Music Review

The seventh LP for the New Jersey trio is a thrilling, energetic set: sequenced like a DIY basement gig and mixed to sound like you're crushed up against the speakers.

Hot on the heels of the latest addition to the Marvel cinematic canon, Black Panther: The Album is a meticulously crafted artefact, curated by rap prophet Kendrick Lamar, bringing to bear his knack...

It feels like Craig David’s third act (resurrection, mixed with redemption) depends heavily on his audience’s ability to ironise its enjoyment.

For nearly five years, Mary Gauthier has been working with a Texas nonprofit called SongwritingWith:Soldiers, doing exactly what the name indicates. The result is the first great album of 2018.

Tuscon’s Calexico have long used the wide-open landscape of Mexican American border country as inspiration, both lyrical and musical.

Sweden’s First Aid Kit have always been a bittersweet pleasure.

The hypnotic, experimental art pop of Merrill Garbus’s Tune-Yards project is fused with a dose of very-2018 political wokeness in her fourth LP under the banner.

Guess who’s back.

On the face of it, Texas singer-songwriter David Ramirez’s third album title suggests the anomie of small town Americana, all shut factories and thwarted Bruce Springsteen escapes.

Drinking deeply of psychedelic rock and Aquarian philosophy, soul smoothie Miguel returns with fourth long-player War and Leisure, an intoxicating and deeply personal blend of the sensual and the...

This first in a series of EPs from Glaswegian folk-poppers Belle and Sebastian feels like an intentional harking back to a similar run of 1997 releases that helped certify their indie cred.

Fourteen albums deep and with rock in recession, Bono Inc. find themselves in the rare position of fighting for relevancy.

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard has garnered a reputation for its head-spinning brand of psychedelia, tongue-twisting album titles, and, in 2017, Herculean levels of endeavour. Their fourth...

Before founding Bully, guitarist and songwriter Alicia Bognanno interned at Chicago’s Electrical Audio Studio for Steve Albini, the noteworthy alternative rock engineer who worked with such 1990s...

A full house got exactly what they anticipated at the Dunedin Town Hall on Saturday and rewarded the musicians with a prolonged standing ovation for a line-up of strictly Dunedin talent and Dunedin...

Competing events gripping the nation limited the audience numbers attending the Dunedin Youth Orchestra at Knox Church on Saturday, writes Marian Poole.