Just Mustard - We Were Just Here - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2022 . Heart Under, Just Mustard's second album, asks you to forget what you know. At every turn, this remarkable record reconfigures and stretches the ideas and ambition of a rock band, and turns a year of lockdown and personal struggles into a breathtaking artistic statement. The music the five friends from Dundalk, Ireland make is strikingly untraditional. Though to look at them, it appears that the band are a five-piece with uniform make-up of a vocalist, two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer, not a single one of them utilizes their instrument in a confined or regular fashion. Guitarists David Noonan and Mete Kalyoncuoglu make their six-strings shriek and wail, the sounds produced sounding like everything from whirring machinery to horror movie monsters. Behind them, drummer Shane Maguire uses the rim of his drums almost as much as the skins, providing a clattering, metallic backbeat. Most of the melodies on offer poke through from Rob Clarke's inventive, nodding bass lines. Then there's Katie on vocals; she's the transfixing focal point of the band. Across it's 10 tracks, the album presents a coherent style and ethos ' those scything guitars, Katie's magical vocals ' but still incorporates a wide and untethered vision. There are brooding, atmospheric rock songs and others that apply a lighter, dreamier touch, all tied together with impeccable instrumentation and a united vision. 'Heart Under' serves as the next stage of this development, with every instrument brilliantly pushed to it's limit and every boundary of the band stretched.

Don't Forget It is the third album from Prophet, produced by Prophet himself. Prophet's cult following began from his 1984 album Right On Time, a record collector gem that was followed decades later by his 2018 album Wanna Be Your Man, produced by Mndsgn and released on Stones Throw Records. Fans of Prophet include Tyler The Creator, who sampled Prophet's InchWanna Be Your ManInch to create InchPEACH FUZZInch. Prophet produced and recorded this latest album in Los Angeles at Stones Throw Studios.1. Intro2. Don't Forget It3. Be the One for You4. In My Ear5. Do You Think6. Think about It7. Human Like8. Game to Make Love9. I Don't Care10. I Am I Is11. Come on Hard12. Diamond Ring13. Never the One for Me14. Don't Cry15. Whatever16. So Much Love

February 2018 sees the return of Field Music with their sixth album, Open Here. The two years since Commontime have been strange and turbulent. If you thought the world made some kind of sense, you may have questioned yourself a few times in the past two years. And that questioning, that erosion of faith - in people, in institutions, in shared experience - runs through every song on the new Field Music album. But there's no gloom here. For Peter and David Brewis, playing together in their small riverside studio has been a joyful exorcism. Open Here is the last in a run of five albums made at the studio, an unprepossessing unit on a light industrial estate in Sunderland. Whilst the brothers weren't quite tracking while the wrecking balls came, the eviction notice received in early 2017 gave the brothers a sense of urgency in the recording of Open Here.