Pre-sale of the week is Presents The Holy Strangers by Micah P. Hinson, out on 8 September. Our favourite purveyor of the very darkest, most gothic Americana returns with Micah P. Hinson Presents The Holy Strangers. Hinson describes Presents The Holy Strangers as being a “modern folk opera.” The album tells the story of a…
Pre-sale of the week is Every Country’s Sun by Mogwai, out on 1 September. Mogwai return with their 9th studio album, recorded with renowned producer Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, Mogwai’s Come On Die Young and Rock Action) at his Tarbox Road Studios in New York State. Every Country’s Sun, which takes its…
Pre-sale of the week is Sleep Well Beast by The National, out on 8 September. Sleep Well Beast, the seventh album from The National, is out on the 8th of September. Produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger, Sleep Well Beast was mixed by Peter Katis and recorded at…
Pre-sale of the week is Brilliant Light by Danny & The Champions Of The World, out on 23 June. Brilliant Light, the follow-up to 2015’s award-winning What Kind Of Love, features 18 songs over two discs. The song ‘Swift Street’, which has been released to preview the album, is deeply personal to Danny George Wilson,…
Pre-sale of the week is Weather Diaries by Ride, out on 16 June. Ride release their first album in over twenty years! Produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, Weather Diaries is packed with all the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early ’90s. Trembling distortion, beautiful…
Pre-sale of the week is Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, out on 9 June. Planetarium is a concept album that occasionally gives way to ambient interludes and majestic brass chorales, buttressed by a percussive drive that keeps the momentum skyward. The subject of the album is not just the wilderness of outer space, but the interior…
Pre-sale of the week is The Nashville Sound by Jason Isbell, out on 16 June. Jason Isbell, one of the great American singer-dongwriters, returns with The Nashville Sound. The album was recorded at Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio A and produced by Grammy Award-winner Dave Cobb, who produced Isbell’s previous album, Something More Than Free, and…
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,…
Pre-sale of the week is Slowdive by Slowdive, out on 5 May. The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. A band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music is back, with their first new album in 22 years. The album is called Slowdive – self-titled in an echo of their debut EP from…
Pre-sale of the week is Crack-Up by Fleet Foxes, out on 16 June. Crack-Up is Fleet Foxes’ long-awaited and highly anticipated third album. It comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band’s 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin…