Albums of the Year 2024 - Number 71

The cult songwriter’s follow up to critically acclaimed album Dear Scott (one of our Albums of the Year in 2022) is an elegant, personal, and evocative collection of songs, produced once again by Bill Ryder-Jones at the former Coral lead-guitarist’s Yawn Studios. It is with genuine delight that we witness a continued streak of glorious musicianship from the Liverpudlian. As he extends his rich back catalogue with Loophole, Head only reaffirms the strikingly characterful charm that’s kept us all coming back for more than 40 years. - Emily, Rough Trade Office | Albums of the Year So Far 2024

62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days, and longer, darker nights are vividly recalled by ‘our greatest living songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album, Loophole, released on Modern Sky. 12 evocative and autobiographical songs to be accompanied by the written word as Michael Head prepares his memoirs for release with an autobiography with Nine Eight Books.