Libertines

After The Libertines Carl Barat formed Dirty Pretty Things. Here, I present you Waterloo to Anywhere they're debut album. Enjoy!

'Good Grief' is the first new solo album in 25 years from songwriter and producer Bernard Butler. Between then and now, Butler had ventured into the world of pop songwriting and producing, including two seminal albums with folk musician Sam Lee, a Mercury nominated project with actor Jessie Buckley as well as working with Bert Jansch and Ben Watt From Everything But The Girl, The Libertines, Tricky and an eight-million selling, Grammy-winning record with Duffy. Of returning to solo work after two and a half decades, Butler says 'For a good while I was scarred and I was scared.

'Good Grief' is the first new solo album in 25 years from songwriter and producer Bernard Butler. Between then and now, Butler had ventured into the world of pop songwriting and producing, including two seminal albums with folk musician Sam Lee, a Mercury nominated project with actor Jessie Buckley as well as working with Bert Jansch and Ben Watt From Everything But The Girl, The Libertines, Tricky and an eight-million selling, Grammy-winning record with Duffy. Of returning to solo work after two and a half decades, Butler says 'For a good while I was scarred and I was scared.

Motor Totemist Guild – City of Mirrors (1999) is an album by Motor Totemist Guild, a band known for its eclectic blend of jazz, progressive rock, and experimental music. The group, led by Jeffrey L. Johnson, creates a unique fusion of avant-garde jazz and improvisation, layered with complex rhythms, atmospheric soundscapes, and intricate arrangements.

Caroline Leisegang occupies a unique place in the classical music scene in South Africa. Not only is she among the youngest classical composers in the country, and indeed internationally, but she recorded a self-penned album at the age of 24.

Matthew Ryan can write a song and make you feel it in no time at all. He’s got it; he understands the craft. And on this, his newest album, Boxers, he’s got a solid winner. His songwriting style is of someone who has lived and experienced reality – life’s good and bad sides; it never sounds forced or playing at being a lyricist. There is a purity in his songs that I haven’t found in a long time – and it’s welcome and refreshing. As is the emotion that’s wrung out of his voice, which at times reminded me of Paul Westerberg. The musicianship is masterful and the production by guitarist Kevin Salem (a legend in his own right and in my opinion) is top notch. Everything about this album is right.