Matt’s top picks of 2025 part 2

Continuing from last week, here are six more albums I thoroughly enjoyed from this year. Again some you may know, some you may hate and some you may go ‘Who??’ Click on an image to order a copy. Between the Buried and Me  The Blue Nowhere   CD £13.99 / 2-LP £32.99 Exceptional prog metal from the now…

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…

New releases for 1 June 2018

The six sensational new releases we are recommending to you this week kick off with God’s Favorite Customer, the most succinct album from Father John Misty to date, whose songs focus on the grotesque side of love when it goes wrong; as always, Tillman’s most brutally honest lyrics are his most profound. Legendary Who frontman…