Pre-sale of the week is the essential compilation Soul Togetherness 2016, out on 30 September. Expansion’s most successful and longest running compilation series returns with a 2016 edition. Soul Togetherness has been an annual event since 2000. The concept remains the same: fifteen must-have modern soul-room gems taken from the year’s biggest dancefloor spins and…
Once again it’s been a real struggle to get down to just eight recommended releases. First up for 16 September is The Handsome Family with Unseen, which is Americana Gothic of the highest order – you can practically see the tumbleweed blowing whilst listening. The ever prolific Dawes release the cheerfully titled We’re All Gonna…
Pre-sale of the week is Game Show by Two Door Cinema Club, out on 14 October. Two Door Cinema Club have announced details of their third album. Gameshow follows 2012’s Beacon and their 2010 debut Tourist History, along with their Changing Of The Seasons EP in 2013. The new LP was recorded in Los Angeles…
It’s been a squeeze trying to reduce all the great releases due on 9 September to just eight, but we managed it eventually. To kick off, Teenage Fanclub make a long-awaited return and – to our complete non-surprise – their 10th album is a beauty, chock-full of songs about the stuff that really matters: life…
Pre-sale of the week is Requiem by Goat, out on 7 October. Sweden’s enigmatic Goat may qualify as the greatest modern pop-culture mystery. Who are these masked musicians? Are they truly members of the Arctic community of Korpilombolo? Are their songs part of their isolated communal heritage? Their third studio album, Requiem, offers more questions…
September looks like being a monumental month for new releases. Our recommended eight for 2 September start with Ward Thomas, whose startling new album, Cartwheels, they say themselves, is not just a country album. Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy is one of the UK’s most accomplished and distinctive songwriters, and he’s in fine form…
Pre-sale of the week is Heads Up by Warpaint, out on 23 September. Warpaint’s third studio album, Heads Up, was recorded after the band spent 2015 apart working on solo projects. The band reunited in January this year and started to work with producer Jacob Bercovici, with whom they had worked on their debut EP,…
First of our recommended releases for 26 August is a covers record with a difference from The Devil Makes Three – each side of Redemption & Ruin has an old-fashioned concept all on its own: the songs chosen relate to either redemption or ruin. Neat! De La Soul release And The Anonymous Nobody, an album…
Pre-sale of the week is 22, A Million by Bon Iver, out on 30 September. Bon Iver’s new album 22, A Million, is the band’s first album in five years. “22, A Million is part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of…
First up for release on 19 August is Slow Club’s cheerily titled One Day All Of This Won’t Matter Any More, which contains more of their gorgeous melodies. John Paul White releases his first solo album since the break up of the much loved Civil Wars; titled Beulah, this is a triumph of dark southern…