His Name Is Alive’s trademark blend of grunge and gauze, darkness and shimmering light, is just as extraordinary the second time around.

The inherent miserablism of the band means that despite all the gauzy dreaminess of the music the songs remain largely earthbound and stubbornly unlovable. By Chris Ball.

The music of Garcia and the lyrics of Robert Hunter are a perfect match for the counter-culture side of America and each song tells a story about not just the country itself but us as a human being. By Martyn Coppack

A pleasant enough release which will no doubt be well-received by their fans, but it doesn’t go anywhere exciting. By Darren Saunders

Hi folks, there’s something incredibly beautiful to listen to and it comes directly from Texas, where Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine, composed his last album Ghost on Ghost following 2011’s LP Kiss Each Other. By Daniela Patrizi

The first thing that strikes you about this album is, considering the bleak mood throughout, how much fun it actually is. It seems like Lanegan has managed to straddle the divide between industrial carnage and pumping disco whilst keeping things firmly …

This reviewing game can be a funny old lark. Here at E&D, being a two man and a dog operation, we don’t often get the chance to listen to things as often as we’d really like to, running to keep up so to speak. This is a shame, because sometimes an albu …

For their third album in four years the Atlanta quartet have moved started to move away from the aggressive noise rock that characterised their earlier work and live shows to something more conventionally melodic and, dare I say it, almost poppy. What …

Stereolab are up to their eleventh album with ‘Chemical Chords’ but their sound remains as youthful as ever. A collection of 14 “purposefully short, dense, fast pop songs”, as the ‘Lab’s Time Gane has it, the record is a vibrant vibraphonic ride that m …