Records of the Month

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...

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...

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...

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer...

Released 17th October 2025 SK says: "TWIABP follow 2021's sprawling, proggy Illusory Walls with a...

Released 17th October 2025 SK says: "TWIABP follow 2021's sprawling, proggy Illusory Walls with a complete volte face- a streamlined, punishing metalcore album with screamed vocals courtesy of guests from the likes of Full Of Hell and END (even chief vocalist David Bello, one of the scene's mellower singers, has a noticeably angrier delivery!) Still full of the strong imagery and thoughtful political critique that has always elevated the Connecticut band's work but foregrounding guitarist Chr...

Baxter Dury - Allbarone

Released 12th September 2025 SK says: 'Beats courtesy of star producer Paul Epworth give Baxter D...

Released 12th September 2025 SK says: 'Beats courtesy of star producer Paul Epworth give Baxter Dury fresh impetus and as close to a pop album as the London wordsmith can muster. The album's title-track spins a tale of being stood up in a bleak chain pub, cleverly contracted into more salubrious sounding environs, especially cooed in the Estuary accent of frequent collaborator JGrrey. "Return of the Sharp Heads" boasts a nightmarishly woozy bassline that his old man's sparring partner Norman ...

The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie

Released 29th August 2025 SK says: 'Another corker from the peppy Kiwi indie quartet led by Liz S...

Released 29th August 2025 SK says: 'Another corker from the peppy Kiwi indie quartet led by Liz Stokes. 2022's Expert in a Dying Field pitched Stokes' witty, vulnerable songwriting against power pop guitar rhythms and irresistible vocal harmonies to stunning effect. Tackling similar themes here, there's a layer of subtle experimentation and a strong jangle influence that makes this one a different but just as sweet pleasure.' Written in Los Angeles and self- recorded in the band's hometown of...