Pre-sale of the week: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies, out 26 April

Sit back and strap yourself in as seven-headed Aussie rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with Fishing For Fishies, perhaps their most perfectly realised album to date. Here is a world where the organic meets the automated; where the rustic meets the robotic; where the past and future collide in the beautiful…

New releases for 22 March 2019

Leading off our top picks for this week is an album that wasn’t meant to happen – in fact, the band promised each other it wouldn’t! In spite of that, Sleeper release their first album in 21 years, so they clearly didn’t listen to each other. The Modern Age is the outward-facing sound of a…

Pre-sale of the week: The National – I Am Easy To Find, out 17 May

The National’s new album, I Am Easy To Find, is the band’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s Grammy-award winning Sleep Well Beast. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. As the album’s opening track, ‘You Had Your Soul With You,’ unfurls,…

New releases for 15 March 2019

Our selection of treats from the week’s releases start with a collaboration between stars from two different two genres of music – Karen O, lead singer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and super-producer Danger Mouse, who has worked with pretty much every musician ever – who have teamed up to make Lux Prima, on which they…

New releases for 8 March 2019

There are some great new releases coming up this week. We start off with Foals, a band that has had a remarkable trajectory, from playing chaotic house parties in their home city of Oxford to becoming major festival headliners across Europe. And while the majority of their contemporaries have fallen by the wayside, Foals continue…

Exclusive releases for Record Store Day 2019

Unbelievably Record Store Day 2019 is just six weeks away, on Saturday 13 April. And the list of incredible exclusive releases has just been announced! It’s an monster list once again, with more than 500 items exclusively available, a wealth for music lovers of all descriptions. Click here for a full list of RSD exclusive…

Pre-sale of the week: Aldous Harding – Designer, out 26 April

After the sleeper success of the internationally lauded Party, Aldous Harding came off a 100-date tour last summer and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with Party’s producer John Parish, Harding spent 15 days recording and 10 days mixing at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth and Bristol’s J&J…

New releases for 1 March 2019

Our first recommendation of the week is actually out the week before! Lines is a trilogy of song cycles from The Unthanks, each with a very different subject but each using poetry to focus on a different female perspective: actor Maxine Peake has written lines about fishermen’s rights campaigner Lillian Bilocca; the lines for World…