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…
Equal parts crushing and cathartic, Marrow Deep finds Mastodon pushing their sound into new depths without sacrificing what makes them one of heavy music’s most forward-thinking forces, channelling profound grief into one of the most emotionally charged albums of their storied career. A 13-song testament of the effect those close to us can have…
Rather than looking backwards, Shed Seven’s new, self-titled album is focused firmly on the present, coming in the most successful periods in the band’s history, scoring two UK Number One albums in 2024. Written and recorded with renewed confidence and purpose, it captures a band continuing to push themselves while staying true to the…
Finally! The sixth studio album Dinosaur Jr. have recorded in the 20 years since their triumphal rebirth. Created in short, intense bursts over the course of a year at Amherst’s Bisquiteen Studio, There Near was recorded almost entirely by Dino’s core trio – king of the thunder tubs, Murph; human tornado Lou Barlow on…
Following 2022’s collaboration with electronic producer Blanck Mass on Surface, Editors have found themselves somewhere new entirely. When the band regrouped in summer 2025 to work on a follow-up, after three albums written and recorded very much as in-the-studio projects, the band took a stripped-back, acoustic-based approach to the new material, trying different things…
This is Jack White at his best, backed by an incredible band (Patrick Keeler on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, Bobby Emmett on keys) whose collective hand is scorching hot after coming off a tour of universally acclaimed performances. Instead of resting on a job well done, they went straight to work in…
The band use distortion and perception as a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light. Synthesisers, strings, acoustic guitars and percussion are integrated into the fabric of the songs, expanding the palette while revealing colours already latent within it, resulting in…
This is the sound of Britain’s most vital band at the peak of their powers: a body of work split into three spiritual and geographical movements that traces the movement of black people across continents and decades, from the music of Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean and home to the streets of…
