With the best bands, it seems to happen fast. The trajectory is steep, the progression seemingly preordained, inexorable. Assembling while still at college in Dublin a mere three years ago, from the ruins of early nowhere bands, and having discovered a shared love of poetry and a common zeal for authentic self-expression, the evolution of…
Our gems for with this week start with Skylight, the follow-up to Pinegrove’s widely acclaimed 2016 breakthrough album, Cardinal. The band’s classic American melodies and emotionally direct lyrics blend seamlessly with alt-country instrumentation. The songs swing between wider extremes – whisper to full-belt and back again, treading mid-air – and Pinegrove say exactly and full-throatedly…
Saturday 23 February sees us welcome William The Conqueror to promote their second album, Bleeding On The Soundtrack. Click below to hear the title song. Bleeding On The Soundtrack is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical albums which began with 2017’s Proud Disturber Of The Peace, a sublime record that captured frontman Ruarri Joseph’s…
These New Puritans, the great heretics of British music, return with Inside The Rose, their first new studio recording since 2013’s critically acclaimed album Field Of Reeds. We’re offering Inside The Rose at special pre-sale prices, which won’t be available after release. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
Our recommendations from this week’s releases start with Mercury Rev’s reimagination of Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 album The Delta Sweete, a psychedelic record depicting a Mississippi of hot biscuits, genteel table manners and working-class sense suddenly overturned by a grave sinning and suicide. Carried on an evening breeze of strings and a supple, foreboding voice…
Note: this release has now been postponed indefinitely.
We lead off this week’s recommended new releases with The Specials, one of the most electrifying, influential and important bands of all time, who release Encore, their first new music for 37 years. 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Specials and the legendary Two-Tone label in Coventry in 1979, and also…
After more than a decade in the game, Foals again embrace that love for the unconventional with the bravest and most ambitious project of their career: not one, but two astonishing new albums: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. A pair of releases, separate but related, they share a title, themes and artwork. Part 1…
Our six crackers for this week start with Nocturne – The Piano Album, a soothing collection of solo piano pieces by Vangelis, recorded in his inimitable style. The album features 11 new tracks as well as brand-new versions of iconic hits ‘Chariots of Fire’ and the ‘Love Theme’ from Blade Runner. Nocturne is Vangelis’s first…
We last heard from Lucy Rose with the release of 2017’s Something’s Changing, a record that heralded a new outlook for a musician re-evaluating what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it. If Something’s Changing was an artist rediscovering their voice, No Words Left is Lucy using that voice to devastating…