life' must be the best thing he's...
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The Libertines are as English as the Sid James dialogue they quote in their lyrics...
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One man band Bob Drake enthralls with strange, resonant avant prog rock stylings.
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We should just be grateful that Cash is still around to make records as uplifting and...
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Smith has often been (mis)represented as a ranting anger monger. But this new...
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The latest offering from everyone's favourite diminutive pop princess...
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Between 1978 and 1985 they were the best band in Britain. They were unique. Now, most...
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'Is this the Sex Pistols?' said my brother in law. I had to shut the door so he...
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Machito created a unique fusion of the swing of the US big bands of the 40s and the...
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Cash's rejects are better than most artists' greatest hits.
