Boards of Canada | Tomorrow’s Harvest
Rather than isolating specific tracks, it’s better to take in this album in its entirety. Fans won’t be disappointed, and for the uninitiated, it’s a good starting point.
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood | Black Pudding
Fans of Mark Lanegan will love it, and it’s a great introduction to the guitar skills of Duke Garwood.
Too Many Fireworks | Variations of Chopin
Scottish label Too Many Fireworks invited disparate musicians to interpret the work of Polish composer Frederyk Chopin. Classical music can be a little forbidding so a collection like this is to be welcomed.
QOTSA | … Like Clockwork
It’s definitely more relaxed than other QOTSA albums. The album has many ‘groovers’ in the vein of Leg of Lamb or Make It Wit Chu.
Alice In Chains | The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
This album is hardly going to recruit new fans, but it will have real appeal to anyone who enjoyed this band twenty years ago.
A Pale Horse Named Death | Lay My Soul To Waste
A Pale Horse Named Death are a goth-metal band featuring two ex-drummers from Type O Negative, Johnny Kelly and singer Sal Abruscato, and this is their second album. This sort of thing is…
Caught In The Wake Forever | Cadder Falls
Fraser McGowan is the man behind Caught In The Wake Forever, who released one of last year’s finer, if obscure albums. His latest EP, Cadder Falls is a move towards more ambient, even classical territory.
The Haxan Cloak | Excavation
If you can withstand the 51 minutes of this album you will emerge defeated, yet somehow the better for it. Don’t try it in daylight.
The National | Trouble Will Find Me
They are a remarkably consistent band, if risk averse. Probably one of the best collections of songs that will come out in 2013, but the accusations of all National songs sounding the same will ring ever louder.
Seti the First at Odessa Club
We grabbed a quick word with Kevin Murphy afterwards, he mentioned that their next album would be released “at the end of the summer”. By the sounds of the new material aired, it should be worth looking out for.
