Staff Picks 2023

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Jenny Lewis - Joy'All

Released 9th June 2023 Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s cri...

Released 9th June 2023 Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed On The Line (Warner Records) finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era in a new town—and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic... and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting ...

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Willie J Healey - Bunny

Released 25th August 2023 SK says: "Healey's previous record Twin Heavy won fans including Jamie ...

Released 25th August 2023 SK says: "Healey's previous record Twin Heavy won fans including Jamie T (who appears on the new album), IDLES frontman Joe Talbot and Alex Turner for its fresh take on 70s reference points from George Harrison to Neil Young to Elvis Costello. Bunny adds a dash of the breathy funk of Prince, the exuberant soul of Stevie Wonder and, on its slower numbers, hints of Gene Clark's No Other for a highly accomplished and downright fun throwback to a musical golden age." Is ...

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Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

Released 20th October 2023 SK says: "Having treated us to a magical stripped-back set in St. Pete...

Released 20th October 2023 SK says: "Having treated us to a magical stripped-back set in St. Peter's Church to celebrate the release of the album, the record itself is a richly textured work showcasing the band's ear for melody, Jack Steadman's inventive production and immaculately chosen guest spots from the likes of Damon Albarn, Holly Humberstone and Chaka Khan."  Heading back to the band’s studio in London, Bombay Bicycle Club have lovingly crafted album six – My Big Day. It’s a powerful,...

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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...

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The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes

Released 27th October 2023 Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats ...

Released 27th October 2023 Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. That lyric, “Jenny was a warrior / Jenny was a thief / Jenny hit the corner clinic begging for relief,” became “Jenny III,” a song which laid down a challenge he’d never taken up before: writing a sequel to one of his most beloved albums. The Mountain Goats’ catalog is thick with recurring characters Jenny, who originally appears in ...

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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 ...

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Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

Released 28th April 2023 SK says: 'Picking up on the sensual disco of previous album What's Your ...

Released 28th April 2023 SK says: 'Picking up on the sensual disco of previous album What's Your Pleasure but kicking things into an even more joyously hedonistic mode with horn charts from KOKOROKO's Sheila Maurice-Grey and dancefloor-ready production from James Ford and Stuart Price. Ware's vocals range from imperative Grace Jones barks to lung-busting Chaka Khan exaltations.' Jessie Ware releases her fifth studio album ‘That! Feels Good!’ on 28th April via EMI Records preceded by new singl...

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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...

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Say She She - Silver

Released 29th September 2023 The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She, named as a silent n...

Released 29th September 2023 The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She, named as a silent nod to Nile Rodgers (C’est chi-chi!: It's Chic!”), release their sophomore album ‘Silver’ on the heels of an epic break-out year that grows brighter by the day. The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. This harmonizing trio was formed in a classic New York ta...

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boygenius - the record

Released 31st March 2023 The debut full-length from indie supergroup boygenius (Lucy Dacus, Julie...

Released 31st March 2023 The debut full-length from indie supergroup boygenius (Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers).

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Billie Marten - Drop Cherries

Released 7th April 2023 Billie Marten has announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release o...

Released 7th April 2023 Billie Marten has announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release on 7 April via Fiction Records. Recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales late last summer, Drop Cherries marks the very first time that Billie Marten has both written and co-produced (with Dom Monks) one of her records; following critically-lauded 2021 album Flora Fauna, Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019) and Writing of Blues and Yellows (2016). Flora Fauna was lavished with praise by the like...

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SBT (Sarabeth Tucek) - Joan Of All

Released 19th May 2023 Sarabeth Tucek emerges from a decade-long hibernation with a new double-al...

Released 19th May 2023 Sarabeth Tucek emerges from a decade-long hibernation with a new double-album Joan of All under the new moniker SBT – a longtime nickname given to her by the many musicians she has worked with throughout her career. After retreating from the fevered pace of the record business to concentrate on other creative endeavors, Sarabeth began to piece together the music that would eventually become her most ambitious, personal project yet – the sprawling double-album Joan Of Al...

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