Rock/Pop/Indie

Various Artists - Maybe I'm Dreaming

Released 1st August 2025 Maybe I’m Dreaming is the latest collection selected by the mangled mind...

Released 1st August 2025 Maybe I’m Dreaming is the latest collection selected by the mangled minds behind the beloved Follow the Sun and Sad About the Times compilations. The twenty tracks of Dreaming make a conscious, and unconscious, detour from its predecessors, sourced entirely from private press releases, spanning new decades and production modes within homespun folk, soft rock, and otherwise 70s and 80s FM radio adjacent music. There’s nothing else for you to do but listen and dream awa...

Various Artists - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City...

SK Says: 'Light In The Attic's essential primer for the smooth melange of jazz, R&B and synth...

SK Says: 'Light In The Attic's essential primer for the smooth melange of jazz, R&B and synth that makes up the City Pop sound- Japan's answer to the West's airwave-ruling yacht rock and adult contemporary movements. Essential summer listening featuring YMO's Haruomi Hosono and a host of household names in Japan unlikely to be familiar to anyone further ashore.' Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring t...

Various Artists - The Ladies of Too Slow To Dis...

Released 19th June 2020. SK says: 'The peerless Too Slow To Disco series digs up more lost gems f...

Released 19th June 2020. SK says: 'The peerless Too Slow To Disco series digs up more lost gems from the West Coast era, including some hiding in plain sight like (disco banger from Lulu, anyone?) and diggers' favourites like Marti Caine's epic 'Love the Way You Love Me'. 

Various Artists - Yacht Soul: The Cover Versions 2

Released 10th November 2023 Welcome Back, friends, to the Yacht Soul cruise that never ends! This...

Released 10th November 2023 Welcome Back, friends, to the Yacht Soul cruise that never ends! This theme, explored at length in the previous installment of this series, is a fertile one that just keeps on giving, and give it certainly does on the tracks we have dug up for your perusal, enlightenment, edification and enjoyment on Yacht Soul 2. For those just joining us, the concept here concerns R&B and soul artists mining the songbooks of their white contemporaries for cover versions that...

Villagers - Fever Dreams

Released 20th August 2021. Today, Conor O'Brien is pleased to announce Villagers' fifth studio al...

Released 20th August 2021. Today, Conor O'Brien is pleased to announce Villagers' fifth studio album Fever Dreams which will be released on August 20th via Domino. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records - it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere. O’Brien says on the gestation of Fever Dreams: “I had an urge to write something that was as generous...

Vintage Crop - Kibitzer

Released 1st July 2022. Geelong, Melbourne’s favourite sons Vintage Crop return this summer with ...

Released 1st July 2022. Geelong, Melbourne’s favourite sons Vintage Crop return this summer with their much-anticipated fourth album, ‘Kibitzer’.Steve Lamacq’s particular love of previous album ‘Serve To Serve Again’ (released August 2020 - UTR131) led to him choosing it as his personal #1 favourite ‘album of the year’ for 6music’s end of year list. ‘  The album also won plaudits from Uncut (8/10), Loud & Quiet (8/10), Dusted, Brooklyn Vegan and The Quietus, including significant countles...

Violent Femmes - Add It Up (1981-1993) (2021 Re...

Released 21st May 2021. The textbook American cult band of the '80s, Violent Femmes captured the ...

Released 21st May 2021. The textbook American cult band of the '80s, Violent Femmes captured the essence of teen angst with remarkable precision. 40 years on, their legacy remains strong. 'Add It Up (1981-1993)' documents the trailblazing trio's stylistic development as they rose to become one of alt-rock's most commercially-successful acts. This 23-track compilation includes hits such as "Blister in the Sun," "American Music," and "Gone Daddy Gone," plus live recordings of favourites like "A...

Virginia Wing - Private Life

Released 12th February 2021. One of the year's most daring and true pop records, private LIFE com...

Released 12th February 2021. One of the year's most daring and true pop records, private LIFE comes as the result of Virginia Wing living through, and with, huge personal emotional and mental traumas. It is a document of how the very process of music creation in a group can be of huge therapeutic benefit to people. The three members of Virginia Wing have explored the depths of their creative and artistic inspirations within performance, production and composition, and have made a candid and b...