Carnaval de Luz, the exhilarating 16th studio album from U2, features 12 melodically rich new songs. Acknowledged as one of the most celebrated and enduring bands of all time and one of the best live acts in the world, U2 has sold over 175 million records won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. Released…
Industrial Growth departs drastically from the earlier ambient albums, being designed to unleash sonic distortion and dissonance. “My music has been getting heavier and heavier over the years”, says Gordon Chapman-Fox, “as my music often reflects my feelings on the outside world, this is very much a visceral response to our current times.”…
A haunting, cinematic journey into a village that exists beyond time and place, Requiem for a Village is Steven Wilson’s most intimate and imaginative work yet. Blending dark folk, rock and electronica, the album unfolds as a continuous 54-minute ‘film for the ears’, populated by strange archetypes and eerie folklore. The album is…
This hotly anticipated 18-track live album of previously unreleased recordings captures George Michael at the height of his powers. The incredible live performances from the iconic 1988 Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy stop on his first solo concert tour feature hits from Faith including ‘Father Figure’, ‘One More Try’, ‘I Want Your Sex’…
Queens of the Stone Age have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound; it’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the…
Dopamine Chamber is the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril – and what our pursuit of it…
Second Song album brings together seven previously unreleased songs written by Young. Semi-acoustic in feel, it sits alongside earlier touchstones in his catalogue like Comes a Time and Prairie Wind, with a reflective, open-hearted sound that feels close, lived-in and deeply human. Across these songs, Young looks at the past, present and future…
One of the Beatles’ absolute classics, which regularly features high up on lists of the best albums ever created, get a half-speed mastered reissue on various formats. The 5-LP + 7″ super-deluxe box set includes a 26-track collection of sessions recordings that includes early versions of songs that deepen and expand the story…
Sixty years into a career that began with Fairport Convention and has spanned decades as one of rock’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Richard Thompson is still chasing surprise. On Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, he lets his subconscious take the wheel, pulling from a cast of old friends, false gurus, former selves and invented characters…
Pure Reason Revolution return with a darker, heavier sound, combining crushing riffs, ominous atmospheres and grunge influences with their signature vocal harmonies. The album explores angels as symbols of both salvation and destruction: themes of love, memory, truth and identity reveal that the forces which transform us are often the same ones that…
