Reissue of ABBAs 'Dancing Queen' on 10", in celebration of the track's 50th anniversary. Remastered at Abbey Road.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dancing Queen
2. La Reina Del Baile

Leeds-based quartet Bathing Suits have already been described as one of the most exciting new acts working in the UK, combining electro-clash, punk, dance and industrial noise rock into one abrasive and cohesive vision.

On debut EP ‘KILL Bathing Suits’ the four-piece move through noise-trance club in seven-minute epic ‘Empathy’, snarling big beats, basslines and battering feedback in break-out single ‘I Can Be A Freak’ and four to the floor fierceness in new single ‘Swan Princess’.

The 12” also includes an exclusive remix from their producer DJ Subaru.

TRACK LISTING

1. Relay
2. I Can Be A Freak
3. Swan Princess
4. Lousy Havoc
5. Empathy
6. Empathy (DJ Subaru Remix)

'Songs Before Bed' marks Otto Benson’s first physical release under his own name, following earlier work under aliases including Memo Boy, OTTO, and Pudding Club.

Originally published as a digital-only release through Otto's own WNOADIARWB website and platforms on New Year's Eve 2022, 'Songs Before Bed' bridges the gap between the more experimental psychedelic electronic works of Otto and his most recent release, the acclaimed 'Peanut', released on NYE 2025. Blending brief pop fragments with melodic bedroom guitar, droning ambient shoegaze textures, and blissful IDM jaunts reminiscent of the Rephlex catalog, the album offers a seamless overview of Otto Benson's genre-defying sound. Originally conceived as a late-night record, 'Songs Before Bed' rewards listening at any hour.

Remastered for vinyl by Stephan Mathieu and pressed on Sonopress EcoRecord, an environmentally conscious alternative to PVC, special care was taken by Palto Flats and Otto Benson to make a sustainable product without sacrificing sound quality.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: With opiated echoes of Mac Demarco and Cindy Lee, late night vintage synthesizer rhythm sections a la Timmy Thomas, future ambient and atmospheres that'd excite Dean Blunt, and even moments of inspired glitchy electronica; if it wasn't so humbly presented I'd say Otto Benson was showing off! This is incredible stuff folks.

TRACK LISTING

mr. sunday night
river dream
another long day
forgot
orange moon
jumping seeds
histamine
letting go
apogamy
tuning in and out
good night mantra
kittys midnight blessing

‘Damn Those Eyes’ and ‘Never Mind the Botox’ were recorded last year at The Planet Of Noise Studio in Limmared, Sweden. Both songs are taken from The Boys sixth official studio album to be released December 2026.

Along with the Sex Pistols, Clash and The Damned, The Boys were part of the first wave of the mid-1970s UK punk explosion. Armed with an arsenal of killer Steel/Dangerfield songs The Boys became the first UK punk band to sign an album deal in January 1977. Highly regarded by the music press and their contemporaries, their well-crafted songs, together with Steel and Dangerfield’s love of harmonies, led to them being described as ‘The Beatles of Punk’ but they could (and should) just as deservedly have been compared to the Ramones ­– fast, alternately brattish and tongue-in-cheek, and gloriously anthemic.

The new single features original founding members and songwriting team Matt Dangerfield and Casino Steel, along with long time members Chips Kiesbye & Kent Norberg (from mega Swedish band Sator) & Martin H-Son (ex-Backstreet Girls). Renowned international filmmaker, and ex bass player from The Crybabys, Danny Garcia makes a guest appearance on ‘Never Mind the Botox’ as well as providing promo videos for both songs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Damn Those Eyes
2. Nevermind The Botox

Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, Phoebe Bridgers’s solo records Stranger in the Alps (2017) and Punisher (2020) have been accompanied by a number of collaborations, including the supergroup boygenius, with whom Bridgers won three Grammys for 2023’s the record. Her songs are hallmarked by a kind of intimacy that’s hard-found in contemporary music, and scale between the macro and the micro with an ease that’s matched only by her towering, prodigious way with words.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Outside
2. Lost Boys
3. Kill Me
4. The Governor's Waltz
5. Bobby
6. Lost Weekend
7. Haunted
8. Panorama
9. Still Standing
10. Liberty Tree
11. Never Going Back!
12. Other Plans
13. Lost Parade
14. I Can't Wait
15. As Above
16. Lost Weekend (Reprise)

The Notorious Byrd Brothers is an essential listen for anyone interested in The Byrds or the impressive list of artists associated with the band. The story behind the album is equally intriguing. The album is known for the interesting changes in personnel during the recording process. For example, David Crosby only participated in the first half of the recording sessions. And even Gene Clark, who had previously left the band, returned to leave again after three weeks. In the end only Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman remained from the beginning. Surprisingly, the listening experience is very cohesive, and the diverse line-up adds to the richness of the album, which features elements of psychedelia, folk rock, country, jazz, and electronic music thanks to the use of the Moog modular synthesiser. This album clearly bridges the gap between the band's early jangly pop rock albums and their subsequent country rock classic. Among the session musicians on this album was also Clarence White, who impressed the band so much that he was given a larger role on the 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. All of this makes it a real classic in terms of both its sound and its story.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Artificial Energy
2. Goin' Back
3. Natural Harmony
4. Draft Morning
5. Wasn't Born To Follow
6. Get To You

SIDE B
1. Change Is Now
2. Old John Robertson
3. Tribal Gathering
4. Dolphin's Smile
5. Space Odyssey

Ceremony made their Relapse Records debut with their highly ambitious album, 'In the Spirit World Now'! The album saw Ceremony at the height of their creative output, as the always-evolving Rohnert Park quintet take various influences from post punk and rock to create one of their most compelling and infectious records.

'In the Spirit World Now' is full of layered sonic fury and anxiety, each song building up to a point and then descending down through a militant, catchy hook. 'Turn Away the Bad Thing' sets the tone, guitars climbing around the driving bass line, as Ross Farrar sings, “It’s getting harder for me to be alright/Eyes adjusting to the dark/The momentum of all these last resorts built inside of me.”

Songs like 'Presaging the End' and 'Calming Water' feel romantic and distressed, while 'Further I Was' and 'Years of Love' are driven by Farrar’s rebellious energy as he repeats the hook with a deadpan realness. “Years of love can be forgotten/In the hatred of a day.” But the true stand-out is the title track, 'In the Spirit World Now', a haunting pop gem with a sticky chorus and lead synth riff that plants itself in your head as Farrar chants the track’s name over and over like a mantra.

'In the Spirit World Now' is a sort of nebulous and ectoplasmic place where things may not be quite what they seem,” he says. “It means sh*t is about to get weird.” The album marked a milestone for this Northern California punk outfit who have always stayed true to themselves as songwriters throughout massive sonic growth throughout their storied career.

TRACK LISTING

1. Turn Away The Bad Thing
2. In The Spirit World Now
3. Further I Was
4. /
5. Presaging The End
6. Say Goodbye To Them
7. We Can Be Free
8. //
9. Years Of Love
10. Never Gonna Die Now
11. I Want More
12. From Another Age
13. ///
14. Calming Water

Cheap Trick - At Budokan: The Complete Concert is the famous best-selling live album by the American rock band Cheap Trick. The louder, roaring versions of such Rick Nielsen classics as "I Want You to Want Me" and "Come On, Come On" connected to a wide audience. The recording became the band's best-selling album and captures the performance exactly as it was experienced on stage. Their raw-powered riffage and three-chord structured songs made an impression all over the world. After this recording in Japan, they became the rising stars in the musical world of the late ‘70s. Both Cheap Trick fans as well as the rock lover in general will appreciate this recorded document of the band's most celebrated concert.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Hello There
2. Come On, Come On
3. Elo Kiddies
4. Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
5. Big Eyes

SIDE B
1. Lookout
2. Downed
3. Can’t Hold On
4. Oh Caroline
5. Surrender

SIDE C
1. Auf Wiedersehen
2. Need Your Love
3. High Roller
4. Southern Girls

SIDE D
1. I Want You To Want Me
2. California Man
3. Goodnight
4. Ain’t That A Shame
5. Clock Strikes Ten

Original Jazz Classics celebrates John Coltrane’s centennial with this release of the mono edition of 'Coltrane'. Originally released on Prestige in 1957 the album features Coltrane alongside Johnnie Splawn, Sahib Shihab, Red Garland, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers, and Albert “Tootie” Heath. This new edition of the album is released on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bakai
2. Violets for Your Furs
3. Time Was
4. Straight Street
5. While My Lady Sleeps
6. Chronic Blues

Following the genre-redefining revelations of A Love Supreme in 1965, John Coltrane began a dramatic shift toward spiritual free jazz, abandoning familiar forms in favor of a more abstract sonic palette and bold questions he'd spend the rest of his life and career pursuing. Meditations, released by Impulse! in 1966, continues that emotional throughline while retaining, for the last time in full, the classic quartet that propelled Trane to greatness: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones. (They're further augmented by Pharoah Sanders on tenor sax and additional drummer Rashied Ali.) Meditations pushes Coltrane’s spiritual jazz into heightened realms of energy and abstraction — a powerful document of transformation, intensity, and devotion in Coltrane’s recorded legacy.

The Verve Vault series is all-analog, cut from the original master tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

Common's sophomore album, 'Resurrection'. While the album was originally neglected by the mainstream, it has since received a great deal of critical acclaim and is now on the source's 100 best rap albums. In comparison to his debut album, Common's musical style evolved lyrically by his expressing of himself rather than just describing street life. With its jazz and hip hop flavours, Resurrection furthered the growth of both genres. 'Resurrection' was produced almost entirely by No i.d., who has gone on to work with heavyweights like Usher, Alicia Keys and Rihanna, and he produced the first two singles for Jay-z's album 'The Blueprint 3'. In addition, No i.d. is credited as the man who introduced Kanye West to hip hop production, inviting him to his sessions with Common when West was only starting out.

TRACK LISTING

1. Resurrection
2. I Used to Love H.E.R.
3. Watermelon
4. Book of Life
5. In My Own World (Check the Method)
6. Another Wasted Nite With...
7. Nuthin' to Do
8. Communism
9. WMOE
10. Thisisme
11. Orange Pineapple Juice
12. Chapter 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)
13. Maintainingn
14. Sum Shit I Wrote
15. Pop's Rap

For more than two decades, Elizabeth Cook has operated outside the machinery of mainstream country while staking her claim as one of American music’s most vital storytellers.

On her new album 'Great Television', the Florida-bred singer songwriter maps the hidden corners of the American experience with both daring self-revelation and fierce curiosity, imbuing every song with her singular balance of soul and sensitivity and unshakable grit.

Her first new project since 2020’s 'Aftermath', the Nashville-based musician’s eighth studio LP arrives alongside the theatrical release of The Easy Kind - a hybrid documentary/narrative film about her life as an artist fundamentally resistant to conformity, tracing a turbulent journey that began with singing on bar stages with her parents’ band at just four years old. Taken together, 'Great Television' and 'The Easy Kind' reaffirm the extraordinary legacy Cook has forged by following her own vision wherever it leads.

Produced by Shooter Jennings (Tanya Tucker, Turnpike Troubadours) and recorded with Cook’s live band at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, 'Great Television' marks a commanding new addition to a formidable catalog including triumphs like 2007’s 'Balls', 2010’s 'Welder' 2016’s 'Exodus of Venus'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sunset Promenade
2. Girls of Atomic City
3. Thiokol Tripwire
4. Okeechobee Mud
5. Razorwire Wall
6. The Easy Kind
7. Caldonia and the Love Convoy
8. In Your Veins
9. 19th Nervous Breakdown
10. Feverfew
11. Lightly

London artist Coupdekat releases her debut album: "Goodbye 2012!". A collection of songs that charts a path back to the unselfconscious optimism of the pre-social media era nodding to electroclash, vapourwave and synthwave styles whilst paying tribute to pioneers like Sophie, Charli XCX, Erika De Casier, MIA and AG Cook. 

Coupdekat aka Katherine Reilly is a co-founder of Loud LDN and has been a key figure in the capital's (hyper)pop revival.

“I wanted this album to be a return to a time before having a phone and social media, before the self-awareness and pressure of being perceived. I missed the freedom and spontaneity of girlhood, I was so much more confident expressing myself back then. I wanted Goodbye 2012! to feel like a return to that moment in time.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Finding her own little smidgen of unclaimed hyperpop territory, somewhere between the boarders of Sophie, Erika De Casier and Charli XCX; we have Coupdekat - who's hyped-up, slickly produced ode to the pre-I-Phone era is a fun, face-paced injection of chaos and charisma. Most recommended.

TRACK LISTING

1. 2012
2. money ft NATHALIA
3. i still think about the band
4. violet
5. kisses
6. mwah
7. crushing blushing rushing!!!!! (⸝⸝⸝>﹏<⸝⸝⸝)
8. lip service
9. heyyy ft Natalie Red + Ruby Bell
10. trashy
11. boldfont
12. this could b something I could feel

One of Australia’s most acclaimed performers Grace Cummings explores anxieties, hopes & nightmares on her grand, nervy new album 'Bloodhorse!' Reuniting with producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), 'Bloodhorse!' finds Cummings swooping from gorgeous to grotesque and sacred to profane.

TRACK LISTING

TBA

Original Jazz Classics celebrates Miles Davis’ centennial with the release of 'Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet'. Originally released on Prestige in 1957 and one of four albums recorded during sessions at Van Gelder studios, 'Cookin’...' features Davis alongside John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Red Garland and Philly Joe Jones. This new edition of the album is released on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket.

TRACK LISTING

1. My Funny Valentine
2. Blues by Five
3. Airegin
4. Tune Up/When Lights Are Low

Demonia Disco is a new side project to Tom McDowell's Dream Division; the brains behind the acclaimed Library of the Occult label.

2 tracks of minimal, vocoder vox, italo disco, minimal synth, kraut pop flavours- the sort of thing that might have come out of 1981 Germany with next to no info and now sets you back £200 thanks to word of mouth reminiscences from the precious few who heard it in sweaty, black walled basement Eastern European alt discos alongside early DAF, Fad Gadget and co....

Hugely recommended and super limited in numbered silkscreened sleeve, labelless disks. PLAY LOUD!

TRACK LISTING

1. Electric Eyes
2. Metal Fetishist

I Bet on Sky is the third Dinosaur Jr. album since the original trio – J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph – reformed in 2005. And, crazily, it marks the band’s 10th studio album since their debut on Homestead Records in 1985. Back in the ‘80s, if anyone has suggested that these guys would be performing and recording at such a high level 27 years later, they would have been laughed out of the tree fort.

The trio has taken everything they’ve learned from the various projects they tackled over the years, and poured it directly into their current mix. J’s guitar approaches some of its most unhinged playing here, but there’s a sense of instrumental control that matches the sweet murk of his vocals (not that he always remembers to exercise control on stage, but that’s another milieu). This is head-bobbing riff-romance at the apex. Lou’s basswork shows a lot more melodicism now as well, although his two songs on I Bet on Sky retain the jagged rhythmic edge that has so often marked his work. And Murph…well, he still pounds the drums as hard and as strong as a pro wrestler, with deceptively simple structures that manage to interweave themselves perfectly with his bandmates’ melodic explosions.

After submerging myself in I Bet on Sky, it’s clear that the album is a true and worthy addition to the Dinosaur Jr. discography. It hews close enough to rock formalism to please the squares. Yet it is brilliantly imprinted with the trio’s magical equation, which is a gift to the rest of us. For a combo that began as anomalous fusion of hardcore punk and pop influences, Dinosaur Jr. have proven themselves to be unlikely masters of the long game.

TRACK LISTING

1. Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
2. Watch The Corners
3. Almost Fare
4. Stick A Toe In
5. Rude
6. I Know It Oh So Well
7. Pierce The Morning Rain
8. What Was That
9. Recognition
10. See It On Your Side

DiscoGram's self-titled label is quickly becoming our disco dealer of choice. This third massive gets us further hooked on the groovy goods. After a Brazilian flex last time out, there is more of an Afro overtone to this 12": 'Africa Tribal' is a percussive sun-soaked sound with expressive horns and equally expressive vocals over a ton of percussion, hand claps and wiggly grooves. 'Chillin' Out' is more US-flavoured with a low-slung and breezy vibe and sunny vocals. 'Coconut' ups the pace and injects florid feels with Philly strings and stomping drums. 'Hi Tension' then keeps its foot down with a heavy but funky disco sound and irresistible double-claps.

TRACK LISTING

Africa Tribal
Chillin' Out
Coconut
Hi Tension

'Thieves' is a document of Kelly Doyle’s 30 years as a musician steeped in country, jazz and ‘50s exotica. Marked by freedom and restraint, he showcases his ability to unreel, flex, tease, cajole, inundate, and revel within the bounds of a single work. Composed for saxophone and guitar, 'Thieves' offers an interplay of timbres that brings delicacy to complex melodies—tethered by unflinching bass and drums.

TRACK LISTING

1. Thieves
2. Pink Houses
3. Cold Open
4. Needlerooser
5. A Year and a Day
6. Big Fish
7. Found a Knife
8. Bats are Cute
9. Lodge Scene

Veteran NYC producer Blockhead teams up with rising Baltimore MC Brian Ennals (usually seen in his lauded partnership with Infinity Knives) for vital, skillsharing new album Boatshoes, a canny and celebratory ride through everything that makes these artists great.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aldente
2. Roll Call
3. Pass the Yayo
4. Bareback
5. Let it Burn (like Usher)
6. Yellow School Buses feat. Mike Mayo and Defcee
7. Wet Noodle
8. Signed Sealed & Delivered
9. Soy Boy
10. Now That's What I Call a Posse Cut vol. 89 feat. feat Fatboi Sharif, Shrapknel, and DeathIRL
11. Smirnoff, via a Straw
12. Shyne
13. Wonderwall

‘It’s A Joy To Be Alive’ is the third album from married British folk/pop duo, Ferris & Sylvester. As the name suggests, the 11-track album is an exploration of finding joy and hope in the darkest of parts of life, inspired by the duo’s own experiences in music, marriage and parenthood. This project shows an evolution of the award-winning duo’s signature sound: vocal harmonies, hooky guitar riffs and their combining of sweet with grit. There is a distinct nod to 1970’s pop throughout the record too, with strings and backing vocals reminiscent of Bacharach and The Carpenters. Written and recorded in their studio and released through their label Archtop Records, this album is their strongest and most vulnerable, showcasing their ‘immaculate harmonies’ (Rolling Stone Magazine).

Words from the band - ‘What we’ve learnt: writing an album all about joy is one thing, but writing it from a place of struggle is something else altogether. There’s a very raw underbelly to the harmonies and hooks. In writing these songs, we dug deep into ourselves and realised that when there is joy, life is wonderful. And when there is an absence of it, there is always hope. And it’s hope that keeps us living. The album’s message: it’s going to be ok, let’s dance in the kitchen.’

TRACK LISTING

1. It’s A Joy To Be Alive
2. Jealous
3. The Game
4. Tiny Little Love
5. Strange Thing
6. 5-4-3-2-1
7. Peach Tree Street
8. Stupid & Young
9. Fishing Song
10. Lucky Night
11. The Sun Will Shine Again

Fiddlehead begins a new era with 'Baby I’ll Change', a three song EP. After a trio of genredefining & emotionally-driven albums adored by fans closed with 2023’s opus 'Death is Nothing to Us', many wondered what was next for the Boston band - including Fiddlehead themselves. They headed to North Carolina to record with producer Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Snail Mail, Hotline TNT) with a few ideas that ended up shaping into their latest release - a fully formed and captivating collection of songs that are among Fiddlehead’s best so far.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Dogs
2. Porchlight
3. Baby I’ll Change

There is something to be said about being both popular and prolific enough to be anthologized—it’s a space that soul music stalwart Kelly Finnigan and his latest release, B-Sides, Singles & Forgotten Gems, occupies with intent and fire. Serving as a mile marker pacing the 15 year collaboration between Finnigan and Colemine Records, B-Sides, Singles & Forgotten Gems is an easter egg moment for new and long-time fans to collect rare takes and flip sides in one spot, while unearthing Finnigan’s evolution as an artist, producer, and vocalist.

From his earliest explorations to one of the first tracks cut at his new studio in Ohio, this travelogue in sound both brings the listener forward to the present while laying out Kelly Finnigan’s road ahead.

“Colemine has grown so much, I've grown so much… I think [this collection is a chance to] take a little look back and share that with the people, the fans, the music lovers, the Colemine lovers,” says Finnigan.

TRACK LISTING

1. Freedom
2. She Won't Be Gone Long
3. Trouble
4. It's Not That Easy
5. Thom's Hartbreak
6. My Love Is For You
7. It Hurts Me So Much
8. Keep Me In Mind
9. Trust In Me
10. The Hurting Truth

Lost In Another World is James Ellis Ford’s singular, emotionally resonant second solo album. Made from start to finish in just over two weeks in early 2025, while James was on a hospital ward between punishing rounds of chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), it shares the experiences from the frontline of illness; fear, love, reassurance, boredom, pain, calm, disbelief, and ultimately hope. These transmissions from the eye of the storm have informed an album which is truly something special.

In 2025, Frankie and the Witch Fingers unleashed Trash Classic; a snarling, feral mutation of their earlier sound, packed with proto-punk venom, angular melodies, and decaying electro textures. The album charted in Billboard’s Top 10 Alternative Album Sales and the UK Official Charts’ Top 10 Rock Album Sales. Now, 2026’s expanded Trash Classic Deluxe crawls deeper into the pile. LP 1 features the full original album, while LP 2 digs through the trash heap of unreleased demos, outtakes, experiments, and fragments from the album’s creation. Remixed and sequenced by the band as a standalone listening experience, LP 2 documents the band’s process and includes liner notes detailing the record’s evolution. Expanded artwork by Jordan Warren includes a new cover, gatefold, inner sleeves, obi strip, and foil-numbered jackets, all containing two limited-edition “Smog City” dual-color vinyl LPs.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Total Reset
2. Channel Rot
3. T.V. Baby
4. Conducting Experiments
5. Gutter Priestess
6. Dead Silence
7. Trash Classic
8. Fucksake
9. Economy
10. Eggs Laid Brain
11. Out of the Flesh

Disc: 2
1. Trash Classic (Demo)
2. T.V. Baby (Demo)
3. Trash Classic (Original Jam)
4. Dead Silence (Demo)
5. Fucksake (Demo)
6. Eggs Laid Brain (Drum Machine Demo)
7. Eye Candy (Drum Machine Demo)

'BARAJA BENDITA' is Becky G fully unleashed - an artist with no ceiling and no apologies, in complete command of her sound and her story. Weaving between Spanish and English with effortless fluidity, this 17-track album channels a liberated, sensual energy that is both deeply rooted in her identity and entirely her own.

TRACK LISTING

TBA

‘Massive Champion’ is the highly anticipated new album from Bristol’s Getdown Services, the follow up to cult classic debut ‘Crisps’.

An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, the album finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years, while opening up new emotional and lyrical ground. Written in green rooms, on long car journeys and in the gaps between relentless touring, it stands as their boldest and most expansive statement to date, an ode to childhood, British cultural detritus and the absurd poetry of everyday life, distilling everything that has made Getdown Services one of the most exhilarating and unpredictable bands around. In the band’s words it is “about self pity and realising that maybe all of the healing your inner child stuff you hear about isn’t actually total bollocks. Musically and lyrically I think it’s about us trying to clean up our act a bit.”

New single ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ provides the second taste of the album and is the kind of instant earworm built for festival crowds. Wildly infectious, it is quintessential Getdown Services, pairing huge hooks with the band’s perceptive and poignant lyricism. As the band explain, “‘I Can’t Die Like That’ is about the feeling of simple things becoming complicated. We thought it was interesting to think about the ways in which something as straightforward as dying can be difficult. It’s also about clinging on to feelings that comfort you but aren’t necessarily healthy.” Like much of ‘Massive Champion’, it finds catharsis in contradiction, meeting often heavy subject matter with both candour and humour.

A triumph of hard work and the grassroots scene, Getdown Services jokingly coined themselves Britain’s Best Band. With ‘Massive Champion’, it feels less like a punchline and more like a statement of intent. As their audience continues to grow exponentially both at home and across the world, they look every bit on a fast track to becoming one of the country’s biggest and most vital bands. Joyous and utterly singular, ‘Massive Champion’ feels set to soundtrack the year ahead and, very likely, many more to come.

In an era of excess and endless distraction, Margaret Glaspy rejects the noise in favor of something far more essential. Before setting to work on her fourth full-length album 'I Am Both', she stepped away from social media and soon discovered a clarity of mind she hadn’t experienced in years, followed by a sustained burst of creative momentum. As she penned her lyrics in longhand and then polished them up on a typewriter, Glaspy assembled a selection of songs that span from fictional vignettes to unguarded self-revelation to empathetic observation of the troubled world around her. Produced by Joe Henry (the three-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/producer known for his work with luminaries like Aimee Mann and Joan Baez), 'I Am Both' ultimately stands as a striking new statement from one of the modern music canon’s most formidable songwriters.

TRACK LISTING

1. Michigan
2. Reminder
3. That Rose
4. I Thought She Was A Song
5. Petty
6. Common Ground
7. James and Marie
8. Martin Luther King Jr.
9. Sharp Knife
10. Wildest Dreams
11. I Am Both

Originally released in 1997, 'Jeffersonville' is a hidden gem of late-'90s American indie rock, blending heartfelt songwriting, melodic guitars, and the raw charm of the DIY underground. Formed in Burlington, Vermont, Guppyboy served as an early creative home for musicians who would later go on to form The Sixth Great Lake and The Essex Green, making this album an important chapter in the story of American independent music.

This deluxe double LP edition presents Jeffersonville in its most complete form to date, featuring previously unreleased and non-album tracks not included on the original release. Expanding on the original album while preserving its intimate, homespun spirit, this definitive edition shines a new light on a long-overlooked cult favorite.

With its blend of indie rock, power pop, and timeless melodic songwriting, Jeffersonville offers strong appeal to fans of the Elephant 6 universe and the wider American indie underground, while providing lasting catalogue value for retailers and collectors alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. York
2. Avalon Ballroom
3. Affection
4. Holiday
5. Urbus Lament
6. New Orleans
7. The A.M.
8. Washington Square
9. Trouble
10. Cam 2
11. Berry Girl
12. P.O.S
13. Ball In The Sky
14. Wendy
15. Twisted
16. Seventh Avenue
17. Billygoat
18. Snow Song
19. Evel Knievel
20. Mr. Leary Man

Hard-Ons/Jerry A is an sledgehammer hardcore punk rock n' roll assault which will appeal to fans of Dickcheese and Feel the Darkness both, and it provides an explosive taste of what fans will hear when Jerry A and the Hard-ons take to the stage together again later in the year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hang On
2. Old And Whys
3. Won’t Shut Up
4. Radio Blah
5. Scalped
6. Dead End Turnaround
7. Stomping On The Roses
8. That’s What I’m Saying?
9. Against The Current
10. My One Regret

'Big World' lives up to its name. Arriving on the heels of Hovvdy’s 2024 self-titled album with a palpable sense of expansion – songs that stretch outwards and fill every room that they’re played in – while still being rooted in the close, unguarded intimacy characteristic of the Texas duo. It’s a progression that underscores how Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, now over a decade into their collaboration, continue to refine a shared language without losing the sincerity that has come to define it.

TRACK LISTING

1. Life So Wide
2. Way Down
3. JJ
4. What I Had
5. Blast
6. Starry
7. Try Try Try
8. Junk
9. You Will Go Far
10. Give It Away
11. Untitled
12. Wannabe (Radio Queen)

Mark Jenkin, the BAFTA Award winning director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and musician, presents the score to his new film, 'Rose of Nevada' on Invada Records. Unique among British feature filmmakers for the
analogue way in which he crafts his films - all three feature films have been shot on 16mm using a Bolex clockwork camera – as well as his multifaceted roles as the writer, director, director of photography and editor of the film, once more he is responsible for handling the sound design and composing the original score.

The new score mirrors the techniques employed in the film, with analogue synthesisers drawing the listener into nebulous hypnotic tones and delicate movements.

Composed, produced, engineered and performed by Mark Jenkin using synthesiser, guitar, percussion and loops & effects, the environmental recordings remind us of the context in which the music was originally borne, but as the score ebbs and flows between ambient tranquil seas and crashing storms, it affirms its presence as a powerful stand-alone piece of work.
The score’s physical release follows the Cornish director’s third feature film: the time-travelling Rose of Nevada cinematic release in UK and Irish cinemas on 24 April, with a BFI Blu-ray and BFI Player release in the summer.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kneebone Barton
2. Through The Gaps (Pt.1)
3. Are We Fast?
4. Golow
5. One More Trawl
6. Cornish Affirmative
7. E-Bow An Howl
8. Through The Gaps (Pt. 2)
9. What’s Your Name?
10. Look At It
11. A Letter Home
12. Pysk
13. We Don’t Catch Fish
14. Home To Mother
15. Through The Gaps (Pt. 3)
16. Rose Of Nevada

Joyce and Tutty Moreno, the legendary vocalist/guitarist and drummer who helped define the sound of Brazilian popular music, have partnered with Adrian Younge to create 'JID027'. The result is an album that captures the ethereal beauty of collective improvisation, the weight of saudade, and the unbreakable bond between two of Brazil's most revered musicians.

The album is a delicate balance of premeditation and improvisation. Joyce's compositions-'Mandala';' 'Uaná Eté': 'Is This Love?': 'Fingers': and 'Janeiro'-sit alongside instrumental pieces by Younge, where Joyce's voice becomes a horn, a flute, a river of melody without words. The album closes with 'Circulo Vicioso': a recitation of the iconic poem by Machado de Assis, Brazil's greatest writer. Joyce's spoken word, delivered in her native Portuguese, transforms the track into a meditation on life, death, and the cyclical nature of art.

TRACK LISTING

1.Mandala
2.Uaná Eté
3. Is This Love?
4.Fingers
5.Janeiro
6. Sorria De Novo
7. Flores Vermelhas
8. Circulo Vicioso

Jungle cemented their status as a major global force with their 2023 album ‘Volcano’ - a record that earned them their first BRIT Award and featured their worldwide smash hit single ‘Back On 74’. The trio - J Lloyd, Tom McFarland and Lydia Kitto - return with their eagerly anticipated new album ‘Sunshine’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Come Back to Me
2. Sunshine
3. Where Are You Now?
4. Move Like You Do
5. Romeo II feat. Bas
6. Carry On
7. The Wave
8. Someday, Somewhere
9. Natural
10. Reflection
11. Heavy on My Soul

Award-winning composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Danny Keane returns with 'Kinesis', a bold, genre-defying second album that captures the energy of movement, collaboration and creative freedom. Drawing on years of touring with global icons including Mulatu Astatke and Anoushka Shankar, Keane brings together an exceptional ensemble to realise a richly textured, boundary-pushing sound. Blending jazz, contemporary classical, world and electronic influences, 'Kinesis' moves effortlessly between hypnotic rhythms, intricate metres and deeply emotive compositions.

From the driving pulse of 'Running' to the intimate, reflective closer 'Time To Go', each track explores themes of travel, time and personal evolution, all tied together by Keane’s distinctive musical voice. Featuring contributions from leading UK and international players, Kinesis is an immersive listening experience—perfect for fans of forward-thinking jazz and global fusion. A compelling and cinematic record, it marks Keane’s emergence as a truly original artist unbound by genre.

TRACK LISTING

1. Running
2. Passing Time 
3. Cathartic Chaos
4. Somnolent Stomp 
5. A Major Minor Waltz 
6. Time To Go

L’Rain’s kaleidoscopic fourth album 'Fata Morgana' is a fearless reckoning with self-doubt and the mirages of belonging and alienation that shape Taja Cheek’s lived experience of the contemporary moment. A shimmering vision of light and sound, seductive, ephemeral, impossible to contain, 'Fata Morgana' is a genre-defiant synthesis of dancehall, tape meditations, slow jams, gospel, and crunched metal influences in answer to the question: How do you grow in a world not meant for you to thrive in?

TRACK LISTING

1. Rumors of Light
2. With Time
3. Blue
4. July 5th
5. Bedroom Songs
6. Borderline
7. Elmyra
8. Soulless Cycle
9. No Body / Know Body
10. Glass Ceiling
11. I Remember
12. Birthday
13. Church of No One

A beloved cult classic of late-’90s indie pop, 'Beverley Atonale' captures The Ladybug Transistor at their most elegant and timeless. Blending baroque pop arrangements, warm analog textures, jangly guitars, and lush vocal harmonies, the album has become a cornerstone release for fans of sophisticated, melody-driven indie.

Long sought after by collectors, this vinyl reissue brings back an essential title from the American indie underground — a record whose cinematic songwriting and vintage pop sensibility continue to resonate decades after its original release. With enduring collector demand, strong catalogue value, and broad appeal among fans of Elephant 6-inspired indie pop, 'Beverley Atonale' stands as an essential addition to any indie-focused catalogue and a timeless rediscovery for a new generation of listeners.

Recommended For Fans Of The Essex Green, Belle and Sebastian, Broadcast, Stereolab, The Olivia Tremor Control.

TRACK LISTING

1. Here Is Your Space
2. Rushes of Pure Spring
3. Windy
4. The Swedish Libra and You
5. This Order Is Tall
6. Music for Tennis Courts
7. Your Wagging Tail (Single Space)
8. Stuck
9. Forest Marching Song
10. The Ocassional
11. It Will Be a Lifetime
12. Thoughts of You
13. The Swedish Libra II

'One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2' the 13th album by Marilyn Manson featuring the single 'Exit Wound' and released via Nuclear Blast Records.

TRACK LISTING

1. Unalive
2. Don't Answer The Door 
3. Front Toward Enemy 
4. All The Vilest Things 
5. None of the Suns 
6. Lucifer's Teardrop 
7. The Arsonist 
8. Exit Wound 
9. Enantiomorph

Roots, Rock, Reggae: Live at the Hammersmith Oden is a stunning, previously unreleased live album from Bob Marley, recorded over several nights during the Wailers' residency at London's prestigious Hammersmith Odeon in June 1976, during their Rastaman Vibration tour. Booking the venue was an audacious move, but Bob had newfound stardom from the U.K. chart success of "No Woman, No Cry," and an ecstatic crowd packed the place. Highlights include a transcendent title song, a rarely-performed "Bend Down Low," an extended version of "Crazy Baldhead," and a 30-minute encore that incorporates a 12-minute "Get Up, Stand Up." New liner notes by Marley associate Don Letts bring an eyewitness account to the experience, now available on black vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Introduction
Trenchtown Rock
Burnin’ and Lootin’
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)
I Shot the Sheriff

Side B
Crazy Baldhead
Bend Down Low
Want More
No Woman, No Cry
LP2

Side C
Lively Up Yourself
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Encore Introduction
Positive Vibration
Rat Race

Side D
War
No More Trouble
Get Up, Stand Up

There is an ecstatic melancholy in Dent May’s music. The bedroom pop auteur’s songs are both bittersweet and exuberant, breaking your heart while you can’t help but sing along.

Over six albums, May has built a wildly diverse discography spanning 17 years. He has typically worked alone, assembling perfect pop gems on his laptop, playing nearly every instrument himself. But when he began preparations for his new album, May’s tried and true process suddenly felt stale.

'The Big One' brings together both the scrappy DIY ethos of Elephant 6 Collective and early The Magnetic Fields with May’s lifelong affinity for the great ’70s singer-songwriters like Harry Nilsson and Ram-era Paul McCartney. The songs balance a clear-eyed view of the world with a cautious optimism, looking at the everyday experiences of disappointment and heartbreak with a sense of possibility for the good that may still come. Things might seem bleak, May tells us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be thankful for our brief time here on Planet Earth.

The title track is the beating heart of the record. Over a steady drumbeat, piano, and accordion, a melancholy May sings, “The big one’s coming, the big one’s on its way,” promising disaster. But May won’t wallow in the misery: “Thank the Lord for all my friends/We can make it ’til the end/No we can’t stop now/Who knows? Tomorrow it all could turn around.” For May, hope comes in the form of others.

It’s with this joyful melancholy Dent May draws in the world. Everything might be ending, the planet could be careening off into chaos, but tonight there’s a party down the block and you’re invited. Be sure and bring your friends.

TRACK LISTING

1. Here We Go Again
2. I Remember
3. The Big One
4. I Don't Like You (But I Love You)
5. I Want To Believe
6. Silly Me
7. Second Wind
8. I-55
9. Last Night I Saw a UFO
10. Such A Thrill
11. Tell 'Em All I Said Hi

Originally released in June 2009, 'The Ecstatic' stands as a defining artistic statement from Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey) — a richly textured return to form that reaffirmed his status as one of hip-hop’s most adventurous and intellectually engaged voices. Arriving a decade after his celebrated debut 'Black on Both Sides', the album was widely regarded as his strongest work in years, earning near-universal praise for its lyrical breadth, eclectic production, and thematic ambition.

Musically, 'The Ecstatic' weaves a global sonic tapestry shaped by an array of forward-thinking producers including Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No, Preservation, Mr. Flash, Chad Hugo (of The Neptunes), and Georgia Anne Muldrow. The resulting soundscape is both rooted in hip-hop tradition and unbound by genre, integrating elements of jazz, soul, Middle-Eastern inflection, and experimental sample work. Tracks like 'Supermagic' and 'Twilite Speedball' establish a vibrant, restless energy that mirrors the album’s expansive creative scope.

Lyrically, Yasiin Bey traverses personal, political, and philosophical terrain with characteristic incisiveness, confronting social inequality, Western imperialism, and questions of cultural identity with poetic urgency. Embracing risk and complexity rather than nostalgia, 'The Ecstatic' remains a mature, deeply felt body of work whose ambition, depth, and enduring resonance have solidified its place as a standout entry in Mos Def’s catalog and in modern hip-hop history.

TRACK LISTING

1. Supermagic
2. Twilite Speedball
3. Auditorium (featuring Slick Rick)
4. Wahid
5. Priority
6. Quiet Dog Bite Hard
7. Life In Marvelous Times
8. The Embassy
9. No Hay Nada Mas
10. Pistola
11. Pretty Dancer
12. Workers Comp.
13. Revelations
14. Roses (featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow)
15. History (featuring Talib Kweli)
16. Casa Bey

It’s five years in a blender. It’s every troublesome misunderstanding of a half-decade relationship distorted and stretched into an absurdist black comedy mini-series on wax. It’s the sound of every fight we ever had, playing simultaneously. It’s several consecutive voice notes that you did not listen to, and instead read the transcription. It’s fifteen songs from iconoclastic rapper Mike Eagle and innovative producer Kenny Segal. It’s the world’s first half-whimsical break-up album. It’s 'DOOMED!'

It’s also LA. Maybe not first and foremost, but Los Angeles runs deep in this record’s present, and its lineage. The story of any big city is also one of transplants. DJ Premier in New York, Tupac in California. If you build it, they will come. Mike and Kenny both arrived in LA as young, aspiring artists who were drawn to the scene around groundbreaking rap crew Project Blowed. They have been friends—and occasional collaborators—for almost twenty years. Despite that, 'DOOMED!' is the first time the two have put together a full body of work. But everything happens in its time, and fate worked to bring them together at the exact moment that would allow the duo to create something extraordinary. Mike, fresh off a string of multi-producer records and processing the end of a tumultuous relationship, was in need of creative catharsis. Meanwhile, Kenny had locked in on his next challenge after a recent string of critically acclaimed collaborations not only with rappers like billy woods, and K-the-I???, but also jazz trio Human Error Club and bluesy indie rocker Benjamin Booker.

“In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something,” Open Mike Eagle explains. “I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for 'Neighborhood Gods Unlimited' with the caveat that we would focus on our thing next. Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’”

Here are some more particularly interesting insights from the man himself:
“If 'DOOMED!' is prestige TV, then think of 'Out To Lunch' as the pilot where we meet a man who’s not all there because his head is still in yesterday, and the following as a brief synopsis.

There’s a song that starts at an argument about the color of a rental car. There’s a song about trying to write a pair of lovers’ initials in wet concrete and the stick breaking. There’s a song that’s a prayer about finding the strength not to look at my ex’s social media. There’s a song about a character from Adventure Time who’s a piece of shit that I identify with. Each vision is a crashed airplane halfway on the border of dream and nightmare, bitter and sweet, sadness and freedom. Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.

TRACK LISTING

1. Out to Lunch
2. Streets of Rage: Public Arguments Edition feat Gothic Tropic
3. DOOMED!
4. Unfinished Concrete Initials feat Hemlock Ernst
5. Don’t Go Look (Battleworld Focus Prayer)
6. She Swear I’m Colorblind feat billy woods
7. Science Fiction/Fantasy
8. The Irredeemable Magic Man
9. The Many Hustles of my Lonely Time Traveling Uncle
10. Trying to Remember What I Aimed At
11. Schrödinger’s Green Room (There but Uninvited)
12. It Happens in Every Universe (interlude)
13. Sweetheart Jail
14. Infinity War Spoilers
15. Watching a Movie Called Freedom By Myself

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Radical Friendship Theory was formed through a collection of like-minded musicians. Robert Rotifer (singer-songwriter and guitarist/bassist with everyone from Louis Philippe & The Night Mail to Swansea Sound, The Penrose Web, Papernut Cambridge, Keiron Phelan and Fay Hallam's band) asked Kenji (formerly of sunshine poppers Friedrich Sunlight, co-inventor of GlasGoesPop) why he wasn't singing in bands anymore, and it all ballooned from there into a luscious LP featuring, besides Robert & Kenji, post-Glam veteran John Howard, young Viennese talent The Zew, living she-punk legend Helen McCookerybook and everybody's favourite singing drummer Ian Button.

The original idea was that Robert would write songs for Kenji's voice whose gorgeousness naturally guided him into a melodic baroque pop direction. Lyrically, too, a theme evolved about friendship, mutual encouragement and the state of the world.

What started out as home made demos in unfamiliar keys grew into fully fledged arrangements. Everybody involved sings lead on a track or two and harmonies on everything, so the album itself is the musical embodiment of the Radical Friendship idea, not in theory but in practice.

Radical Friendship Theory is not a band, it's a lovingly realised set of songs in a wide range of styles and arrangements, from baroque pop, to psych, from country rock to bookish indie, sung by a circle of friends between Glasgow, Kent, London, Berlin and southern Spain - a celebration of actual human, creative friendship as a life-saving alternative to a world of fake digital engagement, captive consumption and artificially sown division.

TRACK LISTING

1. Considering (3:17)
2. Things to Do In Winter (3:10)
3. Listen to The News (3:01)
4. Radical Friendship (4:10)
5. The Words (3:06)
6. The More That I Think About What We Should Do (2:47)
7. Stay With Us (3:43)
8. Across The Great Divide (3:57)
9. Always In Landscape (3:29)
10. Sense Of Time (3:29)
11. Nobody Wants To Live In This House Anymore (3:05)
12. Is This Real Enough? (4:05)

Minneapolis' Real Numbers return with a new full length album, the gorgeously pop-tastic 'Was It Always This Way'. Ten expectant, exuberant songs mixing hope and despair, the future and the past, all set to the sounds of late-80s/early-90s UK indie-pop. While definitely picking up where their 2021 EP 'Brighter Then' left off, the emphasis this time is on multi-layered guitars intended to complement the wistful and melancholy tracks with glittering awe.

'Was It Always This Way' refines Real Numbers' already-stunning songs, polishing the tunes into a swooningly perfect album that recalls 90s antecedents like Field Mice and St Christopher, as well as fellow pop practitioners like Ducks Ltd, Chime School and The Umbrellas. Album highlights like 'Darling' and 'Never Never Again' show that Real Numbers stand tall with their influences, paying close attention to the past while taking their art straight into the future with assurance and flair.

TRACK LISTING

1. This Empty Frame
2. I Can Tell
3. Darling
4. Star
5. Twist The Blade
6. Don't Look Away
7. Everlasting Happiness
8. Was It Always This Way
9. Never Never Again
10. Remembrance

Over the last decade, Chicago quartet REZN have carved out a unique place in the landscape of heavy music, chiseling away at the crude formations of the topography, mining the most concentrated metallic ore from the dirt, and shaping it all into something monumental, imposing, and divine. While REZN has always fused seismic riffs with effortless beauty and grandeur, their shifting strategies for wielding that polarity have involved varied compositional and stylistic decisions, most notably the light-and-dark contrast of companion albums 'Solace' (2023) and 'Burden' (2024). But with their newest full-length offering, 'Cycles in the Infinite Dream', REZN masterfully harness the oppressive weight of their full sonic armory to celestial melodies and sublime synesthesia-inducing atmospherics in a manner so seamless it feels otherworldly, as if occupying a liminal space between two realities.
While REZN traffic in the unbridled realms of metal and untethered reaches of psychedelia, their latest release showcases a band working with discipline and intention, even when those intentions are rendered to be purposefully cryptic. As the album title implies, 'Cycles in the Infinite Dream' explores the nexus of our waking and nocturnal worlds. “We moved towards the dream and subconscious state as a lyrical concept and melodic theme,” the band explains. “The pseudo-waking state is a reflection of a second existence—something that you can flee to or be imprisoned by.” Much like the subconscious-guided work of David Lynch, Cycles in the Infinite Dream exists as parallax between the artist and the audience, creating an obscured and distorted space that is both familiar and alien, like a corridor into our past where we recognize our surroundings but somehow still feel lost within its warped geometry.

One of REZN’s most understated assets lies within guitarist/singer Rob McWilliams’ vocal approach. Eschewing heavy music’s guttural growls or operatic gymnastics, McWilliams has been steadfast in his soaring, delay-drenched melodies, providing a beguiling path through even the most primal and pummeling moments in the band’s repertoire. Like a piper calling you to join him, McWilliams forges through the darkness yet remains cloaked in mystery. Indeed, the voice serves more as an instrument and a guidepost than as a vehicle for poetry or a portrait of a personality. “Most of the instrumentation was created with vocal melodies in mind,” the band clarifies. “We made a lot of choices that were dictated by the vocals, sometimes rewriting songs completely if the vocal melodies demanded it.” That said, the band’s instrumentation on the album is still in the foreground and is an exceptionally mesmerizing presence throughout.

REZN have long operated—and thrived—in the subterranean realm of music heads who crave the aural equivalent of altered states. And with 'Cycles in the Infinite Dream', they have created their most psychotropic work to date.

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Barry says: Bracingly heavy, distorted mayhem on Sargen House's newest LP from Chicago post-metalers REZN. Though the overwhelming atmosphere is one of gothic intensity and metallic heft, the moments of (relatively) quiet introspective melodicism remind me of the later day ISIS albums or even Cave-In's more psychedelic moments. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rites of Passage
2. Transient
3. Cloudfall
4. Aerial Birth
5. Devotion
6. The Vessel
7. Escher
8. Primal Thread
9. Terra Preta

Special gatefold LP + 12-page booklet attached to the sleeve with extensive liner notes and previously unpublished archival photographs documenting Salleh’s career. Fully licensed from the Johari Salleh.

Habibi Funk’s new sister label Audible Beauty Records second release: A landmark collection retelling the untold story of Malaysian jazz featuring 9 songs from the legendary composer, arranger and trumpet player Johari Salleh. Salleh played a crucial role in shaping the sound of modern Malaysian music across radio, television, film and live performance and has composed dozens of popular songs in his decades long career. His personal musical passion always was jazz, reflected in this deep selection of jazz works that were previously unavailable unless you had one of the few dozen copies pressed locally in the 1970s. The album doesn’t only highlight his musical statue as a composer but also as a outstanding trumpet soloists bringing together jazz, spiritual undertones and Malaysian folkloric themes balancing slower pacing deep, modal grooves with more upbeat jazz funk leanings. For fans of Salah Ragab, Ahmed Malek, Mulatu Astatke, Dollar Brand and co.

TRACK LISTING

johana
khayalan
erie
mengapa
hitam manis
bila masa
anda
mengapa berduka

Sometimes an album title arrives like a voice from across time. For Johanna Samuels, 'Sorry, Kid' began as a message to her younger self, part apology and part recognition. Gathering songs written as far back as 2007 alongside newer work, the album bridges nearly two decades of lived experience. The record holds 70s tones without leaning on them, drawing from a lineage of melody and restraint while staying fully alive in its own time. It feels lived in, steady, and quietly powerful, like something finally understood without needing to be explained. The result is intimate and fully realized, songs that began as questions now settling into something like resolution.

TRACK LISTING

1. White Limousine
2. Rare (The Runner Song)
3. Circles
4. Blue Vs. Pinkerton
5. Two People, The Moon
6. Full Story
7. Bats
8. The Kind One
9. Grade Eleven (Sorry, Kid)
10. Do What I Can
11. Indelible Within Her

The Sinclairs is Mr Rat Scabies and Mr Billy Shinbone, making easy listening much more difficult. Rat Scabies is mostly known for his drumming skills in legendary punk band The Damned, whereas Billy Shinbone also plays with post-punkers i-nichi, with ex-Specials' Neville Staple and also with Simon Chesterfield.

Rat and Billy met back in the 90s when Billy's psychedelic pop band Flipron walked into Rat's studio asking how much time a hundred quid would buy them. Somehow, they managed to stay for a couple of years, and Rat produced two of their albums, and they've been friends ever since.

Since 2019, The Sinclairs have released two albums via Cleopatra Records ('Sparkle' in 2020, and 'The Long Slow Death Of A Cigarette' in 2023'), with not only sounds of psychedelic, gurgly, electronic, surfed punk, but with some rather special guests too - Zumi Rosow of Black Lips, Kid Congo Powers of The Cramps, Roger Chapman of iconic '60s band Family, and members of Japanese garage punk treasures The 5,6,7,8's, plus British actor Kevin Eldon.

Back with a new twin-spin 7" record, Rat and Billy have once again recorded two songs that are ready for world exposure. First up is 'Dirty River', with guest vocals from Bristol's glam-pop vocalist Emily Breeze. On the flip is '…And Garnish With A Fresh Tarantula'; a punked up surf guitar instrumental. Pick your favourite! Will it be savage fuzzed out glam-noir, or will it be swirling apocalyptic swamp pop?

TRACK LISTING

1. Dirty River (feat. Emily Breeze)
2. ...And Garnish With A Fresh Tarantula

Skyjack — the borderless five piece band spread across South Africa and Switzerland — announce their fourth studio album, Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet.

Recorded in December 2025 at a secluded studio outside Stellenbosch, South Africa, the album captures the vibrant live energy of the band at its most expansive — drawing together free improvisation, South African jazz traditions, chamber music, kinetic groove, and ecstatic collective interplay into a singular body of work.

“This record is a very articulate representation of our sound, having grown deep roots into the earth with high branches reaching upward and outward”, says bassist Shane Cooper. “My desire is always to create sonic universes that can envelope the listener.”

The album’s title comes from a line in a poem by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, reflecting the music’s balance between groundedness and transcendence. Here, Skyjack move fluidly between meditative improvisation and lush orchestration across twelve tracks of free-spirited, cosmic journeying. Inspired both by the cultural traditions and natural environments of South Africa, Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet is a testament to the band’s intuitive connection and innate musical curiosity.

It arrives just over a year after Light Cycle (2024), a short gap that reflects the momentum built on tour. After exchanging sketches remotely across two continents, the band reunited in Johannesburg in late 2025, workshopped the new material onstage across South Africa, and then headed directly into the studio, where much of the album was recorded live in first takes — preserving the looseness and unpredictability central to Skyjack’s sound.

Comprised of Kyle Shepherd (piano), Shane Cooper (bass), Jonno Sweetman (drums), Andreas Tschopp (trombone), and Marc Stucki (saxophones), Skyjack first formed in Cape Town in 2013 during a fertile moment in South African jazz, as a new generation of musicians pushed against rigid genre definitions and opened the music outward toward broader sonic possibilities. Over the past decade, the band has built a singular sound drawing equally on South African groove traditions and European improvisation.

Individually, the members move between jazz, electronic music, film scoring, rock, hip-hop and experimental composition, with collaborations spanning artists including William Parker, Lionel Loueke, Zim Ngqawana, Ben LaMar Gay, Jorge Rossy, Shabaka Hutchings, William Kentridge, Makaya McCraven and Sylvie Courvoisier.

Since their self-titled debut in 2015, followed by The Hunter (2019) and Light Cycle (2024), the group has developed a reputation for immersive live performances and music that continuously reshapes itself in motion — rooted in what they describe as “warm menacing African grooves,” while refusing fixed stylistic borders.

TRACK LISTING

i say
another one for bra zim
bass below
let the sky open under your feet
radiate
mantra for reef
the cloudspotting sunbeam
ayan
surrender yourself to that which moves you
night moth
night moths flutter to eternity
shozi

Slick Rick, born Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters, is a British‑American hip‑hop artist who rose to prominence as part of Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew in the mid 80s. Their songs “La Di Da Di” and “The Show” are widely regarded as early hip‑hop classics. His debut album, The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, featuring the signature track “Children’s Story,” was released in 1988. Behind Bars is the third studio album by Slick Rick, released in 1994 on Def Jam Recordings. It peaked at #51 on the Billboard 200 and #11 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip‑Hop Albums chart. The album was recorded while Rick was on furlough from prison, with some tracks built around vocals recorded years earlier. Additional recording took place during a 1993 work‑release period.

The album produced two singles showcasing Slick Rick’s classic storytelling style, “Behind Bars” and “Sittin’ in My Car”. Production was handled by Warren G, Greg Nice, Paul Huston, Easy Mo Bee, and Slick Rick himself. Remixes were contributed by Pete Rock for “I’m Captive,” “Get a Job” and The Large Professor for “It’s a Boy”. Guest appearances include Nice & Smooth on “Let’s All Get Down”, Warren G on "Behind Bars" and hip-hop veteran Doug E. Fresh on "Sittin' In My Car". Influential hip-hop and lifestyle magazine Vibe praised the album, noting that “Rick’s legendary street brilliance and sparkling, charming wit can even be distilled from behind bars.”

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Behind Bars
2. All Alone (No One To Be With)
3. Sittin' In My Car (feat. Doug E. Fresh)
4. A Love That's True (Part II)
5. Cuz It's Wrong
6. Let's All Get Down (feat. Nice & Smooth)

Side B
1. I'm Captive
2. Get A Job
3. A Love That's True (Part III)
4. It's A Boy (Remix)
5. Behind Bars (Dum Ditty Dum Mix)

Special gatefold LP + 12-page booklet attached to the sleeve, featuring in-depth essays, archival photography and historical material. Fully licensed from the Soliano family.

Habibi Funk’s new sister label Audible Beauty Records debut release: A landmark collection retelling the untold story of Malaysian jazz featuring 11 songs from the legendary composer, arranger and pianist Alfonso Soliano, originally recorded for Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and only released in a run of a few dozen copies for radio broadcast. Widely regarded as one of the foundational figures of Malaysian music, Soliano blended jazz, Latin influences and traditional Malay musical forms into a uniquely local sound of all original compositions. The recordings also feature contributions from some of Malaysia’s most important musicians and composers of the era, including Johari Salleh and Ahmad Nawab. For fans of Salah Ragab, Ahmed Malek, Mulatu Astatke, Dollar Brand and co. The release includes extensive liner notes and previously unpublished archival photographs documenting Soliano’s life and legacy.

TRACK LISTING

masth chantani
ida
surya pagi
salah langkah
rohana
lalang di tiup angin
petaling jaya
rimba
ku kan kembali
kenangan abadi
kejujuran

First full concert album from Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, recorded in 2025.

Following last year's world tour, Sparks were invited to perform a one-off show on the Moon - the first band in history to do so! Includes an introduction and outro from Cate Blanchett, who accompanied the band on their lunar trip.

'Sparks Live On The Moon' comprises a full live set of twenty songs spanning the band's 54 year career, including 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us', 'The Number One Song In Heaven', 'When Do I Get To Sing "My Way"', 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and songs from their most recent album 'MAD!'

TRACK LISTING

1. So May We Start (Live On The Moon)
2. Do Things My Own Way (Live On The Moon)
3. Reinforcements (Live On The Moon)
4. Academy Award Performance (Live On The Moon)
5. Goofing Off (Live On The Moon)
6. Beat the Clock (Live On The Moon)
7. Please Don't Fuck Up My World (Live On The Moon)
8. Running Up A Tab At The Hotel For The Fab (Live On The Moon)
9. Suburban Homeboy ("Ron Speaks" Version) (Live On The Moon)
10. All You Ever Think About Is Sex (Live On The Moon)
11. Drowned In A Sea Of Tears (Live On The Moon)
12. JanSport Backpack (Live On The Moon)
13. Music That You Can Dance To (Live On The Moon)
14. When Do I Get To Sing "My Way" (Live On The Moon)
15. The Number One Song In Heaven (Live On The Moon)
16. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (Live On The Moon)
17. Whippings and Apologies (Live On The Moon)
18. Lord Have Mercy (Live On The Moon)
19. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Live On The Moon)
20. All That (Live On The Moon)

Still Going arrived on the scene with “Still Going Theme,” a seductive layering of deep, creeping bass, swelling synths and tinkling pianos atop a disco pulse. Along with its hypnotic flipside, “On and On,” the single captivated listeners with its anthemic energy and quickly became a dance floor staple. With the release of “Spaghetti Circus,” Olivier “Liv” Spencer and Eric “Dunks” Duncan build on their reputation for creating compelling dance music for compulsive listening.

This record is two years in the making, time the duo spent churning out a steady stream of remixes for an impressive roster of musicians, including The Presets, !!!, Crazy P, Force of Nature, Doves and Low Motion Disco. They've also been busy with their respective DJ projects – Dunks with the infamous duo Rub-N-Tug and Liv as one half of dance favorites House of House. On the heels of these numerous endeavors, Still Going have managed to return with a stellar new release.

“Spaghetti Circus,” the title track, pairs rubbery bass with trance-inducing waves of swooning, orchestral keys and dramatic piano. The B-Side, “Untitled Love,” changes the mood, settling comfortably into a space-ious, swaggering mid-tempo groove. Set against these lush backdrops are vocals from Reggie Watts, a singer whose performances both live and on record have established him as an immense talent. Watt’s urgent, rough-hewn voice serves to propel the driving rhythm of “Spaghetti Circus,” while on “Untitled Love,” his soulfully smooth vocals anchor the track’s languid pace.

Other featured performances on this long-awaited 12” are sure to generate even more enthusiasm for its release. Andrew Raposo, formerly of Hercules & Love Affair and now of Jessica 6, Midnight Magic and Tippy Toes, plays bass on both songs. Jason Rabe of Los Angeles-based band The VLA contributes lead guitar to “Spaghetti Circus” And Tim Lee, founder of noted electronic label Tummy Touch Records, plays the Rhodes on “Untitled Love.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: If you're looking for something that will make the sweat drip from the ceiling at your next party then Spaghetti Circus is just what you need. An absolute banger and a big hit here at Piccadilly HQ!

TRACK LISTING

1. Spaghetti Circus
2. Untitled Love
3. Untitled Love (Instrumental)

Originally released in August 1996, ‘Trash’ was the first missive from a reenergised Suede, the first, in fact, of five Top Ten hits that would come from the new album. With new members Richard Oakes on guitar and Neil Codling on keyboards, ‘Trash’ was an instant hit, roaring onto radio A-lists and rising to No. 3 in the UK singles chart. 30 years on, still fizzing with excitement and swagger, it’s rightly remembered as one of the defining anthems of the 90s.

As was customary for Suede fans, there were treats in store too on the single’s incredible extra tracks – ‘Europe Is Our Playground’, ‘Another No One’, ‘Every Monday Morning Comes’… among the band’s fiercely loyal fans all of ‘Trash’’s “other sides” came to be seen as important as the ’A’!

Where all of Suede’s previous singles had been issued as 12” singles, ‘Trash’ was the first to pass over the format in favour of two separate CD singles, both featuring unique B-sides. For the single’s 30th anniversary this release pulls together both of those original CD1 / CD2 packages into one strictly limited 45 r.p.m. 12” E.P. on lilac vinyl.

For this unique release, ‘Coming Up’ graphic designer Howard Wakefield has come on board 30 years on to restore Nick Knight and Peter Saville’s iconic photography and artwork and reconfigure the visuals for full 12” glory.

TRACK LISTING

1. Trash
2. Every Monday Morning Comes
3. Europe Is Our Playground
4. Another No One
5. Have You Ever Been This Low?

Releasing three studio albums throughout the 90s, The Sundays are still revered with cult status across the world of indie rock, known for their shimmering, jangly guitars and the uniquely ethereal vocals of Harriet Wheeler.

Stepping into slightly darker, more textured sonic territory, the band’s second album trades some of the debut's upbeat bounce for a lush, introspective atmosphere, featuring songs such as 'On Earth' and 'Goodbye'.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Feel
2. Goodbye
3. Life & Soul
4. More
5. On Earth
6. God Made Me
7. Love
8. What Do You Think?
9. 24 Hours
10. Blood On My Hands
11. Medicine

Releasing three studio albums throughout the 90s, The Sundays are still revered with cult status across the world of indie rock, known for their shimmering, jangly guitars and the uniquely ethereal vocals of Harriet Wheeler.

This debut is a masterclass in indie pop, blending jangly, guitar hooks with a breezy acoustic warmth. Featuring loved singles such as 'Here’s Where The Story Ends' and 'You’re The Only One I Know'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Skin & Bones
2. Here’s Where The Story Ends
3. Can’t Be Sure
4. I Won
5. Hideous Towns
6. You’re Not The Only One I Know
7. A Certain Someone
8. I Kicked A Boy
9. My Finest Hour
10. Joy

Releasing three studio albums throughout the 90s, The Sundays are still revered with cult status across the world of indie rock, known for their shimmering, jangly guitars and the uniquely ethereal vocals of Harriet Wheeler.

Their final album is a bright, polished farewell that embraces a warmer, folk-tinged pop sound, complete with the occasional addition of horns and strings. It includes tracks such as 'Summertime', arguably one of the most radiant singles of the 1990s, as well as 'Cry' and 'When I’m Thinking About You'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Summertime
2. Homeward
3. Folk Song
4. She
5. When I’m Thinking About You
6. I Can’t Wait
7. Another Flavour
8. Leave This City
9. Your Eyes
10. Cry
11. Monochrome

Sweeping Promises’ introduction to the global punk underground was their debut album, 'Hunger for a Way Out', which ended up being one of the breakout successes in music during pandemic lockdown. In 2023, they followed up with 'Good Living is Coming for You', a satirical, hyper-critical rebuke of capitalism that made Album of the Year lists for Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, and BBC, just to name a few. Bassist/vocalist Lira Mondal and guitarist Caufield Schnug decided to tilt their approach a few degrees forward on their third LP.

The big theme of 'You Say I Romanticize' is hinted at in its title. Coming from a lyric sung on album closer 'Write Lightly'—a narrative about the importance of self-expression in writing being scrubbed away by “professional” concerns—many of the characters singer/bassist Mondal fleshed out here are outcasts, marginalized by society and turned into fanatics for a cornucopia of specific causes.

The visceral songwriting on 'You Say I Romanticize' features an equally visceral musical approach. Sweeping Promises brought live drummer Spenser Gralla into the recording sessions to give the songs a similar urgency to their live show. The frenzy of its execution also materializes in Mondal’s vocal performances.

A shadow side exists along with Sweeping Promises’ love of their artistic community—borne of weirdos channeling their “outcast” status into vibrant art and punk rock music. You Say I Romanticize takes the ethos Mondal and Schnug have developed and explores the obsessive, fanatical aspects of being ostracized and isolated by mainstream society.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shooting Shadows
2. My Friend's An Entomologist
3. Last Man
4. Rapture, Or...
5. Abduction On Camera
6. My Anchoress
7. Cocoon
8. Accent
9. Does He Want To Be The Weatherman?
10. Write Lightly

Legendary debut album by Junko Tange, a sonic trailblazer (and dental student!) from Japan who released just two albums before vanishing from the music world. "Anonym" was originally issued by Osaka’s Vanity Records in 1979. 

Dadaesque recitations and sparse guitar, piano and electronic meanderings combine for a beguiling, hypnotic dreamworld.

Officially licensed from the custodians of Yuzuru Agi's Vanity Records archives, this edition has been fully remastered from new transfers of the original analog tapes by Stephan Mathieu.

TRACK LISTING

1. Two owls 03:32
2. I wanna be a homicide 02:48
3. osteo-tomy 03:50
4. JUIN-Irénée 04:35
5. anonym 05:26
6. laughiñ in the shadows 04:58
7. through the glass 05:13
8. tecno-room 02:55
9. Voyage au bout de la nuit 06:49

Laura Veirs returns with 'Temple Songs', her first album in four years—and the first she has written, recorded, arranged, produced, and performed entirely on her own. “I didn’t know if I would write songs again,” says Veirs, who spent the intervening years building a backyard studio, getting married, blending a family with four teenagers, deepening her visual art practice (painting), and expanding her music teaching. “Turns out that period was a gathering phase. When I made the commitment to recording the album myself, the muse caught me again and it came together very quickly.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Arc Still Bends
2. Golden Seams
3. Pulse
4. Feeling Returns
5. Flying Into Darkness
6. Colors Sing
7. Out From Undercover
8. New Life Over There
9. No Masters
10. River's Song
11. Sunlight and Doom

The Veldt, the pioneering American alternative shoegaze group formed in 1986 by identical twins Daniel and Danny Chavis in Raleigh, North Carolina, has long stood as one of the most visionary and genre‑defying bands of their era. Joined by David Burris and Marvin Levi, the group quickly developed a sound that blended ethereal guitar textures with deep R&B roots, creating a style that would influence generations of artists to come. After signing with Capitol Records in 1989, The Veldt toured extensively across the United States, sharing stages with The Jesus and Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins. Ray Shulman, known for his work with Björk, The Sugarcubes, The Sundays produced their landmark 1994 album Afrodisiac, a record now recognized as a bold fusion of shoegaze, soul, and Afro‑alternative rock, an album so ahead of its time that it continues to resonate with new listeners decades later. This deluxe edition brings renewed depth and warmth to the album’s swirling guitars, velvet‑rich vocals, and hypnotic rhythms, presenting the music with a clarity that highlights just how innovative The Veldt’s sound truly was. The set includes two essential remixes of “Soul In The Jar”, one by The Jesus and Mary Chain, who drench the track in their signature haze of distortion, and another by hip‑hop pioneer Diamond D, whose rugged Guitar Remix adds a head‑nodding edge that reframes the song’s emotional core. The album’s legacy has only grown over time. Pitchfork named Afrodisiac one of the top 50 shoegaze albums ever released, while Stereogum included the single “Until You’re Forever” among the 31 essential tracks of the genre, further cementing The Veldt’s status as foundational innovators.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Intro (I'll Say Anything)
2. It's Over
3. Soul In A Jar
4. You Take The World
5. Revolutionary Sister

Side B
1. Interlude (Station ID)
2. Juicy Sandwich
3. Heather
4. Until You're Forever

Side C
1. Interlude (V.E.L.D.T.)
2. Wanna Be Where You Are
3. Daisy Chain
4. Dusty Blood
5. Last Call

Side D
1. I Couldn't Care Less
2. Outro (Shaved)
3. Soul In A Jar (The Drugstore Mix) (The Jesus And The Mary Chain Remix)
4. Soul In A Jar (Guitar Mix) (Diamond D Remix)

The Velvet Underground Collected brings together the groundbreaking work of one of the most influential and visionary bands in the history of rock music. Spanning their formative beginnings in New York’s underground art scene to their most iconic studio recordings, this 2LP set captures the full scope of a group whose impact continues to echo across decades of rock, alternative, punk, noise, and experimental music. Despite internal tensions, lineup changes, and limited commercial success during their active years, The Velvet Underground’s influence grew exponentially over time. The band are now regarded as among the most influential bands in rock history and are inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. I'm Waiting For The Man
2. Venus In Furs
3. All Tomorrow's Parties
4. There She Goes Again
5. Heroin
6. Femme Fatale

SIDE B
1. I Heard Her Call My Name
2. White Light / White Heat
3. Here She Comes Now
4. Sister Ray

SIDE C
1. Hey Mr. Rain
2. Stephanie Says
3. She's My Best Friend
4. Andy's Chest
5. Candy Says
6. What Goes On
7. Some Kinda Love
8. Lisa Says

SIDE D
1. Pale Blue Eyes
2. The Murder Mystery
3. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
4. Foggy Notion
5. One Of These Days

Jalisco hotboy Iñigo Vontier is back to warm up the summer season with "Tech Mex".

Desperado is a sleek, sexy slice of Mexi-tech-house, a seductive make-up song on top of a bed of boppy, bleepy groove. Seriously dope. Calvin Klein takes just enough jack, adds a touch of squelch, mixes in a vocal about passing around drugs, and voila. Playable, club-ready, straight forward house music.

"Not That Please" is a shuffley, more tech-centric banger. "Flashy Riot" goes lower slung and hypnotic, while final track "Lado B" is a funky midtempo vibe-bringer that sounds like Moodyman with a side of guac. YUM. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Desperado 
A2. Calvin Klein 
B1. Not That Please
B2. Flashy Riot

Brighton-based Swedish songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist Nina Winder-Lind debut solo album 'Wild Love'.

Best known as a member of the electrifying 'Hagstone rock' four-piece The New Eves, Winder-Lind's solo work channels the same raw intensity and liberatory spirit while revealing a more intimate, deeply personal side to her songwriting. Expanding on the world introduced through her 2023 EP 'The Spirit Is Carnal' and first poetry collection 'Rod Ska Jag Leva' (2025), 'Wild Love' is an ambitious and emotionally expansive body of work from one of the most enthralling new voices in music today.

Though connected to the fierce communal energy of The New Eves , 'Wild Love' inhabits its own distinct emotional landscape. Across eleven songs, Winder-Lind brings together the wealth of her experiences and passions and reflects them back outwards, distilled with shimmering intensity. The album spells out a liberatory vision which she refuses to compromise, one rooted in emotional honesty, ecstatic expression and unfettered selfhood.

Female experience is a constant thread throughout the record, with songs paying tribute to "foremothers" and girls alike in a society that still attempts to pigeonhole women into narrow roles. Yet 'Wild Love' reaches beyond resistance alone. More than anything, the album radiates untrammelled animal energy: an overwhelming sense of aliveness, movement and emotional abandon.

TRACK LISTING

1. Street Hassle
2. Girls 
3. Headfirst 
4. This Is Our Life 
5. Grandma and Robert De Niro
6. HYMN 
7. You're not an Angel 
8. Everything Is About You 
9. Love You So 
10. When the Cranes 
11. Foremothers

The Womack Sisters – Kucha, Zeimani, and BG Womack – were singing before they could walk. Their 2026 self-titled debut album, 'The Womack Sisters', is the musical culmination of the Sisters’ long and winding journey to find themselves. Over an intensely soulful collection of tunes that harkens back to when pop music had substance, vibe and purpose, each of their distinct voices have their moments in the spotlight.

The Sisters grew up on the road. Their schools were stages and studios all over the world, where they sang behind their parents, Zekkariyas & Zeriiya (fka Womack & Womack), alongside their four siblings. Nowhere was home for long. No matter where they lived—London, Thailand, Amsterdam, Kenya, Paris, Sydney, Zurich, Vienna, Tanzania, New York, Miami, West Virginia, the Bahamas—they were always surrounded by music and family.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chauffeur
2. If You Want Me
3. Monster
4. If I Let You
5. I Just Don't Want You
6. Laughter & Tears
7. Didn't Mean Much to Me
8. You Went Away Too Long
9. I am Your Season
10. All Around
11. My Sisters and Me

IMPRESS!VE Collective & BBE Music present:

DJ Perry Louis – Shiftless Shuffle: UK Dancefloor Jazz Compilation

Perry Louis is a pivotal figure in the UK jazz dance movement. As a dancer and choreographer, producer, DJ, broadcaster, and founder of the internationally respected jazz dance collective JazzCotech Dancers, he is perfectly placed to curate this collection.

Perry has been at the heart of the scene since the early 1980s, from JAFFAS, the Electric Ballroom, Dingwalls, Acid Jazz, Hi Hat, and Messin’ Around, taking its energy and sound as far as Japan, the USA, St. Lucia, India, Canada, and across Europe.

This compilation celebrates 25 years of Shiftless Shuffle, with Perry as its ambassador and driving force. Over the years, he has collaborated with top DJs including Paul Murphy, Gilles Peterson, Snowboy, Colin Curtis, and Shuya Okino, helping shape the UK jazz dance sound into a global phenomenon.

The album blends deep jazz, fusion, Latin, and groove-driven tracks, reflecting both the scene’s rich heritage and its forward momentum.

From the brand-new exclusive track by Kyoto Jazz Massive, Get It Together (Samba Fusion Mix), to Bunny Brunel’s Fickle Funk appearing on vinyl for the very first time, and the hard-hitting Caribbean Fire Dance by Tom Grant, this compilation tells the story of a movement—an underground culture born on UK dancefloors that has now captured a worldwide audience.

TRACK LISTING

A1 – Kyoto Jazz Massive – Get It Together (Samba Fusion Mix) – 06:23
A2 – Bunny Brunel – Fickle Funk – 08:21
A3 – Norbert Gottschalk & Matthias Broede – Samba Picante – 03:46

B1 – Dave O’Higgins – Samba Express – 05:58
B2 – Uglješa Novaković – Don’t Slam the F… Door – 06:14
B3 – Jen Kearney – Warm Bath Eyes – 05:37

C1 – Tom Grant – Caribbean Fire Dance – 04:50
C2 – Colonel Red & GeeW – You Say I Say – 05:58
C3 – Nation of Multiverse – Hanikami – 05:41

D1 – Eileen Howard – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly – 03:29
D2 – Los Corraleros de Majagual – Mondongo – 10:13
D3 – Pierre-Louis Garcia – Tipaza – 04:14

Back to the golden nights of zouk clubs, where hip-hop, kompa, zouk and Caribbean grooves ruled the dancefloor. This selection documents a pivotal moment: a time when zouk was still not a fixed genre, but more a place, an atmosphere, somewhere people went to dance. It captures the spirit of an era: its creative effervescence, musical freedom, and the diversity of artists who shaped it. The very concept of “Kaz A Zouk” perfectly encapsulates this idea: a space where all styles could meet.

TRACK LISTING

le style nouveau - jnd
mwen inmin - metal sound
le jeu des cinq - francky vincent
brooklyn - shango gang
moune paradis - claudy siar
invitation a la danse - van leve
debouley heritage - claude vamur
could u satisfy my desire - otaim
rozalie rozalie - zshea
la guyanaise - sylviane cedia
dialogue - edith lefel
enme - dominique bernier
tour - x-taz
mefiez-vous - monique seka
lese la vi roule - kamplis

¡Hola amigos! ¡Dieciséis guarniciones de chile picante, peyote loco y tequila helado! ¡Hermoso!

If there's one thing I'm good at it's finding records. It doesn't matter where in the world I am, I find records, the best records, the rarest records. And always in Mint condition. I have a knack for it. One place I like to hunt for records is South of the Border, in Mexico. You can find great records there, way out in those pequeños pueblos del desierto. Another great thing you can find is cactus.

Mexico is famous for cactus. You got your Ariocarpus, your Turbinicarpus, your Mammillaria. You got cactus of all kinds, big and small. Little ones like Eplithelantha, psychedelic ones like the peyote Lophophora, and rare ones like Aztekium. But my favourite is Mammillaria humboldtii. Now this one is very hard to find. The villagers over in Hidalgo know where it is, and they go high up in the mountains to look for it.

Now these guys, they take their time. But when they come down from those mountains, they bring back the most beautiful specimens. I really mean it, they're beautiful. They're like clumps of fluffy white golf balls, and they have these cute little pink flowers. Beautiful I tell ya. I pay precio alto for a good specimen of Mammillaria humboldtii.

"King Street Sounds Sampler Vol. 7" continues the long-running series from the legendary King Street Sounds catalogue, bringing together a selection of classic house cuts from some of the label’s most respected artists.

Featuring productions from Mood II Swing, Jovonn, Roy Davis Jr. and Osunlade, the release highlights the soulful, groove-led house sound that has defined King Street across decades of dancefloor culture.

Mood II Swing's "Nafara" originally released in 2015 is a deep tribal roller, littered with hefty percussion and rooted by a two note bass motif. Velcha's "Getaway" meanwhile, here remixed by Jovonn, dates back to 1994 and is a highly swung exercise in house-garage crossover business, utilizing a classic diva vox to devastating effect.

Onto side B and another from 1994 - X Fade's "Good And Plenty". With a Lil Louie-esque saxophone lick parping away from the off, and bolstered with heavy house drums and background vocal chants, its the very epitome of a mid-session burner; for when the sweats dripping off the ceiling and you're lost in the melee of the dancefloor. Deep house spiritualist, Osunlade (just don't touch his hands remember) concludes with a fathoms deep, tribal house track: "The Fifth Dimension". Sitting nicely alongside Joe Claussell's Instant House out (or more recently "Iboga"-styled tracks); it's a hypnotic and magic track that takes you deep underground into the very essence of deep house music.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: The legendary King Street Sounds compile a tasty 12" of choice selections from their prolific catalogue. Nicely curated, well pressed and decent price. Who said DJs don't play vinyl anymore? Pfffft...

TRACK LISTING

A1. Mood II Swing - Nafara
A2. Velcha - Getaway (Jovonn's King St. Club) 

B1. X Fade feat. Lavette - Good & Plenty Love (Roy's Believe Dub)
B2. Osunlade - The Fifth Dimension 

In order to celebrate their 20 years anniversary Permanent Vacation is releasing a series of EPs with some of their core artists and friends of the past two decades. First EP comes stacked with high quality tracks from Lauer, Midnight Magic, Pional, Curses and PV's own Benjamin Fröhlich. The music is in a fabulously Permanent Vacation tradition and covers the broad spectrum from electro-disco to beefy house and back through myriad subgenres and styles. Take yourself on an audio holiday! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: From the jet-ski house opener, with the sun's beams shimmering off the waves, through laser-guided electro-disco and to the darkwave throb of Curses (which, despite their gothy leanings, seem to be finding their way onto many holiday house lineups..); Permanent Vacation show why they're still market leaders in paradise musica.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Lauer – I Will Never
A2 Midnight Magic - Zeus
B1 Pional – Todo Cambiara
B2 Benjamin Fröhlich – Roll On
B3 Curses – Busy Signal

15 pop songs about animals by 15 of the best indie-pop bands in the world: 'Pets Sounds' is as simple as that. Ranging from the playful (Sassyhiya, Gay Skeleton Club) to the heartbreaking (Caleb Nichols, Jetstream Pony) to the enigmatic (Railcard, Oh Hippo) to the satiric (The Magnetic Fields, Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires), there’s more diversity on this album than you can shake a stick at. Or throw a bone at.

Musicians spend a lot of time working at home, with their pets for company. The pets sit around, happy in their own worlds, sublimely indifferent to their humans’ endeavours. As familiar as family members, but as unknowable as aliens, pets are the perfect muse. They can be treated as objects of adoration – ‘Rufus’ by Tugboat Captain is an expression of pure joy – or they can be treated as metaphors. More reliable than lovers but less dangerous than heroin, pets are a great vehicle for singing obliquely about something else. Swansea Sound’s ‘I Don’t Like Men In Uniform’ is about an ageing, irascible terrier, but it’s also about men striving to maintain their potency as territorial aggressors. The Magnetic Fields’ ‘Fido, Your Leash Is too Long’ is a libidinous and unreliable partner, as well as a dog that likes sniffing other dogs’ private parts.

For the most part, animals come off better than humans on this album. In ‘Kings Of The Animal Kingdom’, The Burning Hell dramatise our indulgent love of pets in order to expose our cruelty to other human beings. In ‘Bo’s New Haircut’, The Cords express the injustice and unfairness of an innocent animal having to submit to human demands. In ‘Crayon Potato’ by Sassyhiya, the magnificent Crayon contemptuously rejects the gifts offered by her besotted human owners.

In ‘Lola’, the opening track, Lande Hekt tries to put this enigmatic human-animal relationship into words. And concludes that however much we love our animals, and no matter how much we manage to communicate with them, we can never really know them. A melancholy conclusion maybe, but the music – as with all the songs on this album – is expressive of the wonderment and the joy that comes from sharing your life with a member of another species. The tracks by Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires, Jetstream Pony and Railcard are previously unreleased. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Lande Hekt - Lola
2. Brian Bilston And The Catenary Wires - Under A Cat
3. The Cords - Bo’s New Haircut
4. Railcard - Foxy
5. Tugboat Captain - Rufus
6. Special Friend - Breakfast
7. Caleb Nichols - Dark Age
8. Gay Skeleton Club - 2 Cats
9. Jetstream Pony - Grimalkin Tom
10. Swansea Sound - I Don’t Like Men In Uniform
11. The Burning Hell - Kings Of The Animal Kingdom
12. Sasshiya - Crayon Potato
13. Oh Hippo - Orlando
14. U.S. Highball - Marjorie Says
15. The Magnetic Fields - Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long

Few contemporary labels even come close to the output and influence of Lempuyang in terms of dub techno. Albums, 12"s and EPs come thick and fast and the latest is the first part of the fourth in the Pura Lempuyang series, which offers a glimpse at what they do best. Upwellings begins with Maurizio-style, smoky dub techno before Rothchord ups the drive with a more forceful kick. Paul Simmons's 'Burial (Natty Haffi Dread)' reflects the traditional roots of dub with a more 70s style cut, Another Channel slows to a crawl with an eerily empty arrangement and Inner Echo drives things home with a timeless fusion of molten dub chords and cuddly kicks.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Hitting the zenith of the current dub-techno infatuation is this two part 12" series from Lempuyang which finds the genre as liquid deep, hypnotically stoned and brilliantly tech-wise as ever.

TRACK LISTING

Upwellings - Sphere In Dub
Rothchord - Night & Ruins
Paul Simmons - Burial (Natty Haffi Dread)
Another Channel - Nah Feel Fear (feat. Andy Pearl)
Inner Echo - Ingrain

Lempuyang Temple in East Bali is very old and very sacred and has a mystic air according to those who have been and visited its so-called "Gates of Heaven" framing of Mount Agung. It is then a perfect inspiration for this label that deals in such ritualistic and timeless dub techno. Pura Lempuyang Empat Part 2 covers plenty of ground with Jocelyn laying down tight and dark tension on 'The Message' and EmmaSoul relieving the pressure with a more widescreen sound. Chanwill Maconi's is beautifully deft and luminous in its gentle swing on 'Shadow People' and Neil CB & Wade Watts tap into subconscious, below-the-ocean-surface depths on 'Out of System.'

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: 2nd part of this brilliantly up-to-date snapshot of the modern dub-techno landscape. Lempuyang acknowledge the huge resurgence in the scene with the respect it deserves.

TRACK LISTING

Joceyln - The Message
EmmaSoul - Overrated (dub)
Chanwill Maconi - Shadow People
Neil CB & Wade Watts - Out Of System, Into Self

Dance your dance. From the first beat to the last, slow or fast, house music is a home for everyone.

This release symbolises a moment in time. A blueprint for dance music before the world knew what it was. Formally referred to as Garage, House or Loft music in the 80s, Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan shaped the sound from its roots. Larry, resident DJ at Paradise Garage, New York, Frankie at The Warehouse in Chicago, both prolific remixers and some of the first career DJs. Two close friends. Countless genres. One feeling.

RE:VERSAL are excited to present our third compilation, a strictly limited one-time pressing on high-quality 12" 180g heavyweight vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. MPB (Missin' Persons Bureau) - Womack & Womack - Frankie Knuckles Paradise Ballroom Remix
2. What Am I Missin' - Frankie Knuckles, Adeva
3. Peanut Butter - Gwen Guthrie - Larry Levan Mix
4. Can't Shake Your Love - Syreeta - Larry Levan 12" Mix