This week’s blockbusters open with The Harmony Codex. This seventh solo album by Steven Wilson takes you on a trip: it’s a genre-spanning collection that opens up like a musical puzzle box, presenting a series of endlessly beautiful vistas that roll out and shift in front of you. Arguably the best album Wilson has made…
Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, was recorded in the band’s legendary Chicago studio The Loft over a period of two years. The ten new tracks were written by band leader Jeff Tweedy and feature musical performances by the long-time line-up of Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone and, of course, Tweedy…
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…
On to our pick of this week’s new releases. November 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of the North American release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World – the beginning of a 10-year collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would produce indispensable albums such as Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, all…
Here we go again with the biggest release week for plenty of months. Our distilled 6 this week start with All Mirrors, which tracks the artistic voyage of the wonderful Angel Olsen: her beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and…
Note: the LP is available on indies-only pink vinyl, limited to just 750 copies in the UK. We’re offering Ode To Joy at special pre-sale prices, which won’t be available after release. Click here for more details and to order your copy.
It’s been a squeeze trying to reduce all the great releases due on 9 September to just eight, but we managed it eventually. To kick off, Teenage Fanclub make a long-awaited return and – to our complete non-surprise – their 10th album is a beauty, chock-full of songs about the stuff that really matters: life…
Pre-sales of the week are Schmilco by Wilco, out on 9 September and My Universe by The Shires, out on 7 October. Schmilco, the 10th studio album by the Grammy-award winning Chicago rock band Wilco, features 12 new original songs via the band’s own dBpm Records. Recorded at The Loft in Chicago. Produced by…
Next week sees some long-awaited and some unexpected releases. Announced just ten days before release, Dr Dre’s new album, Compton, gets a physical CD rush release, with the vinyl to follow later. The Strypes release their second album, which is full of their rollicking version of rock’n’roll, The Fratellis weigh in with sharp, observant song-writing,…