Oar is a spectacular achievement of truth and beauty, an example of raw emotion reduced to its purest form.

Mark Protus goes from hard rock to country without flinching.

A nice EP offering 3 quite different tracks.

Echo Orbiter have made a good record that uses a lot of old tricks, but in relatively new ways.

A collection of stark, regretful vignettes of longing, loneliness, broken dreams, and haunting memories.

Badly Drawn Boy seems to look for any excuse to break the conventional song set-up.

This visually striking martial arts fantasy is ultimately about the consequences of putting individual desires before all else.