Flicker

With 2020's The View from Halfway Down, Andy Bell finally stepped out as a solo artist after more than 30 years as an alt-rock visionary and one of shoegaze's key pathfinders.

Andy Bell's 'Flicker' is the sound of a musician known primarily in shoegaze/Britpop circles who decided to make a singer-songwriter album, and it's smashing.

The Ride guitarist's second solo outing is a joyous gateway drug to open-armed eclecticism, review by Barney Harsent