New releases for 4 October 2019

Here we go again with the biggest release week for plenty of months. Our distilled 6 this week start with All Mirrors, which tracks the artistic voyage of the wonderful Angel Olsen: her beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and…

New releases for 27 September 2019

This has been another cracking week for new releases where distilling the likely lads down to six proved a trial – still, here we go! Michaela Anne has long been lauded for her timeless voice and narrative depth, and Desert Dove takes that to the next level. The songwriting is confessional and unforgettable without being…

Pre-sale of the week: The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form, out 21 February

The 1975 have announced the follow-up to their Brit-Award winner A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The band’s fourth album, Notes On A Conditional Form, is already set to be the most anticipated album of 2020. It features the lead single ‘People’ and the Greta Thunberg call-to-arms album opener, ‘The 1975’. The band are working…

New releases for 20 September 2019

Autumn must surely be on its way – new releases are coming thick and fast again, and we had trouble narrowing it down to just six smashers for this week! We kick off with Why Me? Why Not, a clear upgrade on As You Were but not a radical departure from it, which will come…

New releases for 13 September 2019

The first of our recommendations this week come from The Lumineers, whose latest, III, is a concept album spanning three generations of a fictitious family known as the Sparks, with each of the three chapters focusing on one main character in the album’s storyline. III is audacious: every note, every syllable, and every moment of…

Pre-sale of the week: Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes, out 11 October

Giants Of All Sizes is the eighth studio album by English alternative-rock titans Elbow, and features guests including Jesca Hoop, The Plumedores and South London newcomer Chilli Chilton. Lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey describes the album as: “an angry, old blue lament which finds its salvation in family, friends, the band and new life.”…