Dropout Boogie will be released one day before the twentieth anniversary of The Black Keys’ first album, The Big Come Up. As they have done their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a number of first takes that…
A Bit Of Previous is the tenth studio album by Belle & Sebastian and their first full-length in seven years. This may be surprising to anyone following the recent life pursuits of the Glasgow 7-piece: a trilogy of EPs; a soundtrack for the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird; The Boaty Weekender – a…
We kick of this week’s releases with Keep On With Falling, the first album of all-new music in 24 years from The Boo Radleys, whose reformation earlier this year got a hugely warm welcome. Rising from cult-shoegaze band to the very forefront of British guitar pop inside one eventful decade, The Boo Radleys began their…
When Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin, one of the most vital new voices in rock, began to consider the themes of her new album, three vivid words began to emerge: joy, fear and endlessness. The artwork of the band’s third full-length, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky, is a surreal image that evokes the ducks…
We kick off this week’s sparkling six with Oochya!, the brand new studio album by Stereophonics, which features 15 tracks including the brand new single ‘Hanging On Your Hinges’. As Stereophonics celebrate 25 years as one of the UK’s most loved bands, Kelly Jones continues to cement his place amongst the great British songwriters with…
On his major label debut album, Kurt Vile pulls his talents as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer in unexpected directions – and the result is a vibrant, yet meditative record propelled by laid-back charm and curious spirit. Note: The LP is available on limited-edition green vinyl. Click here for more details and to order…
We kick off this week’s best with a quick reminder about Nightroamer, the third album from country-punks Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, which was delayed from last week but which definitely deserves your attention. Fever Dreams Pts 1 – 4 was created during the long, uncertain period that followed the arrival of the UK’s first…
Everything Everything, nominated twice for the Mercury Prize and five times for Ivor Novello awards and critically acclaimed, bring us their latest studio album, Raw Data Feel, on which they set about revolutionising modern pop music. Lyricits Jonathan Higgs abandons his brain and lets technology do at least some of the thinking, feeding LinkedIn T&Cs,…
Our six Valentines to you start with Nightroamer, the third album from Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, a North Carolina band who merge raw country with punk grit and pop sensibilities. They make straightforward, undiluted songs about shared hardships and unlikely victories that can bring even the most polarised people together: “We are not responsible…
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, Unlimited Love, marks their first recording with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006 and first with producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin since 2011. “Our only goal is to get lost in the music. We [John, Anthony, Chad and Flea] spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft…