John Coltrane - Chasing Trane Original Soundtrack (2017) - "features 11 tracks from the film, Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Set against the social, political & cultural landscape of the time, it brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man & an artist."
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016) - "Here is the dean of literary gothic song-craft, a master of wordplay, symbolism and irony, baring his soul like never before."
Nils Frahm - All Melody (2018) - "a feast for the ears, a rich experience that is intimate and companionable, symphonically expansive, danceable and, as its title suggests, ripe with melodies."
Jen Cloher - In Blood Memory (2013) - "a work of songwriterly maturity that also manages to rock harder in the vein of the Velvet Underground and the dirty 1970s Rolling Stones than anything in her earlier, more folky catalogue"
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (2017) - "the sound of a scarily smart dude plunging the vast recesses of his mind, looking to make some sense of an increasingly senseless world."
Graham Coxon - The End of the F***ing World (2018) - "his stripped down spiky semi-punk tunes and fragile ballads support beautifully concise and poetic lyrics, in this case echoing the psychologically damaged antiheroes of the story."
Hookworms - Microshift (2018) - "The adherence to krautrockin’ repetition remains, but the proto-punk engine has been replaced by electronic loops and glacial synths."
Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker (2016) - "the sound of a master soundtracking his exit, with advice for those left behind."
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (1975) - "He captured his local neighborhoods, the young children having fun, spare conversations heard in the distance, and an array of truly beautiful sounds."
Velvet Underground - Squeeze (1973) - "All the tracks in this album are forgettable but never brutal or awful."
Lou Reed - Live: Take No Prisoners (1978) - "he goes totally off-script by launching into lengthy monologues and rambling asides, allowing his band to jam while he addresses the audience, cracks jokes, and makes some of his best-known material almost unrecognizable."
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Milano (2017) - "an intimate collection of snapshots about life in a certain place at a certain time. It’s insightful, invigorating, and honest."
Keith Jarrett - Byablue (1977) - "while it’s not an exercise in melody and finger-poppin’ rhythm like TI, Byablue is definitely one of this group’s prettier outings—for the most part, anyway."
Various – You Heard Them Here First (Rock's Icons Before They Were Famous) (2009) - "a collection of two-dozen cuts by big name acts, all recorded before anyone knew them from Adam."
Astrobite - Pinkshinyultrablast (2012) - "one of MBV's finest disciples"
A Place To Bury Strangers - s-t (2007) - "tinnitus-inducing noise-pop against a tension-wracked Joy Division-meets-Ministry backdrop"
Starflyer 59 - Gold (1995) - "filled with as much unrequited love and broken hearts as it was guitar reverb and distortion"
Weekend - Sports (2010) - "full of rumbling rhythms, layers of LOUD guitars and most of all great songs that pay special attention to texture and atmosphere"
Velvet Underground - Live MCMXCIII (1993) - "the musical charge is capable of bristling nerve ends and scorching synapses at every surge."
The Fall - Live in Manchester (2018) - 1 DISK - 13 TRACKS - TOTAL LENGTH: 00:46:47
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Savvy Show Stoppers (1998) - "one band who could embrace the twangy, reverb-drunk sound of the Ventures or Duane Eddy and make something fresh from it"
