There’s a strong opener to our recommendations for 2024: Little Rope (out 19 Jan) is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent: it careens head-first into flaw and brokenness, a meditation on what living in a world…
The Bill Fay Group is Fay’s most significant collaborative work; on Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow, he recorded as a member of a larger group, and the result summons a grander sonic scale, an elegent counterweight to Fay’s instincts for the understated. Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow brings to bear the galactic qualities of early rock, the…
After conquering the charts and claiming the number one trophy last time out with What’s Rock and Roll?, Sheffield sensations The Reytons are back with their third full-length album, Ballad of a Bystander. “We’re once again releasing 100% independently, with no label backing. Let’s get out there and do it all again! #AllReytons” Note: The…
To combat your post-Christmas blues, why not join us for our traditional enormous annual sale, with loads of records from just a fiver and 25% off everything else! The sale will run in store from 10am on Thursday 28th December until 4pm on Saturday 30th December. We will then light up 25% off storewide on…
Just to let you know that our opening hours over Christmas and New Year are: Until Saturday 23 December: as normal Sunday 24 December to Wednesday 27 December: closed Thursday 28 December to Saturday 30 December: 10am to 4pm Sunday 31 December to Tuesday 2 January: closed From Wednesday 3 January: normal hours resume
When Bob Vylan won the first MOBO award for Best Alternative Music Act in 2022, the punk-grime duo took to the stage and used the platform to speak about how they managed to achieve the impossible as independent artists in a genre-defying space. “We released an album this year that we produced entirely, mixed entirely,…
Here’s our last batch of recommended releases for 2023, due out in the next couple of weeks. In 2022, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis returned to their native Australia for 16 shows, taking their acclaimed 2021 album Carnage on the road, along with songs from the Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds catalogue. Three performances…
Record Store Day’s Black Friday is less than a week away! Click here for a full list of Black Friday exclusive releases. We’ll have a good selection in the shop from 10am, and what is left will be available on our webshop from 7pm.
Wall of Eyes is the new album from The Smile, the supergroup consisting of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with jazz percussionist Tom Skinner. The album was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, and was produced and mixed Sam Petts-Davies. It features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra. The album is the…
Well, it’s that time of year again – Saturday 18 November will, rather unbelievably, be the ninth anniversary of the shop opening! As we have done in previous years we will be holding a one-day flash sale on that day, with loads of records from £5 and with 30% off everything in the shop.