Album released this week in… 2010: The National – High Violet
WHEN I FIRST listened to The National, way back in 2011, I dismissed them as being, drab, boring and slow. Oh what a young sceptic I was. Revisiting High Violet around three and a...
Author: Andrew Noel
Album released this week in… 1968: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
IF AT FOLSOM Prison isn’t one of the best live albums of all time, it’s certainly one of the most important. The songs, the banter, The atmosphere, it has everything. It’s the album that...
Film Torments: Boyhood (2014)
ANDREW wants to incur the wrath of cineastes everywhere and tackle the belated Oscar darling of 2014: it is, of course, chuffing Boyhood. Where to begin with Boyhood? It’s a hard task to class the...
Album NOT released this week in… 1984: Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain
WITH ANOTHER cruel sweep of its hand, 2016 has taken away another star. Prince Rogers Nelson was an innovator when it came to funk, soul and R&B music, being cited as an inspiration by...
The Hope Six Demolition Project is another decent, if not life changing, album by PJ Harvey
IT’S FINALLY here. Five long years have passed, but finally, finally, PJ Harvey’s follow up to her amazing Let England Shake has landed. In a process that saw the singer (unsurprisingly) travel to Afghanistan...
Album released this week in… 1983: R.E.M. – Murmur
A LOT OF PEOPLE might argue that R.E.M.’s reputation as one of the greatest alternative rock bands (or at least one of the most successful) came with their seminal 1992 album Automatic For The...
The Walking Dead’s sixth season brings thrills, frights and redemption
IT’S SAFE TO say that The Walking Dead has been in some rocky territory recently. Seasons four and five dragged by with little interest, the show seemingly reaching its inevitable cancellation. Sure, it picked up...
Album released this week in… 2011: Metronomy – The English Riviera
WE ALL HAVE that album that relates to some of the best memories of our lives. For me, British Indietronica band Metronomy produced that album. Despite attending university in Wales, The English Riviera soundtracked...
Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane – Three’s a crowd for psychological thriller
THE APPARENT ‘blood relative’ of 2008’s Cloverfield, 10 Cloverfield Lane ditches the found-footage genre for something more of a psychological thriller. With J.J. Abrams staying on as producer, 10 Cloverfield Lane sees Dan Trachtenberg...
SCM Music’s Album Picks: January to March – Blackstars, Suicide Songs and United Crushers
WELCOME to the first music round up of 2016, a year that has, so far, been unusual and distressing. We’ve lost some big names many of which have left holes in the world that...
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