There are some fabulous new releases for 26 May. We don’t usually include reissues in our top releases, but the 50th anniversary issue of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is a bit different! One of the most important albums in pop history has been remixed and reimagined for its birthday, and includes never-before-released takes.…
Pre-sale of the week is Sleep Well Beast by The National, out on 8 September. Sleep Well Beast, the seventh album from The National, is out on the 8th of September. Produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger, Sleep Well Beast was mixed by Peter Katis and recorded at…
There are some great new albums out on 19 May. We’ve seen Jane Weaver’s new album, Modern Kosmology, described as full of unwaning psychoactive pop energy – what greater recommendation can there be than that? One More Light is different from any other Linkin Park release; we get an unobstructed view into what makes the…
Pre-sale of the week is Brilliant Light by Danny & The Champions Of The World, out on 23 June. Brilliant Light, the follow-up to 2015’s award-winning What Kind Of Love, features 18 songs over two discs. The song ‘Swift Street’, which has been released to preview the album, is deeply personal to Danny George Wilson,…
There are six mighty recommended releases out on 12 May. The Chris Robinson Brotherhood release their third album in the past 6 months, Betty’s Blends Volume 3, which captures the CRB at their very best during a set of live shows in southern USA. Paramore’s fifth studio album, After Laughter, comes after a 4-year wait…
The new release juggernaut rolls on relentlessly, and we’ve got 8 mighty fine albums released on 5 May to recommend to you. From A Room: Volume 1 is Chris Stapleton’s follow-up to the hugely successful Traveller, produced by the fast-becoming-legendary Dave Cobb; if you like modern country, start here! Kasabian have stuffed For Crying Out…
Pre-sale of the week is Weather Diaries by Ride, out on 16 June. Ride release their first album in over twenty years! Produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, Weather Diaries is packed with all the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early ’90s. Trembling distortion, beautiful…
The new release schedule starts to pick up again after Record Store Day, and there are some beauties due for release on 28 April. Gorillaz return with their fifth album, their first since 2011; Humanz explores deep house, hip-hop, funk and soul. Mark Lanegan’s new album Gargoyle features his 50-fathom-deep voice and was created in…
Pre-sale of the week is Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, out on 9 June. Planetarium is a concept album that occasionally gives way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward. The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space, but the interior…
Even with Record Store Day the following day, there are some fine releases due out on 21 April. Here are some particularly worthy of attention. Ray Davies’ Americana is his first solo album for nearly a decade. The album is a hymn to the importance of America to Ray throughout his life, and one of…