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May 2025

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May 30
- “His carefree aesthetic is wonderfully captured – yet for the highs come genuinely frustrating and irritating lows”: Kevin Ayers And The Whole World’s Shooting At The Moon
- "Lookin' For Trouble hits its mark as often as it misses": Supergroup the Dead Daisies kick back down south with uneven blues covers album
- “Is this a feel-bad experience? There’s something freeing about giving voice to these emotions”: Bruce Soord’s 10th anniversary edition of his self-titled debut solo album
May 29
- Six bands that defined Slam Dunk 2025
- "Shirley Manson takes aim at cruel ideologies and bigots of all shapes and sizes": The electro-goth revival continues on Garbage's Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
May 28
- "An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show
May 27
- The nine bands that defined Wide Awake festival 2025
May 26
- "Different; not necessarily better or worse but definitely less interesting": The Tubes bring in the big producer on The Completion Backwards Principle, with mixed results
May 24
- “It was one of the most vibrant and exciting live albums of its day. The new version raises the bar”: Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work
May 23
- "Skunk Anansie's most musically ambitious album yet": Skin & Co's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades
- "Bands who should probably never have made it out of the garage, let alone onto a major label": It's not just the familiar names on the Young & Wild glam metal compilation
May 21
- The Painful Truth is Skunk Anansie's most vital and inventive album in years
May 19
- "It shimmers, it shakes, it grooves, and most importantly, it rocks": Mahavishnu Orchestra navigate new musical worlds on The Inner Mounting Flame
May 18
- “Bright and clear – but polite and unobtrusive almost to a fault”: Anthony Phillips’ remastered, extended Sail The World is literally yacht music
May 16
- "Ask any Quo fan and they’ll agree. The rawness was the reason they liked it": Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover
- “A work of towering vitality, a raised fist and even a raised finger”: Gong’s 10th anniversary edition of I See You casts Daevid Allen’s final work in a new light
- "Pure manna for a fanbase denied any whiff of a reunion": Dire Straits' 30-million-selling Brothers In Arms celebrates its 40th birthday with energised extras
May 13
- "Reminiscent of metalcore milestones such as Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal and Parkway Drive’s Ire." Bury Tomorrow are better than ever on Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience
May 12
- "For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road
May 11
- “Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup
May 9
- If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
- "His Midas touch is confirmed": Bernie Marsden covers the greats on posthumously released album
May 8
- Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 headphones review
May 7
- "Even In Arcadia might divide longtime Sleep Token fans, but it will almost certainly expose metal to its biggest audience yet." Sleep Token's new album is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
May 5
- Pup's Who Will Look After The Dogs? is a mantra for the down-but-not-out generation trying to survive in this burning shitheap of a world
- "As enjoyable as it is, this seems to be a footnote in the careers of everyone involved": Mixed results as Roger Glover gets his mates in on The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast
May 4
- “A handy surrogate for anyone craving the feel of Yes’ glory days… and how did they beat Jon Anderson to the title?” The Flower Kings’ Love is a fully-achieved ambition
May 2
- “The effect is overwhelming, in the best possible way”: Steven Wilson delivers a masterclass in interstellar prog at his first solo show in six years
- "As a document of four hungry musicians working in common cause, this stands as Pink Floyd's best live album": Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII shines new light on a counterculture classic
- “Crisp audio complements the improved visuals, and hindsight lends the interviews extra resonance”: Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII is a stunning historical artefact
May 1
- “I am at peace these days, give or take a fit of blinding rage”: Propagandhi are as confused about the state of the world as everyone else on vital new album