art pop

Sting (support: Girlband!), Sting 3.0 tourSaturday, August 1, 2026Arena / Pula / Croatia "Sting on autopilot, cabaret-style" My wife and I both pretty much love Sting and The Police, so there was no need to agonize or weigh the…

Duran DuranSaturday, 11 July 2026, 9:00 PM – 10:50 PMPassariano di Codroipo (Udine) / Villa Manin / Italy Duran Duran are today one of the rare bands that count among the surviving representatives of '80s pop rock, still recording…

Label: ZKP RTV SlovenijaRelease date: 11. 12. 2024Genre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 9.0/10Buy the CD!Buy the 2LP! Whenever you look back at the magical body of work by Avtomobili, one of the central bands that shaped the face of…

Label: Club2 RecordsRelease date: March 13, 2023Production: Jernej Križič (track 1), Uwe Bossert (tracks 2, 3 and 9), Denis Horvat (track 4), Dominik Bagola - Balladero (tracks 5, 6 and 7), Enos Kugler (tracks 6 and 7), Martin Štibernik…

Label: ZKP RTV SLORelease date: September 20, 2022Production: Mirko Vuksanović & David ŠuligojAlbum length: 49:09 minGenre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 9.5/10 Avtomobili are rumbling again. On a night drive in a camper van,…

Label: The Players Club/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: 2/26/2021Production: Joseph WilliamsAlbum length: 50.23 minGenre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 8.5/10 Joseph Williams hardly needs an in-depth introduction. The son of famed film…

Label: Cherry Red RecordsRelease date: Feb. 5, 2021 (digital) / March 26, 2021 (vinyl, CD/DVD)Production: Chris BraideAlbum length: 63:30 minGenre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 8.5/10 Downes Braide Association is a partnership between…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: September 4, 2020Production: Robbie BronnimannAlbum length: 59.34 minGenre: Art Pop/Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Simon Collins is the son of the legendary Phil Collins. I'm opening with…

"The album »Beautiful Disasters« plugs very successfully into the global (new) pop soul and indie rock aesthetic, with its confessional »conglomerate of homegrown originality« setting the tone and giving it a clear, unburdened streak of…

"“Stoletni ples” is a magnificent album from a mature band. It took a good while to make, but the payoff is an exceptional level of polish and refinement. In these songs you can feel the band's real power and their by now “folk-classic”,…

Label: RCARelease date: December 17, 1971Production: Ken Scott & David BowieAlbum length: 41.50 minGenre: Art pop / Pop rockRating: 9.0/10 The art-rock gem “Hunky Dory” may well be the most important achievement in the career of…

"With "Duke", a huge hit worldwide and their first "gold" album on the UK charts, Genesis made a very good record. It sails successfully between prog and pop, and it still has enough progressive elements that it doesn't water down into a…