New releases for 18 August 2023

First out of the gates this week is Intercepted Message. A pop record for tired times. Sugared with bits of shatterproof glass to put more crack in your strap. At long last, verse–chorus. A weathered thesaurus. This is Osees’ bookend sound. Early-grade garage pop meets proto-synthpunk suicide-repellant. Have a whack at the grass or listen…

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…