The post-rock icons’ only chart-topping and most vocal album typifies the unique sound they’ve chiselled away at during their career, but have sculpted it for the arenas they now occupy.
Author: Wes Foster
In Review: Black Country, New Road – For The First Time
Ambitious and inventive, the seven-piece’s debut album only hints at their lofty potential.
In Review: LUMER – The Disappearing Act
A fast-paced affair, the Hull post-punk’s latest effort is an active reflection of the world that surrounds them, dealt with a welcome dose of venom.
In Review: Shame – Drunk Tank Pink
‘Second album syndrome’ always seems to be the making or breaking of a band, and as with any genre that involves a resurgence, post-punk is at times beginning to sound a little tired. Shame, however, seem to have avoided that entirely with an engaging and ambitious follow-up to their 2018 debut.
LIVE: Vanishing Twin present ‘Pensiero Magico’
London’s experimental pop troupe beg the question with their surrealist, monochrome livestream: why did it take so long for us to get to this? Sitting between a music film and a gig, it offers something different, occupying its own space in live music performance.
LIVE: OSees live at the Henry Miller Library, Big Sur
The live power of OSees’ oeuvre lent itself to the roughness and rawness of this livestreamed set, and held enough of that live music feeling to really make you long to be back at something in-person and sweaty again.
LIVE: Shabaka Hutchings with Britten Sinfonia, Live at the Barbican
Finding a meeting place between jazz and classical is not as easy as the formal elements might suggest, but in this one-off collaboration for EFG London Jazz Festival, Hutchings and Britten Sinfonia created a real accessibility to a performance which might otherwise have felt somewhat like another world.
LIVE: Richard Dawson, Live from the Barbican
With an unrivalled sense of empathy in a time of crisis, Richard Dawson made a detached livestream set from the belly of the Barbican feel comfortingly intimate.