New releases for 12 & 19 January

There’s a strong opener to our recommendations for 2024: Little Rope (out 19 Jan) is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent: it careens head-first into flaw and brokenness, a meditation on what living in a world…

New releases for 11 June 2021

We open our picks of this week’s crop with Sharon Van Etten, who has had a celebrated career since the release of her second album, 2010’s epic. On its release, epic laid a romantic melancholy over the gravel and dirt of heartbreak without one honest thought or feeling spared. Her songs covered betrayal, obsession, egotism,…

New releases for 27 January 2017

We have 6 great new releases for 27 January. Sleater-Kinney kick us off with Live In Paris, an incendiary show from their tour to promote the fantastic No Cities To Love. Tift Merritt follows up Travelling Alone with Stitch Of The World, a fine album full of thoughtful, reflective songs. Ty Segall’s first release of…

New releases for 19 January 2015

This week we have new albums by a wealth of established major artists. The Waterboys release their first studio album in three years, and there are also new releases from Fall Out Boy, Belle and Sebastian, Marilyn Manson, Gretchen Peters, Ryan Bingham, The Decemberists and Sleater / Kinney, and Ólafur Arnalds’s haunting soundtrack of TV…