Pre-sale of the week: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!, out 2 April

The inimitable Godspeed You! Black Emperor returns with another soundtrack for our times. As the heretical anarcho-punk spirit of the title implies, G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! features some particularly raw power, spittle and grit across two riveting 20-minute side-length trajectories of noise-drenched widescreen post-rock: inexorable chug blossoms into blown-out twang, as some of the…

New releases for 22 September 2017

The first of our recommended releases for 22 September is from Reverend And The Makers; if their last album, 2015’s Mirrors, was weird and wonderful, The Death Of A King continues the strange feel that seems to attach itself to much of their music. V is, unsurprisingly, the 5th album from The Horrors, and it’s…

Pre-sale of the week: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers, out 22 September

Pre-sale of the week is Luciferian Towers by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, out on 22 September. Luciferian Towers is an album that Godspeed You! Black Emperor made in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. Godspeed themselves say: “Eyes up and filled with dreadful joy we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a…

New releases for 30 March 2015

We’re featuring 8 great new releases for next week. After much thought, the release of the week is Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens: an elegant, heartfelt depiction of his relationship with his mother and how it changed as she died. There are also new studio albums from The Prodigy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Ryley…