Staff Picks 2023

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

Released 17th March 2023 Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai’i, V is the fir...

Released 17th March 2023 Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai’i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one continuous movement and road-tested on dry California freeways, V is the definitive Unknown Mortal Orchestra car record. It’s also the fifth full-length album Ruban has released in twelve years. Across fourteen sunbleached songs ...

Public Image Ltd. - End of World

Released 11th August 2023 DEDICATED TO JOHN’S NORA WHO SADLY PASSED AWAY ON 5TH APRIL Public Imag...

Released 11th August 2023 DEDICATED TO JOHN’S NORA WHO SADLY PASSED AWAY ON 5TH APRIL Public Image Ltd. (PiL) have decided to continue plans to announce their 11th studio album and first album in 8 years, End of World, following the sad passing of John’s wife of more than 4 decades, Nora Forster, on 5th April. End of World will be released on 11th August 2023 on PiL Official via Cargo UK Distribution. Earlier this year, PiL released Hawaii, the most personal piece of songwriting and accompan...

Nick Harper - Tempus Fugitive

Released 3rd November 2023 2023 sees Nick Harper jettison his normally aspirated time machine whi...

Released 3rd November 2023 2023 sees Nick Harper jettison his normally aspirated time machine which clocks in at just 60 minutes per hour, for a model that can appear anywhere at any time in the many portals of Harperspace - In a new, uniquely styled, acoustically driven album and tour, Nick explores the past, present and future in his own singular way. The new project follows up recent successful sojourns back in time to explore swinging 60s London (58 Fordwych Rd); 19th century Fantasy lite...

José James - On & On

Released 20th January 2023 On & On: José James Sings Badu finds James throwing down the gaunt...

Released 20th January 2023 On & On: José James Sings Badu finds James throwing down the gauntlet on the past 100 years of jazz singing while charting a path forward for the culture. The album, produced by James, features all-star band Big Yuki (A Tribe Called Quest), Ben Williams (Kamasi Washington) and Jharis Yokley (My Brightest Diamond) and investigates the breadth of Erykah Badu's iconic catalogue, from her groundbreaking debut album Baduizm to her contemporary masterpieces New Ameryk...

The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony

Released 5th May 2023 On Everything Harmony, the fourth full-length studio release from New York’...

Released 5th May 2023 On Everything Harmony, the fourth full-length studio release from New York’s The Lemon Twigs, the prodigiously talented brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario offer 13 original servings of beauty that showcase an emotional depth and musical sophistication far beyond their years as a band, let alone as young men.Everything Harmony successfully blends the brothers’ distinct personalities while giving voice to their eclectic influences. Opening the album with the unassuming a...

Sam Burton - Dear Departed

Released 14th July 2023 SK says: 'Where Burton's Tompkins Square debut I Can Go With You had the ...

Released 14th July 2023 SK says: 'Where Burton's Tompkins Square debut I Can Go With You had the starkly beautiful quality of a lost Gene Clark record, Jonathan Wilson's lush production gives his sophomore record the epic sweep of Jimmy Webb's work with Glen Campbell.' 'Dear Departed’, the second album from Sam Burton, arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, Burton basically started over. There’s a freedom in leaving everything behind, and Burton embarked on a wandering phase. He...

Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental

Released 9th June 2023 After recently releasing the critically-acclaimed Plains album (I Walked W...

Released 9th June 2023 After recently releasing the critically-acclaimed Plains album (I Walked With You A Ways) with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, Jess Williamson’s Time Ain’t Accidental is the sound of a woman running into her life and art head-on. With a vocal dynamic kindred to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, Williamson blends the emotional immediacy and story-telling of traditional country with the artful, wholly honest transmissions of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Terry ...

Anna St. Louis - In The Air

Released 30th June 2023 “Born of a thousand nights lost in a surrender to stillness and contempla...

Released 30th June 2023 “Born of a thousand nights lost in a surrender to stillness and contemplation, In The Air is Anna St. Louis’ second full length album and her most considered work yet. “It’s an outlook on the world that was formed when her immediate one was small. The intervening years since her last album found St. Louis in a small one-bedroom cabin in the middle of the woods of upstate New York with a new love and time to think of what she wanted to express with her music. For weeks ...