Thom Yorke announces a new album, Anima. The LP versions are pressed on 180g orange vinyl in a wide-spine single sleeve with an additional 10th track, ‘Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You For Coming’, plus a download card. The deluxe 2-LP version is packaged in a beautiful hardback book containing both the lyrics and many strange…
As we approach the height of summer and the release schedule slows, we’ve distilled our recommendations for this week down to 4, with each taken from a different genre. Kylie belongs to that elite group of pop stars who need just the one name to be recognised. Now with decades of hits under her belt,…
Good things come to those who wait: and so, this summer, Liam Gallagher returns with a new single, a documentary film, a Glastonbury performance, and, most importantly, a second solo album: Why Me? Why Not. The rest of 2019 will be a bonanza for fans of the one-time Oasis singer. One man is very happy…
We start our hot six for this week with Originals, the latest archive release from Prince, which presents his own versions of the songs he wrote for other artists. From ‘Manic Monday’ through to ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, this collection of previously unreleased recordings demonstrates again, as if there’s anyone who would doubt it, the…
Bat For Lashes – aka Natasha Khan – releases her fifth studio album. Lost Girls is the latest brilliant full-length in Khan’s incredible, acclaimed discography, mixing sounds she’s always loved – heavy bass lines, synth arpeggios, Iranian pop beats, cascading choruses – with some of her finest songwriting to date. It’s an album full of…
This week’s six of the best start with Doom Days, the grippingly confident third album from Bastille. This is a record of hope for turbulent times that sees the Grammy-nominated, Brit-winning four-piece stretch out and open up like never before. Doom Days marks something of a shift in perception from its widely acclaimed No.1 predecessor,…
Wildwood Kin is the self-titled second studio album from the West-Country trio: sisters Emillie and Beth and their cousin Meghann. The album is self-titled because it captures the band’s artistic vision so completely. The most striking thing about the album is just how natural it sounds: it is a beautifully reflective body of work, characterised…