New releases for 7 February 2025

The first of this week’s six crackers is Polari – a pop album for the ages, looking back on history as a means to learn more about ourselves. Olly Alexander’s first album under his own name takes as its primary inspiration the (almost) lost art of speaking polari. After a decade releasing music as Years…

Pre-sale of the week: Self Esteem – A Complicated Woman, out 25 April

Self Esteem returns with her third studio album, A Complicated Woman. It’s a big, bold and poptastic statement. A Complicated Woman is her first album since the Brit and Mercury-nominated Prioritise Pleasure – crowned The Guardian and Sunday Times Culture’s Album of the Year. Note: The LP is initially available on red vinyl with a…

Pre-sale of the week: Steven Wilson – The Overview, out 14 March

Steven Wilson’s eighth studio album, The Overview, is his most audacious to date, inspired by the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts looking back at the Earth from space. The two track, forty-two-minute album sees Wilson return to expansive, progressive music, a genre he helped redefine and repopularise with both his solo and Porcupine Tree releases.…

New releases for 24 January 2025

The new releases are starting to come thick and fast now. Here are our picks for next week. First out of the bag is Larkin Poe’s new album, Bloom, which sees the dynamic sister duo venturing further along on their evolving musical journey with a collection of songs that resonate with introspection, authenticity and a…