New Release Round-Up 8th October 2021

Out Today There's a trio of Dinked Editions to be celebrated today. Two have already sold out on pre-order: JOHNNY...
Out Today There's a trio of Dinked Editions to be celebrated today. Two have already sold out on pre-order: JOHNNY FLYNN's collaboration with acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane 'Lost in The Cedar Wood' and duo JOHN's punishing 'Nocturnal Manoeuvres'. Standard formats are still available to order on those (and the Dinked JOHNs are running slightly late, so won't be available for pick-up until next week). while we still have a handful of copies left of Canadian singer-songwriter ADA LEA's beguiling, bedroomy...
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New Release Round-Up 1st October 2021

Out Today THE SPECIALS follow up their No. 1 comeback album 'Encore' with 'Protest Songs 1924-2012' which, as you may have...
Out Today THE SPECIALS follow up their No. 1 comeback album 'Encore' with 'Protest Songs 1924-2012' which, as you may have guessed, sees the remaining trio of Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter covering iconic protest songs from the likes of Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen and The Staple Singers. There are a couple of Dinked Edition releases today which we still have a handful of copies of, if you move quickly. There's literate jangle pop from Canadian duo DUCKS LTD...
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New Release Round-Up 24th September 2021

Out Today Upcoming guest TOM SPEIGHT returns with his sophomore record 'Everything's Waiting For You', featuring contributions from regular collaborator Lydia...
Out Today Upcoming guest TOM SPEIGHT returns with his sophomore record 'Everything's Waiting For You', featuring contributions from regular collaborator Lydia Clowes alongside Olly and Gale from Turin Brakes. Tom will be joining us for an instore on Tuesday 12th October and if you'd like to come along all you need to do is purchase the album on CD or LP from us and pop a note in with your order. 'Bright Magic' is an elegiac, Berlin-inspired record from PUBLIC SERVICE...
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New Release Round-Up 17th September 2021

Out Today Former Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM releases a self-titled solo record. Always a pop innovator, Buckingham recorded the album...
Out Today Former Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM releases a self-titled solo record. Always a pop innovator, Buckingham recorded the album in his home studio and produced and mixed it himself, interpolating contemporary production tricks into his folk-rock sound. 'Going Going Gone' is the first album in five years from MILD HIGH CLUB (barring the jointly-credited, Middle Eastern jazz-tinged 'Sketches Of Brunswick East' with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) and is a blissful melange of woozy soft rock synths, Latin rhythms...
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New Release Round-Up 10th September 2021.

Out Today MANIC STREET PREACHERS 'The Ultra Vivid Lament' sees the trio drawing inspiration from the record collections of their formative...
Out Today MANIC STREET PREACHERS 'The Ultra Vivid Lament' sees the trio drawing inspiration from the record collections of their formative years, which perhaps explains the mixture of layered pop bombast and melancholic nostalgia on display. Mark Lanegan guests, as does Sunflower Bean vocalist Julia Cumming. Alongside standard formats, there's a deluxe CD hardbook and an indies vinyl with an exclusive 7". MATTHEW E. WHITE has spent the six years since the release of his last solo album collaborating with Flo...
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New Release Round-Up 3rd September (and 27th August....

Out Today IRON MAIDEN return with the mammoth, samurai-themed 'Senjutsu' (loosely translated as "tactics and strategy"). Clocking in at 80-odd...
Out Today IRON MAIDEN return with the mammoth, samurai-themed 'Senjutsu' (loosely translated as "tactics and strategy"). Clocking in at 80-odd minutes, it's available on double-CD, deluxe double-CD bookpack, 3LP and indies-exclusive red 3LP. LITTLE SIMZ follows her Mercury-nominated 'Grey Area' with the brand new album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert'. It's a febrile and unflinching portrait of what it's like to be black, British and female in 2021. Produced by Inflo, the Sault mastermind behind Michael Kiwanuka's recent run of albums,...
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New Release Round-Up 20th August 2021

A slightly belated New Release Round-Up this week as we've been getting back into outstore mode with our live events....
A slightly belated New Release Round-Up this week as we've been getting back into outstore mode with our live events. Out Now On that theme, we have new offerings from two of our upcoming guests. Multiple-time SK veteran NEWTON FAULKNER returns with 'Interference (Of Light)', a sprawling lockdown epic featuring over an hour's worth of new material and interludes which sees him employ a whole host of sounds in addition to his trademark acoustic acrobatics. We've still got ticket bundles available for...
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New Release Round-Up 13th August 2021

Out Today 'Pressure Machine' is the latest from THE KILLERS. Wasting no time in following up last year's exuberant 'Imploding...
Out Today 'Pressure Machine' is the latest from THE KILLERS. Wasting no time in following up last year's exuberant 'Imploding The Mirage' and once again enlisting Shawn Everett (The War on Drugs) and Jonathan Rado (Foxygen, Alex Cameron) to produce/co-write, the new album is an intense and personal affair which sees frontman Brandon Flowers unpack his small-town Utah upbringing- resident vox-pops bridge some of the album's songs, discussing dead-end jobs and level crossing accidents. The influence of Springsteen has long...
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New Release Round-Up 6th August 2021

Out Today Bombay Bicycle Club's Jack Steadman returns in his beatmaking guise as Mr Jukes and finds a perfect foil...
Out Today Bombay Bicycle Club's Jack Steadman returns in his beatmaking guise as Mr Jukes and finds a perfect foil in the form of rapper Barney Artist. On 'The Locket' the Forest Gate MC, a fixture of London's jazz and neo-soul scene who's collaborated with Tom Misch, Jordan Rakei and Alfa Mist, spins cautionary industry tales, reference-heavy hymns of self-confidence and even wistful autobiography over Steadman's chilled, jazzy hip-hop instrumentals and woozy pop compositions, the pair evoking the joyful exuberance...
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New Release Round-Up 30th July 2021.

Out Today Pop phenom Billie Eilish returns with her highly anticipated second full-length 'Happier Than Ever'. Once again, it's a...
Out Today Pop phenom Billie Eilish returns with her highly anticipated second full-length 'Happier Than Ever'. Once again, it's a family affair with brother Finneas handling production duties on a textured and stylistically diverse album addressing the pressures of sudden fame. Available on CD, cassette, 100% recycled black vinyl and an indies opaque brown vinyl. We've also got some exclusive promo posters to give away with purchases while stocks last. 'Welcome 2 America' is a previously unissued album from Prince featuring...
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New Release Round-Up 23rd July 2021

Out Today Soul singer Leon Bridges follows a string of collaborations including the excellent Khruangbin EP 'Texas Sun' with his...
Out Today Soul singer Leon Bridges follows a string of collaborations including the excellent Khruangbin EP 'Texas Sun' with his third solo record 'Gold-Diggers Sound'. Boasting features from jazz heavyweights Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin, it continues Bridges' move away from retro soul to a contemporary R&B sound. Available on CD and vinyl, with gold foil variant sleeve exclusive to bricks and mortar shops. There's a debut full-length for composer, musician, producer and star of the Soul Jazz 'Kaleidoscope' and...
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New Release Round-Up 16th July

We may be gearing up for the RSD Drop 2 frenzy tomorrow but there's still some gems to be had...
We may be gearing up for the RSD Drop 2 frenzy tomorrow but there's still some gems to be had this New Music Friday. Out Today As the tongue-in-cheek title and cover art may suggest, 'Sob Rock' is John Mayer's tribute to the adult contemporary titans of the 1980s. Album opener 'Last Train Home' begins with the kind of backbeat and synth stabs that Toto's Porcaro brothers made a signature, while 'New Light' is propelled by a toe-tapping gentle funk....
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