Pre-sale of the week: Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes, out 11 October

Giants Of All Sizes is the eighth studio album by English alternative-rock titans Elbow, and features guests including Jesca Hoop, The Plumedores and South London newcomer Chilli Chilton. Lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey describes the album as: “an angry, old blue lament which finds its salvation in family, friends, the band and new life.”…

New releases for 30 August 2019

This week we’ve gathered a full set of 6 lovelies to recommend to you. We start with Temples, who return with their third album, Hot Motion: a brilliantly crafted, thoughtfully recorded collection. The album’s propulsive, seemingly immediate songs soon reveal an impressive depth of ideas and energy with subsequent listens – as its title warns,…

Pre-sale of the week: The Highwomen – The Highwomen, out 6 September

Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris and Natalie Hemby – four of the most exciting singer songwriters working in modern American country music today – are The Highwomen. With a pedigree like that, this one is not to be missed! We’re offering The Highwomen at special pre-sale prices, which won’t be available after release. Click…

New releases for 9 August 2019

Kicking off 9 August’s famous five is Any Human Friend, which London-based indie-rock provocateur Marika Hackman wrote over a year in moments of grief after a painful break-up. “This is me diving into myself and peeling back the skin further and further,” Hackman says. “It’s blunt, but not offensive. It’s mischievous.” The New Adventures Of…

Pre-sale of the week: Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979–1983, out 6 September

Echo & The Bunnymen present an archival dig through all of the tracks they recorded for the legendary John Peel Sessions during their formative years between 1979 and 1983. Many of the 21 songs in this collection did not appear on their albums, as the band actually used the sessions to experiment with new material.…

New releases for 26 July & 2 August 2019

This week our recommendations cover releases for the next two weeks. The first of 26th July’s recommended releases is Duck, the seventh studio album from Kaiser Chiefs, a band primarily inspired by the new wave and punk rock music of the late 1970s and 1980s. The follow-up to their 2016 album Stay Together includes the…