Our six treats for this week open with Aviary, the latest from Los Angeles composer Julia Holter. It’s an epic journey and her most breathtakingly expansive album yet. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2015 album Have You In My Wilderness is full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental arrangements. “Amidst all the internal and…
A lovely batch of new releases due on 7/7 awaits, so let’s get to it! This Is The Kit follow up the critical and sales success of Bashed Out with Moonshine Freeze, an album that mixes a singer-songwriter outlook with an invigorating funk/indie/ folk sensibility. Melvins’ first double album, A Walk With Love & Death,…
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,…
There aren’t many albums released this close to Christmas, but some of them are still well worth checking out. 2 December brings us Hamburg Demonstrations, the new album from ex-Libertines front man Pete Doherty, a live performance from Public Service Broadcasting’s Race For Space tour at Brixton Academy, and a collection of sessions recorded for…
Pre-sale of the week is Live At Brixton by Public Service Broadcasting, out on 2 December. We’re offering Live At Brixton at special pre-release prices, which won’t be available after release. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
17 June sees the release of what founder Michael Gira says will be the last (sob) Swans album, The Glowing Man, which contains all the epicness (if that’s a word) we have become accustomed to. We also get the remix version of Public Service Broadcasting’s monumentally successful The Race For Space, available here on indies…
The release of the week for 23 February is the superb deluxe 3-disc reissue of Led Zeppelin’s classic album Physical Graffiti, and there are brand-new goodies from Black Star Riders, Public Service Broadcasting, Revolution Saints, Big Sean, Songhoy Blues, Mark Lanegan Band and Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman. Click here for more details and…