Staff Picks 2023

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Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book

Released 16th June 2023 Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Me...

Released 16th June 2023 Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello makes her Blue Note Records debut with 'The Omnichord Real Book', a visionary, expansive, and deeply jazz-influenced album that marks the start of a new chapter in her career. Following her 2018 covers album 'Ventriloquism', Meshell returns with an album of new original material that taps into a broad spectrum of her musical roots. The 'Omnichord Real Book' was produced by Josh J...

£12.99 £36.00

Melanie Di Biasio - Il Viaggio

Released 13th October 2023. ‘Il Viaggio’ is an offering, a quest for musical, physical, and spiri...

Released 13th October 2023. ‘Il Viaggio’ is an offering, a quest for musical, physical, and spiritual renewal, born from an emotional memory awakened. Joining the concrete and ambient, it drifts from the natural sounds of a new day towards a dreamed world. Taking to the road to reinvent oneself is the common thread running through this album, which is organized as a sonic journey in two parts, Lay Your Ear To The Rail (Disc 1) and The Chaos Azure (Disc 2).

£13.99 £28.00

Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert

Released 2nd June 2023 Since their 2012 debut, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place...

Released 2nd June 2023 Since their 2012 debut, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. The group’s sixth album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, TX with producer Jake Aron. “The desert is more of a metaphor or symbol,” singer Joe Casey says, “of emotional deserts, or a place or time that seems to lack life.” The “growth” came from a period of colossa...

£10.99 £28.00

Teeth Of The Sea - Hive

Released 6th October 2023 In Frank Herbert’s 1973 novel Hellstrom’s Hive, the Dune writer tells o...

Released 6th October 2023 In Frank Herbert’s 1973 novel Hellstrom’s Hive, the Dune writer tells of a sinister narrative surrounding the maverick scientist Nils Hellstrom, who has created a meticulously constructed Hive underneath his Oregon farmhouse. Therein, he oversees a subterranean order of 50,000 insect-human hybrid life-forms. Ultimately his plan being for the inhabitants of the Hive to usurp humanity and take over the world. The decade thus far may not have seen anything quite so daun...

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Black Country, New Road - Live At Bush Hall

Released 28th April 2023 ‘Live At Bush Hall’ features brand new, unreleased music, mixed by John ...

Released 28th April 2023 ‘Live At Bush Hall’ features brand new, unreleased music, mixed by John Parish, specifically written to perform live during the band’s 2022, following the departure of band member Isaac Woods. Recorded at the end of 2022, from a series of three unique concerts of new material at the historic London Music Hall. All shows sold out in under one minute (with waiting lists of over seven thousand) and were filmed by both crew and fans, for the ‘Live At Bush Hall’ concert fi...

£20.00

dEUS - How To Replace It

Released 17th February 2023 dEUS have never really had a philosophy. Never wanted one. Yet they’v...

Released 17th February 2023 dEUS have never really had a philosophy. Never wanted one. Yet they’ve remained true to certain guiding principles. “You don’t want to repeat yourself, but you have your style,” says Tom Barman, frontman and genial leader of the cult Belgian art-rockers. “You want to try new stuff and just react to whatever feels fresh at the time.” So it is with ‘How To Replace It’, their eighth studio album and first in ten years; distinctive and inventive, melodic yet defiantly ...

£10.99 £26.00

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms

Released 19th May 2023 Recorded entirely on acoustic instruments, and predominantly performed by ...

Released 19th May 2023 Recorded entirely on acoustic instruments, and predominantly performed by Paul, Seven Psalms showcases Simon’s craft at its finest and most captivating, simply with his voice and guitar. Intended to be listened to as one continuous piece, the 33-minute, seven-movement composition transcends the concept of the “album". A stunning, intricately layered work, it’s a record which establishes an engaging and meditative, almost hymnal soundscape, with Paul’s lyrics providing t...

£13.99 £23.00

Slowdive - everything is alive

Released 1st September 2023 everything is alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title...

Released 1st September 2023 everything is alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995’s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what’s come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journ...

£9.99 £25.00