Beck - Ride Lonesome

Released 18th September 2026 We're hosting a release day listening party at 6pm on Friday 18th Se...

Released 18th September 2026 We're hosting a release day listening party at 6pm on Friday 18th September. All attendees will receive a postcard and there's a tote bag to give away with pre-orders/purchases of the album. Beck returns with Ride Lonesome, his first album of all-new material since the GRAMMY-winning Hyperspace, arriving September 18 via Capitol Records. Harkening back to the rich, atmospheric sounds of Morning Phase and Sea Change, the album reunites Beck with musicians from thos...

Echo & The Bunnymen - Apples For Isaac

Released18th September 2026 Apples For Isaac is a monumental return from Echo & The Bunnymen,...

Released18th September 2026 Apples For Isaac is a monumental return from Echo & The Bunnymen, their first album of newly-written songs in over a decade. After years spent performing their immense catalogue of classics to audiences around the world, the Bunnymen have recorded an album that is as bold as it is vulnerable, that perfectly captures the essence of what makes the Bunnymen so great. From the first few moments of opener ‘Take Me By The Hand’ it’s apparent that the band have lost n...

bebadoobee - Pylon

Released 18th September 2026 beabadoobee returns with her 4th studio album 'Pylon’. Written on th...

Released 18th September 2026 beabadoobee returns with her 4th studio album 'Pylon’. Written on the road whilst supporting the acclaimed and chart topping ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’ and crafted with collaborators including Hayley Williams, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Chino Moreno of Deftones and Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall, ‘Pylon’ touches on classic grunge, midwest emo and ‘90s radio rock, zeroing in on a sound that is both more intense and more direct than any of her previous records. Bo...

Jake Xerxes Fussell - The Old Beloved Path

Released 18th September 2026 Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devoted listener an...

Released 18th September 2026 Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devoted listener and contemplative interpreter of folk songs, drawing from a deep personal reservoir of favorites. The Old Beloved Path, Fussell's sixth album, is raw and intimate, stripping away outside noise and settling into a hypnotic rhythm. Tradition and memory intertwine throughout. Fussell will support the album with headline dates across the United States, the UK, and Europe, plus festival appearances throu...

Way Dynamic - Massive Shoe

Released 18th September 2026 Way Dynamic, the solo project of Melbourne’s Dylan Young, releases i...

Released 18th September 2026 Way Dynamic, the solo project of Melbourne’s Dylan Young, releases internationally Massive Shoe – a third album that’s playful and understated, luminous and textured. Massive Shoe is minimalist folk-pop, art rock and baroque pop, produced and largely played by Young, who moonlights in Melbourne’s beloved Cool Sounds and Good Morning and has played drums with Snowy Band and Kankawa Nagarra.It’s tempting to only compare these songs to those of yesteryear – Young’s f...

Rodrigo y Gabriela - OurHome

Released 18th September 2026 Grammy-winning guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela returns to the textural...

Released 18th September 2026 Grammy-winning guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela returns to the textural fluidity of acoustic instrumentation on their new album ‘OurHome’. Self-produced in a Tokyo studio, the odyssey-like album unfolds with an otherworldly beauty achieved with guests from former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman to Japanese jazz pianist Hiromi. OurHome echoes all the transcendence and serenity that Rodrigo y Gabriela have routinely experienced in their journeys to Japan.

Rhiannon Giddens - Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Released 18th September 2026 Rhiannon Giddens’ new album Hope is the Thing with Feathers was insp...

Released 18th September 2026 Rhiannon Giddens’ new album Hope is the Thing with Feathers was inspired by the beauty of people coming together and drawing strength from each other. It was intentionally recorded live with no frills and few overdubs, just pure and essential music that captures the feeling of community, clarity, as well as the joy and power of creating together. From exploring the lineages that make American music to the community-oriented spirit in which it was conceived and rec...

The Mary Wallopers - PADDYWHACKERY

Released 18th September 2026 Dundalk’s finest The Mary Wallopers have announced details of their ...

Released 18th September 2026 Dundalk’s finest The Mary Wallopers have announced details of their third album – produced by The Coral’s James Skelly and packed with their own songs - a new single and their biggest headline tour to date, including arena shows in Scotland and Ireland Paddywhackery follows up 2023’s hugely acclaimed Irish Rock’n’Roll. That album saw the band grow in confidence, writing their own songs for the first time. Paddywhackery finds them leaping forwards to create an albu...

Shearwater - The New World

Released 31st July 2026 SK says: "An intense and meaningful connection to the natural world is a ...

Released 31st July 2026 SK says: "An intense and meaningful connection to the natural world is a hallmark of a Shearwater record- perhaps no surprise, bandleader Jonathan Meiburg is a qualified biologist and published author- and the songs here, augmented by birdcalls and field recordings, find it a theme that has become all the more urgent in a world of AI, deepfakes and political deception. Comparison to Talk Talk is almost irresistible, not just because of the aural similarity of Meiburg's...

The Lemon Twigs - Look For Your Mind!

Released 8th May 2026 SK says: 'Completing a trilogy of sorts for the Captured Tracks label which...

Released 8th May 2026 SK says: 'Completing a trilogy of sorts for the Captured Tracks label which has seen the prodigiously talented D'Addario brothers focus their obvious musical chops into highly melodic throwback radio hits that could have arrived straight from the Golden Age of guitar pop, Look For Your Mind! is trippier than its predecessors, leaning more into the 60's end of their sound than the 70's they explored on A Dream Is All We Know. They've never shied from wearing their influen...

American Football - American Football LP 4

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'The godfathers of Midwest emo return with a third full-length sin...

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'The godfathers of Midwest emo return with a third full-length since they reformed back in 2016. Having iterated and refined their trademark blend of cascading guitar arpeggios and dark lyrics burnished occasionally by vibraphones and trumpet across three albums in twenty-five years, LP4 sees them probe new ground with tasteful contributions from members of Turnstile and Rainer Maria. At times recalling the interlocking experimentation of fellow Chicagoans Torto...

Hiss Golden Messenger - I'm People

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'Another album of exceptional songcraft from MC Taylor, who has lo...

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'Another album of exceptional songcraft from MC Taylor, who has long since mastered the art of soulful country rockers with a socially conscious lyrics and deep hooks. Recorded as a live band in the studio by producer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman (Cassandra Jenkins, The Hold Steady), it features a dreamy cast of backing vocalists including Kaufman's Bonny Light Horseman bandmate Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats), Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), Dawes' Goldsmith...

Thundercat - Distracted

Released 3rd April 2026 SK says: "A kaleidoscopic meditation on relationships, grief and neurodiv...

Released 3rd April 2026 SK says: "A kaleidoscopic meditation on relationships, grief and neurodiversity, helmed by three exec producers who bring their own flavours and collaborators: hitmaker Greg Kurstin, Kenneth 'Kenny Beats' Blume (fresh from Geese's mega 'Getting Killed') and longtime mentor Flying Lotus. 'cat's acolytes DOMi and JD Beck join him on the jazz fusion workout "Candlelight", The Lemon Twigs lend Brian Wilson/Todd Rundgren power pop harmonies to a couple of songs, Tame Impala...

Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Written into Changes

Released 20th March 2026 Change, they say, is the only constant in life. Fittingly, multi‑hyphena...

Released 20th March 2026 Change, they say, is the only constant in life. Fittingly, multi‑hyphenate musician Avalon Emerson sounds at home harnessing the steady flux of her existence on Written into Changes, the memoiristic second album released under her Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker. A work of rigorous invention and revision, the album’s themes of personal and relationship evolution “came into clarity after they were all done,” according to Emerson. The making of Changes was, appro...

Voka Gentle - Domestic Bliss

Released 6th February 2026 Absolutely delighted to welcome back the brilliant Voka Gentle to the ...

Released 6th February 2026 Absolutely delighted to welcome back the brilliant Voka Gentle to the shop on Wednesday 4th March. The experimental trio made up of Marlborough's own William J Stokes and twins Imogen and Ellie Mason will be playing a short set from 6.30pm in-store to celebrate the release of their brand new album 'Domestic Bliss'. If you'd like to come along, you can RSVP to sales@sound-knowledge.co.uk or order a copy of the album from us below to guarantee your spot. Vintage recor...

Gorillaz - The Mountain

Released 27th February 2026 SK says: "A sprawling, technicolour meditation on mortality- particul...

Released 27th February 2026 SK says: "A sprawling, technicolour meditation on mortality- particularly the Eastern approach- with an impressive cast of guests including Indian musicians Anoushka Shankar, Ajay Prasanna and Asha Bhosle, Syrian great Omar Souleyman, rappers Black Thought and yasiin bey, bands Sparks and IDLES, and indie royalty in Johnny Marr and the late Mark E. Smith (one of a number of posthumous vocal appearances that appropriately grace the album, alongside Dennis Hopper, To...