Favourite Five Recent Releases
Five of the best albums from the recent postings at Elsewhere. Music too good to let slide into the archives. The Elsewhere place if you're looking for a quick fix.
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Hayden Chisholm, Jonathan Crayford: Release And Return (Rattle/digital outlets)
17 Mar 2025 | 1 min read
In this country's numerically small but busy jazz community, this album was almost inevitable: two mid-career performers sensitively enjoying each other's company. Both players have appeared many times but separately at Elsewhere: alto saxophonist Chisholm here, pianist Crayford here. But we could find no album of them together, which makes this album of seven duets especially welcome.... > Read more
JC Ballad
RECOMMENDED RECORD: Reb Fountain: How Love Bends (digital and vinyl)
17 Mar 2025 | 2 min read
From time to time Elsewhere will single out a recent release we recommend on vinyl, like this which comes in a gatefold sleeve with lyrics and a bonus seven inch single of her versions of How Bizarre (see below) and the country classic The Gambler. Check out Elsewhere's other Recommended Record picks . . . . Those of us who have followed Reb Fountain from her early appearances in... > Read more
Come Down
RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Nico: Chelsea Town Hall, Live (digital outlets)
14 Mar 2025 | 1 min read
Recorded in 1985, released in '92 as Chelsea Girl/Live and now reissued (CD and vinyl), this often startling concert caught the Velvet Underground chanteuse three years before her death and, although having been ravaged by the effects of heroin, in remarkably fine form. In her own way. Her final album Camera Obscura (produced by longtime supporter John Cale) provided the opener... > Read more
Tananore
THE LAST HURRAH (2025): Martin Phillipps' last Chills album
10 Mar 2025 | 3 min read
David Bowie knew his end was coming and so his final album blackstar – released on his 69th birthday and just two days before he died – contained references to his impending departure. Leonard Cohen's posthumous Thanks for the Dance in 2019, released three years after his death, may come with a title like a farewell note but the songs were part of his on-going writing.... > Read more
Juicy Creaming Soda
Father John Misty: Mahāśmaśāna (digital outlets)
25 Nov 2024 | 2 min read | 1
The first three singles released in advance of this new album by Josh Tillman (Father John Misty) were so majestic they seemed to herald something special on his sixth album Mahāśmaśāna, which apparently means “the great cremation ground” in Sanskrit. There was the heroic, seven minute Screamland (with Low's Alan Sparhawk on guitar) which offered “and you could say... > Read more