In These Silent Days, the highly anticipated new studio album from six-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer and producer Brandi Carlile, is inspired by the mining of her own history while writing the best-selling memoir Broken Horses. The album was conceived of while Carlile was quarantined at home with longtime collaborators and bandmates Tim and…
With temperatures soaring out there, we’ve got some beautifully cool new music for you this week. Stand For Myself is the anthemic new album from Yola. Produced by Dan Auerbach, the record is a timeless masterpiece marking an idiosyncratic sonic shift: a sophisticated and diverse sonic mix of symphonic soul and classic pop, tracing an…
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Beloved indie heroes We Are Scientists return with news of their first album in 3 years. The intoxicating Huffy ushers in a bold new chapter for the band. The album is the band’s most hit-tastic albums to date with the inclusion of recently acclaimed bangers ‘I Cut My Own Hair’ and ‘Fault Lines’ alongside new…
This week’s six of the best starts with Gold-Diggers Sound, the new album from Leon Bridges. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles studio of the same name, and it celebrates Leon’s immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked, and drank…
Things Take Time, Take Time is an assured leap forward for Courtney Barnett; a breakthrough really. This is Barnett at her most relaxed, creative and joyful. An exquisite look at the intimate, private world created by Barnett and her producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile). It’s consequently her most beautiful and intimate…
Our star picks for this week start with Stephen Fretwell, who returns after an absence of 13 years with his long-awaited third album, Busy Guy. Described by Fretwell as “a song cycle of sorts”, the album examines the seasons of a life, exploring fatherhood, grief and rebirth with Fretwell’s trademark eloquence and wit. Busy Guy…
This extraordinary performance was a first for Paul Weller, performing with a full orchestra, and saw a quintessential selection of his vast catalogue exquisitely reworked and updated into 75 minutes of breath-taking music that was broadcast by the BBC. The set list includes classic tracks from The Jam, Style Council and Paul’s solo career. It…
We start our round-up of the best new releases with a look ahead to 16th July. Sob Rock is the eighth full-length studio album from John Mayer. Most of the album was recorded during the global pandemic of 2020–21, and was produced by Mayer with Don Was. John Mayer emerged in 2001 has sold over…