New releases for 12 & 19 January

There’s a strong opener to our recommendations for 2024: Little Rope (out 19 Jan) is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent: it careens head-first into flaw and brokenness, a meditation on what living in a world…

New releases for 10 & 17 December

Our pick of releases for the run-up to Christmas opens with the extraordinary performance captured on An Orchestrated Songbook in which Paul Weller exquisitely reworked and updated a quintessential selection of his vast catalogue into 75 minutes of breath-taking music that was broadcast by the BBC. The set list includes classic tracks from The Jam,…

New releases for 7 February 2020

This week’s super six starts with five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day, who unleash their thirteenth studio album, Father Of All…, proving themselves still the masters of catchy stadium singalongs. Critically acclaimed and revered songwriter John Moreland is set to release his fifth solo album, the imaginatively titled LP5.…

New releases for 7 October 2016

Once again we’ve worked hard to recommend 8 albums for 7 October from the avalanche of new releases at this time of the year. First up, Green Day return with their 12th studio album, Revolution Radio – expect more ludicrously catchy, angsty guitar pop from the American trio. Norah Jones releases Day Breaks, in which…