This week’s recommended releases start with the beautiful jazz voice of Gregory Porter, whose Nat King Cole & Me is a deeply personal tribute to the legendary crooner who ignited Gregory’s love of music. Twenty years after they first broke through with their debut, Stereophonics bring us their tenth studio album, Scream Above The Sounds;…
Pre-sale of the week is The Thread That Keeps Us by Calexico, out on 26 January. The Thread That Keeps Us, the ninth studio album from Calexico, is a timely snapshot of the Arizona-bred band: a family portrait capturing their stylistic variety and unpredictability while still finding solace in limitless creativity. In bringing the album…
We have an exciting octet recommended of new releases for you this week! Margo Price’s second album, All American Made, delivers on the rich promise of her debut: it’s an unflinchingly honest depiction of the trials of everyday life, painting poetic portraits of men and women just trying to get by. Widely considered to be…
Pre-sale of the week is Phases by Angel Olsen, out on 10 November. Phases is a collection culled from the past several years of work by Angel Olsen, including the new song ‘Special’, recorded during the My Woman sessions, as well as ‘Fly On Your Wall’, previously available on the download-only anti-Trump compilation Our First…
We’ve got just 6 recommended releases for you this week, but they are all smashers! First up St. Vincent returns with the inspired Masseduction, with inventive guitar, synths and electronica creating the right atmosphere to explore themes of sex, death and power. Possibly the most aptly titled work of Beck’s extraordinary career, Colors is an…
Pre-sale of the week is Who Built the Moon? by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, out on 24 November. Who Built The Moon? is the eagerly anticipated brand new studio album from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. The former Oasis star spent two years collaborating with producer, DJ and composer David Holmes on the record,…
First up this week, prog-folker Jon Boden, best-known as the lead singer of Bellowhead, releases his third solo album, Afterglow, which imagines a near future in which the luxuries and comforts of 21st-century life have become scarce and a harder, simpler existence prevails. Rock gods The Darkness return with their fifth, Pinewood Smiles; all the…
Pre-sale of the week is Low In High School by Morrissey, out on 17 November. Low In High School is Morrissey’s first studio album since 2014 and was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in France and at Ennio Morricone’s Forum Studios in Rome. The record is produced by Joe Chiccarelli (who has worked with Frank…
Our recommended releases for 29 September start with Live At Pompeii, recorded when David Gilmour returned to the ancient amphitheatre 45 years after the legendary Pink Floyd gig there with a show including songs from throughout his career, including many Floyd classics. Chris Rea plays to his strengths with Road Songs For Lovers, which showcases…
Pre-sale of the week is All American Made by Margo Price, out on 20 October. Delivering on the promise of her debut and then some, All American Made finds Margo Price planting herself firmly in the soil as a songwriter who’s here for the long haul. A prolific writer with a knack for candid self-reflection,…