Reviews

The desert rockers soak up some New Orleans spirit, with refreshing results...

The Queen Of Versailles introduces us to David and Jackie Siegel, an American family struggling to cope in the aftermath of the global recession. David, 73, is the founder, CEO and president of Westgate Resorts – “the largest privately owned timeshare company in the world”.

Bob Dylan’s fantastic new album opens with a train song. Given the wrath to come and the often elemental ire that accompanies it, not to mention all the bloodshed, madness, death, chaos and assorted disasters that will shortly be forthcoming, you may be surprised that what’s clattering along the tracks here isn’t the ominous engine of a slow train coming, a locomotive of doom and retribution, souls wailing in a caboose crowded with the forlorn damned and other people like them.

“Sometimes you gotta go get mad!” The full gang reconvene in Baltimore for a feral but friendly ninth...

Beautifully measured return to the studio from this humble master of English song...

Real life slice of Texan noir...

From the beginning the Kinks’ career was intimately entwined with the BBC. In the year following the August 1964 success of “You Really Got Me” the band were called in to record eight radio sessions, broadcast to the nation and around the world. When the BBC commissioned Ray Davies to write topical tunes for shows like The 11th Hour and Where Was Spring?, we got the first inkling of the Kinks’ future direction, somewhere between Dennis Potter and Lionel Bart.

Alt.folkie calms down, but still delivers some classics...

Ryland’s points a righteous finger at the “deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar”...

Soundtrack album, from Hazlewood’s mysterious exile in Sweden...