Usually, the record that takes up this particular slot is reviewed here because it’s especially excellent, culturally newsworthy or has such a high profile that we can’t ignore it even...
The arrival in our lives, bleak mid-winter, of Vermont-based Canadian Koushik Ghosh could hardly be more welcome. At a time when we are all forced to rug up like Michelin men, lest we meet a...
It seems like Jamie bangs out one of these croonological voyages around this time every year. Perhaps he has a wedding anniversary in January and penning smooth-soul ‘Mr Loverman’...
The cover of ‘Lambs Anger’, which will delight fans of ‘Un Chien Andalou’ as much as it dismays fans of Flat Eric, is a fitting statement of intent. Oizo’s debut album...
History weighs heavily on this collection of gospel a cappella. In the 1940s, and again in the ’50s, folklorist Alan Lomax stopped by the small town of Como, Panola County, to document the...
It’s not quite as shocking as finding out that, say, Fiddy Cent breeds Pekinese dogs, but it’s up there. After years spent almost exclusively wrangling a style of deeply conscious,...
It would be easy to get the wrong idea about Akon if you judged him solely by his conduct on stage. Throwing members of the crowd on to the heads of other paying fans? Why, that’s merely an...
Anyone with just a passing interest in Glasvegas will already be well aware that frontman James Allan’s favourite album of all time is ‘A Christmas Gift for You’ by Phil Spector....
Beholden to a formula like any other popular brand, Kanye West was in danger of becoming just another hip hop commodity following his third album, ‘Graduation’, a self-satisfied effort...
