New releases for 7 July 2017

A lovely batch of new releases due on 7/7 awaits, so let’s get to it! This Is The Kit follow up the critical and sales success of Bashed Out with Moonshine Freeze, an album that mixes a singer-songwriter outlook with an invigorating funk/indie/ folk sensibility. Melvins’ first double album, A Walk With Love & Death,…

New releases for 30 June 2017

30th June brings a fantastically diverse selection of new releases. Following on from their acclaimed debut Elaenia, Floating Points have created Reflections: Mojave Desert, an album inspired by and reflective of that singular location. Stone Sour’s Hydrograd is straight-ahead rock’n’roll; Corey Taylor says “It’s probably one of the best records we have done since the…

New releases for 23 June 2017

23 June brings us the following aural delights: Danny & The Champions Of The World’s sixth studio album, Brilliant Light, is more of the infectious country soul that makes them so beloved. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s second album of the year so far, Murder Of The Universe, posits as its main theme the…

New releases for 16 June 2017

Our batch of recommended releases for 16 June could well be our favourite of the year so far for its depth and quality. Crack-Up represents a real change for Fleet Foxes; instead of an expansive, sunny outlook we are ‘treated’ to a collection of inward-searching songs suffused with a bleak melancholy, resulting in a jarring,…

Pre-sale of the week: Arcade Fire – Everything Now (Night Version), out 28 July

Pre-sale of the week is Everything Now (Night Version) by Arcade Fire, out on 28 July. Everything Now was produced by Arcade Fire themselves, along with Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Pulp’s Steve Mackey, with co-production coming from Markus Dravs (Coldplay, Mumford & Sons). It was recorded at Boombox Studios in New Orleans, Sonovox Studios…

New releases for 9 June 2017

Our crackers out on 9 June start with Truth Is A Beautiful Thing, the follow-up to London Grammar’s critically acclaimed smash from 2013, If You Wait. Heartbreak is a bit different: Lady Antebellum rented a house together and wrote it while living under the same roof; the result is their most intimate and heartfelt work…