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May 2024
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- May 19
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- “It throws up the confounding realisation that the world’s most famous fusion violinist is au fait with drum’n’ bass”: Jean-Luc Ponty’s Life Enigma reissue
- “The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition
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- “A funny crossover of styles… interesting, but only partially successful”: Jon Anderson’s In The City Of Angels reissue
- “The most bittersweet listening experience of the year cuts close to the bone.” Shellac's To All Trains is Steve Albini's epitaph, and it's as thrillingly intense, darkly amusing and pleasingly unsentimental as expected
- "Effortless virtuosity": Little Feat's timeless sound on Sam's Place is oddly reassuring in these turbulent times
- Kerry King's From Hell I Rise: The best Slayer album Slayer never made
- "Slash is the star of his own show, and he's chosen material to showcase his guitar pyrotechnics": Slash gets the world to sing on Orgy Of The Damned but it's the guitar that truly sizzles
- May 16
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- “Instead of conjuring the spirit of good craic, the pervading mood is overwhelmingly maudlin”: Oliver Wakeman’s Anam Cara is an admirable attempt to do something new
- "Dark Superstition is the moment where Gatecreeper become a more well-rounded and versatile heavy metal band." Gatecreeper confirm their status as one of the most exciting bands in death metal with album three
- “Possibly the nearest Tillison has ever come to prog metal, with a punchy bass riff that could be a Drama-era Chris Squire outtake”: The Tangent’s To Follow Polaris
- May 15
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- Heavys H1H headphones review
- “The promoter came in and told us a bomb threat had been called in.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna lays bare the violence, abuse and misogyny directed at her fearless feminist punk band in brutally honest memoir Rebel Girl
- "You really can’t exhort The Man to ‘Suck my *****’ without the spectre of Eric Cartman demanding that you respect his authority": Peter Tagtgren's electro-metal side project Pain embrace sardonic gothic fun on I Am
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- “A plaintive joy throughout, informed by painful experiences… not an album that feels sorry for itself”: Kavus Torabi’s The Banishing
- "It's wonderful, a big warm hug of a record": The Lemon Twigs create something timeless on A Dream Is All I Know
- Beaux Gris Gris and the Apocalypse defy expectations and boundaries on tour de force third album Hot Nostalgia Radio
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