Pre-sale of the week: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God, out 30 August

Across ten tracks, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives. This is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments ton Wild God hat touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds’…

New releases for 1 & 8 December

Here’s our last batch of recommended releases for 2023, due out in the next couple of weeks. In 2022, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis returned to their native Australia for 16 shows, taking their acclaimed 2021 album Carnage on the road, along with songs from the Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds catalogue. Three performances…

New releases for 1 July 2022

The first of this week’s pick of the pops is A Very Lonely Solstice, the new album from Fleet Foxes, which captures a poignant moment in time. The recording was originally broadcast as a live-stream event on the winter solstice of 2020, just days after New York declared a state of emergency, tightening restrictions again…

New releases for 18 June 2021

With labels focused on RSD, we’ve got a bijou selection of four releases this week, plus an early peek at two from the enormous list due out on 25th June. First for this week is Consequences, one of Joan Armatrading’s most intimate and direct albums yet, and one that wears its heart – and its…

New releases for 20 November 2020

This week’s six smashers start with Live In Maui, a concert from 1970 with a blu-ray featuring the documentary ‘Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix In Maui’, which chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s storied visit to Maui and how they became ensnared with the ill-fated Rainbow Bridge movie produced by their controversial manager Michael Jeffery. Note:…

New releases for 8 November 2019

The first of our recommendations this week is In All Weather, the first solo album in nine years from Josienne Clark, which finds her life laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-anew nature of the lyrics. Josienne accompanies herself on pared-back acoustic and electric guitar throughout. On the eve of what would have been…

New releases for 9 September 2016

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…