Pre-sale of the week: Wolf Alice – The Clearing, out 29 August

  The Clearing, the brand new album from Wolf Alice, was written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA in 2024 with Grammy-winning master producer Greg Kurstin. The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion. Note: The LP is initially…

Pre-sale of the week: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts – Talkin to the Trees, out 13 June

  Talkin to the Trees, the debut album from Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts, is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. ‘Big Change’, the first song from the album, has a message that leaves no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times. The Chrome Hearts are: Spooner…

Pre-sale of the week: Alison Goldfrapp – Flux, out 15 August

  Alison Goldfrapp, the creative force behind some of the most captivating music of the past two-and-a-half decades, releases Flux, her second album following 2023’s critically-adored The Love Invention. Alison stands on a precipice of new experiences in more ways than one. Launched with the joybomb of a single, ‘Find Xanadu’, the album showcases some…

Pre-sale of the week: Benson Boone – American Heart, out 20 June

  Following his electrifying Coachella headline set with the legendary Brian May, Benson Boone has announced his second album, American Heart. Benson solidified his status in 2024 with a string of hits, led by ‘Beautiful Things’ and its follow-up, ‘Slow It Down’. 2025 is already off to a huge start fwith a standout performance at…

Pre-sale of the week: Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales, out 9 May

  Following Mark Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track ‘Beautiful People’, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album Under the Sun. Now Tall Tales showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesiser archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Thom…

Pre-sale of the week: Ghost – Skeletà, out 25 April

  Skeletà is the sixth album from Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock icons Ghost, a band on an inevitable path to world domination. This is the band’s most unflinchingly introspective work to date. Where previous albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward-facing subject matter – such as Impera’s meditations on the rise and fall of…