The Long Ryders – High Noon Hymns (Cherry Red) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Long Ryders return with High Noon Hymns, a country rock album that begins with the feeling of walking into a bar mid-set.
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Jake Baxendale – Waypeople (Earshift) (13th Floor Album Review)
Jake Baxendale’s Waypeople opens with the bright shimmer of a guzheng cutting cleanly through the silence, its plucked strings gliding outward before saxophone, piano and drums gather around them.
The Delines – The Set Up (El Cortez) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Delines’ The Set Up unfolds as a sequence of interlocking short stories. Soul-inflected arrangements frame the closely observed lives created by songwriter Willy Vlautin, tracing people whose paths intersect as they drift through fading towns towards uncertain futures.
Daniel Avery – Tremor (Midnight Versions) (Domino) (13th Floor Album Review)
Daniel Avery’s Tremor (Midnight Versions) pushes the material of his sixth album back onto the dancefloor. Rather than inviting outside remixers, Avery reworks the entire record himself, reshaping its collaborative songs into darker, club-focused counterparts designed for late-night sets and strobe-lit rooms.
Joshua Idehen – I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try (Heavenly) (13th Floor Album Review)
Joshua Idehen’s I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try presents an immersive fusion of spoken word and electronic textures that explores community, endurance and emotional navigation through sound. Built on pulse and atmosphere, the record unfolds gradually, allowing its musical language to establish itself before attention turns toward the […]
The Wave Pictures – Gained / Lost (Bella Union) (13th Floor Album Review)
The Wave Pictures’ Gained / Lost arrives after more than two decades of the band following their own musical path, building songs through instinct and conversation.
U2 – Days Of Ash (Island Records) (13th Floor EP Review)
Days Of Ash, the new six-track EP from U2, arrives ahead of a forthcoming album later this year and places the band once again in conversation with contemporary political events.
Anna van Riel – Wooden Leg (Nook Rd) (13th Floor Album Review)
Anna van Riel’s Wooden Leg brings the listener directly into its emotional world from the opening bars. The voice sits close in the mix, the arrangements carefully shaped, and the album feels grounded and immediate. These songs are preoccupied with memory, return, belonging and the attempt to make sense of change.
Peaches – No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars) (13th Floor Album Review)
Peaches’ No Lube So Rude is dark, driving electro with provocation in its bones and agency in its stance, built for sweat, confrontation and control. Stuttering synths, hard-edged electronics, and bass form the foundation of her first album in ten years.
Hemi Hemingway – Wings of Desire (PNKSLM Recordings) (13th Floor Album Review)
Hemi Hemingway’s Wings of Desire arrives as a record of late-night longing, full of pulse, soft-focus melancholy, and sudden flashes of heat.