Staff Picks 2022

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Bibio - BIB10

Released 21st October 2022 I like contrast between my albums,” says Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio.“...

Released 21st October 2022 I like contrast between my albums,” says Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio.“When I finish an album, I crave doing something different for the next one.” No more so is this made apparent with Wilkinson hitting a major milestone, releasing his 10th studio album. Over those ten albums he has gracefully glided between electronica, ambient, folk, pop, indie, funk, soul and just about any other sonic avenue he’s decided to turn down. After 2019’s ‘Ribbons’, an album he describe...

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The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansi...

Released 23rd September 2022. The Comet is Coming returns with their second full length album on ...

Released 23rd September 2022. The Comet is Coming returns with their second full length album on Impulse! Records. King Shabaka, Danalogue, and Betamax’s newest effort finds the Mercury Prize-nominated trio creating a musical landscape that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling. While containing elements of jazz throughout, this release leans further into heavy dance-hall themes, providing hypnotic, electronic soundscapes to dance to while keeping you intellectually stimulated.

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Kokoroko - Could We Be More

Released 5th August 2022. The long awaited debut LP from Kokoroko - Could We Be More 5th August 2...

Released 5th August 2022. The long awaited debut LP from Kokoroko - Could We Be More 5th August 2022 “Drawing influence from West African highlife and jazz, wellmarinated in enough polyrhythm seasoning to induce fires on the dance floors they play.” Okay Africa “Afrobeat, jazz, soul and ’70s psych-leaning funk - luminescent” Cool Hunting “This female-led, multicultural collective of under 30s is a vital example of not only jazz’s new form but the shape of things to come.” The Guardian Followi...

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Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve

Released 8th April 2022. The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. The core of the record is that ...

Released 8th April 2022. The Line Is A Curve is about letting go. The core of the record is that the pressures we face do not always have to be heavy burdens, but can be reframed; the more pressure a person is under, the greater the possibility for release. The album plays like a chronicle of pressures - the mind-numbing pursuit of a comfortable life, the eternal striving for more, the pressures of the city, the country, the times. The pressures of maintaining relationships, of battling illne...

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Peaness - World Full of Worry

Released 6th May 2022. Hot on the heels of a live session for Marc Riley at BBC 6music, Chester i...

Released 6th May 2022. Hot on the heels of a live session for Marc Riley at BBC 6music, Chester indie-pop trio PEANESS are delighted to finally be able to announce details of their long-awaited debut album World Full Of Worry, set for release on 6th May 2022 through the band’s own label, Totally Snick Records.

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The Orielles - Tableau

Released 7th October 2022. The Orielles have created their first genuinely contemporary record – ...

Released 7th October 2022. The Orielles have created their first genuinely contemporary record – an experimental double album self-produced in collaboration with producer Joel Anthony Patchett (King Krule, Tim Burgess). In doing so, the Orielles have utilised holistic jazz practices, oblique 21st century electronica, experimental 1960s tape loop methods, otherworldly AutoTuned vocal sounds, the downer dub of Burial, Sonic Youth’s focus on improvisation and feedback, and Brian Eno’s legendary ...

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Jessica Moss - Galaxy Heart

Released 7th October 2022 Galaxy Heart is the companion album to Phosphenes (Nov 2021) and comple...

Released 7th October 2022 Galaxy Heart is the companion album to Phosphenes (Nov 2021) and completes an intensive body of work that Montréal composer-violinist Jessica Moss wrote, performed and self-produced in deep isolation throughout 2020. As A Closer Listen wrote in its Top Ten Modern Composition list for 2021, “few musical voices represent so well the estrangement and intensity of our times; Moss is among the best of them.” Galaxy Heart consolidates this assessment, revealing the more ex...

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Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar - Shruti Dances

Release 17th June 2022. Propulsive tabla percussion and meditative drones collide in deep instrum...

Release 17th June 2022. Propulsive tabla percussion and meditative drones collide in deep instrumental conversation on Shruti Dances, the debut collaborative album between UK heavyweights Auntie Flo and Sarathy Korwar, forthcoming on the newly relaunched, Make Music imprint.Across six exchanges of dynamic electronic production and richly layered Indian classical percussion, Shruti Dances discovers two architects of rhythm and movement on an explorative journey through South Asian tonality and...

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The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn

Released 9th September The Afghan Whigs are set to release their first studio album in five years...

Released 9th September The Afghan Whigs are set to release their first studio album in five years, How Do You Burn?, on 9 September.  How Do You Burn?, the ninth studio album from The Afghan Whigs, finds the band in peak form, making the most vaulting and thrilling music of their lives. The album is virile, ready-for-action, and finds frontman Greg Dulli as swaggering, enigmatic and darkly charismatic as ever, and singing up a storm. The album reaches corners of sound that, twenty-six years a...

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Why Bonnie - 90 in November

Released 19th August 2022. New-York-by-way-of-Texas transplants Why Bonnie announce their debut a...

Released 19th August 2022. New-York-by-way-of-Texas transplants Why Bonnie announce their debut album, 90 in November, out August 19th on their new label Keeled Scales, and share the title track and an accompanying video. “90 in November” is a sunny guitar pop song about lead singer and songwriter Blair Howerton’s hometown of Houston, packed full of sparkling snapshots—”a technicolor sun” and “a cardboard cutout cowboy waving me goodbye.” “I wanted to capture the bittersweet feeling of saying...

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Brackenbury Bianco - Wayward Mystic (Improvisat...

Released 2nd September 2022 Improvised duo recording by violinist, vocalist and composer Faith Br...

Released 2nd September 2022 Improvised duo recording by violinist, vocalist and composer Faith Brackenbury and drummer Tony Bianco, inspired by the works of Hildegard von Bingen. "In 2021 I handed Tony a CD of Saint Hildegard von Bingen's spiritual songs to listen to, and the next thing I know he has played an entire hour long drum track alongside the recording, in one sitting- and that it was so right. The sounds of his rolling-thunder-in-the-distance drumming and the ethereal monophonic voc...

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Dai Fujikura & Jan Bang - The Bow Maker

Released 2nd September 2022 From the opening grand diptych of "Night Poles River" through its eig...

Released 2nd September 2022 From the opening grand diptych of "Night Poles River" through its eight tracks, Dai Fujikura and Jan Bang's 'The Bow Maker' is an album of multidimensional musical movements - not in the conventional compositional sense, but in the sense of actual movement: the music is constantly active, enveloping the listener, surrounding them with evanescent sonic spaces. Featuring Dai Fujikura on synthesisers throughout (apart from one piece, "Implanted Memories", to which he ...

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