The recording project of producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradise, Poolside shares his new album "Blame It All On Love", bolstering his reputation as a dignified tastemaker, with features from notable artists including Panama, Vansire, Ben Browning of Cut Copy, Slenderbodies, Mazy, Life On Planets, Ora The Molecule, and Munya.

In 2011 Poolside set out to produce appropriately chill music for summer soirees, a light but danceable kind of music with sunny vibes and liquid rhythm that he dubbed Daytime Disco. Since then, Poolside has released three acclaimed albums - "Pacific Standard Time" (2012), "Heat" (2017) and "Low Season" (2020) - remixed countless high-profile acts such as Billy Idol, Jack Johnson & Milky Chance, DRAMA, Miami Horror, L'impératrice, Purple Disco Machine, Big Wild and more. Poolside has also recently collaborated with Todd Edwards, Neil Frances, Brijean and Buscabulla. Poolside’s seven-piece live band has supported Kacey Musgraves and Tycho along with performing at major music festivals including Coachella, Primavera, Outside Lands and Corona Capital, with Jeffrey DJing opening sets for LCD Soundsystem and Earth, Wind & Fire. Poolside’s cover of Neil Young’s classic “Harvest Moon” - which they made a one-of-a-kind 12-inch just for James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and halted the pressing of the album to include it on the debut album "Pacific Standard Time" - has been streamed over 100M times.

"Blame It All On Love" sees him venture even further into rich songwriting, high gloss production and a decidedly relaxed, West Coast aesthetic. Full bodied and multi-layered it brings to mind the poppier sides of Braxe + Falcon with nods to other Californian soft rock legends such as Ned Doheny along the way.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Bright, energetic electronic business here from Jeffrey Paradise (what a name too), mixing horizontal Balearic grooves and flickering disco guitars with smooth as silk vox.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ride With You
2. Float Away
3. Back To Life
4. Moonlight
5. Where Is The Thunder?
6. Each Night
7. We Could Be Falling In Love
8. Ventura Highway Blues
9. Hold On To You
10. Sea Of Dreams
11. Lonely Night

Producer, DJ, pianist and activist LP Giobbi (aka Leah Chisholm) shares ‘Light Places’, her long-awaited and highly anticipated debut full length album, on Ninja Tune imprint, Counter Records.

Featuring multiple tracks with impressive names like Sofi Tukker, Little Jet, Caroline Byrne, Monogem, DJ Tennis and Joseph Ashworth throughout the album, ‘Light Places’ sees LP celebrate the joys of collaboration, improvisation and creating music through friendship, paying homage to the people and music that shaped her as an artist.

LP Giobbi is the founder of Femme House, a non-profit educational platform that seeks to create equitable opportunities for women and other marginalized gender expressions in the technical areas of music creation, with over nine thousand community members.

For fans of Fred Again, LF System, Jayda G, TSHA, Barry Can’t Swim, Franky Wah.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Intro: Mother
2. If Love Is A Skill (feat. Sofi Tukker)
3. Can’t Let You Go (feat. Little Jet)
4. All I Need (Interlude)
5. All I Need
6. Another Life (feat. Caroline Byrne)
7. Georgia
8. Follow The Loop (feat. Le Chev)

Side B
1. Feels Just Like It (feat. Caroline Byrne)
2. Body Breathe (feat. Monogem)
3. All In A Dream (feat. DJ Tennis And Joseph Ashworth)
4. All My Life (feat. Sofi Tukker)
5. Outro: Not Fade Away

On their new album, ‘Heroes’, The Midnight fuse cinematic synths, arena rock chords and euphoric pop hooks with slivers of Springsteen. It’s an album that celebrates our connected nature, the way we overcome loss by coming together under one sky and singing songs at the top of our lungs.

Launched by the propulsive jolt of guitar-laden singles like ‘Change Your Heart or Die’ and lauded as “one of the next iconic rock acts of the generation,” having sold out O2 Brixton Academy in May of this year, The Midnight’s new era is their biggest and boldest yet.

For fans of The War On Drugs, CHVRCHES, DON BROCO, Bruce Springsteen, Muse, ‘Stranger Things’ OST.

TRACK LISTING

1. Golden Gate
2. Brooklyn. Friday. Love.
3. Heartbeat
4. A Place Of Her Own
5. Heroes
6. Heart Worth Breaking
7. Loved By You
8. Aerostar
9. Change Your Heart Or Die
10. Avalanche
11. Souvenir
12. Photograph
13. Energy Never Dies, It Just Transforms

Throughout the album’s 12 tracks Luke refines the signature Tennyson sound, making his flurried beats come into focus and his already riveting hooks catchier. This is also the first project in which Luke lends his voice to almost every song, with the exception coming from a feature with singer-songwriter Rae Morris on the pained but heartfelt ‘Slow Dance’. Dramatic dynamics and emotional weight are the driving force of ‘Rot’, making for pop music fit for misfits.

Written during a period of distress, after developing a sudden hearing condition brought on by mold exposure, ‘Rot’ is a musical diary of a brain gone sideways; the soundtrack of a young artist on the brink of his own disaster. As an escape from these troubles, Luke found solace in what he knew best. He wrote songs on his computer, more to keep his hands busy than thoughtful expression.

“I was working on these tiny little speakers and making what I thought was garbage,” he remembers, but when he moved back into his newly renovated room and listened back to the music, the melodies made him cry. “It sounded like what I went through,” he says.

The completion of ‘Rot’ then marks a metaphorical and artistic milestone for Luke. “I'm starting to get more of a sense of what my skill set is,” he says, “Somehow, I've gotten a pretty strong handle on controlling sound in a very specific way. I don't think it's genius or sparks or something. I think I'm just looking at the right things by luck”

TRACK LISTING

Side A
In My Head (Intro)
Feelwitchu
Doors
Slow Dance (feat. Rae Morris)
Iron
Leaves
Side B
Get Gone
Reallywanna
Torn
Secret (Interlude)
Nine Lives
Figure Eights

RY X and Frank Wiedemann reunite as Howling to present ‘Colure’ the sophomore full-length record from their joint musical enterprise, released via Counter Records.

RY X, solo alternative artist and member of The Acid, and Frank, one half of Âme, bring fans a bigger, sharper follow-up to their debut, ‘Sacred Ground.’

On ‘Colure’, the Berlin-based Wiedemann and Los Angeles-based RY X conjure transcendent creations out of their contrasting musical backgrounds and environments. The album is assuredly dualistic: electronic and acoustic sounds sit comfortably side-byside, and big melodic hooks are laced into hypnotic club productions.

RY X rose to underground-folk fame with breakthrough hit ‘Berlin’ and followed up with solo albums ‘Dawn’ and 2019’s ‘Unfurl’. His band, The Acid - a project with producers Adam Freeland and Steve Nalepa created a multimedia film, “the bomb” in 2017.

Wiedemann is royalty of the 4/4 scene as one half of Âme with Kristian Beyer and head honcho of Berlin label Innervisions he co-owns with Dixon & Kristian.

Howling took their collaboration out on the road with a mesmerising live show playing a string of sold out shows and festivals in the UK and across the world including Melt! Festival, Lovebox, Lowlands, Pukkelpop, Electronic Beats Festival, Sacred Ground Festival and more and played live at Innervisions showcase at The Royal Albert Hall (+ Live Stream) in September 2018.

Recommended if you like Atoms For Peace, Âme, Dixon, RY X, Tale of Us, Mano le Tough, The Acid.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ellipses I
2. Pieces
3. Bind
4. Healing
5. Dew
6. Need You Now
7. The Water
8. Light On
9. Phases
10. Mother
11. Body Inside
12. Lover
13. Ellipses Ii

Grammy-winning artist RAC (Andre Allen Anjos) returns with his highly anticipated new album “BOY”, released on Counter Records following his 2017 release “Ego”. Stand alone single is a cover of the iconic early 2000s hit “Never Let You Go” from Third Eye Blind featuring singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer Matthew Koma and his actress wife Hilary Duff.

Recommended if you like… Odesza, Classixx, Goldroom, St Lucia, Sigala, Rudimental, Tourist, Elderbrook, Big Wild, Jai Wolf, Sigma, Louis The Child

TRACK LISTING

LP:
SIDE A
A1. Rapariga
A2. Boomerang (ft. Luna Shadows)
A3. MIA (ft. Danny Dwyer)
A4. Passion (ft. Louis The Child)
SIDE B
B1. Sweater (ft. Maddie Jay)
B2. Next To You (ft. Emerson Leif)
B3. Toulouse (ft. Minke)
SIDE C
C1. Gomas
C2. Stuck On You (ft. Phil Good)
C3. Together (ft. Evalyn)
C4. Carefree (ft. LeyeT)
C5. Oakland (ft. Winnetka Bowling
League)
SIDE D
D1. Arcoíris
D2. Solo (ft. Gothic Tropic)
D3. Get A Life (ft. Instupendo)
D4. Change The Story (ft. Jamie Lidell)
D5. Dolores Park
D6. Better Days (ft. St. Lucia)

CD
1. Rapariga
2. Boomerang (ft. Luna Shadows)
3. MIA (ft. Danny Dwyer)
4. Passion (ft. Louis The Child)
5. Sweater (ft. Maddie Jay)
6. Next To You (ft. Emerson Leif)
7. Toulouse (ft. Minke)
8. Gomas
9. Stuck On You (ft. Phil Good)
10. Together (ft. Evalyn)
11. Carefree (ft. LeyeT)
12. Oakland (ft. Winnetka Bowling League)
13. Arcoíris
14. Solo (ft. Gothic Tropic)
15. Get A Life (ft. Instupendo)
16. Change The Story (ft. Jamie Lidell)
17. Dolores Park
18. Better Day

Follow ‘Kingdoms In Colour’ is Maribou State’s hotly anticipated new album and the follow-up to 2015’s breakthrough debut album ‘Portraits’ on Ninja Tune’s Counter Records imprint. A warm and highly textured collage of breakbeats, guitar licks and found sounds from their worldwide travels, the record features Khruangbin (‘Feel Good’), long standing collaborator Holly Walker (‘Nervous Tics’ and ‘Slow Heat’) and ‘Turnmills’. Kingdoms In Colour has brought together the experiences of their world tour from their first album and injected it into their sound and lyrics. It’s grown and developed into a beautiful flowering album, if you like the sorts of The XX, Caribou, Bonobo, Mount Kimbie, Khruangbin, then you’ll fall in love with Maribou State.

TRACK LISTING

Beginner’s Luck
Kingdom
Turnmills
Nervous Tics (ft Holly Walker)
Glasshouses
Part Time Glory
Feel Good (ft Khruangbin)
Slow Heat (ft Holly Walker)
Vale
Kāma

Nashville resident Conner Youngblood crafts melodies through a wide range of obscure instrumental arrangements. Often centered around a specific place of natural landscape or human connection his songs embody delicate, nuanced moments in nature and the introspection of these moments.

Where many musicians pick their instrument of choice and let it be their primary songwriting vessel, Youngblood finds different instruments allow him to tap into varied parts of his songwriting brain. His debut album ‘Cheyenne’ features no less than 30 different instruments – a harp, a bass clarinet, a tabla, etc – all of which are played by Youngblood on a record featuring no guests. Instead it’s simply him and an engineer he’s known and worked with since he first started releasing music back in high school. Though he’ll be building up a band to play live, he has before now mimicked the sounds of certain instruments on stage and supported people such as Janelle Monae, SOHN and Angus & Julia Stone.

“Listening to music there are certain ways you think are the right ways to create songs, then you realise you can write however you want. Like, ‘Oh, I can play bongos, accordion and a guitar’ – as long as it sounds good,” Youngblood explains of his writing process. Though he initially started out learning clarinet, he’s been collecting instruments from a young age, often being gifted a new one for birthday and christmas or seeking out cheap and used rarities from local stores.

The result of this lifelong process of collecting and playing instruments means ‘Cheyenne’ is a record that’s rich in atmospheric, organic sound. Sitting somewhere between the more low-key elements of The Band (who Youngblood wrote a thesis on while studying at Yale), the beautiful melodics of Moses Sumney and the Grammy nominated songwriter Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, this latest collection of songs feel embedded in the fabric of life – Youngblood examines what makes us human, the earth, translating his findings back into music.

For those who may not already be aware, the release of ‘Cheyenne’ comes off the back of an already illustrative career for Youngblood. Born and raised in Dallas – a city he describes as “a lot of concrete” – Youngblood spent his formative years switching between skateboarding (he had built a half pipe in his backyard), wrestling and playing in local coffee houses. His first few releases – ‘Monsters’, ‘Australia’ and ‘A Summer Song’ – shot immediately to the top end of the Hype Machine chart and clocked up hundreds of thousands of plays and attracted offers from labels in the process.

Though the opportunity was there, however, Youngblood decided to pursue his studies before music. That Youngblood continued his education in American Studies at Yale is an interesting point. His real name is Kneeland Conner Youngblood, after his father, a former physician who participated in sit-ins at Princeton University, while his grandfather was initially turned away from Princeton for being black - making Youngblood the next in a strong, essential American lineage.

Though the 13 songs on ‘Cheyenne’ all have their own story, they each centre around a familiar theme. The record was written over a two year period, during which Youngblood travelled extensively. Lead track, ‘The Birds of Finland’, is a perfect example of these expeditions, touching on the tonality of these places scattered across the globe. “Travel might be a response to not feeling comfortable to stay in one place too long. I love meeting new people and seeing new terrains,” he explains. “With that being said, I do feel like the idea of a home is very important. Otherwise traveling ends up feeling more like drifting.”

The response is a record that involves travel, but also the grounding aspects of the people Youngblood has encountered along the way, in particular the women in his life. In essence, ‘Cheyenne’ – which follows 2016’s ‘The Generation of Lift’ EP – is Youngblood having introspective conversations with himself about the relationships he holds and tying them together with specific places. That doesn’t mean these songs are specifically focused around love stories, instead the tracks on this record are about people that “have come and gone, stayed; family and friends; exes; people I like and don’t like.”

“I've never consciously written about women, but for some reason I felt inclined all of a sudden. And one song led to the next with this album. I usually enjoy writing about places, but this time it was nice to put different people into places,” says Youngblood of the writing process. Since he has five siblings, all of whom are sisters, one of these tracks in particular stands out – ‘My Brother’s Brother’ – which was written by Youngblood after a break-up and “wishing I had a brother to talk to about it.”

“A lot of the times I’m writing down what I want to try out as combinations before I’ve even started a song,” says Youngblood, about the songs on the record, many of which have been laboured over often for weeks at a time; as a living entity that needs to be explored, played around with and worked out.. “For example… on ‘Stockholm’, I specifically wanted to do a song with 808s and a harp, and see where it goes from there. I ended up using a vocoder too. I often think about what I haven’t used together, and use it in different ways.”

Clearly – whether it’s what Youngblood humbly puts down as “musical ADHD” or sheer talent – ‘Cheyenne’ is the work of a musical polymath. As well as travel informing the content of the songs, it’s also a crucial part of the album’s concept as a whole. The album’s artwork is shot by Youngblood (and friends he was travelling with) who took around 2,500 photographs while touring around Europe in the past couple years, mostly in places such as Iceland, Macedonia and Finland as well as a few hiking trips around the United States. The CD and LP comes with a book full of these photographs as well as notes, sketches, essays – essentially a map of how Youngblood created this record.

Ultimately, positioned between the sincere folk-like melodies of Elliott Smith, the pure sonics of and instrument switching ethos that’s reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens, ‘Cheyenne’ presents Youngblood an accomplished songwriter. While there are a few distant key figures grounding his sound Conner's music carves out a future narrative that is very much his own with unexpected instrumental parts and obscure melodies a step outside the current landscape.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cheyenne
2. Los Angeles
3. Lemonade
4. The Birds Of Finland
5. Stockholm
6. Vp (an Interlude)
7. 12 Lbs
8. Red.23
9. My Brother's Brother
10. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
11. Sulphur Springs
12. Pizza Body
13. Yellowknife

What So Not (formerly a collaborative duo with Flume) is the solo project of Australian producer Emoh Instead. Here he drops his debut album, "Not All The Beautiful Things", via Counter Records. Including collaborations with Skrillex, Toto, Daniel Johns, Rome Fortune and writing from Jono Ma (Jagwar Ma), it features a highly advanced sound palette which draws from modular techniques and mixes them with a high end precision beats and a full frequency patina. 

For fans of Flume, Skrillex, JACK Ü (Diplo & Skrillex), Mura Masa, Machinedrum.

Previously recognised for his dancefloor-ready releases on Sweat It Out and Skrillex’s label OWSLA.

TRACK LISTING

What So Not & SLUMBERJACK - Warlord
What So Not - Be Ok Again (ft Daniel Johns)
What So Not - Beautiful (ft Evergreen Oak)
What So Not - Stuck In Orbit (ft BUOY)
What So Not & James Earl - Demons (ft Rome Fortune & Tommy
Swisher)
What So Not & Skrillex - Goh (ft KLP)
What So Not & Toto - We Keep On Running
What So Not & San Holo - If You Only Knew (ft Daniel Johns)
What So Not - Monsters (ft Michael Christmas & tobi Lou)
What So Not & Dyro - Bottom End
What So Not - Same Mistakes (ft Daniel Johns)
What So Not - Us (ft Daniels)

Jono McCleery - a man blessed with a truly magical, heart-melting soul voice and skills on the guitar to match - releases a suite of acoustic cover versions of songs that date from 1941 to 2013, encompassing works by Billie Holiday, Scott Walker, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Atoms For Peace, Beyoncé and Peven Everett with Roy Davis Jr.

For fans of Nicky Mulvey, Fink, Jose Gonzalez.

Recorded over 10 days at Urchin Studio in East London - Tim Rowkins took on recording, production and mixing duties (as he did on Jono’s 2015 album ‘Pagodes’) whilst Dan See (Jamie Woon / Nick Mulvey), Milo Fitzpatrick (Portico Quartet) and Steve Pringle (Michael Kiwanuka) provided drums / percussion, bass and keys / organ respectively.

TRACK LISTING

Gabriel
Brand New Start
Know Who You Are At Every Age
Dinner At Eight
Morning Theft
Ingenue
God Bless The Child
Halo
Old Man’s Back Again
Wild Is The Wind
Dream Letter
La Ritournelle

‘Hurt & The Merciless’ marks a musical culmination for The Heavy, a mesmeric blend of their trademark rock & roll classicism and funk and soul grooves with added sonic experimentation.

The 12 track album - featuring the lead track ‘Since You Been Gone’ with its lolloping groove, plus the spiky garage rock anthem ‘What Happened To The Love?’ - is a batch of their strongest songs yet.

TRACK LISTING

Since You Been Gone
What Happened To The Love?
Not The One
The Apology
Nobody’s Hero
Miss California
Turn Up
A Ghost You Can’t Forget
Last Confession
Mean Ol’ Man
Slave To Your Love
Goodbye Baby

Pop Levi has celebrity supporters as diverse as Jarvis Cocker, Lauren Laverne, Noel Gallagher, Tame Impala and Kasabian, who he was asked to support at Somerset House in London.

Named by NME as “a true cult hero”, and a “genuine maverick” by Q.

Pop Levi has released two albums through Ninja Tune with Super Numeri, played bass with Ladytron and released solo albums through Counter records. Levi released his debut solo album on Counter Records, ‘The Return To Form Black Magick Party’, which he toured all over the world. Levi is also a talented director and has shot videos for a Vans x Stussy collaboration.

Recorded in three purpose-built private home studios (in Norway, Greece and Los Angeles), ‘Medicine’ rubs Pop’s obsession with Prince up against his love of Bolan, throws in a little Paul McCartney, some early Stooges, a chunk of Lindsey Buckingham and even a dash of Peter Gabriel, for a record which channels bubblegum pop through Satanic ritual and classic rock for one of the oddest, funniest, most compellingly unique records you’re likely to hear in 2012.

“Trippy, sexy, wickedly produced, deeply psychedelic glam rock” - Mixmag

“Beguiling and bizarre in equal measure… there is depth beyond the Willy Wonka weirdness” - The Guardian

Spokes have played festivals including The Big C1hill and End Of The Road and have completed three full UK tours prior to signing to Counter, in addition to dates with Everything Everything.

They are one of XFM’s New Bands Of The Year, with additional support from Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6 Music.

“Great rewards surely await the angelic Spokes” - Clash Magazine
“... pastoral indie with a post-rock veneer that builds to glorious climaxes” – NME.

TRACK LISTING

1. 3 4 5
2. We Can Make It Out
3. Everyone I Ever Met
4. Sun It Never Comes
5. Give It Up To The Night
6. Peace Racket
7. Torn Up In Praise
8. Canon Grant
9. Happy Needs Colour
10. Forever The Bridge
11. When I Was A Daisy, When I Was A Tree

"The House That Dirt Built" is a huge step forward from The Heavy's fantastic debut "Great Vengeance & Furious Fire". Now produced by Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys etc), the band have a sound that's even tighter and more raw than their previous offerings - and that's saying something. "The House That Dirt Built" features a series of stripped-to-the-bone bluesy rock stormers with 60s / 70s soul / funk blended into the mix (check recent single "How You Like Me Now" with its Dyke & The Blazers homage), all given that amps-up-to-11 distorted edge. Powerful stuff.

Probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher, ex-Ladytron bassist Pop Levi was never likely to come back with the same record all over again and 'Never Never Love' doesn't disappoint. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both "Thriller" and "Off The Wall" were laid down, Mr Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like "Wannamama" and "Oh God", Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly lo-fi. "Never Never Love" shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Central track "Dita Dimone" re-tells of his break-up with the song's eponymous heroine with all the low-slung swing sass of a future-classic. From here on in the album takes off in all kinds of weird and wonderful directions – from the crazed danger pop of "Mai's Space" to the heartfelt longing of "Semi-Babe", the wonky dub of "Call The Operator" to the final comedown of "Fountain Of Lies".