Records of the Month

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Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful

Released 22nd April 2022. During lockdown last year, J Spaceman would walk through an empty “Roma...

Released 22nd April 2022. During lockdown last year, J Spaceman would walk through an empty “Roman London” where the world was “full of birdsong and strangeness”, trying to make sense of all the music playing in his head at the time. The mixers and mixes of his new record weren’t working out yet. Spaceman plays 16 different instruments on Everything Was Beautiful which was put down at 11 different studios, as well as at his home. He also employed more than 30 musicians and singers including h...

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Midlake - For the Sake of Bethel Woods

Released 18th March 2022. Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of pu...

Released 18th March 2022. Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of purpose. Timeless and salient, these themes echo throughout the fifth album from Midlake, their first since Antiphon in 2013. Produced to layered, loving perfection by John Congleton, For the Sake of Bethel Woods is an album of immersive warmth and mystery from a band of ardent seekers, one of our generation’s finest: a band once feared lost themselves by fans, perhaps, but here revivified with fres...

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BODEGA - Broken Equipment

Released 11th March 2022. The follow-up to the band's acclaimed debut album, Endless Scroll (2018...

Released 11th March 2022. The follow-up to the band's acclaimed debut album, Endless Scroll (2018), and 2019's Shiny New Model EP, Broken Equipment was inspired by a book club. In the early months of 2020, the Brooklyn art-punk incendiaries gathered together with close friends to study the works of a wide range of philosophers. Passionate debates lasting long into the night became a regular occurrence, motivating the band to become asideologically unified as the weighty tomes they were readin...

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Alex Cameron - Oxy Music

Released 11th March 2022. Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into...

Released 11th March 2022. Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and Oxy Music continues on that trajectory. It’s filled with stories of people who fall outside the system and exist in the grey areas of life. And much like 2017’s Forced Witness, Oxy Music is a work of fiction. In its design - its music, lyrics and tracklist - lies the journey a person can take, if the circumstances present themselves ...

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Superchunk - Wild Loneliness

Released 25th February 2022. "Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some yea...

Released 25th February 2022. "Like every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is unskippably excellent and infectious. It’s a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and acoustic, highs and lows, and I love it all. On Wild Loneliness I hear echoes of Come Pick Me Up, Here’s to Shutting Up, and Majesty Shredding. After the (ahem, completely justifiable) anger of What a Time to Be Alive, this new record is less about what we’ve lost in these harrowing ti...

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Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa

Released 11th February 2022. Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ...

Released 11th February 2022. Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two years – both in and out of lockdown – these songs mark a shift toward something louder, wilder, and more full-colour. From the detuned guitars anchoring “The Hardest Cut,” to the urgency of “Wild", to the band’s bl...

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Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe ...

Released 11th February 2022. SK says: "A sprawling album which encompasses the breadth of Adrian...

Released 11th February 2022. SK says: "A sprawling album which encompasses the breadth of Adrianne Lenker's songwriting and the band's near-psychic interplay- from barnstorming country stompers, to stark indie, to drum machine pop- without ever sacrificing coherence or quality." Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, an...

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Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

Released 4th February 2022. Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow ...

Released 4th February 2022. Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks. But just as Vesuvius remains active, Pom...

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Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Released 4th February 2022. Black Country, New Road return today with the news that their second ...

Released 4th February 2022. Black Country, New Road return today with the news that their second album, “Ants From Up There”, will land on February 4th on Ninja Tune. Following on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut “For the first time”, the band have harnessed the momentum from that record and run full pelt into their second, with “Ants From Up There” managing to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before...

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Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again

Released 21st January 2022. SK says: "Across three brilliant albums Georiga-born, Carolina-based ...

Released 21st January 2022. SK says: "Across three brilliant albums Georiga-born, Carolina-based Fussell has established himself as perhaps the greatest contemporary embodiment of the twin scholarly and artistic roles of the folksinger. For his fourth, 'Good and Green Again', he enlists multi-instrumentalist James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn) to produce and calls back regulars Casey Toll, Libby Rodenbough and Nathan Golub, while Joe Westerlund takes over from Nathan Bowles on the drumk...

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Elvis Costello - The Boy Named If

Released 14th January 2022. On January 14th, 2022, Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, ‘The...

Released 14th January 2022. On January 14th, 2022, Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, ‘The Boy Named If,’ a new album of urgent, immediate songs with bright melodies, guitar solos that sting and a quick step to the rhythm. Costello tells us, ”The full title of this record is 'The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories).’  ‘IF,’ is a nickname for your imaginary friend; your secret self, the one who knows everything you deny, the one you blame for the shattered crockery and the heart...

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Voka Gentle - WRITHING!

Released 26th November 2021. We have a handful of copies signed by the band, while stocks last. ...

Released 26th November 2021. We have a handful of copies signed by the band, while stocks last. Operating on a plane between avant-garde indie, bubbling electronica and cosmic psychedelia, London group Voka Gentle have an addictive, amorphous sound. A three limbed beast made up of twins Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William J. Stokes, each is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer with an imperious understanding of three dimensional sound.  The newest single ‘Necrofauna / The Garden ...

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