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A. Lee Edwards “Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. I”

February 4, 2025 Daisy Innes 0

A reflective, confident, country record from an artist with decades of musical life-experience. There’s somewhat of a distinction within country music between songs that are songs, and songs that are tales, and on solo debut album “Interpreting […]

David Luximon “A Certain Frame of Reference”

February 4, 2025 Clint West 0

Scottish singer-songwriter impresses on second album. David Luximon is a musician and songwriter based in Perthshire Scotland. This, his second album, was self-produced and recorded with the help of Creative Scotland. The album explores Luximon’s transition […]

AUK Short Cuts: Sequoia Rose, Everett Wren, Old Lost John, The Red Barn, Rooster Blackspur, Sara Bug, Hollowsage & the Three Mile Islanders, Tessio, The Popravinas! and Gabriel Minnikin

February 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

Live Review: Lloyd Cole, The Barbican, London – 25th January 2025

February 3, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0

Upon opening the Barbican Centre on 3 March 1982, the Queen remarked that it is “one of the wonders of the modern world”. That remains a moot point, however, it can’t be denied that the centre […]

Adrian Crowley “Measure of Joy”

February 3, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0

Adrian Crowley returns with a brooding collection of songs. Four years after ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’, Adrian Crowley returns with his 10th studio offering, the John Parish-produced ‘Measure of Joy’. What is immediately striking […]