Records of the Month

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...

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 ...

W. H. Lung - Vanities

Released 12th November 2021. “We were raring to go,” says W. H. Lung’s Tom Sharkett of the band’s...

Released 12th November 2021. “We were raring to go,” says W. H. Lung’s Tom Sharkett of the band’s desire to keep the momentum going after the huge success of their debut album. 2019’s Incidental Music - a vivacious concoction of krautrock, synth pop and infectious grooves - topped end of year lists, with the likes of Piccadilly Records, Resident and ourselves here at SK all naming it album of the year. However, it quickly became apparent that a repeat performance was of no interest to the ban...

Snail Mail - Valentine

Released 5th November 2021. On her 2018 debut album Lush, seventeen-year-old Lindsey Jordan sang ...

Released 5th November 2021. On her 2018 debut album Lush, seventeen-year-old Lindsey Jordan sang “I’min full control / I’m not lost / Even when it’s love / Even when it’s not”. Her naturalability to be many things at once resonated with a lot of people. The contradiction ofconfidence and vulnerability, power and delicacy, had the impact of a wrecking ballwhen put to tape. It was an impressive and unequivocal career-making moment forJordan.  On Valentine, her sophomore album out November 5th o...

The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

Released 29th October 2021.  SK says: "If their breakthrough 'Lost In The Dream' was a driving h...

Released 29th October 2021.  SK says: "If their breakthrough 'Lost In The Dream' was a driving heartland rock epic powered by Motorik rhythms and its follow-up 'A Deeper Understanding' a complex, ruminative beast, produced in the kind of hermetic studio conditions favoured variously by My Bloody Valentine and Steely Dan, then last year's tour-documenting 'Live Drugs' hinted at an earthier, more languid direction, in between stretched out versions of their hits. It's this territory which 'I D...

BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album....

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album. SK says: 'A first album from BBNG without founder member Matthew Tavares finds them moving away from the instrumental hip-hop sound of their earlier work to a European-flavoured jazz, blending ECM saxes and Portico Quartet textures. Closing track 'Talk Meaning' is a spiritual jazz epic propelled by string charts from the great Arthur Verocai.' BADBADNOTGOOD return with their highly anticipated ne...

Low - HEY WHAT

Released 10th September 2021. Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast ...

Released 10th September 2021. Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of being alive, to turn the duality of existence into hymns we can share, Low present HEY WHAT. These ten pieces—each built around their own instantaneous, undeniable hook—are turbocharged by the vivid textures that surround them. The ineffable, familiar harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker break through the chaos like a life ra...

Matthew E. White - K Bay

Released 10th September 2021. The LP was produced by White and recorded between his beloved Kensi...

Released 10th September 2021. The LP was produced by White and recorded between his beloved Kensington Avenue home studio (and album namesake) K Bay, Richmond’s Montrose Recording and his own local institution, Spacebomb Studio. K Bay finds the singer/songwriter, bandleader, and musical polymath expanding every facet of his creative process and harnessing the full power of his community, culminating in the best record of his career. "For me, one of the most exciting production techniques from...