Pre-sale of the week is Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, out on 9 June. Planetarium is a concept album that occasionally gives way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward. The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space, but the interior…
Pre-sale of the week is The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell, out on 16 June. Jason Isbell, one of the great American singer-dongwriters, returns with The Nashville Sound. The album was recorded at Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio A and produced by Grammy Award-winner Dave Cobb, who produced Isbell’s previous album, Something More Than Free, and…
Pre-sale of the week is Every Valley by Public Service Broadcasting, out on 7 July. Every Valley is the third album from Public Service Broadcasting, the brainchild of London-based J. Willgoose, Esq., who, along with his drumming companion, Wrigglesworth, and their bass player, keys and horns man extraordinaire, JFAbraham, is on a quest to inform,…
Pre-sale of the week is Slowdive by Slowdive, out on 5 May. The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. A band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music is back, with their first new album in 22 years. The album is called Slowdive – self-titled in an echo of their debut EP from…
Pre-sale of the week is Crack-Up by Fleet Foxes, out on 16 June. Crack-Up is Fleet Foxes’ long-awaited and highly anticipated third album. It comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band’s 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin…
Pre-sale of the week is Sweet Kind Of Blue by Emily Barker, out on 19 May. Emily Barker’s new album was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. Sweet Kind Of Blue is her first full…
Pre-sale of the week is Relaxer by alt-J, out on 9 June. Relaxer is the follow-up to alt-J’s number 1, Grammy- and Brit-Award-nominated album This Is All Yours, and was recorded all over London – from Shoreditch to St John’s Wood, Crouch Hill to Brixton – with producer Charlie Andrew at the helm for a…
Pre-sale of the week is Into The Woods by Hawkwind, out on 5 May. Into the Woods is the new studio album from the legendary Hawkwind. It is in part “a continuation of the story begun in The Machine Stops,” says Hawkwind’s head honcho Dave Brock, “living above the ground and Into the Woods.”. Warm-up…
Pre-sale of the week is Pollinator by Blondie, out on 5 May. Blondie return with their 11th studio album, Pollinator, lighting up 2017 with an incredible new record befitting one of the world’s greatest bands. Pollinator was produced live in the studio by John Congleton (St. Vincent, John Grant, War On Drugs, David Byrne), and…
Pre-sale of the week is Triplicate by Bob Dylan, out on 31 March. Bob Dylan’s latest studio album, the three-disc Triplicate, features 30 brand-new recordings of classic American tunes and is the first triple-length set of Dylan’s illustrious career. With each disc individually titled and presented in a thematically arranged 10-song sequence, Triplicate showcases Dylan’s…