This week’s featured new releases are: Green Lung Necropolitan One of the best rock bands out there, and going from strength to strength. Think Sabbath but younger and you are there. Excellent live, too. Gone are the days of seeing them in small venues. Really looking forward to this one, even if I will…
This hotly anticipated 18-track live album of previously unreleased recordings captures George Michael at the height of his powers. The incredible live performances from the iconic 1988 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy stop on his first solo concert tour feature hits from Faith including ‘Father Figure’, ‘One More Try’, ‘I Want Your Sex’…
Here are our featured new releases for this week: Arab Strap Half-Told Tales Ninth album from Scotland’s Arab Strap. Electro rock. Good stuff, and our release of the week. Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five (30th Anniversary) A reissue of their debut that includes an extra LP containing the legendary first attempt at…
Queens of the Stone Age have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound; it’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the…
Here are our featured new releases for this week: Steve Hackett & Steve Rothery The Roaring Waves Two guitar greats from the prog world combine for their first album together. Expect greatness and achingly beautiful guitar solos. Mastodon Marrow Deep Big riffs, crushing in parts. It’s Mastodon. It’s great! Prince Timeless Ten…
Dopamine Chamber is the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril – and what our pursuit of it…
This week’s featured new releases are: Weezer Weezer Self-titled as always, but known by the colour of the album – Gold. Sounds like Weezer, no new ground being broken here, but why fix something that isn’t broken! Antony Szmierek Decoding Birdsong Electronic and spoken word. Works well. Almost ’90s dance/rave music in feel.…
Second Song album brings together seven previously unreleased songs written by Young. Semi-acoustic in feel, it sits alongside earlier touchstones in his catalogue like Comes a Time and Prairie Wind, with a reflective, open-hearted sound that feels close, lived-in and deeply human. Across these songs, Young looks at the past, present and future…
Here are our featured new releases for this week: Phoebe Bridgers Lost Weekend Seems to be a bit of a buzz around this third album from the singer-songwriter, and the track available is pretty good. Carly Simon Comes in Waves New music from Carly Simon. It’s been a while! This is currently only…
One of the Beatles’ absolute classics, which regularly features high up on lists of the best albums ever created, get a half-speed mastered reissue on various formats. The 5-LP + 7″ super-deluxe box set includes a 26-track collection of sessions recordings that includes early versions of songs that deepen and expand the story…
