Album reviews
CD of the Week: Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
THE Proclaimers recently told The Scotsman that they have always been attracted to writing the same kind of song, one which embodies a poetic and melodic simplicity, because that way lies honesty and integrity.
Album reviews: Tom Jones | Cold Specks | Gaz Coombes | Classical | Jazz | Folk
THE Scotsman gives its verdict on the pick of this week’s longplayer releases
CD reviews: Paul Buchanan | John Mayer | Admiral Fallow | Folk | Jazz | Classical video
The voice of the Blue Nile emerges with his first solo album, a selection of short but certain songs which sound like the soundtrack to a melancholy black and white Sunday afternoon.
Album reviews: Morten Harket | The Gossip | Tenacious D | Classical | Jazz | Folk | World
The Scotsman’s team of music critics lend their ears to the latest releases
Album review: Garbage; Not YOur Kind of People
For a band that’s supposedly about alienation and rawness, the return of Shirley Manson’s gang is as polished, accessible and overproduced as ever, writes Fiona Shepherd
Album reviews: The Gossip | Tenacious D | Alan Reid and Rob van Sante | Jazz | Classical
REVIEWS of the rest of this week’s longplayer releases
Album review: Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
RUMOURS of Garbage’s demise have been much exaggerated, and this first new material in seven years makes a fist of blending the spiky and snuggly sides of the band.
Album review: Damon Albarn; Dr Dee
The world of Elizabethan court magician Dr John Dee is a long way from Blur, but Damon Albarn sounds very much at home on this spellbinding new project
Album review: The Proclaimers | Keane | Classical | Jazz | Folk | World
The Scotsman’s music critics lend their ears to this week’s new releases
Album reviews: Marina and The Diamonds | Cate Le Bon | Mystery Jets |
A roundup of this week’s longplayer releases
CD of the Week: Norah Jones, Little Broken Hearts
The ‘grindhouse’ sleeve art, and the presence of Brian Burton as producer, suggest a whole new direction for Norah Jones. Really? Well, sort of
Album review: Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Crown and Treaty
SINCE his band’s second album was nominated for the Mercury Prize, Tim Elsenburg – a songwriter who rhymes words like “parenthesis” and mentions Jesus Christ and Charlemagne in the same sentence – has moved on in leaps and bounds.
Album reviews: Marilyn Manson | Norah Jones | Jazz | Folk | Classical
A roundup of this week’s forthcoming longplayer releases, featuring
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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