This week we’ve gathered a full set of 6 lovelies to recommend to you. We start with Temples, who return with their third album, Hot Motion: a brilliantly crafted, thoughtfully recorded collection. The album’s propulsive, seemingly immediate songs soon reveal an impressive depth of ideas and energy with subsequent listens – as its title warns,…
There are some super new releases for 1 September, and we start of our 8 recommendations with LCD Soundsystem, one of the more surprising returns this year with American Dream, an album with a languid, synth-based groove underpinning some of James Murphy’s most emotive vocals yet. Synth-pop pioneers OMD release their 13th album, The Punishment…
Friday brought the latest in a line of fabulous live music in store, when the multi-award-winning trio Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr took time out of their touring schedule to play at Hundred Records. These three acknowledged masters of their trade roared through six songs taken largely from their latest CD, Murmurs, to…
I am delighted to be able to announce two forthcoming in-store performances during June: First up, Larkin Poe will be appearing at 2pm on Saturday 20th June. They are currently supporting Elvis Costello on his UK tour. Wikipedia describes them as an American roots rock duo who feature strong southern harmonies, heavy electric guitar riffs,…
Album of the week is Ten Songs from Live at Carnegie Hall by Ryan Adams, and there are new albums from Muse, Of Monsters & Men and Tremonti, plus debuts from collaboration projects FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) and Simpson/Cutting/Kerr (Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr), Leftfield’s first release for 16 years, and a…