New releases for 4 August 2023

The first of this week’s smashers is Prestige, the much-anticipated third album from Girl Ray, the three-piece comprising Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss. Co-produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Ben H. Allen (M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) with the band’s singer and songwriter Hankin, Prestige takes the shambolic charm of their debut, Earl…

Pre-sale of the week: Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place, out 16 August

This Is Not A Safe Place sees rejuvenated Oxford four-piece Ride reunite with revered DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, who was on production duties for 2017’s Weather Diaries. Rekindling that creative partnership has once again seen Ride push their sound forward, as hypnotic rhythms and washes of lush guitars come together with leftfield electronic…

New releases for 16 June 2017

Our batch of recommended releases for 16 June could well be our favourite of the year so far for its depth and quality. Crack-Up represents a real change for Fleet Foxes; instead of an expansive, sunny outlook we are ‘treated’ to a collection of inward-searching songs suffused with a bleak melancholy, resulting in a jarring,…

Special pre-sale preview

As there are so few new releases out on the 14th April, we thought we would highlight some of the great new releases that have just been announced during the last couple of weeks. These are: Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution, Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud, The Charlatans – Different Days, Gorillaz –…

New releases for 6 November 2015

6 November sees a re-recording of the seminal songs from Natalie Merchant’s Tigerlily called Paradise is There, Billy Gibbons graces us with his first solo effort which has, of all things, a distinctive Latin American feel to it, shoegaze legends Ride return with a re-release of the genre creating album Nowhere, including extra tracks, Björk…