Great Barrier – Repetition (Zelle) (13th Floor Album Review)
On Great Barrier’s new album Repetition, the sea is restless, the heart is beating, and something elemental stirs beneath.
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The Blasters – American Music/Non-Fiction (Liberation Hall) (13th Floor Reissue Review)
The Blasters pour the heart of Saturday night into every song on American Music, their vivacious 1980 debut, pressing against the corners of rockabilly, a genre that can easily be mistaken for a time capsule.
Of Monsters and Men – All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade (Skarkali / Virgin)
Of Monsters and Men’s fourth studio album is ripe with poetic imagery, vulnerable confessions and the complexities of intimacy.
Jim White – Inner Day (Drag City) (13th Floor Album Review)
Jim White, a (drumming) force within the experimental music community, has, though his expansive musical endeavors have reached wide and afar, touching such groups as Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Beth Orton and Ed Kuepper.
The Southern River Band – Easier Said Than Done (Civilians) (13th Floor Album Review)
Easier Said Than Done is the fourth album by Aussie rockers The Southern River Band. Recorded by Grammy-winning producer Nick Didia (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen) in Byron earlier this year, the album slaps out a series of songs inspired by 70s Australian pub-rock.
Harrison Storm – Empty Garden (Nettwerk) (13th Floor Album Review)
Harrison Storm teamed up with Stockholm-based producer Freddy Alexander to create his sophomore album, Empty Garden.
The Lemonheads – Love Chant (Fire Records) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Lemonheads, well Evan Dando, darling of the 90s alt-music scene, witty, romantic, and a notorious scallywag has hit the return key, as he delivers the first Lemonheads (proper) album in 19 years – Love Chant.
The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (40th Anniversary Expanded) (Rhino)
2025 marks the 40th anniversary reissue of The Pogues’ seminal second album, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Four decades on, this record remains as vital, exhilarating, and essential as ever.
Skullcrusher – And Your Song is Like a Circle (Dirty Hit) (13th Floor Album Review)
The songs on Skullcrusher’s sophomore album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, lurk on the periphery. The more focus you try to give them, the faster they slip away.
Chrissie Hynde and Pals – Duets Special (Parlophone) (13th Floor Album Review)
Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of 1980s smash-hit producing, globally-famous, new wave band The Pretenders, has released Duets Special, the 4th studio album under her own name, with a host of famous friends, known on this record as The Pals.