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