Special pre-sale offers

GoGo Penguin – GoGo Penguin

Release date: 5 June

• When a musical ensemble chooses to self-title an album mid-career, it usually signifies their conviction that they’ve struck the motherlode, hit the jackpot, stepped up and generally arrived at a point they’ve always striven for but never quite attained before. After months of aural alchemy in their native Manchester, propulsive jazz trio GoGo Penguin are now ready to go back into the wider world again and take their upward trajectory to its next stage with this wondrously ambitious breakbeat-infused new album.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £26.99

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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways To New Italy

Release date: 5 June

• After years spent looking out at landscapes and loved ones and an increasingly unstable world, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have turned their gaze inward, to their individual pasts and the places that inform them, on their second album, Sideways To New Italy. Led by singer-songwriter-guitarists Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, the guitar-pop five-piece returned home to Australia after the relentless touring schedule that came following their critically regarded 2018 debut, Hope Downs.
• Feeling the literal and metaphorical ground under their feet had shifted, the band began grasping for something reliable. For Keaney, that translated into writing “pure romantic fiction” and consciously avoiding the temptation of angsty break-up songs, while Russo looked north to a “bizarre place” that captured the feeling of manufacturing a sense of home when his own had disappeared. The New Italy of the new album’s title is a village near New South Wales’ Northern Rivers – the area drummer Marcel Tussie is from. A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it pit-stop of a place with fewer than 200 residents, it was founded by Venetian immigrants in the late 1800s and now serves as something of a living monument to Italians’ contribution to Australia, with replica Roman statues dotted like alien souvenirs on the otherwise rural landscape.
• Note: the LP is available on indies-only coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Sarah Jarosz – World On The Ground

Release date: 5 June

• At just 28 years old, Sarah Jarosz is already a three-time Grammy winner. And World On The Ground is her first new album in four years. It’s a collection of stories both real and imagined that explore the tension and inertia of small-town living. Jarosz, a small-town Texan native currently living in New York City, explores the competing desires to escape and to stay put. The album is populated by sensitive souls, aimless wanderers and back-porch daydreamers, whose stories are illuminated by the album’s spacious yet intricate arrangements and Jarosz’s captivating voice and richly detailed songwriting. With the scope of a novel and a sound inspired by classic Texas songwriting, World On The Ground paints a portrait that exists outside of time.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £21.99

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Larkin Poe – Self Made Man

Release date: 12 June

• After a remarkable two-year run that saw them earn a Grammy Award nomination for their last chart-topping studio album while touring the world from Nashville to New Zealand and back again, Larkin Poe have returned with what is undeniably their most wide-reaching, artistically adventurous, and self-determined work to date. Once again taking the producer reins and releasing on their own Tricki-Woo Records label, Self Made Man sees the multi-instrumentalist sister duo of Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based Rebecca and Megan Lovell pushing their music and message towards hitherto unexplored terrain, inspired by their epic world travels yet still powerfully rooted in the creative heritage of their beloved American South. From the thunderous power of the album-opening ‘She’s A Self Made Man’ through the nostalgic ‘Tears Of Blue To Gold’ and from the fierce Chicago blues of ‘Scorpion’ to the front-porch jubilation of ‘Easy Street’, the album is ambitious in both its eclectic, energetic sound and its resolutely welcoming mission, its universal lyrical approach fuelled by tradition, invention, and Larkin Poe’s remarkable ability to touch the hearts and souls of their fellow humans worldwide.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £19.99

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Liam Gallagher – MTV Unplugged (Live At Hull City Hall)

Release date: 12 June

• Last summer Liam Gallagher joined the list of all-time greats (Paul McCartney, Page and Plant, Nirvana and many more) who have filmed a prestigious MTV Unplugged session. Having missed Oasis’s 1996 session through illness, the show at Hull’s City Hall found Liam fulfilling some unfinished business entirely on his own terms. The show’s electrifying atmosphere is palpable from the very beginning with a phenomenal reaction as Liam takes to the stage with ‘Wall of Glass’. Material from Liam’s solo career such as his personal favourite ‘Once’ and the joyous ‘Now That I’ve Found You’ resonates in this stripped-back format, with his vocal shining alongside a trio of backing singers and string arrangements performed by the 24-piece Urba.
• Note: The LP is available on limited splatter vinyl, exclusive to physical record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £28.99

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Norah Jones – Pick Me Up Off The Floor

Release date: 12 June

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Peter Gabriel – Rated PG

Release date: 12 June

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Bad Touch – Kiss The Sky

Release date: 19 June

• New wave of classic rock favourites Bad Touch return with their fourth album, Kiss The Sky, and their infectious blend of rock, country and blues. The album was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios with Nick Brine (The Darkness, Thunder, Ash)
• Note: the LP is available on white vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £18.99

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Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways

Release date: 19 June

• Note: the LP will be released on 17 July.

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £13.99 / LP £23.99

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Gretchen Peters – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs Of Mickey Newbury

Release date: 19 June

• Gretchen Peters releases The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury on Proper Records. The new album was recorded at the historic Cinderella Studios, where Newbury recorded his legendary albums of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s: ‘Looks Like Rain’, ‘Frisco Mabel Joy’ and ‘Heaven Help The Child’.A lifelong devotee of Mickey Newbury’s albums as well as his songwriting, Peters chose to record his songs in stripped-down fashion at the same studio where the original magic happened.
• Note: the LP is an exclusive version, only available in independent record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £19.99

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Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure?

Release date: 19 June

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Teddy Thompson – Heartbreaker Please

Release date: 5 June

• From its opening track, Teddy Thompson’s new album, Heartbreaker Please, reckons with the breakdown of love with a wistful levity as satisfying as it is devastatingly honest. As he sings frankly: “You don’t love me anymore. I can tell you’ve got one foot out the door.” And while the album is drawn from the demise of a real-life relationship, as told from Thompson’s perspective, it might also be seen as a projection of his relationship with New York City, the place he has called home for the better part of two decades. A member of the British musical dynasty started by his parents, Linda and Richard Thompson, he left London for the States at 18, settling in New York five years later. “At the time I was just taking a long vacation that never ended,” he says. “I wanted to reinvent myself and it was easier to leave it behind and go somewhere new to announce myself as a musician, rather than explain to all the people who’ve known you since you were a kid. And you can actually reinvent yourself in America, step off the plane, say ‘my name is whatever’.” Twenty years later, Heartbreaker Please finds Teddy Thompson perfectly himself, a commanding artist at the top of his craft.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £19.99

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The National – High Violet (Expanded)

Release date: 19 June

• The National bring us a 10th-anniversary expanded edition of their 2010 album High Violet. Originally released in May 2010, the critically acclaimed fifth studio album features the now-classics ‘Terrible Love’, ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’, ‘England’ and perennial show closer ‘Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks’. In addition to the 10 original tracks, the triple LP package includes a third LP which includes tracks never before available on vinyl, including ‘Wake Up Your Saints’, an alternate version of ‘Terrible Love’, ‘Walk Off’ and more.

Pre-sale offer 3-LP £39.99

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Paul Weller – On Sunset

Release date: 19 June

• Track listing: 1. Mirror Ball / 2. Baptiste / 3. Old Father Thyme / 4. Village / 5. More / 6. On Sunset / 7. Equanimity / 8. Walkin’ / 9. Earth Beat / 10. Rocket
• Note: The LP is available on indies-only purple vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / 2-LP £28.99

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Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

Release date: 19 June

• Already heralded as one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year, 25-year old singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers presents her second solo album, Punisher. Bridgers is a singular talent, and also the rare artist with enough humour to deconstruct the tired heuristics of a meteoric rise. Punisher, written and recorded between summer 2018 and autumn 2019, cements her as one of the most irresistibly clever and tenderly prolific songwriters of our era. Returning to work with her Stranger In The Alps collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, Bridgers – who co-produced the boygenius EP and the Better Oblivion Community Center album – stepped into the role of co-producer for Punisher and has drawn from the same tight-knit group of musicians who appeared on her debut as well as those she has worked with since.
• Note: the LP is available on indies-only coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £24.99

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Khruangbin – Mordechai

Release date: 26 June

• Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it’s finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It’s a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin’s transportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without losing the spirit of nomadic wandering that’s always defined it. And it all started with them coming home. In those years away from home, Khruangbin’s members often felt like they were swimming underwater, unsure of where they were going, or why they were going there. But Mordechai leads them gently back to the surface, allowing them to take a breath, look around, and find itself again. It’s a snapshot taken along a larger journey – a moment all the more beautiful for its impermanence. And it’s a memory to revisit again and again, speaking to us now more clearly than ever.
• Note: The LP is available on indies-only pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £20.99

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The Rolling Stones – Living In A Ghost Town

Release date: 26 June

• Note: available on purple or orange vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 10" 12.99

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Neil Young – Homegrown

Release date: 19 June

• Neil Young has said this album is “the unheard bridge between Harvest and Comes A Time,” which perfectly describes the warm, semi-acoustic feel of these twelve songs. Originally intended to be released in 1975, the album has never seen the light of day until now, and has a legendary status among Neil’s fans.
• Seven of the songs are previously unreleased on any album, and different versions of the other five songs would appear on later Neil Young albums. Neil plays guitar, piano and harmonica on the album, and is accompanied by a stellar group of musicians including Levon Helm, Ben Keith, Karl T Himmel, Tim Drummond, Emmylou Harris and Robbie Robertson.
• Note: the LP is available in a special edition, only available from indie shops, that includes a very limited inner sleeve litho of the album cover.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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The Blue Nile – High

Release date: 5 June

• To complete their album reissue programme, The Blue Nile have been working alongside long-term producer/engineer partner Calum Malcolm on High. The album has been produced as a deluxe 2-CD set, featuring nine remastered tracks plus a bonus disc consisting of four previously unreleased songs plus two extended remixes – over 32 minutes of new music. The album is also available on LP for the very first time, produced on 180g black vinyl.
• The band’s fanbase has been waiting patiently for the reissue of High to complete the set, and so the band has worked diligently to deliver an album that fans will truly enjoy.

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £15.99 / LP £23.99

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Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal

Release date: 3 July

• Bury Tomorrow’s 2018 album Black Flame catapulted them into metal’s upper echelons. It was the band’s third consecutive UK Top 40 album and saw them undertake an imposing tour, which culminated with a huge show at London’s iconic Roundhouse. But with follow-up, Cannibal, the band have taken another leap forward. To record it, they reunited with Black Flame producer Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Young Guns), while mixing and mastering was completed by Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood and Ermin Hamidovic, the dream team behind Architects’ Holy Hell. The result is Bury Tomorrow’s most technical, anthemic album yet. While vocalist and lyricist Dani Winter Bates has long been one of metal’s loudest advocates for the importance of discussing mental health, this time he’s delved explicitly into his own experiences, writing his most brutally personal lyrics to date.

Pre-sale offer CD 10.99 / LP 19.99

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The Charlatans – Between 10th & 11th (Expanded)

Release date: 3 July

• Available on double clear vinyl and double CD, this expanded reissue of The Charlatans’s classic album Between 10th & 11th contains the original album plus remastered tracks from the oft-bootlegged live show from Chicago in 1991, known as Isolation 21.2.91, a holy grail amongst fans.
• Track listing
• Disc 1: I Don’t Want To See The Sights / Ignition / Page One / Tremelo Song / The End Of Everything / Subtitle / Can’t Even Be Bothered / Weirdo / Chewing Gum Weekend / (No One) Not Even The Rain
• Disc 2: Imperial 109 / The Only One I Know / Not Very Well * / Believe You Me * / Then / Happen To Die / Flower * / White Shirt / Indian Rope / Opportunity / Sproston Green / 10th and 11th *
• (* CD only)

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £13.99 / 2-LP £25.99

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Martin Freeman & Eddie Piller – Present Jazz On The Corner Two

Release date: 3 July

• A follow-up to 2018’s Jazz On The Corner, which has now sold over 10,000 copies, and last year’s equally successful Soul On The Corner, this compilation sees Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller return to the world of jazz for another bite at the cherry after volume one was declared to be “the best jazz compilation of the last 20 years” by Jazz FM’s Chris Phillips.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Release date: 3 July

• Propulsive pop perennials Sparks – brothers Ron and Russell Mael – lift the lid on their new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, with the release of ‘Self-Effacing’, in which the evergreen masters of the musical vignette show no loss of appetite for their singular sonic adventures.
• Note: The picture disc LP is exclusive to physical record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP 21.99 / Picture disc LP £29.99

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Glass Animals – Dreamland

Release date: 10 July

• Note: The LP is available on coloured vinyl, exclusive to physical record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (50th Anniversary Edition)

Release date: 10 July

Pre-sale offer Picture Disc LP £28.99

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Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started

Release date: 10 July

• “Everybody wants to know how I feel and what I think,” sings Margo Price in her emotive, bittersweet twang, halfway through her third full-length record. On That’s How Rumors Get Started, Price has committed her genre-bending rock-and-roll show to record for the first time, stretching out into sky-high soft-rock, burning psychedelic rock ballads, stomping road songs, and sprinkles of pop.
• Note: The bonus 7" is exclusive to independent record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP + 7" £23.99

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Rufus Wainwright – Unfollow The Rules

Release date: 10 July

• Unfollow The Rules is Rufus Wainwright’s ninth album of original material, and his first pop album since the Mark Ronson-produced Out Of The Game in 2012. The title track features a performance from Sarah Jessica Parker recorded for the 2018 film ‘Here And Now’.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £15.99 / LP £26.99

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The Streets – None Of Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive

Release date: 10 July

• Note: The LP is available on coloured vinyl, exclusive to physical record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Fiona Apple – Fetch The Boltcutters

Release date: 17 July

• Track list: 1. I Want You To Love Me / 2. Shameika / 3. Fetch The Bolt Cutters / 4. Under The Table / 5. Relay (with Sebastian Steinberg) / 6. Rack of His / 7. Newspaper / 8. Ladies / 9. Heavy Balloon / 10. Cosmonauts / 11. For Her / 12. Drumset / 13. On I Go

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Massive Wagons – House Of Noise

Release date: 17 July

• Track listing: 1. In It Together / 2. Banging in Your Stereo / 3. House of Noise / 4. Freak City / 5. Hero / 6. Professional Creep / 7. Pressure / 8. Curry Song / 9. Glorious / 10. Sad Sad Song / 11. Hallescrewya / 12. Matter of Time

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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The Pretenders – Hate For Sale

Release date: 17 July

• Hate For Sale, produced by the revered Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur), is the latest studio album by The Pretenders. The album features 10 new songs written collaboratively by Chrissie Hynde and the electrifyingly dynamic guitarist James Walbourne in their first songwriting collaboration to date. Speaking about writing with James for the first time, Chrissie said: “I wanted to write with him since day one. James is especially sought after and has recorded with Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Gahan, and The Rails, to name but a few. We always planned on writing while on the road, but as anyone in a band will tell you, being on tour is a procrastinator’s dream come true.”

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £21.99

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Courtney Marie Andrews – Old Flowers

Release date: 24 July

• On her third album for both Fat Possum and Loose Records, Courtney Marie Andrews has seemingly pulled in to one package all the songwriting skill, vocal prowess, and musicianship displayed on previous albums, into one career defining statement. Old Flowers is a break-up record for sure, though – due to CMA’s extraordinary storytelling gifts – it’s more of a modern-day coming-of-age tale of love won, love sustained, and unfortunately, love’s inevitable dissolution.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Seasick Steve – Love & Peace

Release date: 24 July

• Note: The LP is available on indies-only clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £23.99

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Creeper – Sex, Death And The Infinite Void

Release date: 31 July

• Sex, Death And The Infinite Void is the second studio album by English punk band Creeper. The band’s devoted fan base were devastated when frontman Will Gould announced the end of the band during a sold-out Koko show in 2018; but, a year to the day later, the band were reborn during a secret show under the Fugitives Of Heaven pseudonym. Their reanimation was completed when they dropped the track ‘Born Cold’ – with Radio 1’s Daniel P Carter leading the celebrations by playing the track an unprecedented three times in a row.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Purple Vinyl LP £19.99

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Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death

Release date: 31 July

• Barely a year after the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album Dogrel, which earned a Mercury Prize nomination and Album of the Year 2019 at both BBC 6Music and Rough Trade record store, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have returned with an intensely confident, patient, and complex follow up album. A Hero’s Death arrives battered and bruised, albeit beautiful – a heady and philosophical take on the modern world, and its great uncertainty.
• Track list: 1. I Don’t Belong / 2. Love Is The Main Thing / 3. Televised Mind / 4. A Lucid Dream / 5. You Said / 6. Oh Such A Spring / 7. A Hero’s Death / 8. Living In America / 9. I Was Not Born / 10. Sunny / 11. No

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / Stormy Blue Vinyl LP £20.99 / Deluxe 2-LP £28.99

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The Psychedelic Furs – Made Of Rain

Release date: 31 July

• Yes, you heard that right – highly influential post-punk stars The Psychedelic Furs have recorded their first album in nearly 30 years! From its exhilarating opening bars to its close, Made Of Rain sounds like the Furs and them alone. It’s a joy to hear this sound again, and it sounds fresher than ever. Their peerless permutations of art, aggression and ambience drive the dynamics, and it’s always been this originality which has set them apart. They really are a cut above the rest.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-LP 29.99

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Joy Division – Closer (40th Anniversary Edition)

Release date: 17 July

• Joy Division recorded only two albums before singer Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980. But what the Manchester quartet lacked in longevity, they more than made up for in quality. The two albums they released were pioneering and helped shape the sound and mood of the alternative music that followed in the band’s wake.
• 17 July 2020 sees the release of a 40th anniversary edition of Joy Division’s second and final album, Closer. The release follows last year’s reissue of their ground-breaking debut album, Unknown Pleasures, and will be pressed on crystal-clear 180g vinyl.
• 18th May 2020 also marks the 40th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death.

• Track listing:
• Side A
• Atrocity Exhibition
• Isolation
• Passover
• Colony
• A Means To An End
• Side B
• Heart And Soul
• Twenty Four Hours
• The Eternal
• Decades
• Note: the LP is available on crystal-clear 180g vinyl.

Pre-sale offer LP £23.99

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Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter

Release date: 10 July

• Laura Marling’s exquisite seventh album, Song For Our Daughter, arrives almost without preamble or warning in the midst of uncharted global chaos, and yet instantly and tenderly offers a sense of purpose, clarity and calm. As a balm for the soul, this full-blooded new collection could be posited as Laura’s richest to date, but in truth it’s another incredibly fine record by a British artist who rarely strays from delivering incredibly fine records.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £19.99

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P J Harvey – Dry

Release date: 24 July

• Dry is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, originally released on Too Pure Records on 30 March 1992. The album was recorded at The Icehouse, a local studio in Yeovil. Critically lauded both on release and retrospectively, the album contains the singles ‘Dress’ and ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’.
• The album is now available on vinyl for the first time in almost 20 years. The album was remastered by the original producer, Head, and has been replicated to the original version as much as possible.
• Pitchfork: “On her debut, Polly Jean Harvey matched Patti Smith’s incandescence with Bessie Smith’s lasciviousness, outplayed everyone on the British indie circuit, and became an instant star – 9.2”

Pre-sale offer LP £17.99

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Deep Purple – Whoosh!

Release date: 7 August

• Whoosh! sees Deep Purple joining forces for the third time with producer Bob Ezrin, who invited the band to Nashville to write and record new songs. Together they created the most versatile album in their collaboration. Deep Purple ‘stretched out in all directions’ without any limitation, letting their creativity go. “Putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half-joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that Ezrin and Purple were on their path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.
• Note: the limited edition box set contains a 2-LP in a gatefold sleeve, a CD+DVD Mediabook, 3 coloured 10" records containing The inFinite Live Recordings Vol. 2, an exclusive Deep Purple T-shirt and 3 art prints.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Limited edition CD + DVD £18.99 / LP £23.99 / Limited edition box set £59.99

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The Levellers – Peace

Release date: 14 August

• Peace: a word that’s both direct and loaded with meaning. On the surface, it suggests tranquility, evenness, a state of bliss already achieved. But the word that gives Levellers’ 11th studio album its title is open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a reference to a disappearing value. It could be a sneering statement of irony. It could be a cry for calm in a crazed world. It could mean whatever you want it to mean.
• Note: the LP is available on indies-only splatter vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-CD + DVD £16.99 / LP + 7" £25.99

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Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot

Release date: 21 August

• Chuck Prophet, San Francisco’s saviour-songwriter, has returned with his new album, The Land That Time Forgot. Varying from the rich heartland rock of songs like ‘Best Shirt On’ to the building drum machine of ‘Marathon’ and all the way back to stripped back words and guitar of ‘Nixonland’ and ‘Get Off the Stage’, Prophet’s work defies classification. Chuck Prophet is a rock and roll star in a country that has forgotten that it needs rock and roll stars. America turns its popular musicians into celebrities (as if that’s what we need more of). Meanwhile, the true grit, write it like you live it and live it ‘til it kills you musical artist exists in obscurity, kicking ass and taking names in small clubs every night while sweating blood over making records. Thankfully, we live in the same timeline as Chuck Prophet.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Red Vinyl LP £21.99

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Everything Everything – Re-Animator

Release date: 14 August

• Everything Everything’s approach to Re-Animator was to streamline the creative process by focusing on harmonies and melodies over synths and programming. Inspiration came thick and fast: wonderment at the wider world despite the horror of its politics; existentialism, and the prolonged, if fading, youthfulness of being in a touring band; and the ominous threat of climate change. All these things have contributed to a sense of one door closing while another awaits.
• Note: the LP is available on milky-white vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £19.99

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Jason Molina – Eight Gates

Release date: 7 August

• At some point in 2006 or 2007, Jason Molina moved from the American midwest to London. Separated from his bandmates and friends and never one for idleness, Molina explored his new home with fervour. The ‘Eighth Gate’ was Molina’s way into London, a gate only passable in the mind. In many ways, it is incarnate: mythical, passable only in the mind, built for himself and part-way imaginary but shared, thankfully, with us.
• Eight Gates is the last collection of solo studio recordings Molina made before he died from complications related to alcoholism in 2013. Recorded in London around the time of the supposed spider bite and Jimi’s supposed parakeets, some of the songs (‘Whispered Away’, ‘Thistle Blue’) are fully realised – dark, moody textures that call to mind his earlier work on The Lioness.
• Note: the LP is available on indies-only ‘shortcake’ vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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P J Harvey – Dry Demos

Release date: 7 August

• Dry Demos is an 11-track collection of demos of all songs from the debut studio album Dry by PJ Harvey, available for the first time since 1992, and previously released as a bonus LP with the limited 1st pressing of the album proper. This release features brand-new artwork with previously unseen photos by Maria Mochnacz.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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Throwing Muses – Sun Racket

Release date: 4 September

• Sun Racket is Boston trio Throwing Muses’ follow-up to 2013’s Purgatory/Paradise and is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristen Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines and haunting vocals that get into your psyche.

Pre-sale offer CD £14.99 / LP £19.99

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The Killers – Imploding The Mirage

Release date: 31 December

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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Steven Wilson – The Future Bites

Release date: 29 January

• The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the internet era. Steven Wilson’s phenomenal sixth solo album is an online portal to a world of high-concept design, custom-built for the ultra-modern consumer. Where 2017’s To The Bone confronted the emerging global issues of post truth and fake news, The Future Bites places the listener in a world of 21st-century addictions. From out-of-control retail therapy, manipulative social media and the loss of individuality, The Future Bites is less a bleak vision of an approaching dystopia than a curious reading of the here and now.
• Note: The LP is available on indies-only coloured vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £25.99

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