Staff Picks 2023

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Hannah White - Sweet Revolution

Released 3rd November 2023 Hannah signed some CDs for us at our recent instore with her. Availab...

Released 3rd November 2023 Hannah signed some CDs for us at our recent instore with her. Available to order, while stocks last. Hannah White's searingly honest lyrical style and gift for adhesive melody have had her gaining ever more momentum over the course of several widely-praised albums The last two were both recognised by the Americana Music Association UK, with a nomination for her project with the Nordic Connections followed by a highly popular win for UK Song of the Year in January 2...

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William The Conqueror - Excuse Me While I Vanish

Released 28th July 2023 William The Conqueror's fourth album finds the indie-rock trio firing on ...

Released 28th July 2023 William The Conqueror's fourth album finds the indie-rock trio firing on all cylinders as frontman Ruarri Joseph confronts the thin line between creativity and madness, inspired by compassion for the reallife angels of the world. Produced by the band in a playground of vintage gear and mixed by Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Sam Fender, Kasabian), the resulting album's ten tracks marry earworm tunes with insistent, imperious, soaring rock shapes, punctuated by chorus...

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The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

Released 20th October 2023 Hackney Diamonds, the hugely anticipated new album by The Rolling Ston...

Released 20th October 2023 Hackney Diamonds, the hugely anticipated new album by The Rolling Stones, is released on October 20th on Polydor Records. Following the release of 2016's Grammy Award winning Blue & Lonesome, which featured brilliant versions of blues tracks that helped shape their sound, Hackney Diamonds marks the band’s first studio album of original material since 2005's A Bigger Bang!

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Molly Burch - Daydreamer

Released 29th September 2023 SK says: "After featuring on the Tennis-produced previous album Roma...

Released 29th September 2023 SK says: "After featuring on the Tennis-produced previous album Romantic Images, Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum takes up production duties, imbuing Burch's searching songwriting and keening vocals with a danceable 80s pop sheen. RIYL Angel Olsen, Natalie Prass, TOPS." For Molly Burch, the age 13 was a seminal moment in life that has shaped the path that she is on now. Burch's fourth album, Daydreamer, explores the feelings and insecurities of this critical stage. Burch...

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Ethan P. Flynn - Abandon All Hope

Released 6th October 2023 Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and producer Ethan P. ...

Released 6th October 2023 Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and producer Ethan P. Flynn announces details of his debut album, Abandon All Hope. Out 6 October via Young, Abandon All Hope pours twenty-four years' worth of experience into 8 eclectic tracks. Featuring backup vocals from rising singer, Ava Gore, Abandon All Hope is a bold statement to mark Ethan P. Flynn arrival as a true artist in his own right. Abandon All Hope is the culmination of an intensely fruitful period of...

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Eddie Chacon - Sundown

Released 31st March 2023 ‘Sundown’ is “low-key R&B legend” Eddie Chacon’s soulful, meditative...

Released 31st March 2023 ‘Sundown’ is “low-key R&B legend” Eddie Chacon’s soulful, meditative debut for Stones Throw Records. The album was written with and produced by multiple Grammy nominated producer/artist John Carroll Kirby (Solange, Harry Styles, Steve Lacy). Eddie Chacon rose to fame in the duo Charles & Eddie, whose 1992 single “Would I Lie To You” was a #1 hit around the world. Chacon returned in 2020 with the album ‘Pleasure, Joy and Happiness’, widely acclaimed by the New ...

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Mega Bog - End of Everything

Released 19th May 2023 SK says: 'After an impressive run on Paradise of Bachelors, 'End of Everyt...

Released 19th May 2023 SK says: 'After an impressive run on Paradise of Bachelors, 'End of Everything' is a first Mega Bog album for Mexican Summer which finds bandleader Erin Birgy trading the jazzy metaphysics of previous album 'Life, and Another' for a blend of the oddball art pop of new labelmate Cate Le Bon and the dark dancefloor sonics and vocal drama of Future Islands. Again working with Big Thief's James Krivchenia and joined by Aaron Otheim, Hand Habits and TOPS bassist Jackson Maci...

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Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

Released 8th September 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes is set to rel...

Released 8th September 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes is set to release his highly anticipated debut solo studio album ‘Black Classical Music’, on the 8th September 2023. Available on Double 12” LP Vinyl with special limited edition white vinyl exclusive to indie stories, as well as digital and CD via Brownswood Recordings, Warner Music and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings.  ‘Black Classical Music’ is a 19-track record taking listeners through a looking glass into t...

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Alan Palomo - World Of Hassle

Released 15th September 2023 SK says: "A joyous record city pop/vaporwave from the former Neon In...

Released 15th September 2023 SK says: "A joyous record city pop/vaporwave from the former Neon Indian man, propelled by 'Doobie Bounce' piano inversions and subtle Balearic rhythms. Fellow smooth sailor Mac DeMarco guests and engineers alongside Palomo himself and Stranger Things composer Michael Stein (S U R V I V E), adding to its 80s throwback credentials." Alan Palomo, the auteur musician / producer behind the long-running avant-pop project, Neon Indian, has just announced his first full ...

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Gov't Mule - Peace Like A River

Released 16th June 2023 Unstoppable force, meet immovable object. On Peace Like A River, the head...

Released 16th June 2023 Unstoppable force, meet immovable object. On Peace Like A River, the heady and hard-hitting new album from Gov’t Mule, that intrinsic, age-old paradox appears to solve itself. Over 12 songs and 70 minutes of music, the Southern rock mainstays changes shape, raises the temperature, and transfers kinetic, heart-pulsing energy from one track to the next in often unexpected and highly rewarding ways. Mule approached this album, with the adventurousness and vitality of band...

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes

Released 9th June 2023 New album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, tackling issues such as gun ...

Released 9th June 2023 New album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, tackling issues such as gun violence, the opioid crisis, and women's rights all through Isbell's signature songwriting lens. Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will ...

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Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me

Released 8th September 2023 Artists like Jalen Ngonda come around once in a lifetime, so it is ou...

Released 8th September 2023 Artists like Jalen Ngonda come around once in a lifetime, so it is our privilege and distinct pleasure to announce the release of his debut album ‘Come Around and Love Me’.  Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene. His voice, equal parts raw feeling and elegance, exudes confidence and charm—disarming packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hol...

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