Out Today Sunday's guests BEAR'S DEN release their brand new album 'Blue Hours'. Davie and Kev last joined us for 2019's excellent 'So that you might hear me' and that album's exquisitely crafted introspection is carried forward, as is some of the expansive orchestration of 'Fragments', their collaboration with composer Paul Frith, while producer Ian Grimble brings back some of the 80s adult contemporary polish which graced sophomore record 'Red Earth & Pouring Rain'. Our event is sold out, as...

Out Today A couple of albums to tell you about this RSD Eve. FONTAINES D.C. are back with their third album 'Skinty Fia' and it might just be the best yet from the Dublin quintet. Building on the swagger of 'Dogrel' and the grinding post-punk of 'A Hero's Death', it finds the band exploring new sounds like the chamber ambience of opener "In ár gCroíthe go deo" or the wistful accordion of "The Couple Across the Way". Vocalist Grian Chatten is...

Out Today 'Warm Chris' is the latest from striking New Zealand singer-songwriter ALDOUS HARDING, once again working with producer John Parish who helmed her breakthrough record 'Designer'. This album leans a lot more into the discomfiting weirdness that characterises Harding's live performances. Collaborators include Welsh indie maven H. Hawkline, jazz drummer Seb Rochford and an almost unrecognisable Jason Williamson (making his second vocal cameo of the month). Indeed, Harding herself is almost unrecognisable from track to track as she runs...

Out Today 'For The Sake of Bethel Woods' is the first MIDLAKE album since 2013's 'Antiphon' and again sees guitarist Eric Pulido taking on vocal duties in the absence of founder member Tim Smith. A near-decade away doesn't seem to have prompted a musical shift, but that's no bad thing. Like breakthrough album 'The Trials of Van Occupanther', 'Bethel Woods' draws on 70s British folk-rock, psych and prog to create impressively textured songs where flute and mellotron add colour, while Pulido's softer...

Out Today STEREOPHONICS rack up a quarter-century with new album 'Oochya'. The much loved Welsh rockers were originally planning a second Best Of (to follow 'Decade in the Sun'), but in the process of trawling through the archives Kelly Jones found a handful of unfinished tracks which demanded to be dusted down and completed. These form the bones of the brand new double-LP with several songs written from scratch to complement them. Six years on from their last album, BAND OF...

We're weathering Storm Eunice in the shop with a clutch of great indie releases but it might be the perfect opportunity for a virtual browse today. Out Today METRONOMY's 'Small World' is full of the winning grooves that Joe Mount and co. have long been renowned for, but finds them also engaging in affectionate homages to 80s smooth and 90s grunge, as well as a duet with Porridge Radio. We've got a handful of limited edition comics to give away...

Out Today Texas indie rock institution SPOON teased tenth album 'Lucifer On The Sofa' as their purest rock 'n' roll record to date and it proves to be the case. Setting out its stall with a stomping recasting of Smog's "Held", it proceeds to pile through a taut set of immaculately constructed tunes propelled by the stabbing chords and muscular drumming of co-founders Britt Daniel and Jim Eno. If 2019's Best Of 'Everything Hits At Once' was a timely reminder...

Out Today There's a brand new BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD album in the week that vocalist Isaac Wood announced he was leaving the band. Wood's vocals are among a number of stylistic shifts taking place on sophomore effort 'Ants From Up There', moving away from the frantic speak-singing of 'For The First Time' towards an emotionally raw croon, while musically there's less of a klezmer/middle-eastern jazz feel with intricate Philip Glass-esque sax/violin structures that threaten to collapse into ecstatic noise...