A third guitarist changes a band’s angle. Santa Claws put that fact at the centre of "Sands Of Time". The Brittany five-piece return with a self-produced second album. Crunchy guitars, close arrangements and rich analogue texture fill its frame. It draws on 1990s rock energy. However, the current lineup brings a clear point of view. This "Sands Of Time" album review starts with the expanded formation:...

Before you can even properly settle into Tim Camrose’s new single, “Going to Nashville,” your mind gets delightfully snagged on the backstory. For forty years, this man was a surgeon and a professor—a life measured in scalpels and lecture halls, not chord progressions. It’s impossible not to picture those same steady hands, once dedicated to mending human bodies, now tracing the frets of a...