New releases for 17 February 2023

We break open this week’s bag of beauties with Optical Delusion, the new album from legendary electronic music duo Orbital. The Hartnoll brothers’ first studio album since 2018’s Monsters Exist was recorded in Orbital’s Brighton studio and includes contributions from Sleaford Mods, Penelope Isles, Anna B Savage, The Little Pest, Dina Ipavic, Coppe, and –…

New releases for 15 July 2022

We’ve got some crackers for you this week, starting with black midi’s new album, Hellfire, which is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet, building on the melodic and harmonic elements of last year’s Cavalcade while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. Full of songs created in the shadow of terror…

New releases for 14 September 2018

It’s a vintage week, and our smashers start with Paul Weller’s fourteenth solo album, True Meanings, a record unlike any he has ever made before. It’s characterised by grandiose yet delicate, lush orchestration: an aesthetic to which Paul’s better-than-ever voice, singing some of his most nakedly honest words, is perfectly suited. Turning 60 this year…