Albums - page 5

Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You

For a while between 2009’s Middle Cyclone and now the release of The Worse Things Get… life for Neko Case felt very much like being underwater: strangely isolated in a silent world, suffering from depression,...

Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft

Warp and Weft is Laura Veirs’ ninth studio album, and the second on her own Raven Marching Bands label. Her first self-released title was 2010’s July Flame; between that album and Warp and Weft she...

Matt Berry - Kill The Wolf

When I first heard Matt Berry had an album out it was from a commenter somewhere below the line on The Guardian’s web site. As it was a suggestion for one of the albums of...

Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

It’s appropriate enough that opening salvo of Franz Ferdinand’s fourth album is a found lyric, a moment of brilliance that isn’t quite matched by what follows. The words (“Come home - practically all is nearly...