Pre-sale of the week: The Waterboys – Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, out 4 April

Mike Scott and The Waterboys created Life, Death and Dennis Hopper as tribute to one of American popular culture’s most compelling public figures. Deeply conceptual, this expansive album of original songs was inspired entirely by the life and mythos of the actor, and brings together high-profile featured artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple and…

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.…

Pre-sale of the week: Neil Young – Oceanside Countryside, out 14 February

Oceanside Countryside is the latest of the great ‘lost’ albums to be released as part of Neil Young’s Analog Original Series (AOS). The album was recorded from May to December 1977, preceding the release of Comes a Time in 1978, and shares the same country/folk sound. The LP of Oceanside Countryside includes, for the first…