This week's latest and greatest…
Pete Tong With The Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley — Ibiza Classics (Universal)
Vanguard of the British dance scene for the best part of three decades, DJ Pete Tong's decks have had the power to anoint the greatness potential classics deserve to the masses. So, following his first ecstatically received classical-splashed live celebration of club favourites last year, here Tong heads to the studio for more.
U2 — Songs Of Experience (Island/Universal)
U2 are a band that have always traded in grand gestures, yet at their finest and most self-defining moments, they've always tempered the pretension with mystery, mood or atmosphere. The spacious textures of the Daniel Lanois-indebted The Joshua Tree, the emotive post-punk chime and sparkle of those early singles and the dark grooves of Achtung Baby all showed a creative and experimental group who, on Songs Of Experience, prove once again that their best days are 20 years in the rearview mirror.
And the rest of the releases…
Alien Stadium — Livin’ In Elizabethan Times (Double Six/Domino)
Andy Grammer — The Good Parts (S-Curve/Liberator)
Chris Stapleton — From A Room: Volume 2 (Mercury Nashville/Universal)
Eat Your Heart Out — Mind Games (Fearless/Caroline)
Five Finger Death Punch — A Decade Of Destruction (Eleven Seven/Sony)
Meliorist — ii (Independent)
Miguel — War & Leisure (RCA/Sony)
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real — The Visitor (Reprise/Warner)
Nipsey Hussle — Victory Lap (Atlantic/Warner)
The Rolling Stones — The Rolling Stones: On Air (Polydor/Universal)
Van Morrison — Versatile (Caroline)
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