A river takes in many views, and the Okkervil has most of America in its sights. Having met at college in New Hampshire in 1998, founders Will Sheff, Zach Thomas and Seth Warren moved to Austin, Texas to live together and start a band. Sheff studied ...
A third offering from cover artists supreme, Nouvelle Vague, shifts away from Brazilian bossa nova and towards America's musical hinterlands to take its classy covers credo in new and nimbly delightful directions.
The formula – conjured up by produce...
Faust was always a weird lash-up of incongruous experimentation bordering on triumphant success and noble failure, as this welcome 1973 reissue demonstrates.
Emphasising feel over instrumental virtuosity, there are times when it threatens to fall apa...
Sandy Denny's partnership with The Strawbs is usually overlooked in most accounts of her tragically short career. However, this meticulously compiled reissue will ensure that this part of her output will at last get the proper consideration it deserv...
Rob Mazurek may now be residing in South America, but he still has strong ties to his native Chicago. This new album by his quintet is unmistakably the product of the Windy City, containing as it does healthy doses of avant jazz, hard bop and, of cou...
It takes a certain kind of chutzpah to make an anti-social racket with style, Anno Domini Twenty Twelve.
No matter how many times their doom is prophesised, planks of wood plugged into monolithic speaker cabinets are in no more danger of slipping out...
