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We’re delighted to be able to offer you special low prices on these forthcoming releases. These prices won’t be available after release, so order a copy now to make sure you don’t miss out!

We offer a price guarantee, so if the announced price drops before release, you will pay the lower price.

Pre-sale of the week is Off Off On by This Is The Kit, out on 23 October.

Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Release date: 17 July

Fetch The Bolt Cutters, the fifth studio album from Fiona Apple, is astonishing, intimate and demonstrates a refusal to be silenced. It’s as if she has returned to reinvent sound – the rhythms pleasing but counter, and unusual. On the title track she half-sings over a makeshift orchestra of kitchen implements, dog barks and cat yowls. The beat on ‘Under The Table’ has a seething back-and-forth pace; the extraordinary ‘For Her’ beds double-Dutch skipping-rope rhythms beneath a chorus of female voices. It’s striking how intimate Apple’s voice sounds here – half-conversational, half-self-mutters, allowing every scuff, breath and feral yelp. She is at her most familiar on ‘Ladies’, hollering over a soulful backdrop, chewing her own voice like tobacco, then letting it take sweet, sudden flight. Fetch The Bolt Cutters is full of visceral, jittery, wonderfully imperfect performances that make the album feel like a dream-like concert at Largo. It features contributions from Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg and Amy Aileen Wood.
Note: the pearl opaque vinyl is available only from record shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99 / Pearl LP £27.99

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Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas

Release date: 17 July

Lianne La Havas is the singer’s third album and her first in five years. This is an album of startling beauty and insight, made entirely on her own terms, which has been quite a journey, both geographically and metaphorically: La Havas spent a lot of time moving back and forth between the UK and the States while working on writing and exploring her own identity. As a result, the new album feels spacious and luminous. Its sunbaked sounds recall, in places, the Brazilian singer and guitarist Milton Nascimento.
Note: the LP is available on coloured vinyl, only from independent shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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Massive Wagons – House Of Noise

Release date: 17 July

House Of Noise is 12 tracks of quintessentially British hard rock ’n’ roll with an energy that it’s impossible not to get swept up in, thanks to singer Baz Mills’ mesmerising, animated and infectious showmanship and the bands’ musical muscle. Massive Wagons have forged a formidable live reputation after relentlessly touring the UK with hundreds of gigs a year. Now they are selling out shows up and down the country with a fast-growing cult following among rock fans in the UK with their brand of honest, witty and fiery British rock. The album was produced by Colin Richardson (Slipknot, Those Damn Crows, Machine Head) and is the follow-up to 2018’s Full Nelson, which gate-crashed the UK Albums Chart at #16.

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)

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: Atrocity Exhibition / Isolation / Passover / Colony / A Means To An End / 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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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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Black Midi – Sweater / 7-Eleven

Release date: 17 July

London-based Black Midi follow their debut album, Schlagenheim (“the most intense and invigorating debut of 2019” – Mojo), with a new 12" featuring Sweater and 7-Eleven. The two tracks were recorded with Speedy Wunderground’s DanCarey during the same period that resulted in Schlagenheim, and ‘Sweater’ was the last of the tracks recorded during those sessions. ‘Sweater’ opens with minimalistic instrumentation before bursting with turbulent guitar and percussion.

Available for the first time on 12".

Pre-sale offer 12" £10.99

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Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Academy

Release date: 24 July

Originally released in 2007, Trees Outside The Academy was Thurston Moore’s first solo outing since 1995’s Psychic Hearts.

Note: the LP is available on green/cream swirl vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete

Release date: 31 July

The Delta Sweete is the second studio album by Bobbie Gentry: a concept album inspired by her Mississippi childhood, it was originally released on 5th February 1968. It is Gentry’s most critically acclaimed album and has not been pressed in the UK or US since 1972. Interest in the album is at a high after Uncut recently placed it 4th in their ‘Ultimate Genre Guide’ to the best singer-songwriter albums of all time.

This 2-CD / 2-LP reissue will feature the original album newly mixed and mastered from multi-tracks by Andrew Batt, and is supplemented by out-takes and demos, featuring two previously unreleased tracks. The CD edition also features the original mono release of the album which has not appeared on CD before. Sleeve notes are supplied by Andrew, and are illustrated with unseen images from the Capitol archive.

Pre-sale offer 2-CD £14.99 / 2-LP £26.99

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Tin Machine – Tin Machine II

Release date: 17 July

Originally released in 1991, Tin Machine II’s reputation has only increased over the years. It was also the band’s last: after the supporting tour, frontman David Bowie resumed his solo career. Uncut magazine placed the album on their list of 50 Great Lost Albums (their list of great albums not currently available for purchase), calling the album ‘extraordinary’. As with all Bowie albums, there are plenty of strong tracks here to make this a must-have. The first single, ‘You Belong in Rock n’ Roll’, was released ahead of the album and peaked at No.33 in the UK charts. The second single, ‘Baby Universal’, achieved success in the USA, and the third and last single, ‘One Shot’, became an even bigger hit, reaching No.3 there. Now is the perfect time to discover this album once again, or for the first time.

Note: the LP is available on limited edition numbered silver vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £9.99 / LP £23.99

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The Chicks – Gaslighter

Release date: 17 July

Superstars, renegades, innovators, heroes, villains and mothers The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks) have grown from a band into a cultural phenomenon. Since the release of their debut album, Wide Open Spaces, in 1998, their music has stirred emotions in fans across the world, making them one of the biggest and most influential bands of our time. Gaslighter is their fifth studio album and their first new album since 2006’s Taking The Long Way, which won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. The album is produced by Jack Antonoff along with the band themselves.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £22.99

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JARV IS… – Beyond The Pale

Release date: 17 July

JARV IS… pleased to announce its debut album, Beyond The Pale, which is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since the Further Complications album in 2009.

JARV IS… a band featuring Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar vocals), Andrew McKinney (bass, vocals), Jason Buckle (synthesiser & electronic treatments) & Adam Betts (drums, percussion, vocals).

JARV IS… conceived as a way of writing songs in collaboration with an audience. As the material they were playing was in a state of flux the band decided to record their live shows so that they could monitor how the songs were developing. After an appearance at the Desert Daze festival in California, Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>) suggested that these recordings could be used as the basis for an album. Overdubs & vocals were added at Narcissus Studios in Neasden, London. Post-production work took place at Jason Buckle’s Place du Big Boss studio in Raynes Park, London. The album was mixed by Craig Silvey at Toast Studios in West London.

Note: the LP is available on indies-only transparent orange vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £26.99

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Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie

Release date: 31 July

Flaming Pie is the thirteenth release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, personally supervised by Paul McCartney and remastered at Abbey Road Studios.

Originally released on May 5, 1997, Paul’s critically acclaimed and universally beloved tenth solo album Flaming Pie ended a four-year gap between studio albums. Produced by Paul, Jeff Lynne and George Martin and featuring a supporting cast of family and friends including Ringo Starr, Steve Miller, Linda McCartney and son James, Flaming Pie is equal parts a masterclass in songcraft and a sustained burst of joyful spontaneity.

Flaming Pie would represent yet another pinnacle in Paul’s solo catalogue. Released to rapturous reviews, the album became Paul’s most commercially successful release of the ’90s, achieving his highest chart positions since the ’80s, and achieved gold certifications in the USA, UK, Japan and more.

The vinyl editions feature the remastered album cut at half speed across two 180g LPs in a gatefold sleeve with exclusive artwork and booklet. The deluxe 3-LP version adds an extra LP of unreleased home recordings in a hand-stamped white label sleeve, all housed in an outer slipcase.

The numbered, limited seven-disc (5-CD + 2-DVD) super-deluxe edition box set includes the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studios, 32 bonus audio tracks including unheard home recordings and demos, alternative studio recordings, rough mixes and B-sides including selections from Oobu Joobu parts 1-6, ‘Flaming Pie At The Mill’ (Paul’s hour-long tour of his studio), video content including the ‘In The World Tonight’ documentary, original music videos, EPKs, interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes material, a 128-page book containing previously unpublished images by Linda McCartney, expanded album artwork from the archives and the story behind the album written by Chris Heath – including track-by-track information, recipes and new interviews with Paul, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Steve Miller and key album personnel, studio notes, handwritten lyrics, the 1997 Flaming Pie issue of Club Sandwich, the official newspaper of the Paul McCartney Fanclub, downloadable 24bit 96kHz HD audio, and more.

Pre-sale offer Deluxe CD £14.99 / 2-LP £38.99 / Deluxe 3-LP £59.99 / Super-deluxe collectors edition £229.99

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Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease

Release date: 24 July

Shirley Collins is a singer who has completely regained her confidence and is singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. Recorded at Metway in Brighton, Heart’s Ease is even stronger than Lodestar, as compelling and original as Shirley’s great albums from the ’60s and ’70s. There are traditional songs, of course, from England and the USA, but there are also more new songs than in the past and, there’s even a burst of experimentation that hints at possible new directions to come.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £24.99 / Deluxe LP £27.99

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Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks In The Road

Release date: 31 July

Such Pretty Forks In The Road is the ninth (and seventh international) studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. It is her first studio album in eight years, following 2012’s Havoc And Bright Lights, and features the singles ‘Reasons I Drink’, ‘Smiling’, and ‘Diagnosis’.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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Elvis Costello – Brutal Youth

Release date: 31 July

Brutal Youth (1994) was Elvis Costello’s return to the sound heard earlier in his career, and the first album on which he was backed by The Attractions since Blood And Chocolate (1986), and featured Nick Lowe on bass. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, the Grammy Award-winning artist has had a fruitful career with over 35 albums to his name. Six of these, including Brutal Youth, were included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Brutal Youth is undoubtedly the best album Costello made in the ’90s.

Available as a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies on transparent red vinyl.

Pre-sale offer LP £28.99

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Thelonius Monk – Palo Alto

Release date: 31 July

After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, racial tensions rose across the USA. Palo Alto, a largely white college town in California, was not immune to the events of the day. Danny Scher, a rising junior at Palo Alto High School, had a dream to bring Thelonious Monk to the town to perform and help bring about racial unity in his community as well as raise funds for his school’s International Committee. After somehow securing Monk’s services to perform on Sunday 27 October, Scher initially had trouble selling tickets and convincing people that Monk was even going to show up. With many twists and turns along the way and several hundred people waiting in the school’s parking lot to await Monk’s arrival before purchasing tickets, the concert eventually happened and was a triumph in more ways that Monk or Scher could have imagined. This is a recording of that historic concert.

The line-up is: Thelonious Monk – piano / Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone / Larry Gales – bass / Ben Riley – drums.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / LP £29.99

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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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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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Liela Moss – Who The Power

Release date: 7 August

“If you’re going to deconstruct the modern psyche,” says Liela Moss, “you might as well dance to it.” On her second solo album, Who The Power, Moss fulfils that remit with all the power its title calls for. After 2018’s deeply personal My Name Is Safe In Your Mouth – a debut solo album at times serene, at others stormy, on every front sumptuous – Moss entered a period of profound creative and personal self-reflection. When she emerged, she forged an album of questioning intensity and synth-loaded drama, with the expressive force in her voice refuelled by the urgent desire to interrogate the role of selfhood in fraught times. And, crucially, backed by the urgent grooves needed for the job.

Note: the LP is available on yellow vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Erasure – The Neon

Release date: 28 August

The Neon is Erasure’s 18th studio album, following the UK Top 10 album World Be Gone, the band’s highest charting UK album in 24 years. Written and produced by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, the new album sees the band deliver a 10-track collection of uplifting and optimistic synth-pop, connecting their past and future and glistening with hope, and includes the lead single, ‘Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling)’.

The CD is a special edition packaged in a 6-panel foil-blocked card pack with a 12-page booklet. Both the LP and cassette come in special limited-edition neon colours and include a high-definition audio download code.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99 / Cassette £8.99

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The Waterboys – Good Luck Seeker

Release date: 21 August

The Waterboys – one of the most creative, loved and literate bands of the past four decades – return this summer with their 14th studio album, Good Luck, Seeker, which comes just over a year after the release of the critically acclaimed album Where The Action Is.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / LP £23.99

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Gregory Porter – All Rise

Release date: 28 August

Grammy award-winning singing sensation Gregory Porter’s 6th studio album, All Rise, is a heart-felt, joyful celebration of the evolution of his art to something even more emphatic, emotive, intimate, and universal. Along with producer Troy Miller (Laura Mvula, Jamie Cullum, Emili Sandé), Gregory takes us higher than ever with this uplifting album.

Note: the deluxe CD features a 32-page casebound book plus 2 extra tracks.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £17.99 / 2-LP £28.99

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Pixies – Bossanova (30th Anniversary)

Release date: 7 August

2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of Bossanova, the third studio album by Pixies.

Their third album in as many years, 1990 was a particularly fertile time for the band with Kim Deal also having success with The Breeders, who released their debut album Pod just a few months prior.

Featuring the singles ‘Allison’ (a tribute to jazz and blues pianist Mose Allison), ‘Dig For Fire’ and ‘Velouria’, plus the first cover to feature on one of their albums ‘Cecilia Ann’ (originally by The Surftones), Bossanova showed a less primal side to the band, with surf and space rock rising to the fore. Lyrically, Black Francis is even more cryptic with a recurring sci-fi theme running throughout, which in turn influenced Vaughan Oliver’s classic planet design for the sleeve.

To celebrate Bossanova hitting its third decade, 4AD are releasing a limited red vinyl edition with the original 16-page booklet being reinserted, having previously only been available with the initial UK LP pressing.

Pre-sale offer Limited Red LP £21.99

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Bright Eyes – Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was

Release date: 21 August

A lone pair of footsteps meanders down a street in Omaha, into the neighbourhood bar and then into a near-imperceptible tangle of conversations – about wars, sleepless nights – a surrealist din pushing against the sound of ragtime. Then, as the background quiets, a line rings out clearly: “I think about how much people need – what they need right now is to feel like there’s something to look forward to. We have to hold on. We have to hold on.” Thus we enter the fitting, cacophonic introduction to Bright Eyes’ tenth studio album and first release since 2011. Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was is an enormous record caught in the profound in-between of grief and clarity – one arm wrestling its demons, the other gripping the hand of love, in spite of it.

The end of Bright Eyes’ unofficial hiatus came naturally. Conor Oberst pitched the idea of getting the band back together during a 2017 Christmas party at Bright Eyes bandmate Nathaniel Walcott’s Los Angeles home. The two huddled in the bathroom and called Mike Mogis, who was Christmas shopping at an Omaha mall. Mogis immediately said yes. There was no specific catalyst for the trio, aside from finding comfort amidst a decade of brutal change. Sure, ‘Why now?’ is the question, but for a project whose friendship is at the core, it was simply: ‘Why not?’

Note: the LP is available on indies-only transparent red/transparent blue vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / 2-LP £24.99 / Cassette £8.99

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Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight Rises: Original Soundtrack

Release date: 7 August

The Dark Knight Rises is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack to the film directed by Christopher Nolan, composed by the legendary Hans Zimmer (Inception, Interstellar, Gladiator). Zimmer said that in his attempt to create a sound that nobody has ever heard, he had a very ambitious idea for the film, but that it was so experimental, he didn’t know if it would actually work. As with the soundtracks for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, this album features a beautiful array of distinctive, unforgettable pieces that capture the essence of the characters, the film’s major sequences/moments and exemplary pacing.

The Dark Knight Rises is available as a limited edition of 600 for the UK individually numbered copies on silver & black marbled vinyl. The wonderful package includes a 4-page insert, liner notes by Christopher Nolan, an exclusive litho of movie poster and a magnifique fridge magnet.

Pre-sale offer LP £29.99

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Idris Ackamoor And The Pyramids – Shaman!

Release date: 7 August

Influential jazz collective Idris Ackamoor And The Pyramids return with an epic opus, Shaman!, featuring a fresh line-up including original 1970s Pyramids member Dr. Margaux Simmons on flute, Bobby Cobb on guitar, long-term associate Sandra Poindexter on violin, Ruben Ramos on bass, Gioele Pagliaccia on drums and Jack Yglesias on percussion. The band transitions from the political and social commentaries of 2018’s acclaimed An Angel Fell into more introspective themes.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-LP £29.99

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Goldfrapp – Supernature

Release date: 14 August

Originally released in 2005, Supernature has been out of print for many years. It is Goldfrapp’s most commercially successful album and includes their most popular single ‘Ooh La La’.

The album reached #2 in the UK Charts, selling over 50,000 copies in its first week, and was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. The Guardian described it as “a brash, beautiful celebration of love and dancing” while Rolling Stone declared the album “toxic and delicious” and “will make you do bad things – and like it”.

Note: the LP is available on translucent green vinyl with an exclusive art print of the original artwork.

Pre-sale offer LP £25.99

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Blues Pills – Holy Moly

Release date: 21 August

Under the layers of heavy psychedelic blues-rock and Elin Larsson’s soulful and powerful voice, the core of Blues Pills has always been the restless search for change. Change in the human mind and the musical influences they embraced themselves with, from blackened soul to the trippy rides through ’60s garage rock music and the devil’s blues. During their break, Blues Pills has been through some kind of reincarnation, that has led to the new self-produced and recorded album Holy Moly!, mixed by the award-winning Andrew Scheps.

Note: the LP is available on red and gold splatter vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / LP £28.99 / Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set £48.99

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P J Harvey – Rid Of Me

Release date: 21 August

Rid Of Me, the second studio album by PJ Harvey and her first for Island Records, gets a vinyl reissue. Produced by Steve Albini and originally released in May 1993, Rid Of Me features the singles ‘50ft Queenie’ and ‘Man-Size’. The album charted at number 3 in the UK. This reissue is faithful to the original recording and package, with the vinyl master cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering under the guidance of Steve Albini. The 180g black vinyl LP is housed in a full-colour outer sleeve with a printed inner sleeve. The packages also includes a download card for 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV files.

Pre-sale offer LP £22.99

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P J Harvey – 4-Track Demos

Release date: 21 August

4-Track Demos is a vinyl-only reissue of a 1993 collection of demos written and recorded at PJ Harvey’s home during 1991–1992. It includes eight demos of songs from the album Rid Of Me, which was released earlier in that year along with six demos of additional songs. This reissue is faithful to the original package, with the vinyl master cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. The 180g black vinyl LP is housed in a full-colour outer sleeve with a printed inner sleeve. The packages also includes a download card for 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV files.

Pre-sale offer LP £22.99

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Dan Penn – Living On Mercy

Release date: 28 August

Dan Penn, the pioneer of country soul and writer of such classic hits as ‘Do Right Woman’, ‘Dark End of The Street’ and ‘I’m Your Puppet’, shines on Living On Mercy, his first release of new original material since Nobody’s Fool in 1973 and his first full production studio album since 1995’s Do Right Man. Recorded in Nashville and Muscle Shoals alongside their finest musicians, Penn turns in a performance as timeless as the genre itself.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99

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Mercury Rev – All Is Dream

Release date: 28 August

All Is Dream, the sequel to Deserter’s Songs, was originally released on V2 in 2001 and boasted a more expansive, cinematic production than its predecessor (again courtesy of ex-member Dave Fridmann, by this time arguably the most in-demand producer in alternative US rock). The record was warmly received by critics and Mercury Rev’s fans alike, enjoying higher chart positions than its predecessor (No. 11 UK, No. 17 US, Top 40 in Australia and in various European countries, etc.). With all previous vinyl editions of All Is Dream now hard to find, this new version not only satisfies demand for one of the band’s most important records but adds a bonus disc featuring various B-sides and out-takes which were unveiled on last year’s 4-CD book set. Limited to 1000 copies only.

Note: the LP is available on marbled red and black vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £31.99

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Walter Trout – Ordinary Madness

Release date: 28 August

For Walter Trout, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’. Across his five-decade career, the great US bluesman’s music has always been a lifeline and call-to-arms, reminding listeners they are not alone. Now, as the world seeks solace from a tragedy that has touched us all, he comes armed with a boundary-exploring new studio album, Ordinary Madness, containing eleven searingly honest songs that bring his fans even closer.

Note: the LP is available on red vinyl.

Pre-sale offer Deluxe CD £17.99 / LP £22.99

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Yello – Point

Release date: 28 August

Undeniably unique and inspirational to generations of DJs and producers, Swiss electronic pioneers Yello return with their 14th studio album, Point. Musically, the album takes the classic Yello sound of records like Stella, One Second and Flag and twists it into something ultra-modern. It’s part spy film, part Dali-painting, part strobe lit dance floor, part 4D car chase and part deep space torch song. It’s Yello, absolutely on point.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £24.99

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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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IDLES – Ultra Mono

Release date: 25 September

Following Brutalism (2017) and Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018), two releases that garnered global critical acclaim, IDLES return with their highly anticipated third album, Ultra Mono. Sonically constructed to capture the feeling of a hip-hop record (including production contribution from Kenny Beats), the album doubles down on the vitriolic sneer and blunt social commentary of their past work. Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up clichés and spits them out as high art for the masses. This is momentary acceptance of the self. This is Ultra Mono.

Tracklist: / 1. War / 2. Grounds / 3. Mr. Motivator / 4. Anxiety / 5. Kill Them With Kindness / 6. Model Village / 7. Ne Touche Pas Moi / 8. Carcinogenic / 9. Reigns / 10. The Lover / 11. A Hymn / 12. Danke

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / Limited Edition Vortex Vinyl £20.99 / Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl £29.99 / Cassette £10.99

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Bill Callahan – Gold Record

Release date: 4 September

For his first record in … uh, well, just a little over a year(!), Bill Callahan brings us his first Gold Record. They can’t all be gold, and they’re not all six years apart either – all good! You could probably call the album ‘Gold Records’, too: all the songs have a standalone feel, like singles, meant for you to have a deep encounter with all of a sudden, from the start of the song to the finish. And what do you got when you have a record full of singles – and let’s face it, hit singles, at that? That’s a Gold Record for you.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £22.99 / Cassette £11.99

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The Flaming Lips – American Head

Release date: 11 September

Multiple award-winning American legends The Flaming Lips are pleased to announce the release of their 21st studio album, American Head. The album comprises thirteen new cinematic tracks produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them, ‘God And The Policeman’ featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. American Head takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date.

Note: the LP is available on tri-colour vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £24.99

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Cat Stevens / Yusuf – Tea For The Tillerman 2

Release date: 18 September

“Like it was destiny waiting to happen, Tea For The Tillerman² feels like the timing of its message has arrived again.” – Yusuf / Cat Stevens

50 years on from the release of Tea For The Tillerman, the 1970 multi-platinum selling, era-defining album that made him a superstar, this new set sees Yusuf recast the same eleven songs for a new age with dramatic results. Half a century and an entire universe of experiences after they were originally laid down on tape, Tea For The Tillerman² is a beautiful reunion between the artist and the songs that helped define the melodious ’70s. Since its release half a decade ago, the impact of Tillerman and its suite of songs – including ‘Father And Son’, ‘Wild World’ and ‘On The Road To Find Out’ – have subtly intertwined with the fabric of popular culture.

At this most volatile and uncertain time, such values are entirely deserving of representation and with Tea For The Tillerman², a whole new generation will discover this album all over again.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £20.99

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Run The Jewels – 4

Release date: 18 September

Recorded primarily at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studios and the iconic Electric Lady Studios in New York City, 4 represents two years of intensive writing, recording, distilling and amplifying the most potent elements of Run The Jewels’ music. The result is a collection of wall-to-wall bangers illuminating the group’s unique ability to straddle the worlds of pointed social commentary and raw, boisterous fun.

Note: the 2-LP version is available on neon magenta vinyl; the 4-LP version is available on neon magenta and gold vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / 2-LP £29.99 / 4-LP £39.99

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A Certain Ratio – ACR Loco

Release date: 25 September

Back with their first new album in 12 years, a confident and revitalised ACR jumped back into the studio following their most successful tour in over 20 years. ACR Loco feels like an accumulation of ACR’s DNA from point zero in 1977 through to 2020 and sounds like a band who have effortlessly perfected their craft. An album to dance to, cry to, fall in love to and most importantly, to party to. On the album, core ACR members Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson are joined by long-term partners Tony Quigley, Denise Johnson and Matt Steele, plus special guests Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor and Gemma Cullingford, Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey and Manchester luminaries Mike Joyce and Eric Random.

Note: the LP is available on randomly coloured vinyl (red white blue or turquoise).

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £21.99 / Cassette £8.99

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The Fall – The Infotainment Scan

Release date: 25 September

Demon Records presents four new vinyl reissues from Mark E. Smith and The Fall, pressed on clear 140g vinyl and housed in printed inner sleeves featuring new designs by original cover artist Pascal Le Gras.

The Infotainment Scam was first released in 1993 on Permanent Records and became The Fall’s highest charting album when it entered the UK albums chart at #9. The album is considered The Fall’s most accessible album and stands as a high point in their vast and varied catalogue. Highlights include a cover of Sister Sledge’s ‘Lost In Music’, ‘Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room’ and ‘Glam Racket’, and is now back on vinyl for the first time in nearly three decades.

Note: the LP is available on clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer LP £20.99

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The Fall – Middle Class Revolt

Release date: 25 September

Demon Records presents four new vinyl reissues from Mark E. Smith and The Fall, pressed on clear 140g vinyl and housed in printed inner sleeves featuring new designs by original cover artist Pascal Le Gras.

After the success of 1993’s The Infotainment Scam, The Fall returned to the studio to record Middle Class Revolt. Whilst it didn’t reach the same commercial heights, the album includes some of The Fall’s post popular tracks. Highlights include ‘Hey! Student’, ‘15 Ways’ and ‘Behind The Counter’, as well as covers of ‘War’ And ‘Shut Up!’

Note: the LP is available on clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer LP £20.99

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The Fall – The Twenty-Seven Points: Live 92–95

Release date: 25 September

Demon Records presents four new vinyl reissues from Mark E. Smith and The Fall, pressed on clear 140g vinyl and housed in printed inner sleeves featuring new designs by original cover artist Pascal Le Gras.

The Twenty-Seven Points is an album of live recordings made by The Fall between 1992 and 1995. Often seen by fans as one of the only ‘proper’ Fall albums, the recordings capture the chaotic atmosphere of the band’s live shows (complete with onstage mishaps and walk-offs). Featuring performances of songs from across The Fall’s back-catalogue including ‘Big New Prinz’, ‘Lost In Music’ and ‘Mr Pharmacist’.

Note: the LP is available on clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 2-LP £28.99

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Mark E Smith – The Post Nearly Man

Release date: 25 September

Demon Records presents four new vinyl reissues from Mark E. Smith and The Fall, pressed on clear 140g vinyl and housed in printed inner sleeves featuring new designs by original cover artist Pascal Le Gras.

The Post Nearly Man is the debut solo album by Mark E. Smith. Recorded in part at Pete Waterman’s studio, the album was first released in 1998 and is a mix of spoken word, sound collage, and samples of Fall music, resulting in one of Smith’s most experimental releases. The complete album is now released on vinyl for the very first time.

Note: the LP is available on clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer LP £20.99

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Prince – Sign O’ The Times

Release date: 25 September

Sign O’ The Times was the ninth studio album by American singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Prince. The album is the follow-up to Parade (1986) and was Prince’s first album following the disbanding of The Revolution. The album features the singles ‘Sign O’ the Times’, ‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’, ‘U Got The look’ and ‘I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man’, and has been remastered for the very first time by its original mastering engineer, Bernie Grundman.

The LP is available on peach vinyl. The 3-CD and 4-LP Deluxe Editions include single mixes and edits released during the same period as the album.

The Super-Deluxe Editions include 63 previously unreleased tracks and a previously unreleased 2+ hour video concert performance from Prince’s vault that illuminates his wide-ranging and prolific creativity during this era: a total of 92 audio tracks.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / Deluxe 3-CD £19.99 / 2-LP £39.99 / 4-LP £74.99 / Super Deluxe CD Box set £189.99 / Super Deluxe LP Box set £289.99

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Sufjan Stevens – The Ascension

Release date: 25 September

The Ascension is the eighth solo studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens, and the long-awaited follow-up to Carrie & Lowell.

Note: the limited edition LP comes on clear vinyl.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £23.99 / Limited Edition LP £27.99 / Cassette £8.99

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Foals – Collected Reworks

Release date: 9 October

From their early days hosting parties in Oxford through to the huge success of their two-part Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost album, Foals have consistently explored their interest in dance and electronica. Now the band chart the most essential remixes from their career so far as they share the new remix package Collected Reworks Vol 1.

The tracks on this set feature an eclectic range of artists who have uncovered new angles to Foals’ discography. It includes one of the earliest remixes of their music, in which Ewan Pearson blends Balearic bliss into ‘Olympic Airways’, as well as Solomun’s huge version of ‘Late Night’, which has been viewed over 50 million times at YouTube. Another standout moment is Hot Chip’s inventive interpretation of ‘My Number’.

Note: the three discs in this set are pressed on mint green, yellow and pink vinyl.

Pre-sale offer 3-LP £28.99

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Travis – 10 Songs

Release date: 9 October

10 Songs, the brand-new album from Travis, holds you in its own emotional microclimate at the outset and keeps you there. It’s also a grown-up record about the way life comes at love and what love does to weather those challenges. Every track on this album carries an even load. No passengers here. Nowhere to hide.

The deluxe versions include an extra disc containing demo versions of the 10 songs. The deluxe CD comes in a clamshell box, and the deluxe LPs are pressed on coloured vinyl: 1 red and 1 blue.

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / Deluxe CD £14.99 / LP £21.99 / Deluxe 2-LP £25.99

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Jonsi – Shiver

Release date: 2 October

Shiver is the exciting and beautiful second solo record from LA-based Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi. Not too long ago Jónsi was travelling through London where he met up with iconoclastic producer A.G. Cook, whom he admired for his boundary-breaking work with the PC music collective. He had no expectation for the meeting, but the more they talked, the more he realized they might be perfect collaborators. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years,” Jónsi says. “I get tired of everything really easily. I always want things to be fun and exciting and fresh, and doing another album … I just wanted to have a different approach.”

Note: the LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and is only available from indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £12.99 / 2-LP £29.99

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Roger Waters – Us + Them

Release date: 2 October

Us + Them presents the powerful music of Roger Waters, founder member and creative force behind Pink Floyd, in stunning form. The album chronicles Waters’ acclaimed 2017–2018 tour and highlights a message of human rights, liberty and love.

Pre-sale offer CD £14.99 / 3-LP £39.99

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Nothing But Thieves – Moral Panic

Release date: 23 October

Pre-sale offer CD £11.99 / LP £22.99

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This Is The Kit – Off Off On

Release date: 23 October

Since their 2008 debut album Krülle Bol, This Is The Kit (lead by Kate Stables) have unpicked emotional knots and woven remarkable stories. Even by her high standards, however, Off Off On is a beautifully clear distillation of Stables’ song-writing gifts.

By the end of 2018, the band had finished touring their last album, the talismanic Moonshine Freeze – leading to Kate’s Ivor Novello nomination, but when it came to Stables’ natural impulse to start the next record, her efforts were diverted by an invitation to join The National on the road for multiple tours and TV appearances – a continuation of the role she took on their album I Am Easy To Find. “It was so brilliant when I was writing to be away from my songs and the responsibility of being in charge of a band or a project – I think it really helped my writing and my getting through whatever I needed to get through.”

Richly illuminating and acutely sensitive to the pulses and currents of life, Off Off On shows This Is The Kit overflowing with ideas. In difficult times, it’s a record that feels like a lifeline, moving against the tide, standing against the storm. Keep going.

Note: the LP is available on red vinyl, exclusive to indie shops.

Pre-sale offer CD £10.99 / LP £17.99

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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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