Reviews - page 5

For a while between 2009’s Middle Cyclone and now the release of The Worse Things Get… life for Neko Case felt very much like being underwater: strangely isolated in a silent world, suffering from depression,...

Warp and Weft is Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album, and the second on her own Raven Marching Bands label. Her first self-released title was 2010’s July Flame; between that album and Warp and Weft she...

When I first heard Matt Berry had an album out it was from a commenter somewhere below the line on The Guardian’s web site. As it was a suggestion for one of the albums of...

It’s appropriate enough that opening salvo of Franz Ferdinand’s fourth album is a found lyric, a moment of brilliance that isn’t quite matched by what follows. The words (“Come home - practically all is nearly...