TOM GRENNAN: Evering Road (Insanity) Verdict: On the right track Rating: LAKE STREET DIVE: Obviously (Nonesuch) Verdict: America’s best kept secret Rating: GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVID RAWLINGS: All The Good Times (Acony) Verdict: Grammy-worthy lockdown tunes Rating: There’s no better vehicle for a budding blue-eyed soul singer than a break-up record, and Tom Grennan ticks … Read more
Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio excited fans when he shared the first clue about the plot of season six to Twitter. Uploading a snap of a packet of the Australian chocolate biscuits TimTams with the caption ‘#LineofDuty Series 6 Plot Clue No. 1’, fans began to ferociously speculate as to what it might mean. But … Read more
ALICE COOPER: Detroit Stories (Earmusic) Rating: Verdict: Hometown glory WILLIE NELSON: That’s Life (Legacy) Rating: Verdict: Touching tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes JULIEN BAKER: Little Oblivions (Matador) Rating: Verdict: Classy confessional pop He became famous for a stage show that features live snakes and guillotines dripping with fake blood. But underneath the theatrical horror, Alice … Read more
DAVID GRAY: Skellig (Laugh A Minute) Rating: Verdict: Windswept and dramatic SG LEWIS: Times (PMR) Rating: Verdict: Kitchen dance party EDIE BRICKELL & NEW BOHEMIANS: Hunter And The Dog Star (Thirty Tigers) Rating: Verdict: Pop with bark and bite When David Gray topped the charts with his fourth album White Ladder two decades ago, he was … Read more
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