Records of the Month

Mildlife - Chorus

Released 1st March 2024 Two-time ARIA Award-winning Naarm/Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz outfit...

Released 1st March 2024 Two-time ARIA Award-winning Naarm/Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz outfit Mildlife present their much-anticipated third studio album, Chorus. Following 2020’s Automatic and 2017’s Phase, Chorus arrives as Mildlife’s most optimistic record, serving as a sonic testament to the band’s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms of 70s psychedelic and cosmic sounds.“Chorus is about a coming together of disparate elements. Not in some sort of utopian aesthetic where every...

Everything Everything - Mountainhead

Expected Release 1st March 2024 In another world, society has built an immense mountain. To make ...

Expected Release 1st March 2024 In another world, society has built an immense mountain. To make the mountain bigger, they must make the hole they live in deeper and deeper. All of society is built around the creation of the mountain, and a mountain religion dominates all thought. At the top of the mountain is rumoured to be a huge mirror that reflects endlessly recurring images of the self, and at the bottom of the pit is a giant golden snake that is the primal fear of all believers. A “Moun...

William Doyle - Springs Eternal

Released 16th February 2024 Serving up art-pop for the anthropocene, Springs Eternal is the Mercu...

Released 16th February 2024 Serving up art-pop for the anthropocene, Springs Eternal is the Mercury-nominated, critically acclaimed artist William Doyle’s most ambitious and most playful creation to date. Taking a panoramic view of the ecstasies and agonies of life in the 2020s, the record asks how we exist as fragile flesh and blood – our hearts beating and our minds racing – in an unprecedented, almost unimaginable time of runaway climate destruction and technological expansion. Springs Ete...

Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore

Released 26th January 2024 SK says: 'Sam Herring picks over a disintegrating long-distance relati...

Released 26th January 2024 SK says: 'Sam Herring picks over a disintegrating long-distance relationship with candour but he exercises vocal restraint, knowing exactly when to unleash his trademark growl over Gerrit Welmers' synth work, which at times owes as much to William Onyeabor as it does to OMD. William Cashion's bass alternates between Hooky-esque strums, locked in step with Mike Lowry's motorik rhythms, and taking the melodic lead on the album's slower numbers. It all adds up to their...

Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da

Released 12th January 2024 SK says: ''Iechyd Da' is the excellent new album from Wirral singer-so...

Released 12th January 2024 SK says: ''Iechyd Da' is the excellent new album from Wirral singer-songwriter/producer Bill Ryder-Jones. It marries the slowcore feel of his more recent albums with the aching balladry of sophomore record 'A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart' and the compositional depth and invention of his debut, the Italo Calvino-inspired 'If...' recorded with the Liverpool Phil. It's the former Coral guitarist's widest in scope yet, with a playfulness redolent of the Super Furries, Mer...

Peter Gabriel - i/o

Release 1st December 2023 More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the releas...

Release 1st December 2023 More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel’s first album of new material since 2002’s Up.During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. “It’s a little like getting a Lego piece each month,” Peter explains. Now it’s time to stand back and adm...

Harp (Tim Smith, formerly of Midlake) - Albion

Released 1st December 2023 SK says: 'Coming some eleven years after he departed Midlake (who them...

Released 1st December 2023 SK says: 'Coming some eleven years after he departed Midlake (who themselves have released two albums, almost ten years apart in the meantime) and recorded with his wife Kathi Zung, Albion blends Smith's familiar fascination with anglophile folk and pastoral prog with a distinctly shoegazey wall of reverb, pointing to exciting new possibilities in a timeless idiom.' Bella Union are thrilled to release the long-awaited debut solo album Albion by Harp, the adopted nam...

Mayer Hawthorne - For All Time

Released 27th October 2023 Mayer Hawthorne cut his teeth in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, ...

Released 27th October 2023 Mayer Hawthorne cut his teeth in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he started making beats and DJing at the height of Detroit hip-hop. Since his debut heart-shaped seven-inch, Just Ain't Gonna Work Out, dropped via Stones Throw in 2008, Hawthorne has released four LPs, raking in accolades from esteemed publications like GQ, New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Rolling Stone. From NPR's proclamation of his imminent stardom to BBC Music's endorsement of his ...