Dance/Electronica

Nils Frahm - Old Friends New Friends

Released 3rd December 2021. Nils Frahm has confirmed details of a new double album, Old Friends N...

Released 3rd December 2021. Nils Frahm has confirmed details of a new double album, Old Friends New Friends, which will be released on December 3, 2021, by LEITER, the label he set up with his manager, Felix Grimm. The collection gathers together 23 solo piano tracks recorded between 2009 and 2021, almost all hitherto unreleased but, for one reason or another, omitted from previous albums and projects. Neither quite a new LP nor exactly a compilation, it offers “an anatomy of all my ways of t...

Metronomy - Small World

Released 18th February 2022. Now on album number seven, Metronomy has continued where many of the...

Released 18th February 2022. Now on album number seven, Metronomy has continued where many of their 2000s ‘cool’ band peers have dropped off along the way. Small World is a return to simple pleasures, nature, an embracing in part of more pared down, songwriterly sonics (some moments wouldn’t sound amiss on a Wilco release), all while asking broader existential questions: which feels at least somewhat rooted in the period of time during which it was made – 2020. For all that Mount seems to thi...

Bonobo - Fragments

Released 14th January 2022. Bonobo has announced Fragments, a new album that will be released Jan...

Released 14th January 2022. Bonobo has announced Fragments, a new album that will be released January 14, 2022 (Ninja Tune), Along with today’s announcement, Bonobo has also shared the lead single “Rosewood.” Fragments is the most emotionally intense record that he - aka Simon Green - has ever had to make.  It’s no surprise that it’s also his masterpiece. The album features Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, O’Flynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.  Born first out of fragments of idea...

Tirzah - Colourgrade

Released 1st October 2021. Colourgrade follows on from 2018’s immediate cult classic LP, Devotion...

Released 1st October 2021. Colourgrade follows on from 2018’s immediate cult classic LP, Devotion. It forms a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time, in the depths of promoting Devotion and recorded soon after the birth of her first child and shortly before her second child was born. The album explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a ...

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine (National Album ...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. Re-press ...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. Re-press of 2020’s hugely successful and critically acclaimed LP “Róisín Machine” (an SK Album of the Year) in limited edition 2LP gatefold splatter vinyl for National Album Day 2021 release by Skint Records.

A Certain Ratio - Loco Remezclada

Released 5th November 2021. Following their latest trifecta of EP releases, A Certain Ratio retur...

Released 5th November 2021. Following their latest trifecta of EP releases, A Certain Ratio return with the remix album Loco Remezclada. The remix album takes all 10 tracks from 2020’s ACR Loco + ‘Down & Dirty’ from EPA and puts them in the hands of a sensational selection of producers and artists including Lou Hayter, LoneLady, Lounge Society, The Orielles, Maps, Sink Ya Teeth, Skream, Doctor Pieter, Chris Massey, Colleen Cosmo, Number and Muddy Feet. The album launches with the remix of...

Blancmange - Commercial Break

Release 24th September 2021. Blancmange are set to release a new album, Commercial Break - their ...

Release 24th September 2021. Blancmange are set to release a new album, Commercial Break - their 14th - which explores acoustic textures and field recordings within their synthesiser exoskeleton. Co-produced by Benge and mixed at his Memetune Studios in Cornwall, the album includes the following sounds within the songs, so listen out for . . . Two electric saws; Waves breaking on beach; People talking/moving (indistinct words); A dishwasher; Ambient mic recording to pick up background noise;C...

Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop - L...

Released 21st January 2022. René Laloux’s celebrated 1973 sci-fi animation ‘La Planète Sauvage...

Released 21st January 2022. René Laloux’s celebrated 1973 sci-fi animation ‘La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)’, is overhauled with a re-imagined soundtrack by electronic modernists Stealing Sheep and legendary sound innovators The Radiophonic Workshop. This exclusive release is part of Fire Records’ re-imagined score series, and is released on Delia Derbyshire Day 2021.  “No institution has had a greater impact on the development of electronic music than the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.”...