Here’s your heads-up that the list of exclusive releases for Record Store Day 2019 will be announced at 6pm on Thursday 28th – so that’s next week then! Click here for some information on how we run RSD itself. The full list will be online here as close to 6pm as we can get it…
Following on from the critical and commercial success of their Grammy-nominated 2015 album Born In The Echoes – the band’s 6th consecutive UK number 1 – The Chemical Brothers release their ninth studio album, No Geography. The superstar DJs go back to basics on their feral new album. Mixing it up the way only they…
We kick off this week’s recommended releases with Drenge, who have released something worth your ear-time. Strange Creatures is incredibly layered and intricate, spanning genres and instruments. It feels a lot more aggressive than their past releases, but the intriguing, chaotic atmosphere makes for an excellent listen. It feels a little more akin to art…
With the best bands, it seems to happen fast. The trajectory is steep, the progression seemingly preordained, inexorable. Assembling while still at college in Dublin a mere three years ago, from the ruins of early nowhere bands, and having discovered a shared love of poetry and a common zeal for authentic self-expression, the evolution of…
Our gems for with this week start with Skylight, the follow-up to Pinegrove’s widely acclaimed 2016 breakthrough album, Cardinal. The band’s classic American melodies and emotionally direct lyrics blend seamlessly with alt-country instrumentation. The songs swing between wider extremes – whisper to full-belt and back again, treading mid-air – and Pinegrove say exactly and full-throatedly…
Saturday 23 February sees us welcome William The Conqueror to promote their second album, Bleeding On The Soundtrack. Click below to hear the title song. Bleeding On The Soundtrack is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical albums which began with 2017’s Proud Disturber Of The Peace, a sublime record that captured frontman Ruarri Joseph’s…
These New Puritans, the great heretics of British music, return with Inside The Rose, their first new studio recording since 2013’s critically acclaimed album Field Of Reeds. We’re offering Inside The Rose at special pre-sale prices, which won’t be available after release. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
Our recommendations from this week’s releases start with Mercury Rev’s reimagination of Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 album The Delta Sweete, a psychedelic record depicting a Mississippi of hot biscuits, genteel table manners and working-class sense suddenly overturned by a grave sinning and suicide. Carried on an evening breeze of strings and a supple, foreboding voice…
Note: this release has now been postponed indefinitely.
We lead off this week’s recommended new releases with The Specials, one of the most electrifying, influential and important bands of all time, who release Encore, their first new music for 37 years. 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Specials and the legendary Two-Tone label in Coventry in 1979, and also…