New releases for 19 June 2026

Our release of the week is the one we’ve had the most pre-orders for:   The Hanging Stars – Just a Day A summery sound featuring harmonies and chiming 12-string guitars, and full of well crafted pop songs.   Joe Bonamassa – The Spirit of Rory – Live from Cork Current blues maestro does late…

Pre-sale of the week: Interpol – This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out 28 August

  The band use distortion and perception as a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light. Synthesisers, strings, acoustic guitars and percussion are integrated into the fabric of the songs, expanding the palette while revealing colours already latent within it, resulting in…

New releases for 12 June 2026

Here are our featured new releases for this week:   Angine de Poitrine – Vol. II Do you like bonkers-looking bands and music featuring microtonal guitar tunings and weird time signatures (think King Crimson or even King Gizzard)? You do? I certainly do! Then this is for you. Having recently taken the internet by storm…

New releases for 15 May 2026

This week’s featured new releases are:   Bruce Soord – Ghosts in the Park Written while touring with The Pineapple Thief, this reflects on loss, memory and the quiet spaces that reveal themselves when life continues to move while everything else appears to stop.   Peter Frampton – Carry the Light 50 years since Frampton…

Pre-sale of the week: The Rolling Stones – Foreign Tongues, out 10 July

    This incredibly vibrant album was brought to life in under a month at Metropolis Studios in West London, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood reuniting with Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt. It also includes a special appearance from Charlie Watts, captured during one of his final recording sessions before his passing in…

New releases for 8 May 2026

Here are our featured new releases for this week:   Aldous Harding – Train on the Island Co-produced by long-time collaborator John Parish at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth and featuring Joe Harvey-Whyte, Mali Llywelyn, Thomas Poli, Seb Rochford and Huw Evans.   Submotion Orchestra – Passed Me By A journey into memory, creativity and the…