Robert Plant calls his new album, Saving Grace, “a song book of the lost and found”. The genesis of the album began during the lockdown in ‘The Shire’, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. While his recent adventures have centred around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss for 2021’s chart-topping, multi Grammy-nominated…
On Better Broken, her first new album in 11 years, Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan brings her soulful, spellbinding and transcendent voice to a selection of songs that speak an uncompromising but radically illuminating truth about the state of the human condition. Better Broken ultimately affirms McLachlan as an unparalleled artist whose nuanced perspective and…
Festival-headlining favourites Biffy Clyro make their highly anticipated return with Futique, which delves into our relationship with memory and what we cherish across time. Informed by reflections on the digital age’s impact on memory and the band’s own remarkable journey from teenage friends to alternative rock giants, Futique explores the challenges and enduring connections…
Man’s Best Friend is the latest album from multi-hyphenate global popstar Sabrina Carpenter. Coming off her Grammy-winning project Short n’ Sweet and numerous multi-platinum singles added to her resumé, the latest from Carpenter features her new single, ‘Manchild’, and is bigger and and better than ever before. Note: The LP is initially available on…
Cutthroat is Shame at their blistering best: an unapologetic album that’s souped-up and supercharged. It’s exactly where you want Shame to be, with ambitious sonic ideas and the technical chops to execute them. Stamped throughout with Shame’s trademark sense of humour, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with…
Who Is the Sky?, the first new album from David Byrne since 2018’s acclaimed and award-winning American Utopia, incluldes contributions from musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and percussionist Mauro Refoscow. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus)…
Saint Etienne’s new album, International, is the group’s final album-length statement after a 35-year excursion through pop. A dreamlike drift with friends and collaborators, International features cameos from the higher echelons of pop – ’80s chart heroes, electro, acid house and all points in-between, from Vince Clarke to Nick Heyward, Confidence Man to Erol…
Find El Dorado is a deeply personal new album of reinterpretations by Paul Weller of songs that have long lived in the back of his mind and which are now reimagined with fresh meaning and a sense of reverence. This is less a covers album and more a map of his emotional and musical…
The Clearing, the brand new album from Wolf Alice, was written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA in 2024 with Grammy-winning master producer Greg Kurstin. The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion. Note: The LP is initially…
Talkin to the Trees, the debut album from Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts, is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. ‘Big Change’, the first song from the album, has a message that leaves no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times. The Chrome Hearts are: Spooner…