Reviews
Beth Gibbons
Lives Outgrown
Portishead frontwoman’s long awaited solo debut is spellbinding, an enrapturing portrait of melancholy and hope
BIG SPECIAL
POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES
Black Country upstarts are a multi-faceted delight on this debut of feral abandon and glimmers of hope
Camera Obscura
Look to the East, Look to the West
The Glaswegian favourites are back with a dose of summery goodness on their first release in over a decade
Adult Jazz
So Sorry So Slow
The experimental London group return after a long break, but they’re just as brilliant and infuriating as ever
Adrianne Lenker
Adrianne Lenker leaves her audience feeling somewhere between defeated and aspirational in the best way possible.
Kirin J Callinan
The enigmatic Aussie can be playful, perverse, but never less than captivating
Infested
Massive scary spiders – and overly zealous policing – terrorise a Parisian apartment block in this skittery, scuttling debut
That They May Face the Rising Sun
Gentle but incredibly evocative drift through a year in the Irish countryside
Sunset Song
A poignant, unflinching, and remarkable adaptation of Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel