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THE WEATHER STATION: Ignorance (Fat Possum) Verdict: Dispels the clouds Rating: BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: For The First Time (Ninja Tune) Verdict: Roller-coaster debut Rating: THE BAND: Stage Fright (Capitol) Verdict: Rock standard revisited Rating: Tamara Lindeman was a promising actress before she turned seriously to music 12 years ago. Using the stage name Tamara Hope, … Read more
Foo Fighters: Medicine at Midnight (Roswell) Verdict: Just the tonic Rating: The Staves: Good Woman (Atlantic) Verdict: Striking sibling harmonies Rating: Joan as Police Woman: Live (Sweet Police) Verdict: Dreamy Brooklyn Soul Rating: Some artists have used the past year to try something different. Barry Gibb went country and Taylor Swift surprised her fans, and … Read more
‘It was hard to get our heads around’: Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar says filming series six was ‘difficult’ because it was shot out of sequence due to pandemic By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:02 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 10:02 GMT, 3 February 2021 Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar has revealed filming … Read more
Adrian Dunbar has teased that the hotly anticipated new season of Line of Duty is ‘coming soon’, saying it should be released in ‘the next couple of months’. The Irish actor, 62, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC police drama, also admitted it was ‘tricky’ shooting the ‘very complicated’ story out of sequence in … Read more
Celeste: Not Your Muse (Polydor) Rating: Verdict: Rich and soulful Weezer: OK Human (Atlantic) Rating: Verdict: Homespun pop symphonies Arlo Parks: Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive) Rating: Verdict: Dazzling debut This time last year Celeste Waite was on the brink of stardom. The singer from Saltdean, near Brighton, had just won the BRITs Rising Star award, … Read more
From sweeping orchestral scores to jazz, blues and soul gems, soundtrack albums are in the spotlight as the awards season approaches. The Mail’s music critic ADRIAN THRILLS picks the best. THE PROM (Sony Masterworks) The closest thing to a song-and-dance blockbuster in the tradition of The Greatest Showman is the feel-good soundtrack to Netflix musical … Read more
PEARL CHARLES: Magic Mirror (Kanine) Rating: Verdict: Feel-good Californian pop WHY DON’T WE: The Good Times And The Bad Ones (Atlantic) Verdict: Catchy boy-band harmonies Rating: PASSENGER: Songs For The Drunk and Broken Hearted (Cooking Vinyl) Verdict: Pithy character studies Rating: The start of a new year is traditionally the time to pinpoint pop’s up-and-coming … Read more
BARRY GIBB & FRIENDS: Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. I (EMI) Rating: Elvis Costello once said a great song should be robust enough to be sung in different styles, whether that’s on an acoustic guitar or with all the bells and whistles of an orchestra. It’s a theory that clearly strikes a chord with … Read more
Doubts remain over the gigs and tours planned for 2021, but recorded music looks set for another great year, with plenty of albums in the pipeline. Adrian Thrills looks ahead to the treats in store… Barry Gibb The new year kicks off with a fresh spin on some timeless pop as the sole surviving Bee … Read more
Paul McCartney: McCartney III (Capitol) Verdict: The Fab One Rating: Paul McCartney’s two previous all-solo albums arrived at pivotal moments. The first, 50 years ago, was a rough-and-ready affair made as the Beatles were falling bitterly to pieces. The second, in 1980, came as his next band, Wings, were crumbling. Now we have McCartney III, … Read more