Dan Snaith has shared his first new material under his Caribou alias in five years, a spry and soulful strut entitled Home. In the five years since Caribou’s previous release, 2014’s tropical house-inspired Our Love album, the Canadian electronic dream-pop maestro Dan Snaith has been busy putting out dancefloor-orientated material under the guise of Daphni, most recently in … [Read more...] about Caribou: Home – Single Review
John Coltrane Quartet: Blue World – Review
The legendary Impulse label excavate a long-lost gem from the vanguard of 1960’s jazz; the John Coltrane Quartet let loose on a richly emotional and lyrical set of familiar tunes some six months before diving into the monumental summation that was A Love Supreme. The latest in a seemingly endless flow of lost-and-found recording sessions from jazz’s gleaming back catalogue, … [Read more...] about John Coltrane Quartet: Blue World – Review
Carla dal Forno: Look Up Sharp – Review
Three years after You Know What It’s Like, Australian multi-instrumentalist Carla dal Forno returns with a stark, autumnal and pretty collection of yearning dream-pop, ambient, trip-hop, folk and electronica that unleashes an avalanche of emotion. With her second album, Look Up Sharp, the enigmatic singer-songwriter Carla dal Forno has crafted a sparse, creeping and … [Read more...] about Carla dal Forno: Look Up Sharp – Review
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen – Review
A captivating and elegiac album, Ghosteen is shaped by despair and the sound of a man affirming the glow of love; here, grief and loss render its author vulnerable but not broken. Nick Cave’s sprawling and piercing seventeenth LP, Ghosteen, feels like a companion piece to 2016’s remarkable Skeleton Tree, a harrowing record in which the gothic Australian balladeer grappled with … [Read more...] about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen – Review
Angel Olsen: All Mirrors – Review
Angel Olsen unleashes a brooding, expansive and boundless new record that dazzles and engrosses the listener with its colourful and powerful production and arrangements. Ever since her breakthrough in 2012, the Asheville-based singer-songwriter Angel Olsen has cultivated a distinctive niche in indie circles as a consummate purveyor of solemn and intense lo-fi torch songs and … [Read more...] about Angel Olsen: All Mirrors – Review
Bedouin Soundclash: Mass – Review
Shape-shifting Canadians Jay Malinowski and Eon Sinclair reunite for their fifth album under the Bedouin Soundclash moniker, an inclusive and enveloping tapestry of sound that stitches together dub, post-punk, electronica, gospel, Afro-pop, swing and New Orleans jazz. In the digital streaming era, it has never been easier for an auto-didact with a curious impulse to access a … [Read more...] about Bedouin Soundclash: Mass – Review