Gabi Garbutt: Radical Love (INH Records) Released 19 June 2026 CD | Vinyl | DL | Streaming No-one can accuse Gabi Garbutt’s new album of lacking intensity. Its 10 shimmering songs about the transformative power of love will stick in your brain with limpet-like persistence. Robert Plummer enjoys the radical chic. Gabi Garbutt is standing […]
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The Love Buzz: Freeloaded (Cool Kitten) (Self-release) Out Now There’s something gloriously unpolished about The Love Buzz that makes them feel immediately vital. On new single Freeloaded (Cool Kitten), the Cork scuzz-pop outfit bottle the chaos of late nights, dole-day delirium and sticky-floored indie discos into three minutes of fuzzed-out catharsis, and it absolutely rips. […]
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The Boo Radleys In Spite Of Everything (Boostr Records) LP | CD | 2CD | DL Out now The Boo Radleys’ ninth album In Spite Of Everything is a hook-ridden collection of new songs which deal variously with themes of tragic loss, grieving, fractured friendships and betrayal but still comes up triumphant and resolute (melodically […]
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James The O2, London 17th April 2026 They have been going for more than four decades, but instead of resting on their laurels James continue to refuse to turn their latest celebratory tour into a predictable greatest hits rerun. Tom Parry sees them put on a masterful live show, blending old and very new and […]
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Martin Gray ponders on whether the just-released new single by The Strokes, Going Shopping, is the sound of the band returning re-energised and reconfigured or merely the sound of the band trying to keep up with the ever-changing times. Incredibly, this year marks the 25th anniversary of The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It crashing into […]
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Dead Star Boys: Rats (Dead Star Boys) Released 13 April 2026 CD | DL Power chords and psychotic reactions: there’s a nervous tension at the heart of the Medway, and Dead Star Boys have got it perfectly sussed. Rats, their second album, works like a distillation of our disturbed times. Robert Plummer thrives on the […]
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So Long, Good Friday Baltic Triangle, Liverpool 3rd April 2026 Experts in chaos Fat Dog headline a blistering line-up of talented and trail-blazing artists in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle for the first annual So Long, Good Friday festival. Kai Marshall and Elliot Davies take a look at what’s on offer. The first annual So Long, Good […]
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In the sixth of this series of pieces on albums that have seemingly disappeared off the radar, Martin Gray turns his attention to the debut album from – wait for it – The 6ths, just one of several intriguing side projects of Magnetic Fields’ mercurial lynchpin and founder Stephin Merritt. Nowadays everybody in the discerning […]
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