Michael Kiwanuka - FUDGE

Released 23rd October 2026 Fudge is Michael Kiwanuka’s most free and instinctive album to date. A...

Released 23rd October 2026 Fudge is Michael Kiwanuka’s most free and instinctive album to date. A vibrant, deeply human record shaped by spontaneity, emotion, and creative joy. It’s loose, soulful, and alive with the kind of magic that only happens when the process leads the way. The album was inspired by the encouraging words of the late Chick Corea, whose interview Michael stumbled upon during the pandemic lockdown, urging him to embrace what he loved without worrying about what others migh...

Sing-Sing - The Joy Of Sing-Sing

Released 23rd October 2026 Some albums simply get better with time. Others wait patiently for the...

Released 23rd October 2026 Some albums simply get better with time. Others wait patiently for the world to catch up. As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, The Joy of Sing-Sing feels less like an overlooked curiosity and more like one of the great lost British albums of its era.When Lush came to an abrupt end in 1996 following the tragic death of drummer Chris Acland, guitarist and songwriter Emma Anderson wasn't looking to recreate the past. She was searching for an entirely new musical part...

Clara Mann - Wishbone

Released 23rd October 2026 Clara Mann’s luminous new album, Wishbone, is built on contrast; the b...

Released 23rd October 2026 Clara Mann’s luminous new album, Wishbone, is built on contrast; the brightest passages made legible by shadow, as Mann strove to picture a beautiful life and then to allow herself to want it, with absolute vulnerability. Leaning deliberately into the songwriting tradition, Mann reached for the rough-edged, performance-driven spirit of artists like Fiona Apple and Tom Waits; while keeping faith with an older lineage of plainspoken English balladry. With the folk sin...

Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber

Released 16th October 2026 Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, re...

Released 16th October 2026 Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it is the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic. It arrives today alongside lead single “Marianne” and its accompanying video, directed by Dave Meyers. Dopamine Chamber arriv...

Naomi In Blue - Is this body mine?

Released 16th October 2026 Naomi In Blue will be joining us in-store on Wednesday 21st October to...

Released 16th October 2026 Naomi In Blue will be joining us in-store on Wednesday 21st October to celebrate the release of the album. She'll be playing live in the shop from 6.15pm. Entry is FREE but please RSVP to sales@sound-knowledge.co.uk to guarantee your spot, or pre-order a copy of the album from us. In 2026 British-Chilean artist Naomi in Blue will release her debut album on Man Made Tigers. Raw, soulful, intimately moving, 'Is this body mine?' the debut album from British Chilean sin...

Dry Cleaning - Secret Love (Deluxe Edition)

Released 16th October 2026 At the beginning of this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album, ...

Released 16th October 2026 At the beginning of this year, Dry Cleaning released their new album, Secret Love. The third album from the London-based group consisting of lyricist Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard received glowing accolades across the globe. Now, Dry Cleaning announce this expanded version, Secret Love (Deluxe Edition), featuring three brand-new tracks recorded during album sessions with producer Cate Le Bon last year; ‘Grass’, ‘I ...

Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth (2026 Reissue)

Released 16th October 2026 Another Day on Earth (2005) was Brian Eno’s first song-based album sin...

Released 16th October 2026 Another Day on Earth (2005) was Brian Eno’s first song-based album since Nerve Net in 1992, and remains one of his most acclaimed solo records. It featured a young Jon Hopkins alongside long-standing collaborators Nell Catchpole, J. Peter Schwalm and Leo Abrahams, with lyrics co-written by Michel Faber and Danny Hillis. The album was launched with a public conversation between Eno and the writer Michael Bracewell at the Marble Palace in St Petersburg and its cover p...

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial: Joe's Story

Released 16th October 2026 Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story is a freshly reimagined take on Car Seat H...

Released 16th October 2026 Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story is a freshly reimagined take on Car Seat Headrest’s beloved breakout, Teens of Denial, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. On the original album, Toledo often used the name “Joe” as a pseudonym – a sly homage to Daniel Johnston. Revisiting Teens in the run-up to its 10th birthday, he felt called to give Joe a unique backstory and began tweaking the album to tell that tale. The group returned to the studio with Teens producer Steve Fisk ...

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...