Pre-sale of the week: Hurray For The Riff Raff – Life On Earth, out 18 February

Life On Earth is a departure for Hurray For The Riff Raff. Its eleven new ‘nature-punk’ tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux – songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. For her eighth full-length album, the Bronx-born, New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra drew inspiration from…

Pre-sale of the week: Midlake – For The Sake Of Bethel Woods, out 18 March

Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of purpose. Timeless and salient, these themes echo throughout the fifth album from Midlake, their first since Antiphon in 2013. Produced to layered, loving perfection by John Congleton, For The Sake Of Bethel Woods is an album of immersive warmth and mystery from a band…

Pre-sale of the week: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn, out 10 December

Barn, the new studio album from Neil Young & Crazy Horse, features 10 new songs that capture “the raw, idiosyncratic rock and roll spirit and lyrical beauty that epitomises a classic Neil Young Crazy Horse collaboration”. The line-up is: Neil Young, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Nils Lofgren. The album was recorded this past summer,…

Pre-sale of the week: Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point, out 25 February

Some forty years into one of music’s most impactful, sometimes tense and yet curiously enduring partnerships, Tears For Fears have finally arrived together at The Tipping Point – the group’s ambitious, accomplished and surprising first new studio album in nearly two decades. Note: The LP is available on green vinyl, exclusive to record shops. Click…

Pre-sale of the week: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, out 19 November

The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts were recorded by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at the September 1979 MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The set featured 13 songs performed over two nights, and they have been newly remixed and remastered for this…

Pre-sales of the week: The Waterboys – The Magnificent Seven (Fisherman’s Blues/Room To Roam Band, 1989-90) and Room To Roam (Half Speed Master), out 3 December

The Magnificent Seven (Fisherman’s Blues/Room To Roam Band, 1989-90) is a new 145-track 5-CD + DVD box set which tells the story of the seven-piece Waterboys line-up from the Fisherman’s Blues 1989 tour through to the release of the band’s fifth album, Room To Roam, in 1990. As well as the remastered Room To Roam…