Pre-sale of the week: Marry Waterson & Emily Barker – A Window To Other Ways, out 29 March
We’re offering A Window To Other Ways at special pre-sale prices, which won’t be available after release. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
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…
Pre-announcement of the Record Store Day 2019 releases
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…
Pre-sale of the week: The Chemical Brothers – No Geography, out 12 April
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…
New releases for 22 February 2019
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…
Pre-sale of the week: Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel, out 12 April
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…
New releases for 15 February 2019
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…