Albums
Lee Hazlewood - Cake or Death (BPX)
Lee Hazlewood, maverick songwriter and producer who penned ‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ and sang it with Nancy Sinatra, then went on to cut countless low-key but brilliant psychedelic cowboy albums in the seventies, is ill.
Puerto Muerto - Songs of Muerto County Revisited (Fire)
An imaginary or ‘lost’ soundtrack to horror flick The Texas Chainsaw Massacre written and recorded by a husband-and-wife punk folk duo from St.
Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City)
The kind of highly musical and almost inconceivably ambitious record that you think you ought to like, but somehow end up despising.
Skygreen Leopards - Disciples of California (Jagjaguwar)
Properly lush new album from a band that come from California and really sound like they do.
The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men (Transgressive)
Solid debut from a tweed and corduroy-clad trio that have worked their arses off over the last couple of years and, against the odds, look set to break through.
Sebastien Tellier - Universe (Lucky Number)
Building on the underground success of Tellier’s euphoric track ‘La Ritournelle’ comes this: an album of odds and sods culled from a France-only acoustic LP and some of his soundtrack work.
The Meligrove Band - Planets Conspire (V2)
Triumphant and epic third album from a Canadian four-piece that have taken time to find their stride but are now capable of competing with the many other brilliant Toronto-based bands.
