New releases for 4 February 2022

Our soaraway six, hand-picked from the many new releases out next week, starts with the sixth full-length studio album from Cate Le Bon – her follow-up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward – whose title, Pompeii, suggests a coming apocalypse. However, this metaphor eclipses any dissection of the immediate present, says Le Bon, although this is not…

New releases for 14 June 2019

This week’s six of the best start with Doom Days, the grippingly confident third album from Bastille. This is a record of hope for turbulent times that sees the Grammy-nominated, Brit-winning four-piece stretch out and open up like never before. Doom Days marks something of a shift in perception from its widely acclaimed No.1 predecessor,…