Jackie Mittoo’s ‘Reggae Magic’ is a new collection from the great Jackie Mittoo. The album features a mixture of classic tunes and rarities from the period 1967-74, when Mittoo was at the height of his musical powers.

Mittoo’s solo career began after the end of The Skatalites in 1965. He began pushing new musical boundaries, creating a uniquely identifiable organ-led funky reggae sound that owed as much to Booker T and The MGs, Jimmy Smith, Stax and Motown as to the post-ska and emergent rocksteady island rhythms of Kingston, Jamaica.

His solo work at the legendary Studio One spanned seven albums and hundreds of singles. Aside from producer and founder Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd, it’s hard to think of anyone more central to the sound and success of Studio One than Mittoo; keyboard player extraordinaire, songwriter, arranger, musician, truly the Keyboard King at Studio One.

Jackie Mittoo had been the youngest founding member of The Skatalites (at age 16), probably the most important group in Jamaican music. After they split, he became leader of the three pivotal groups at Studio One - The Soul Brothers, The Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension. He also became musical director for Studio One, helping create countless hits for singers Ken Boothe, Bob Andy, The Wailers, John Holt, Delroy Wilson and more - unforgettable tunes like Alton Ellis’s ‘I’m Still in Love with You’, Marcia Griffiths’ ‘Feel Like Jumping’, The Heptones’ ‘Baby Why’ and others.

Between 1965 and 1968, many of the tunes created at Studio One can be attributed to Mittoo. Timeless instrumental tracks, recorded either under his own name or those of The Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension, that have become the basis for literally 1000s of Jamaican songs over many decades, giving the music an unsurpassed longevity.

The endurance of his music was as a direct result of significant developments in Jamaican music in the 1970s, namely the creation of three important new styles; Dub, Deejay and Dancehall. In the early 1970s, Mittoo’s instrumental tracks were used as the musical source for a series of classic Studio One dub albums. At the same time, Deejays at Studio One, including Dillinger, Prince Jazzbo and Dennis Alcapone, began toasting over these same popular rhythms to create their own new songs.

In the mid-1970s, a new generation of Studio One singers and deejays, including Sugar Minott, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Michigan & Smiley and others, began once again creating new melodies over these original instrumentals, signalling the birth of a new Jamaican style that became known as ‘dancehall’. As dancehall swept across the island, rival producers copied these now classic rhythms.

This recycling travelled even farther afield; The Sound Dimension’s instrumental ‘Real Rock’, updated by Willie Williams on his classic ‘Armageddon Time’ was in turn covered by The Clash. Lily Allen sampled Mittoo’s debut solo single ‘Free Soul’ for Number One hit ‘Smile’; Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’, accompanied by The Soul Vendors, was revived by Penn and producers Steely & Cleevie in 1994, since covered by Rihanna, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley and Beyonce.

And so it goes; an endless time-leaping, continent-hopping diasporic musical map of the world with all roads essentially leading back to one man - Jackie Mittoo.

TRACK LISTING

Jackie Mittoo - Melody Maker
The Soul Vendors - Full Range
Jackie Mittoo - Ghetto Organ
Jackie Mittoo - Toronto Express
Jackie Mittoo - Black Out
Jackie Mittoo - Fireball Rock
Jackie Mittoo - Tropic Island
Jackie Mittoo - Sure Soul
Jackie Mittoo - Taste Of Soul
Jackie Mittoo & Sound
Dimension - Soul Stew
Jackie Mittoo - Reggae Magic
Jackie Mittoo & Ernest Ranglin - West Of The Sun
The Skatalites - Hanging Tree
Jackie Mittoo - Peenie Wallie
Sound Dimension - Walk Don’t Run
Jackie Mittoo & The Soul
Vendors - Ba Ba Boom
Jackie Mittoo - Dark Of The Moon
Jackie Mittoo - Full Charge

Inkswel presents: "Mystikal Majic, four unreleased & never-before-heard mixes of Lee Scratch Perry's last known recording. The Jamaican dub legend teamed up with Aussie beat maker Inkswell for this twisted yet infectious, beat-boogie, dub-flecked, hip-hop styled jam that's completely out there in terms of style and swagger. Featuring club ready mixes from James Curd & Sofatalk.(Inner Tribe) this is a mega versatile record with all four mixes coming up trumps. Check!  

TRACK LISTING

A1 - Mystikal Majic Feat. Elf Tranzporter (James Curd Remix)
A2 - Mystikal Majic Feat. Elf Tranzporter (Sofatalk Remix)
B1 - Mystikal Majic Feat. Elf Tranzporter (Extended Original Mix)
B2 - Mystikal Majic Feat. Elf Tranzporter (Unreleased Demo)

The transformation deepens with “Prolonged Resistance”; the second chapter in the Instruments Of Rapture series. The record opens with the hypnotic, slo-mo burner “Just A Memory,” luring you in before the striking hard with the uptempo, cosmic stomp of “Planets (Lost Groove).” The 12” closes out with “Better,” a mid-tempo, smoky soul bumper that lingers long after the fade. 

TRACK LISTING

A1: Just A Memory
A2: Planets (Lost Groove)
B1: Better

Lars Bartkuhn returns to Rush Hour with “See The Light”, as deep and complex as we have come to expect but as always his ever-present hunt for new inspiration and unique approaches is clearly evident across all 3 mixes of this beautifully deep yet pulsating track!

Originally written as a final foray into house music for the legendary Needs co-founder, this production aimed to “push boundaries within the world of electronic dance music, integrate fresh new elements, bring new compositional perspectives to the listener and to create overall rewarding experiences.”

It’s a deeply personal track, best summarised by the incredible piano solo in the Full Experience Mix. In Lars’ own words, “I am ten million light years away from being a good pianist, but for some reason I NEED to play those kind of things…even if they are raw, primitive and incomplete and lack parameters like elegance, fluidity and wisdom - I need to express myself in that very moment in this exact way.” It’s these unrestrained moments of brilliance that create rich palettes of sound with deep textures, organic rhythms and joyful melodies that keep your ear constantly engaged.

The Full Experience Mix is a near-13 minute trip through lush vocals, complex percussion, deep chords and raw piano solos that guides the listener through the changing motions of “See The Light”. Backed by two dub mixes, Inner Experience hones in on the keys and synths - truly elevating those striking notes. Opening with atmospheric percussion, the Dub Reprise settles into a chugging rhythm that brings the drums to the forefront.

“When a musician/composer really goes ‘all in’ there is almost nothing impossible. If you really pour out your heart and give all the sweat and tears you have you create a kind of zone where everything fits together in mysterious ways.” - Lars Bartkuhn

TRACK LISTING

See The Light (full Experience)
See The Light (Dub 1)
See The Light (Dub 2)

French disco-funksters Jeroboam return to Space Grapes! "See The Light" is an infectious boogie song with heady top lines, while "In The Spirit" is an uptempo disco-jazz jam rich in their respeldant style.. For the B-side, label founders Danilo & Bobby spliced together an extra long dub mix of "See The Light", maximizing the momentum, locked and loaded ready for the dance. 

TRACK LISTING

See The Light
In The Spirit
See The Light (Space Grapes Dub)

Jazz Room Head Honcho Paul Murphy kept hearing all these fab versions of some of his favourite tunes.

He couldn't release them all, a year is just not long enough so it was time to put together the first Jazz Room Records Compilation, entitled JAZZ ROOM PRESENTS: COVERS. Snappy & to the point.

Some exclusives and first time Vinyl releases on this Double Vinyl album, ranging from the Psychedelic Jazz Fusion of Helsinki Collective "Saimaa" with their epic LIVE version of the Deodato Classic "Super Strut" to the Japanese Shibuya Jazz Artistry of Quasimode with a Jazzy take on the Galaxy2Galaxy 90's Techno Floor Filler. Jazz meets Dub in the "Slowly" produced "Riot In Lagos" and some finger snapping Cool New York Vibes on Giacomo Gates Hip To The Trip version of Gil Scott-Heron's "Is That Jazz".

There's even a Gospel meets Soul Jazz tribute to Simon and Garfunkel. Oh yeah. Did we say there's a Chip Wickham exclusive too?

TRACK LISTING

1. Quasimode - High Tech Jazz (Paul Murphy 45 Edit)
2. Christian Prommers Drumlesson - Trans Europa Express
3. Pamela Wise - Gibraltar
4. Jazzbois - Nutville (Live At Ninety One Living Room) [feat. Dom Beats]
5. Antonio Hart - Sticks
6. Saimaa - Super Strut
7. Clementine - Sandalia Dela
8. Barry Adamson - - Miles
9. Version City Session - Riot In Lagos (Slowly Version)
10. 3io - Born Slippy Nuxx
11. Giacomo Gates - Is That Jazz
12. Frank Morgan & Bud Shank - Quiet Fire
13. Blue Mode - Jungle Strut (feat. Chip Wickham)
14. Mike Ledonne Groover Quartet Plus Gospel Choir - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Indian Summer of Love finds The Bongolian immersed in a new set of sounds and influences for a new Belle Epoch. It’s a musical landscape informed by the Sixties psychedelia of India via a Haight Ashbury happening. It’s a kaleidoscopic vision that takes us from a 20th century Fin de Siècle and lands us in the here and now of the 21st Century. It’s for dancers, for seekers and is all underscored by The Bongolian’s trademark heavy rhythms and breaks. It’s another fine instalment of essential cuts for the dancefloor and for high fidelity listening, quality is guaranteed. From the East to the West, welcome to the Indian Summer of Love. Nasser Bouzida performs drums, percussion, guitars and keys whilst the album features several new flavours to the Bongolian sound with the prominent instrumentation of sitars and bansuri, along with flute, trumpet, saxophone and trombone performances from several stellular international guest musicians.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Burning Man Of Calcutta
2. Master Blaster Tendulkar
3. Nehru Jacket Required
4. Indian Summer Of Love
5. Kathakali Eye Dancer

Side Two
1. Acid Test Angel
2. Baadshar Of Bollywood
3. Mucha Mushroom Man
4. Beyond The Perfumed Garden
5. Human Be In
6. Farewell To Varanasi

TRACK LISTING

A1. Once In A Plastic Time
B1. Coffee Kiss

Claremont 56 founder Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy has been in a rich vein of creative form of late. Having released his first solo album in 18 years in 2024, the effervescent and picture-perfect 'In The Garden of Mindfulness', Murphy is well on his way to finishing solo LP number three – a set you’ll be able to hear in full later in 2025. To get us in the mood, he’s offering up a two-track taster featuring instrumental takes on cuts that will appear as full-vocal songs on the final album. Both were written with, and feature instrumentation by, regular collaborator Michele Chiavarini, an Italian musician, producer, composer, and arranger who has long been part of the Claremont 56 family.

Up first is ‘Mahalo (12" Instrumental Mix)’, a languid and emotion-rich groover built around a smooth, mid-tempo jazz-funk-goes-disco groove – think crispy drums, delay-laden hand percussion and rubbery bass guitar – and all manner of ear-catching musical details. As the track unfolds, you can expect to hear lilting strings, warming electric piano chords, mazy synth solos, heady horn-style blasts and glistening, eyes-closed guitar licks. It’s a genuinely superb slab of musically rich dancefloor warmth. The track that follows, ‘Mata Ne’, is an altogether dreamier and more dub-influenced affair. Featuring some sublime piano playing from Chiavarini, it sees Murphy layer simmering strings, cascading guitar licks, spacey synths and blissed-out melodic motifs atop the kind of chunky, dubby groove that has long been one of his aural trademarks. Offering positivity and melancholia in equal measure, ‘Mata Ne’ is Mudd at his most musically majestic. His forthcoming album will be worth waiting for.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Mahalo (instrumental Mix)
B1. Mata Ne (instrumental Mix)

Leng Records proudly presents Everything You’re About to Hear Is True: Volume 1, a compilation carefully curated by Rotation Soundsystem. Brought together by Rotation founders Dean Meredith and Ben Shenton, alongside the Wrekin Havoc trio of Rob J, Stuart Robinson, and Rich Hall, this debut volume captures the collective’s shared vision – shaped by decades of crate-digging.

Founded in 2013, Rotation has grown from a modest gathering in Staffordshire into a thriving community of like-minded music lovers, attracting heads and partygoers from across the UK – and well beyond. What began as an intimate affair has evolved into a full-scale, three-day celebration, now held in a grand yurt and powered by a bespoke six-way sound system. The rig features four Klipschorns, two JBLs with twin 18” and 15” sub reinforcements, compression horns, and an Isonoe 420 mixer.

Meredith explains: “With the help of my brother, Martin, I’m constantly looking at ways to improve the setup. I love the way Larry Levan did that at The Paradise Garage. We have a few things that are custom-made. I want our system to be unique to us.”

According to regular attendee, DJ and writer Steve KIW: “In the right hands, the sound system at Rotation – very much Dean’s labour of love – is untouchable. The comparisons with Mancuso’s Loft come easily because they are deserved. There isn’t a bad spot in the yurt. Wherever you are, it sounds incredible.”

As the dancing continues through the weekend, the DJ line-up has grown to match the occasion. Guests and headliners have included a roll call of legendary selectors: Bill Brewster, Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, Phil Mison, Nick The Record, Ruf Dug, Mark Seven, and The Idjut Boys — the latter playing a marathon 10-hour set in 2024. The parties have also featured live performances from Emperor Machine, Quinn Lamont Luke, Reuben Vaun Smith, and Orbs of Light.

Presented on gatefold double vinyl, this lovingly assembled collection is the result of decades spent digging through dusty crates, reflecting the selectors’ deep-rooted passion for uncovering rare gems and overlooked treasures. Decidedly European in spirit, the album brings together 14 rarities with standout selections from Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Germany, and France. The vast majority of tracks are true obscurities, and nearly every one is a mid-tempo bumper.

“This has been a long time coming – something we’ve always dreamed of doing. We’re incredibly thankful to Leng Records, who understand our vision and what we’re trying to build. This compilation pulls together some of our favourite tracks from over the years. It’s not just a playlist – it’s a journey, a window into the sound of Rotation,” says Meredith. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Moondata – Let The Moonshine In (Dub)
A2. Dhuo – Walkin’ (Dub Version)
A3. Luc Van Acker / Anna Domino – Zanna
A4. Roger Rönning – Cecilia
B1. The Quick – One Light In A Blackout (Special Version)
B2. ColourFool – Hey You
B3. Amy Cooper – Music
B4. Maxisand – Don’t Be Talking About That (Vocal)
C1. Michael Heart – Some Girls (Instrumental)
C2. Jean Louis Murat – Te Garder Près De Moi (Dream Remix)
C3. Mind Fair Presents ….Sundown Drive – Give It Up (Mark Seven Parkway Dub)
D1. Gregg Brown – Baby Talk (Club Mix)
D2. Yeah Bo! – Yeah Bo! (Groove On Mix)
D3. J. Dalton – Game

From the mind of Grammy-nominated rapper and performer, JID, his new studio album is a testament to prioritizing lyricism and artistry above all else. In a year where Hip Hop is championing the genre’s most compelling storytellers, JID carries the torch for South-East Atlanta, its stories and people coming this summer.

TRACK LISTING

TBA

Saxophonist, flautist and producer Chip Wickham casts a formidable shadow across the worldwide jazz landscape. Originally from Brighton, but now dividing his time between the UK, Spain and the Middle-East, he has made a name for himself with a series of beautifully crafted solo albums that draw equally on the hard swinging spiritual jazz of Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef and Sahih Shihab, alongside the music of British jazz legends such as Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair and the more contemporary sounds of Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Robert Glasper. His close working relationship with Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records has spanned close to two decades (since he played on Halsall’s 2008 debut ‘Sending My Love’) and has since released three standout releases on the label (the ‘Cloud 10’ LP, and the ‘Astral Travelling’ and ‘Love & Life’ EP’s). Once again returning to the heralded label, he now prepares to release his elegant fifth studio album ‘The Eternal Now’. Further exploring his penchant for hard-hitting soulful, spiritual jazz and modal hard-bop, it denotes an exciting new chapter in his much- revered discography, once which sees his unbridled artist flourish into new and fruitful pastures.

A beautifully crafted record, ‘The Eternal Now’ is a heartfelt ode to submitting oneself to the practice of creating art, and the freedom that’s derived from letting go. Speaking on his journey to bringing it into the world, Chip explains “'The Eternal Now' is a creative place where time has no purpose. A place where the past and the future don’t exist. A place where an artist can create something that is timeless and relevant. Writing this album has been a deliberate journey of exploration and drive into the furthest reaches of creativity. An attempt to push myself artistically into new spaces using new colours and new energy”. On how he approached this record in comparison to his previous offerings, he divulges ‘I had to be playful and take risks. It has taken longer than any other album to make and it has been so worth it. I have been drifting and taking the road less travelled as well as not looking back. I’ve enjoyed being on the outside and the freedom it has brought me to create something new and fresh and relevant and timeless.’

Opening with the rolling hand percussion and floating notes of ‘Drifting’, the record quickly finds its footing, and dives headfirst into a propulsive and splashy rhythm section. A tasteful drum fill ushers in the commencement of second single ‘Nara Black’, which features the sultry vocals of Peach, whose dreamlike lyrics intertwine with uplifting flute motifs and sweeping strings. The album’s title track is up next, channeling curious and alluring melodies through a swirling portal of sound. ‘Lost Souls’ is a restful and nourishing track, giving time for the spirit to breathe amidst rich woodwinds and soulful shakers. On ‘No Turning Back’ pensive atmospheres ease into torrents of melody, twisting like the banks of a great river. ‘The road less travelled’ sees wandering keys traverse vast undulating expanses of sound, before ‘Falling Deep’’s winding motifs beckon the listener to venture deeper within. Penultimate track ‘Ikigai’ (translating to ‘a reason for being’) harnesses a potent moment of beauty, as spectral flute dances amongst lush strings before the flourishes of ‘Outside’ bring the album to a poignant close.

A captivating and emotive listen, ‘The Eternal Now’ sees Chip at the top of his game, creating an other-worldly dreamscape with enchanting sound. He says ‘This album is about giving lost souls a home, falling deep in love with the spiritual joy of music and making something that will last like a Japanese tattoo made with Nara Black ink. Giving me balance and flow in life, my Ikigai.’

TRACK LISTING

1. Drifting
2. Nara Black
3. The Eternal Now
4. Lost Souls
5. No Turning Back
6. The Road Less Travelled
7. Falling Deep
8. Ikigai
9. Outside

Electronic pioneers Propaganda follow up their acclaimed 2024 comeback with Remix Encounters, a broad and brilliant remix album featuring Moby, Tangerine Dream, Rhys Fulber, Schiller, and more. After the widely praised release of their self-titled comeback album in October 2024, Düsseldorf’s legendary art-synth auteurs return with Remix Encounters, a thrilling reimagining of their latest work. Released on Bureau B, this remix collection reflects the enthusiasm Propaganda’s return after three decades of silence has ignited among contemporary artists, who approached the project with fresh energy and creative freedom.

Since breaking new ground with their seminal 1985 debut A Secret Wish and its pioneering remix companion Wishful Thinking, Propaganda have thrived on transformation. Yet rather than revisiting the past, Remix Encounters looks forward, building on the vitality of last year’s album and celebrating its widespread critical and fan acclaim.

What began as a remix request from Finnish electronic maestro Jori Hulkkonen, returning the favour after Ralf Dörper’s contribution to his last album, quickly blossomed into an international collaboration, drawing in luminaries such as Moby, Tangerine Dream, Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium), and Schiller.

Embracing openness, Propaganda spent the fourth quarter of 2024 encouraging the wide range of musicians inspired by their triumphant return to offer their own interpretations. Each brought their distinctive voice to the material, resulting in a thrilling journey through electronic subgenres, from EBM and industrial to rave, ambient, house, and beyond.

Rhys Fulber opens the album with a brooding, machine-funk reinvention of “They Call Me Nocebo,” evolving from a sleek, sinuous introduction into a relentless pneumatic stomp. Next, Schiller offers a powerful remix of “Distant” that balances raw electro-house and techno energy with the emotional depth of EBM, before Moby transforms “Purveyor of Pleasure” into a furious early-’90s rave anthem, fusing breakbeats and rolling basslines that pulse with nostalgic urgency yet feel unmistakably modern. Elsewhere, Finnish polymath Jimi Tenor infuses “Vicious Circle” with cosmic jazz and dub textures, while Pyrolator, a key figure in Düsseldorf’s avant-garde scene, delivers a shadowy reinterpretation of “Love Craft.” Cult With No Name also contribute a brooding electro-ballad version of the same track. Propaganda’s own Michael Mertens teams up with longtime collaborator Hans Steingen to re-envision “Dystopian Waltz,” shifting its time signature to a gripping 4/4 and intensifying its ominous mood for darker dance floors. The range ofremixers speaks volumes: from industrial punks Gewalt and synth purists Metroland to ambient pioneers Tangerine Dream, Remix Encounters unites an eclectic group of electronic artists bound by a shared reverence for innovation and Propaganda’s distinctive voice.

Recorded and remixed across creative hubs from Düsseldorf to Los Angeles, Helsinki to Paris, Remix Encounters is far more than a companion piece. It is a celebration of Propaganda’s enduring influence and the vibrant, evolving electronic landscape they helped shape. Each artist engaged deeply with the band’s richly textured and cinematic sound world, reinterpreting it with enthusiasm and respect, producing a collection as diverse as it is cohesive.

TRACK LISTING

CD Tracklist
01 They Call Me Nocebo (Rhys Fulber Remix)
02 Distant (Schiller Remix)
03 Purveyor Of Pleasure (Moby Remix)
04 Tipping Point (Jori Hulkkonnen Remix)
05 Love:Craft (Pyrolator Remix)
06 Vicious Circle (Jimi Tenor Remix)
07 They Call Me Nocebo (Tangerine Dream Remix)
08 Distant (Gewalt Remix)
09 Dystopian (Steingen & Mertens Remix)
10 Love:Craft (Cult With No Name Remix)
11 They Call Me Nocebo (Metroland Remix)

2-LP Tracklist
A1 Purveyor Of Pleasure (Moby Remix)
A2 Distant (Schiller Remix)
A3 Dystopian (Steingen & Mertens Remix)
B1 They Call Me Nocebo (Rhys Fulber Remix)
B2 They Call Me Nocebo (Metroland Remix)
B3 They Call Me Nocebo (Tangerine Dream Remix)
C1 Tipping Point (Jori Hulkkonnen Remix)
C2 Love:Craft (Cult With No Name Remix)
C3 Vicious Circle (Jimi Tenor Remix)
D1 Distant (Gewalt Remix)
D2 Love:Craft (Pyrolator Remix)
D3 Vicious Circle (Thunder Bae Remix)

There's no need to apologise - not when the vinyl in question is as good as this. If you've seen Ricardo Villabos behind the decks of late you'll almost certainly have heard him drop one or more of these superlative edits, as he's been hammering them practically non-stop. You can't blame him. 'Edit 1' is a hypotonic bongo-fest that shimmers and caresses the dancefloor with absolute confidence. 'Edit 2' is a female vocal-led disco-slanted house affair with neatly trimmed, jazzy keys and a perky bassline, while 'Edit 3' looks to the late 70s/early 80s for inspiration with a supercatchy synth motif that Vince Clarke would give his right hand for and some exotic sounding, continental male vocals that round it off superbly. Imagine that Patrick Cowley and Krafftwerk made a tune together and you're in the right area. Put all three together and, well, you've got quite the package.

TRACK LISTING

EDIT1
EDIT2
EDIT3

Classonix are back with another red-hot delivery of smart edits designed for maximum club impact. 'Lilith' marries deep house beats and dreamy roads with exotic international vocals that lend it plenty of spice. 'Coute' is a UK street soul and Afro disco collision with 80s pads that shine bright. 'Hala Hala' is another international delight with summer-ready vocals and an old-school bassline that never quits. 'Shabakni El Hawa' classes out with candied disco-pop and hypnotic vocals over some fresh synth work. A colourful package of sure-fire winners.

TRACK LISTING

Lilith
Coute
Hala Hala
Shabakni El Hawa

Scruscru dives into "the modern Yerevan bubble of music" with a new various artists outing that takes a look at the Armenian take on jazz, hip hop and house. It's utterly refreshing right off the bat with Vahagn M & Ycrow layering up jazzy keys with nice contemporary deep house swing, UNDO takes things into a vibey live jazz lounge and Your Friend Daao lays down shuffling and broken drum patterns that are effervescent with Neo-soul and nu-jazz energy. Elsewhere, Yerevan Calling's 'Next Step' brings stuttering jazz swagger and Shhau & Mesrop sink into a deep and soulful late-night sound on 'Andset'. There is a great deal of musical charm and originality to all of these fresh fusions, which makes this is vital LP.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Vahagn M & Ycrow - "Soul Garage"
2. UNDO - "II"
3. Your Friend Daao - "2025 Anthem"
4. Henna Onna & Scruscru - "Good Times"

Side 2
1. Yerevan Calling - "Next Step"
2. Misho - "Animast A"
3. Shhau & Mesrop - "Andset"
4. Hayk Karoyi - "Yesimur"

Having built an impressive following on the back of live performances and social media, Berlin’s Moses Yoofee Trio shared their impatiently awaited debut mini-album 'Ocean' in November 2023. Released by Nils Frahm’s LEITER label, it contains five tracks and was praised by the press and audiences alike. The trio – awarded the German Jazz Prize for Live Act of the Year in 2024 – responded to constant demand last year by releasing their acclaimed debut as a limited-edition vinyl. After the first pressing sold out in no time, the three are now following up: 'Ocean' is once again available on vinyl – now in select record stores, on Bandcamp, and via the LEITER store.

The trio – pianist/keyboardist/producer Moses Yoofee, bassist Roman Klobe-Barangă and drummer Noah Fürbringer – has lit up Europe’s clubs and venues over recent years with astonishing, almost obscenely tight live shows. Turning as much to RnB, hip hop and soul as more traditional jazz sources, the tunes on 'Ocean' reflect the spontaneity, inspiration and instinctive refinement of their performances. The deliciously frantic title track and increasingly ecstatic ‘Minor Issues’ stand in stark contrast to ‘At Ease’’s restrained complexity, while ‘Fragile’’s hypnotic rhythm betrays their love of hip-hop and the lush ‘Richmond’ is driven by a deliciously low-strung groove before shifting up a gear for its climax. “Everybody loves fusion,” the band agree, “even if they don’t admit it,” but that’s only one element of the trio’s sophisticated style, with Moses’ exceptional keyboard skills illuminated by Roman’s fluid bass lines and Noah’s eloquent drum patterns.

TRACK LISTING

1. AT EASE
2. OCEAN
3. RICHMOND
4. MINOR ISSUES
5. FRAGILE

Peek of Normal is the new label from disco veteran Stevie Kotey, whose productions have graced Bear Funk, Ambassador's Reception, Strut, Electric Minds and many more labels in the past and its inaugural release comes from Dutch master Mark du Mosch. Sterling Melody is quite the labour of love and the eight tracks, spread across a double vinyl pack collection, lean towards the coldwave, electro and synthpop end of the dancefloor spectrum. There are echoes of some pretty classic sounds here, from the Vince Clarke-esque throb of '77777st' and 'A5G Neowise' - not unlike the soundtrack work of mid period Tangerine Dream - to the slower motioning Italo-tinged shininess of 'Soluzio'. Our favourite is the title track itself, perky and full of sparkle, like the incidental music for a lost series about a mullet-clad, white linen suited detective who doesn't play by the rules - only much, much better than they ever were back in the 80s. Definitely worth a Peek.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Same Here
2. Can't Win 'Em All

Side 2
1. Soluzio
2. Sterling Melody

Side 3
1. Float On
2. Step By Step

Side 4
1. 77777st
2. A5G Neowise

Marking a new direction the band would follow in years to come, 'Hex' stands in stark contrast to Earth's previous works. While retaining the extremely heavy doom/drone metal song structure of epic riffs over simple repetitive drum beats, the guitar was inflected with country influences that favored a cleaner reverb-heavy tone layered with acoustic instruments over the band's previous predilection for distortion. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Mirage
2. Land Of Some Other Order
3. The Dire And Ever Circling Wolves
4. Left In The Desert
5. Lens Of Unrectified Night
6. An Inquest Concerning Teeth
7. Raiford (The Felon Wind)
8. The Dry Lake
9. Tethered To The Polestar
10. Untitled 

Psychedelic rock group TEKE::TEKE are intimately familiar with duality, of splitting reality between past and present, complex melodies and hushed interludes, intense action and lingering response. After building their sound through careful assembly of countless splinters of Japanese folk, psychedelia, Brazilian surf rock, and other far-flung touchstones, the Montreal-based seven-piece indulged in and learned from stretching out in free-floating experimentation on the road. With the release of their sophomore album, 'Hagata' in June 2023, TEKE::TEKE moved fully in the space between, embracing the power of mythic pairings and identities lived at once. Matching muscly intensity with moments of cloudy meditation—like a world-class high jumper finding bliss at the apex of their leap—the group frame expressive compositions with regal flute, rich horns, ecstatic guitar, and a thumping rhythm section. Revisting 'Hagata' with the release of 'Hagata Delux' (digital only) and it’s companion LP, simply titled 'Delux', TEKE::TEKE has expanded their overall vision, including brand new song 'Meimu' along with remixes and reiterpretations of 'Hagata' tracks from the likes of SUUNS and Holy Fuck, as well as adding on and a collection of Hagata-era tunes available together on vinyl for the first time!

TRACK LISTING

1. Meimu
2. Visible Lights
3. Corpse Pose
4. Bankrobber
5. Chidori
6. Doppelganger (Version Française)
7. Jinzou Maria (Live In Concrete Version)
8. Gotoku Lemon (SEI Remix)
9. Onaji Heya (Holy Fuck Remix)
10. Yurei Zanmai (SUUNS Remix)

Way back in 2002 North Sea Radio Orchestra (NSRO) began rehearsing and performing in old churches, secreted away in the heart of the City Of London. At first their audience had to explore the lost alleys and lanes of old Londinium to hear their sounds.

NSRO then moved out into the world at large; performing in venues diverse – from churches to clubs to Freakzone sessions to festivals, opera houses, libraries etc etc. NSRO are very much a part of the 'Cardiacs Family' of bands and musicians; having personal and stylistic ties (harmonically and melodically) to Cardiacs and the music of the late Tim Smith generally; other bands in the 'scene' include Gong (and Kavus Torabi), Lost Crowns, William D Drake, Spratleys, Crayola Lectern etc. Special Powers is their ffth studio album and as ever, all material is written and produced by band leader Craig Fortnam.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mansions In Eternity
2. Hearty
3. Barrel
4. All Alice Like
5. Special Powers
6. Full Human
7. Guitar Miniature No.5
8 The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves

Berlin based producer and trombonist Youarei (Uri Selinger) and producer/instrumentalist Wandara (Idan Amos) team up on this increasingly unmissable label's third release, a slow motion dark disco affair that rumbles like stormy skies, complete with eerie pitched down vocals giving it a truly chilling edge. Flip it over and you'll find 'Mangal Remangaled', the remix from Ma Ze regulars UV & Nenor, adding more hypnotic chug to its atmosphere and some 'live voodoo drums' without compromising an inch of the original's spooky charm/menace. Bad juju, but of the very best kind.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Ma Ze follow up two excellent singles with another buy on sight 7" in the form of a first class cosmic wobbler. Creepy as hell and not one to be missed!

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "Mangal"

Side 2
1. "Mangal" (Remangaled By UV & Nenor)

“Who on earth is Jens Kuross?”

He’s been hiding in plain sight: a fumbled career as an LA session musician and songwriter, a cabinet maker in Idaho. Crooked Songs, his debut for Woodsist, is mysterious, warm, and heart-stirring. Using just voice and electric piano, the music delicately enswathed by ambient synth— minimal without losing sight of his songcraft. Crooked Songs suggests an otherworldly naturalism akin to a ghost returning to earth to observe the passing of time, life, and light.

TRACK LISTING

1. What I Miss Most Of All
2. No One’s Hiding From The Sun
3. Stereotype
4. Beggar’s Nation
5. Hymn Of Defeat
6. Inside Joke
7. Never One For Fighting
8. Crooked Song

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (also known as Trail Of Dead) is an American band best known for their wild, energetic live shows. The main members of the band are Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, who alternate between drumming, guitar and lead vocals, both on recordings and live shows. Their eighth studio album Lost Songs was originally released in 2012 and its lyrics are themed around war, tyranny and apathy, no unfamiliar grounds for the band. It features 12 tracks and four additional bonus tracks; “Skywhaling”, “Mountain Battle Song”, “Verschollene Songs” and “Idols Of Perversity”. Just like several predecessors, the album was produced by Chris “Frenchie” Smith, who worked with Meat Puppets, Jet and The Dandy Warhols amongst others.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Open Doors
2. Pinhole Cameras
3. Up To Infinity

Side B
1. Opera Obscura
2. Lost Songs
3. Flower Card Games
4. A Place To Rest

Side C
1. Heart Of Wires
2. Catatonic
3. Awestruck
4. Bright Young Things

Side D
1. Time And Again
2. Skywhaling
3. Mountain Battle Song
4. Verschollene Songs
5. Idols Of Perversity

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (also known as Trail Of Dead) is an American band best known for their wild, energetic live shows. The main members of the band are Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, who alternate between drumming, guitar and lead vocals, both on recordings and live shows. Since their formation in 1994, they have released ten studio albums, including IX from 2014. During the time of these recordings, the band also featured Autry Fulbright II on bass and vocals and Jamie Miller on drums and guitar.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. The Doomsday Book
2. Jaded Apostles
3. A Million Random Digits
4. Lie Without A Liar
5. The Ghost Within
6. The Dragonfly Queen
7. How To Avoid Huge Ships

Side B
1. Bus Lines
2. Lost In The Grand Scheme
3. Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears
4. Sound Of The Silk

Squanderers return to deliver 'Skantagio', the follow up to their debut album, 'If a Body Meet a Body' (Shimmy-Disc, 2024). “We were in the studio for one day, and performed all pieces on that first LP prior to breaking for lunch. 'Skantiago' contains the pieces we performed after lunch,” says bassist and Shimmy-Disc founder, Kramer. “We may be Squanderers, but we don’t dally. And we don’t labour over our spontaneous inventions while we’re in the studio.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Theme For Skantagio
2. Theme For Narcoleptics
3. Theme For Insufficient Overpreparation
4. Theme For Fruitful Tangents
5. Theme For All Unawares
6. Theme For The Path Made Visible
7. Theme For Undivided Neglect

'Hyperglyph' is the first new album in 11 years from composer / trumpeter / synthesist Rob Mazurek and composer / percussionist Chad Taylor's long-running Chicago Underground Duo project. Mazurek and Taylor have played music together in a multitude of formations over nearly three decades, including their ongoing partnership in Mazurek's large-format-skyward-expressionism vehicle Exploding Star Orchestra, in the expanded Chicago Underground Trio, Quartet and Orchestra (all with guitarist Jeff Parker), as well as a plethora of other assemblages. The early albums by the Duo have proven to be embryonic blueprints for the avant-jazz / electronic / indie rock hybridizing of the time, making them majorly important moments in the articulation of the "jazz" dimensionality of the then-burgeoning "post rock" sound. That sound, of course, was being transmitted far and wide due to the success of these groups as well as the Mazurek/Parker project Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground's frequently- intersecting collaborators in Tortoise. Just as most of the still-working projects born of that era have evolved, reconfigured, and grown, the Chicago Underground Duo has undergone a number of musical moltings, with the project always in the background of disparate individual aural investigations. The concurrent personal evolutions of Mazurek and Taylor as the Duo project drops off and picks back up makes it a true reflection of their own lives and friendship.

TRACK LISTING

1. Click Song
2. Hyperglyph
3. Rhythm Cloth
4. Contents Of Your Heavenly Body
5. The Gathering
6. Plymouth
7. Hemiunu
8. Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect
9. Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation Of Light
10. Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics Of Time
11. Succulent Amber

Released in 1997, Uptown Saturday Night is the acclaimed debut album by Bronx hip-hop duo Camp Lo. Known for its smooth blend of jazz-influenced production and 1970s-inspired flair, the album stands as a standout in East Coast hip-hop. Produced primarily by Ski Beatz, the album features lush, nostalgic beats that complement Camp Lo’s unique slang, stylish delivery, and cinematic storytelling.

The lead single, "Luchini AKA This Is It", became a cult classic, praised for its infectious groove and sophisticated wordplay. Other highlights like "Coolie High" and "Black Nostaljack AKA Come On" showcase the duo’s charismatic chemistry and retro vibe.

Uptown Saturday Night received critical acclaim for its originality and timeless aesthetic, cementing Camp Lo's place in hip-hop history. Its fusion of golden-era rap and soulful funk makes it a must-listen for fans of classic 90s hip-hop and genre-defying creativity.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Krystal Karrington
2. Luchini AKA This Is It
3. Park Joint
4. B-Side To Hollywood (featuring Trugoy The Dove Of De La Soul)

Side B
1. Killin' Em Softly
2. Sparkle
3. Black Connection
4. Swing

Side C
1. Rockin' It AKA Spanish Harlem
2. Say Word
3. Negro League
4. Nicky Barnes AKA It's Alright

Side D
1. Black Nostaljack AKA Come On
2. Coolie High
3. Sparkle (Mr. Midnight Mix)

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its original release, Robyn returns with a special edition 2-LP vinyl reissue of her iconic 2005 self-titled album. Widely regarded as a pivotal moment in modern pop, this anniversary edition is pressed on a coke bottle-clear vinyl using the artwork from the Record Store Day release in 2005 which was limited to 2k. A must-have for longtime fans and collectors alike, it pays tribute to an album that helped shape the future of pop music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Konichiwa Bitches
3. Cobrastyle
4. Handle Me
5. Bum Like You
6. Be Mine!
7. With Every Heartbeat
8. Who's That Girl
9. Dream On
10. Bionic Woman
11. Crash And Burn Girl
12. Robotboy
13. Eclipse
14. Should Have Known
15. Anytime You Like
16. Jack U Off

Griffiths & Andy achieved international fame with their rendition of Nina Simone’s “Young, Gifted and Black.” The song resonated deeply with audiences in the UK, selling over half a million copies and earning Bob & Marcia a place on Top of the Pops. It reached the number #5 spot in the UK charts.

This album is packed with classic tracks & cover versions - gems like “It ain’t me babe”, “Keep The Customers Satisfied” & “Put A Little Love In Your Heart”. Their popularity soared, and the duo continued with hits like “Pied Piper,” bringing reggae to European audiences during a time when the genre was still emerging on the global stage. Their success was not just commercial but symbolic, as they inspired pride and cultural appreciation among Jamaican communities worldwide.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Young Gifted And Black
2. Private Number
3. United We Stand
4. We've Got To Get Ourselves Together
5. Peace Of Mine
6. It's A Rocking Good Way

Side B
1. It Ain't Me Baby
2. Ain't Nothing But The Real Thing
3. Put A Little Love In Your Heart
4. Onion Song
5. Gee Baby
6. Keep The Customers Satisfied

Containing three tracks but 40 minutes long, 'Handling' finds the duo advancing from 2021’s dub-influenced '2X1=4', deploying its lessons in ambitious new territory that also nods to earlier collections.

Handling’s three exquisitely detailed pieces are each entitled ‘Leuchter,’ German for ‘candlestick,’ encapsulating the LP’s luminescent glow and rising inner energy. Its scrupulous arrangements exploit a magic cabinet of instruments, among them pianos, celestas and cristal baschets, glockenspiels, guitars and multiple forms of percussion. Their painstakingly engineered improvisations were equally meticulously reassembled in a series of intense editing sessions.

That the duo’s collaboration is built on a friendship and mutual admiration dating back to the early 2000s enables an unusual level of trust, despite both operating in their own distinct manner. “It’s not Frank, it’s not Nils,” they reflect. “We’ve become a new persona.” Handling blends Blumm’s organic chaos with Frahm’s structured intuition, offering a distinct and luminous experience that doesn’t just sound different, but feels like its own evolving world.

TRACK LISTING

1. LEUCHTER
2. 1 LEUCHTER 2
3. LEUCHTER 3

Following a thread from 'A Private Road', the 'Yes' EP is a flmic journey into, through and out of a period of lockdown, unearthing previously buried fragments and fashes of memory, set against a backdrop of night-time London streets, radio towers, northern inner-city streets, TV screen static, basement dance foors and moorland roads.

Self-produced, written and recorded in London, with the addition of bassist Ben Reed, mixer TJ Allen and artists Joviale and Fabiana Palladino and mastering engineer Noel Summerville, the EP draws on jewelled 80s pop songwriting, R&B, sampling, dance, electronic music, composition for radio and TV and soul music as memory fragments, pieced together through a characteristic use of soft and hazy modulation, reverbs, delays and EQ to create a whole picture. 'Yes' is a de-constructed and re-constructed pop record as a form of remembering and recording a thread of ever-present love.

TRACK LISTING

1. Yes
2. Deep Blue
3. Be There
4. Heavy Entertainment

- Newly discovered, previously unknown tapes.
- Recorded on July 30, 1976 at the historic Jittoku in Kyoto.
- Same prime era lineup as the legendary ‘77 Live recording.
- Mixed and mastered from the original tapes by Rallizes member Makoto Kubota.
- Official recording fully authorized by The Last One Musique.
- Liner notes by Waki.
- New photos by Kyo Nakamura.
- Vinyl edition includes bonus guitar solos.

While Les Rallizes Dénudés often played in their hometown, fans always eagerly awaited their return to the old city. This newly discovered tape captures their July 30, 1976 performance at Jittoku.

London-based psych-folk outfit The Hanging Stars re-release their much-loved debut album Over the Silvery Lake on Crimson Crow. Blending folk pastoralism with swampy 60s Americana, they sound like the missing link between the California desert sun and the grey skies of London Town. The album was recorded between LA, Nashville and Walthamstow, with each of these vastly different places leaving an indelible mark on the songs.

Now signed to the Loose Records label and fronted by London-based songwriter, singer and guitarist Richard Olson (The See See, Eighteenth Day of May), The Hanging Stars are essentially a loose collective of people who weave together a blissed-out psychedelic tapestry. The rest of the core band is made up of Sam Ferman on bass and Paulie Cobra on drums, Horse on pedal steel and Patrick Ralla on banjo, guitar. They jam rather than write and hang out rather than rehearse, harnessing a kind of tipsy euphoria resplendent with luscious arrangements and glorious vocal harmonies.

During 2015, prior to this album’s original release the band released two critically acclaimed singles via The Great Pop Supplement (both of which also appear on the album). “Golden Vanity” was premiered by The Line of Best Fit who said; “you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd just unearthed a rare deep cut from the late 60s/early 70s boom of psychedelia infused Americana” and “The House on The Hill” was described by The Guardian as; "a hazy, desert-dream of a song, nicely sharpened with steely-eyed guitars, Mersey-laced harmonies and just a whiff of the Gun Club”.

There are a number of allusions to nature and the weather on the album, borne in part out of the contrasting surroundings in which it was produced. The band’s fascination with Americana led them to record some of the material Stateside, laying down some of the parts at Battle Tapes Studios in Nashville (Lambchop, Paperhead), as well as at Vision Quest Studios in Los Angeles with Rob Campanella. His work with The Quarter After, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beachwood Sparks The Tyde, and GospelbeacH was a perfect match to capture their sound and they even had San Franciscan legend Chrystof Certik step in on lead guitar for a couple of tracks.

Following the LA recordings, a trip to the Californian desert provided the core notion of what they wanted to produce - a shard of light that they clung on to whilst recording the rest of the album in the significantly more rain-soaked atmosphere of Walthamstow, London, under the watchful eye of Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios (The Clientele, Comet Gain). As the band explained at the time: “Ultimately we hope you can hear both the sand and the rain in this record.”

The Hanging Stars place themselves firmly as part of a long folk tradition encompassing European and North American influences – as a continuation rather than a pastiche of these styles. This is the sound of a band really coming in to their own, fully formed and in no doubt of their vision. With Over the Silvery Lake they succeeded in producing a record, which has the country, blues and folk traditions at its heart. 

TRACK LISTING

A1) Floodbound
A2) Cure Your Ills
A3) I'm No Good Without You
A4) For A While
A5) Golden Vanity
A6) Rainmaker, Sunseeker
B1) The House On The Hill
B2) Ruby Red
B3) She Never Sleeps
B4) The Hanging Stars
B5) Hang Me High
B6) Crippled Shining Blues
B7) Running Waters Wide

Jack Wolter is an English musician and producer based in Brighton, UK, who makes music and visuals under the moniker Cubzoa. Jack is also one half of the band Penelope Isles and plays guitar for CMAT. His music and visuals evoke intimacy and delicacy, often touching on personal and melancholic themes. Described as a blend of folk, electronica, and sun-damaged bedroom pop, Cubzoa's upcoming body of work showcases a fusion of textured guitar, glistening electronics and live visuals that immerse the audience in a captivating sonic landscape.

TRACK LISTING

1. In 2 Worlds
2. Choke
3. Buckle Up
4. MidAirCollider
5. Lost In You
6. I Dreamed A Beach
7. Turtle
8. Barcelona
9. Chewin On My Lips
10. Dance With Me
11. Unfold In The Sky

In 1983, Chateau, a San Francisco based boogie funk band, won the KRE Radio Hot Fun In The Sun Battle of the Bands in Mosswood Park, Oakland. As a prize, they received $5000 (approximately 8 hours) of studio time and a pressing run of 200 45s.Chateau included Alan Ross on lead vocals and percussion, singer Damara 'Candy' Stepney, and Kevin Dailey who sang and played saxophone, bass, and guitar.

Melvin Jones was on horn and keys, Dennis Knepper played keyboard, Frank Lemon played drums, Lemon's cousin Michael Clark played rhythm guitar, Doug Hearne played guitar and Bill Ortiz (from Santana) contributed trumpet parts.Chateau only released one 7-inch single in 1984, but to this day 'Feelings' is, arguably so, one of the most sought-after West Coast slices of funk.Jerome Derradji and Past Due Records are proud to officially reissue this incredible slice of boogie. Originally released in 1984 on Quiet Storm Records, San Francisco.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Feelings
B1. Strike A Spark

Selector Dub Narcotic warned us last time around the party is just getting started. That’s OK, we never wanted it to end. Gracing us with their presence once again, Selector Dub Narcotic presents 'When Boys Cry' [KLP309], a four song EP of unparalleled splendor.

'When Boys Cry' is a real tear-jerker that’s earned a four hanky salute - - - one for the beats, one for the rhymes, one for the dark chocolate haircut and one for I just don’t know what, but it’s got everyone dancing.

Once again collaborating with Northwest hip hop producer extraordinaire Smoke M2D6, Selector Dub Narcotic blasts 'When Boys Cry' full of unbalanced bombshells. Title song 'When Boys Cry' floats a melancholy haze over the ties that bind; 'Love Don’t Come Around' muses upon the muse and all unintended consequences; 'Excuse Moi' is a sassy little number; 'California Trippin’' reminds one there is joy in our every endeavor.

Perfect for your next social function or anti-social broodfest.

TRACK LISTING

1. When Boys Cry
2. Love Don’t Come Around
3. Excuse Moi
4. California Trippin’

'Sun' is the first album by Tennessee native and baritone saxophonist Zoh Amba for the Oslo-based imprint Smalltown Supersound – and her second album following 2022’s 'Oh Sun 'on Tzadik label.

On 'Sun', Amba introduces a newly assembled group with a set of compositions that blur the line between performance and process – where both the music and the act of capturing it unfold in real time, guided in part by improvisational recording techniques. As a bandleader, Amba navigates the edges of an improvisational delta, where spiritual jazz and free folk emerge not as separate genres, but as tributaries of the same current, each flowing from a shared belief in music as a sacred force.

The decision to release 'Sun' on Smalltown Supersound was born from a common connection to the late German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, who was both a spiritual mentor to Amba and released several records on the label. And while the album is rooted in American folk traditions, it’s Brötzmann’s fearless spirit – itself an immense historical catalyst for European free jazz – that runs like a current through the ensemble’s musical collaboration and its experimental recording techniques.

For Amba however, it was important that the ensemble – consisting of Caroline Morton (bass), Lex Korton (piano), Miguel Marcel Russel (percussion) – establish deeper musical connection before the recording process took place: “We spent days just playing together, and I was trying to mentally take notes of what naturally wanted to exist in this band – before giving instructions or handing out sheet music. I wanted to see where we were all standing in life, right at that moment. From there, I started carving out the process with them. That’s how the structure of the band and the approach to the record came about.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Fruit Gathering
2. Interbeing
3. Ma
4. Forevermore
5. Seaside
6. Champa Flower
7. At Noon
8. Like The Sun
9. In Heart

On October 12th & 13th, 2024, American Football performed two sold- out shows at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles - part of the band’s 25th anniversary tour for their self-titled debut album. Featuring guest appearances from Ethel Cain and M.A.G.S., these special shows were recorded for American Football’s first and only live album, 'American Football (Live in Los Angeles)'. To coincide with the album’s release, the band teamed up with Prophet Media and director Steph Rinzler for the release of a full-length concert film, featuring candid interviews with the band, Ethel Cain, Yvette Young, and M.A.G.S. Both the film and album captures the legacy and unexpected staying power of a group that helped define a genre.

After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album’s release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground / emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time” list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the “Best New Reissue” title, calling it the “most influential album in the genre.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Five Silent Miles
2. The Summer Ends
3. Honestly?
4. For Sure Feat. Ethel Cain
5. You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon
6. But The Regrets Are Killing Me
7. I’ll See You When We’re Both Not So Emotional Feat. M.A.G.S.
8. Stay Home / The One With The Wurlitzer

This ‘Colour It In’ reissue will be pressed on two-sided zoetrope vinyl. It features the original album alongside the seven bonus tracks that were added to the Special Edition in 2008, one of which is their take on Richard Hawley’s ‘Just Like The Rain’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Good Old Bill
2. X-Ray
3. All In Your Rows
4. Latchmere
5. About Your Dress
6. Precious Time
7. O.A.V.I.P.
8. Tissue Shoulders
9. Happy Faces
10. First Love
11. Mary
12. Lego
13. Toothpaste Kisses
14. The Real Thing
15. Just Like The Rain
16. Colour It In
17. Sore Throat
18. Diamond Solitaire
19. Bicycles 

This new edition of ‘Given To The Wild’ features the original album tracklist and will be pressed on double orange translucent vinyl, complete with new gatefold packaging. This is the first vinyl press since the original run sold-out shortly after release.

TRACK LISTING

1. Given To The Wild (Intro)
2. Child
3. Feel To Follow
4. Ayla
5. Glimmer
6. Forever I've Known
7. Heaven
8. Pelican
9. Went Away
10. Go
11. Unknow
12. Slowly One
13. Grew Up At Midnight

Special fifth anniversary repress of the 2020 debut album by bdrmm. Named after a postcode in their native Hull, the HU5 Edition comes pressed on black and amber vinyl and features alternate artwork and a printed lyric insert. The almost self-titled Bedroom was hailed by The Guardian as a lockdown classic on its original release and ended up high in our own end of year chart in 2020!

TRACK LISTING

1.Momo
2.Push / Pull
3.A Reason To Celebrate
4.Gush
5.Happy
6.(The Silence)
7.(Un)Happy
8.If....
9.Is That What You Wanted To Hear?
10.Forget The Credits

The quietest voices can be the most durable.

American Football’s original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post-rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it.

Like Slint’s 'Spiderland', or Codeine’s 'The White Birch', even Talk Talk’s 'Laughing Stock', American Football asked far more questions than it cared to answer. But there wasn’t a band around anymore to explain it, anyway. The three young men who made the album – Mike Kinsella, Steve Holmes, and Steve Lamos – split up pretty much on its release.

Fifteen years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016’s 'American Football (LP2)'. The release was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come.

‘I feel like the second album was us figuring it out,’ says Nate. ‘For me, it wasn’t quite done. I knew there was still more.’

Enter 'American Football (LP3)'. ‘We put a lot of time and a lot of energy into it,’ says Mike. ‘We were all thoughtful about what we wanted to put out there. Last time, it was figuring out how to use all of our different arms. This time, we were like – Ok we have these arms, let’s use them.’ The band used the same producer, Jason Cupp, and recorded the album at the same studio (Arc Studios in Omaha, Nebraska) as its predecessor – yet they approached it in a markedly different way. There was a determination to let the songs breathe, to trust in ideas finding their own pace. The final result is a definite, and deliberate, stretching of the band.

As a result, LP3 is less obviously tethered to the band’s past than the second album. An immediate contrast between LP3 and its two predecessors is its cover. The two previous albums featured the exterior and interior of a residence in the band’s original hometown of Urbana, Illinois (now attracting fans for pilgrimages and photo opportunities), by the photographer Chris Strong. But American Football knew that LP3 was an outside record. Instead of the familiar house, this time the cover photo (again by Strong) features open, rolling fields on Urbana’s borders. It is a sign of the album’s magnitude in sound, and of the band’s boldness in breaking away from home comforts.

American Football also joked that LP3’s genre was ‘post-house’, because of this very conscious visual break. But, in a strange way, there are links in LP3 with an actual post-house genre: shoegaze. The more exploratory members of the original British shoegaze scene were inspired by the dreamtime and circularity of house music (ambient house in particular), cherishing its sonic possibilities. That spirit drips into LP3, most obviously on ‘I Can’t Feel You’, a collaboration with Rachel Goswell of Slowdive.

The album also features Hayley Williams from Paramore on the album’s catchiest moment, ‘Uncomfortably Numb’, and Elizabeth Powell, of the Québécoise act Land Of Talk. Mike wrote lyrics in French especially for her.

LP3 is contemplative, rich, expressive, yet with a queasy undercurrent. It is heavy with expectancy, revealing its ideas slowly, eliciting the hidden stories people carry around with them. ‘I feel like my lyric writing has changed a lot over the years,’ says Mike. ‘The goal is to be conversational, maybe to state something giant and heavy, but in a very plain way. But, definitely in this record, I keep things a little more vague.’ As on the first album, the lyrics on LP3 may seem confessional and concentrated, but the more you scrutinize them, the further their meaning slinks away. Or, as Mike tellingly sings on ‘I Can’t Feel You”: I’m fluent in subtlety.

‘Somewhere along the way we moved from being a reunion band to just being a band,’ says Steve Holmes. American Football is now a bona fide ongoing focus, and they are making some of the best music of their lives. American Football (LP3) stands with two other rare reunion successes – Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine’s mbv – as a fine example of how a band refinding one another can augment, rather than taint, their legacy.

‘I think that there are those albums, or the music that you heard when you were younger, and they imprint on you,’ says Nate. ‘And no matter where you go, or what you do they’re always there.’ He is talking of Steve Reich – an early and ongoing influence on American Football – but he might as well be reflecting what is said of his own band, and the ardent following they inspire. American Football stands as an enduring symbol of elusive emotional landscapes, where introspection can be as dramatic as confrontation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Silhouettes
2. Every Wave To Ever Rise (feat Elizabeth Powell)
3. Uncomfortably Numb (feat Hayley Williams)
4. Heir Apparent
5. Doom in Full Bloom
6. I Can’t Feel You (feat Rachel Goswell)
7. Mine to Miss
8. Life Support

Greek duo Bonnie & Klein serve up an Aegean musical escape with their new Glam Pulse EP on Hell Yeah.

George Fountzoulas and Thanasis Skouzis are lifelong Balearic brothers who offer up their own soul-stirring take on the sound on labels like Music For Dreams and NuNorthern Soul. They are inspired by the sunsets and seas of their homeland and bring great imagination to their melodies as this new outing proves.

'Glam Pulse' sets a gorgeous tone from the off with wavy grooves and a peppering of percussion. As well as some singing guitar riffs, sundown synths and shimmering chords make this a steamy and seductive gem. 'Haleakala' is another perfect soundtrack to lazing on the beach and watching the sun sink into the sea while new age motifs wash over you and carry away your woes. Proggy guitars speak to the soul on 'Horizon Avenue' as woody xylophones and wispy leads ride on dubby bass and 'Sunion' closes with hints of melancholy - a lament for the final dance of a long hot summer with lingering trumpets lodging deep in your heart.

Bonnie & Klein tap into real Balearic magic on this EP and effortlessly transport you to a sandy paradise. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Glam Pulse
A2. Haleakala
B1. Horizon Avenue
B2. Sunion

Sometimes when I drink wine out of a globulous glass with the thinnest of rims, blocking out the fact it's billed at £14 a pop, I think of baby Becky. Hair so blonde it's neon white, cheeks so chubby you can't see her eyes. What must she think right now? She must think she made it.

We're a great big adult person. That was always the plan, right?In her extraordinary debut, with her trademark lyricism and razor-sharp wit, Ivor Novello Award-winning musician and artist Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka SELF ESTEEM) takes us on a journey through womanhood - whatever the hell that means. Through the notes, lyrics and biting observational prose for which Taylor has become renowned, A Complicated Woman offers itself up as a subversive anti-Bible for any woman who has ever cracked under the weight of impossible expectation; who has done unto others the damage that has been wrought upon her; and who has discovered deep within herself a resilience that surprised her.

A Complicated Woman is a cathartic scream of a book that gets to the heart of being a woman in the world today, and cements Taylor as one of the most exciting voices of her generation.

The long-awaited memoir from Simple Minds' founder members and lifelong collaborators, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill. A candid, moving and kinetic story of self-realisation through the power of music, Our Secrets Are The Same is the remarkable joint memoir by Simple Minds' founder members, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill. It not only reveals the inner workings of one of the most innovative and successful British bands of the past half-century, but the deeply personal tale of an extraordinary friendship which powered teenage dreams into visionary action. Exploring key songs, places, years and events in the Simple Minds story, and told in the distinct voices of both men, Our Secrets Are The Same explores a bond which has encompassed stratospheric highs and humbling lows, marriages and divorces, fatherhood, fickle fame, tricky inter-band dynamics, the occasional explosive bust up, and a ruthless streak to rival the Sicilian Mafia.

Their connection is grounded in shared experiences and a set of values and codes so deeply ingrained they don't need to be spoken. For Our Secrets Are The Same is not just the story of two rock stars, but of two sons, brothers, partners and parents who have never forgotten where they come from. Two men who have remained deeply bonded to their roots and each other, while fulfilling a teenage dream to form a world-class live band and take their music around the globe.

Fascinating and funny, evocative and inspiring, this unforgettable memoir captures a unique journey through life and music, and a friendship like no other.

Brooklyn duo Fundido team up with Philadelphia's Universal Cave to press their first physical release titled ‘Paradise Tempo’, a love letter to dance floor music that sits in the cross section of the tougher sounds of the city and the softer sounds of the balearic and the backwoods.

The A side kicks off with a flawless downtempo mix from California based Dirty Dave and Alex Pasternak, who find a rare cover of the Cathy Denis classic and refurbish it to perfection. Next up is ‘Emotional Jungle’, a jazzy midtempo weapon led by a massive saxophone hook and edited to optimum club efficiency by NY based Nick Stropko. LA via Serbia’s Masha Mar unearths extremely rare gem ‘Take Me to Mecca’ and reworks it into a dreamy midtempo journey that carries both a children’s choir vocal and a middle eastern synth melody effortlessly across a foggy dance floor. And closing out the A-side is the wonderful ‘Charlie’s Vision’ from Universal Cave, a spooky AOR tinged cosmic trip that is only available on this vinyl pressing.

The B Side leads with balearic beach party stomper ‘Amor’ from Fundido themselves; complete with Spanish vocals, lofty piano jamming and a contagious growling bassline. Next up is ‘Sex-O’ from Seoul man Tucan Discos, who reworks a tribal classic into a hypnotic and seductive club mix; followed by ‘Freak Estilo’ from Spain’s Ritmal Astral boss Orion Agassi who offers a bumping freestyle breaks mix with an addictive r&b vocal hook. Last but not least, the ‘Be Careful Operator’ edit from Miles Felix aka Sisserou closes down the function with a block party jam swimming with jazz, swing and soul.

When asked what visual imagery they had in mind for Paradise Tempo, the prompt given to artwork maestro Ray Fernandez was ‘salt of the earth utopia’ and ‘working man’s paradise’ … and Ray delivered exactly that. Enjoy Paradise Tempo ! 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Touch Me (Dirty Dave & Pasternak Edit)
A2. 2 Emotional Jungle (Nick Stropko Club Edit)
A3. Take Me To Mecca (Masha Mar Edit)
A4. Universal Cave - Charlie's Vision
B1. Fundido - Amor
B2. Tucan Discos - Sex-O
B3. Freak Estilo (Orion Agassi Edit)
B4. Be Careful Operator (Sisserou Edit)

Award-winning producer and composer Giorgi Koberidze offers up a head-spinning debut of Georgian modern classical music shot through with 360° electroacoustic textures.

Giorgi Koberidze is an electronic and classical music composer from Georgia. He currently serves as a professor of music at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, as well as at Ilia State University, and the private music school "303 Herz". Giorgi's work is rooted in the Georgian musical tradition, cross-pollinating indigenous instrumentation with electronic and western classical timbres. He recently won first prize in the Tbilisi Conservatoire Composers Awards, and received Georgia's most prestigious cultural gong, the Tsinandali Award.

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TRACK LISTING

1. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: I
2. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: II
3. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: III
4. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: IV
5. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: V
6. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: VI
7. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: VII
8. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: VIII
9. Forests, Tales, Cities, Forests: IX

Oh so happy - A first time on 7" for the Superist Funkist band the one and only Kool & the Gang. We have picked Two Timesless club floor smashers. From the Good times LP " Rated X" which is just fire on the dance floor, and this is the first time for this killer kool & the gang track to make its way to a 45rpm, for years ..... booom!!!!

On the flip is North East South West a perfect Kool and the Gang funk vibes groove.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rated X
2. North East South West

Studio Electrophonique, the solo project of singer-songwriter James Leesley, is one of the most original musical outfits to emerge from Sheffield's current independent scene. Taking the name 'Studio Electrophonique' from an old analogue recording studio in Sheffield, Leesley has already released two celebrated EPs under this moniker. He will release later this year his eponymous debut album on Paris-based label Valley of Eyes Records. It is produced by Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad and The Queen and The Magnetic North).

James Leesley grew up in Handsworth, Sheffield where week-day evenings were spent kicking a football around grassy urban edgelands. At the weekends, the social clubs with their glitter balls, comedians, cockle sellers and sequin-suited cabaret singers brought a touch of glamour to this hilltop suburb on the fringe of an industrial northern city. The stage was not some far-off place. Dreams could be made and broken under bright lights and by the brusk tones of a bingo caller.

The classic songs, slap back echo and house organ sounds of the social club scene are in Leesley’s blood. His work draws inspiration from the heartfelt melodies of songsmiths like Carole King and Burt Bacharach with the smokey tenderness of vocalists such as Dusty Springfield and Elvis. Add to that his enthusiasm for American literature and the surrealism of 60s French cinema.

After stumbling across an old 4-track tape machine at a local Bring and Buy, Leesley used it to distill these influences into something that is spare in its sound but full in its intention and emotion. In 2019 he released Buxton Palace Hotel on Violette Records, an EP of six odes to the mystery of modern romance, followed in 2022 by the Happier Things EP. Leesley found a fan in Richard Hawley who he joined on a tour of the UK and Ireland and, under the Studio Electrophonique name, he played at the prestigious End of the Road and Green Man Festivals. He was also invited by French superstar Etienne Daho to support him at the legendary Olympia in Paris. Leesley received airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe, Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie & Tom Robinson), BBC Radio 3 (Unclassified) and Soho Radio (Pete Paphides).

After a chance meeting with Simon Tong, the pair bonded over a love of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Barry Hines’ books, Jake Thackray, Blackpool's North Pier, and late night attic-darts. At Tong’s home studio in South London they added an assortment of vintage guitars and Casio keyboards (Pipe Organ mode) to fragments of lyrics Leesley had scribbled on the back of betting slips and bus tickets.

The result is an 11-track album that finds big feelings in small details. Loneliness, beauty, longing and loss all linger in the everyday occurrences: the moments of miscommunication over tea and eggs, the neatly folded pyjamas left by a long-gone lover, the raindrops on the top deck window of a No. 52 bus, the rain-sodden faded glamour of a cheap seaside getaway. Captured on a Tascam reel to reel, Leesley’s mesmerising debut promises to whisk any listener away to a warm, intimate and day-dreamy place.

TRACK LISTING

01. David And Jayne
02. Taxi Ride
03. How Can I Love Anyone Else ?
04. All-Time Biggest Fans
05. Too Many Lonely Nights
06. The World’s Most Beautiful Cinema
07. Break My Heart Again
08. Handbrake Turns
09. The Last One
10. The World’s Most Beautiful Cinema Pt.2
11. Him Without Her

Habibi Funk is more than happy to announce our 31st release which happens to be our 3rd various artists compilation. The album is dedicated to the cassette tape scene in Libya from the late 80s to early 2000s, from disco to reggae to pop. All songs previously unreleased outside of Libya and not available on any DSP platforms.

This compilation isn't a sweeping history of Libyan music — it's a personal journey into the sounds we fell in love with while digging through tapes, conversations, and stories across Libya and beyond. Rather than spotlighting the country's most famous musical exports, the compilation brings forward a mix of overlooked gems and local classics of the cassette era: artists whose work thrived despite political limitations, and scarce international exposure. The music featured here blends reggae rhythms, synthy disco grooves, gritty pop, house, and funk, a vibrant collision of genres that reflects Libya's unique sonic landscape from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Many of these recordings were recovered from the TK7 cassette factory in Sousse, Tunisia, a now-demolished site that once played a quiet but vital role in distributing and manufacturing Libyan music. Other tracks were digitised in a Cairo hotel room in 2021, where we transferred nearly 100 tapes over the course of three days, on-site using a high-grade cassette deck brought into Egypt with us. From that trove emerged artists like Ahmed Ben Ali, Cheb Bakr, and Najib Alhoush & The Free Music, who have already featured on our earlier releases. Their sounds sit alongside contributions from this release from the likes of Khaled Al Melody, Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons of Africa Band, City Lights Band, Libya Music Band, and Group Hewaya. During this era, Independent artists relied on makeshift home studios or travelled abroad to record in Tunisia and Egypt, gradually building their own infrastructures for creativity. By the 90s and early 2000s, as access to digital equipment increased, a few of the artists began setting up their own studios — a shift that gave rise to a more self-sufficient recording culture across the country. The resulting sounds are anything but homogeneous. They reflect Libya's geographic and cultural crossroads: North African rhythms meet Arab melodies and deep African roots. Reggae, in particular, took on a local Libyan flavour — not just musically, through the slowed-down cadence of traditional shaabi beats, but socially, as a vehicle for expressing identity and pride. What ties all the artists on this comp together is a boundary- pushing approach to genre and style: recorded in small studios, exchanged by hand, and shaped by a cross-pollination of influences, from Benghazi to Tripoli and beyond. All tracks are licensed from their creators and in the case of the artists being deceased from their estates. All profits are being split 50:50 between us in the licensors and ownership remains with the creators, we only licensed the music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cheb Bakr - Allom
2. Group Hewaya - Irja
3. Shahd - Erhal Keef Alshams Tgheeb
4. Ahmed Ben Ali - Jara
5. The White Bird Band - Ya Ummi
6. Khaled Al Melody - Jani Bigool
7. Fathi Aldiyqz & Sons Of Africa Band - Palestine Is My Homeland
8. Libya Music Band - Kol Al Mawaeed
9. Stars Of Africa - Baed Al Farha
10. Khaled Al Reigh - Zannik
11. Khaled Al Zlitni - Jiti Yam Eloyoun Buhoor
12. Murad Najah - Hubbi Leeki
13. City Lights Band - Kul Ghrub
14. Adil Al Ramli - Mawoud
15. The Hope Duo - La Tgheeb Anni Wala Youm

‘Shinbone’s Revenge’ is the follow up to Christian’s last album “Whatever Best Serves’ released in 2023. Christian is the founder member of The Earlies, has been Liam Gallaghers keyboard player and is currently the keyboard player in the newly reformed Oasis. Again Christian is joined by ‘The Enemy Chorus’ an ensemble of friends and cohorts this time including Little Barrie (Primal Scream/The The/Liam Gallagher/John Squire) The album is scorched with the psychedelic funk rock heat of Booker T and Brian Auger, the punchy brass arrangements of Chicago Transit Authority and Tower of Power, and the kosmische motorik wonders of Can, Cluster and Harmonia.

“I can honestly say I’ve never heard anything he’s played” - Liam Gallagher.

“The only other keyboard virtuoso who can hold a candle to Christaian wears a cape and performs on ice sometimes, he’s great but I’d go for this chap every time personally” - Marc Riley. 

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1 - Twice As Thick
2 - The Skins
3 - Stoops Uprising
4 - Discorporate
5 - Shinbone's Revenge

SIDE 2
6 - In The Sump
7 - Our Living Breath
8 - Jimmy Satan's Knife
9 - Bury The Bodies
10 - Stars And Vermin

This is his third full-length studio LP, and is comprised of 11 tracks showcasing Werkha's unique blend of jazzy breakbeat-tinged electronics and analogue aesthetics. It includes the singles 'S-Bend', 'Toast Rack', and two collaborations; 'Everyday (feat. Ríoghnach Connolly)' and 'Narrow In' (feat. Daudi Matsiko) - a pair of revered artists with roots in folk music, complimenting the close connection to nature found throughout Werkha's productions.

Werkha (aka Tom Leah) is a multi-instrumentalist born in Rusholme, Manchester. His previous releases on Worldwide Award-winning independent London-based label First Word Records include 'The Rigour' EP (2020), and the 'All Werk Is Play' LP (2022), carrying on from his initial output on the Brighton-based Tru Thoughts label.

He's had previous support from a wide range of tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson, Nemone, Don Letts, Jamz Supernova and Zakia (BBC 6 Music), Mo Ayoub (BBC Radio 1), Julie Adenuga, Scratcha DVA, BBC Manchester, Worldwide FM and Rinse FM.

Alongside his own releases, he's collaborated and remixed with Quantic, A Certain Ratio, Marcos Valle, Eska, Chunky, Andrew Ashong and extensively with Keisha Thompson and Bryony Jarman-Pinto, to cite a few.

Werkha has done full band and solo performances across the UK and Europe, touring with the likes of Bonobo, Chet Faker, Rebecca Vasmant and Mr Scruff, and sharing billing with Crazy P, GoGo Penguin, Todd Terje, Lefto and MCDE, gracing stages at legendary venues like The Roundhouse, The Jazz Café and Manchester Cathedral, and various festivals including Glastonbury, SXSW, We Out Here, A Love Supreme and Latitude.

TRACK LISTING

1. Scolio
2. S-Bend
3. Narrow In (feat. Daudi Matsiko)
4. By Helm
5. Irregular You
6. Shapes In Frame
7. Toast Rack
8. Everyday (feat. Ríoghnach Connolly)
9. Weak Point
10. Humour This
11. Sastrugi

The Virgin Suicides, AIR's second album and the evocative soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut is reissued as The Virgin Suicides Redux for its 25th anniversary.

2CD/Blu-ray
This 2-CD/Blu-ray digipack comprised the new 2025 analog mix produced by ‘Alf’ Briat and Air in April 2025, a spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) Blu-Ray of the album alongside a selection of previously unheard rarities and demos.

1LP Black vinyl
A brand-new analogic mix of the original album produced by ‘Alf’ Briat and Air in April 2025, deepens and updates the haunting and beautiful soundscapes that have only grown in stature over the years, much like the cult classic film it accompanies.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
A1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
A2-Cloud Up
A3-Bathroom Girl
A4-Cemetary Party
A5-Dark Messages
A6-The World Hurricane
A7-Dirty Trip
B1-Highschool Lover
B2-Afternoon Sister
B3-Ghost Song
B4-Empty House
B5-Dead Bodies
B6-Suicide Underground

The Virgin Suicides Redux / CD1 
1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
2-Cloud Up
3-Bathroom Girl
4-Cemetary Party
5-Dark Messages
6-The World Hurricane
7-Dirty Trip
8-Highschool Lover
9-Afternoon Sister
10-Ghost Song
11-Empty House
12-Dead Bodies
13-Suicide Underground

The Virgin Suicides - Demos & Rarities / CD2
1-Playground Love (Demo Strings)
2-Bathroom Girl (Demo 2)
3-Playground Love (Vocoder)
4-Cloud Up (Demo)
5-Suicide Underground (Demo)
6-Nosferatu (Remix By The Flower Pistols)
7-Dead Bodies (Demo)
8-Virgin Suicides (Demo)
9-Highschool Prom Playground Love (Rob Remix)

The Virgin Suicides Redux / Blu-Ray
1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
2-Cloud Up
3-Bathroom Girl
4-Cemetary Party
5-Dark Messages
6-The World Hurricane
7-Dirty Trip
8-Highschool Lover
9-Afternoon Sister
10-Ghost Song
11-Empty House
12-Dead Bodies
13-Suicide Underground

Blue Lake reveals his most ambitious album yet, which finds its visionary creator Jason Dungan harnessing the collective alchemy of his band, with ten spirited tracks that resonate with a powerful directness, evoking an ecological connection to the wider world.

Growing up in Dallas, Texas, Dungan then moved around for many years, living in both Europe and the USA, before finding a close connection to the Danish capital Copenhagen, where he now resides, a location heavily spotlighted in recent years as fertile creative ground for fellow experimental artists like Astrid Sonne, ML Buch and Clarissa Connelly. This well travelled upbringing would no doubt prove of spiritual significance on Dungan’s emergence as a singular artistic voice, traversing the planes of Ambient, Americana, with hues of Kosmische, uniquely infused with his own Nordic aesthetic.

The solo project (Blue Lake), now on its fifth album, found its name and inspiration via Don Cherry’s 1974 live album, sparking a creative epiphany in Dungan, who set off on a path into his own untapped sonic world, guided by what he cited as the emotional potential found within non-lyrical composition. With a newly inspired ethos aimed toward creating direct and simple instrumental music imbued with a deep sense of feeling, Jason began combining an array of musical elements that gave rise to his highly revered album ‘Sun Arcs’ (2023), with its “ornate, zither-led lattices” (Pitchfork, Best New Music). Conceived in the blissful isolation of a Swedish cabin set in the woods, this was music that soundtracked spring in full bloom. Then, in contrast to the solitary approach of ‘Sun Arcs’, the highly lauded mini-album ‘Weft’ (2025) began to set the tone for a more band-oriented approach to delivering the Blue Lake sound. Jason had by this time experienced a special collective energy with his band during a swathe of live performances, which he then sought to harness and distill on ‘The Animal’, leading him to take the project into a traditional recording studio (The Village) and its limitless potential along with his gifted cohorts.

‘The Animal’ at its core vividly celebrates human collaboration and is deeply rooted in a sense of community and non-hierarchical connectivity. The group's creative alchemy transcends outwards and beyond the musicians performing together, to summon an inclusive, existential and ecological connection to the wider world and its inhabited spaces. The album contemplates the idea of the human as an animal as Dungan explains: “I’m quite fascinated in thinking about humans more as part of the animal environment and not as something that’s so separated into a “human” realm, or sitting on top of a hierarchical pyramid. So the Animal is also me, or us - that we are just living, existing, in the same way as a piece of moss or a sparrow or a cow.

Dungan welcomed an entirely open dialogue, a process that started from early band rehearsals, which saw his demos quickly evolve and amass weight from double bass, cello, clarinet, viola and drums to become refined and audibly decorated. Jason focused on capturing more wide ranging depth in the recording process, dissecting detailed nuances in instruments to convey the intricate, ever changing balance and dynamics that play out in the natural and urban world as the theme too circulates around the idea of The city as an animal or urban being. Speaking of his Copenhagen home town, with its industrial past but close proximity to areas of semi-wilderness, as well as the sea, he explains the overlapping scenario: “I don’t think it’s possible now to think about nature as a pure or isolated thing. Being around animals in this setting, I think about how they communicate with each other, forge relationships, and navigate the city, but all without language. It’s not an experience of nature which is bucolic and uncomplicated - it’s an experience of nature and the animal world which is bound up in human activity.”


On ‘The Animal’, Dungan introduces the use of voice as an instrument, as a way of unlocking song-like characteristics as heard on the gracious album opener ‘Circles’, which sees the group embrace in choral unison, like in birdsong, their voices echo as a part of the surrounding sonic environment. The band are foregrounded and formidable in their delivery, forming a rich, acoustic accompaniment to Dungan’s zither strokes, earthy guitars and percussive patterns. The soundworld is noticeably bolder and livelier as evidenced on ‘Cut Paper’, with now regular mixing collaborator Jeff Zeigler capturing the fullness of the new band sound. Jason also enlisted the help of Danish producer Aske Zidore who encouraged him toward new working strategies, a liberating intervention which allowed the element of surprise and discovery. The centre ground is never fully consumed by Dungan as we find him consciously orchestrating from a respectful distance, giving generous space for the musician's spontaneous performance and improvisation, allowing their musical intuition to give rise to beguiling, holistic synchronicity.

Dungan wrote the cinematic ‘Berlin’ whilst on a tour stop in the German capital, with its lush zither flurries and long reverb decays painting an expansive late night ode to the rolling hill country of Texas. The poignance of Jason’s intimate, evocative writing is heard on ‘Flowers for David’, a heartfelt folk-leaning tribute with lofted fingerpicking guitar, signalling a fond farewell to a friend's passing. The album gains forward momentum on ‘Yarrow’ as the group move in melodic tandem, before the kaleidoscopic ‘Strand’, with its soaring solos and earthy undercurrents propelling toward a euphoric komische crescendo. The title track ‘The Animal’ is a brief melancholic foray into ballad-esque territory, with a drum machine charting a dotted path for emotive horns and a second gathering of wordless, healing atmospheric vocals. As we reach ‘To Read’ Dungan’s quest is encapsulated with wondrous clarity as the group lands entirely together on a resounding chord, a precious moment for Dungan who reels in the existence of the moment as they remain interlocked in sound and space. He concludes: “I’m interested in moments that are fleeting, with a powerful sense of togetherness, shared in the music.”

‘The Animal’ is a form of musical metamorphosis, still acoustic, yet more amplified, elevating it to new dimensions. The Blue Lake project takes on a new lease of life to encompass collaboration with Jason Dungan bound in a universal connectivity, resulting in his most ambitious album to date. A harmonious rejoicing that cements his reputation as a transformative presence in contemporary music. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Circles
Cut Paper
Berlin
Flowers For David
Seeds

Side B
Yarrow
Strand
The Animal
Vertical Hold
To Read

Jon Tye, aka Ocean Moon is a man who truly needs no introduction. For the last 30 plus years, the founder of LO RECORDINGS has consistently been a part of some of the most seminal and groundbreaking sonic excursions of our time — MLO, Seahawks, Cherry Garcia, and Brain Machine, to name a few.

After his recent album for Music From Memory, ‘Ways To The Deep Meadow’, Ocean Moon now sets his controls for the heart of the sun and takes the listener on an epic journey into a world of vibration, wild oscillations, molecular transformation and altered states of consciousness.

Inspired by the kaleidoscopic majesty of 4 Hero, Terre Thaemlitz, and Alice Coltrane combined with the the wonders of the cosmos, 'SHIMMERING STATES' is an electronic symphony that feels like a magical sonic voyage into deep space.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Shimmering States
B1. Hidden Treasures
B2. Reflecting Light

The 'Canvas' EP. is the final piece in a trilogy of conceptually-linked EPs that the band have released post-COVID. This release sees the band steer in new directions towards a harder-edged, metal-influenced direction, and a lyrical fearlessness that has shaken up the scene, divided long-time fans and sparked urgent conversations while drawing in a new wave of listeners. The band are looking to widen their audience and traverse over to different 'alternative' scenes. The band's tracks have landed several editorial playlists, including: Today's Punk (Spotify), SkatePark Punks (Spotify), New in Rock (Apple Music) Track info: Growing up with rampant homophobia left Millennials with past behaviours to unpack and internalisations to unlearn. DARKO’s powerful single ‘Override!’ ponders what became of the kids who were bullied for being themselves. DARKO blend raw vulnerability with their trademark intensity. The result is a powerful, cathartic anthem that confronts past pain while fighting for a better future.

TRACK LISTING

Grey Havens
Dared To Dream
Canvas
Override!
Hectic
Goodbye Bastards
Aux III

Chickasha, Oklahoma is not a place known for producing a lot of original proto-punk bands. In fact, there is, to our knowledge, only one: Debris’. Formed in 1975 by bassist Chuck Ivey, guitarist Oliver “Rectomo” Powers and drummer Johnny Gregg, the trio created some of the most art-damaged outsider rock ’n’ roll this side of MX-80 Sound.

When a local studio offered the package deal of ten hours for recording and mixing as well as pressing 1,000 LPs and two-color jackets, Debris’ came in well-rehearsed—nailing all eleven of their songs in just one take. In April 1976, the same month as Ramones’ debut album, Debris’ would release their lone record onto the world.

Opener “One Way Spit” could easily be mistaken for a lost KBD single—from Chuck’s bizarre count-in to the band’s trashy startstop rhythms, unfurling a Dadaist flag around Johnny’s visceral vocals. On “Tricia,” a reference to the then-current Patty Hearst trial, Oliver’s gruesome groans are sardonically juxtaposed with an electric saw. These LSD-tinged tunes are a potent mix of Beefheart-ian controlled chaos and the genuinely weird avant-rock associated with the mid-’70s Cleveland scene. Enhanced by analog synthesizers and electronic effects, the album sounds like Eno-era Roxy Music or Stooges’ Fun House buried deep in the red Oklahoma dirt. While punk would spark a handful of bands who boldly straddled the line between the primal and the experimental, the relatively unsung Debris’ were one of the first to do so.

Debris’ had a standing invitation to play New York at Max’s Kansas City and CBGB in 1976, although they never made it out of Oklahoma. The private-press edition of their self-titled album (also known as Static Disposal, which was actually the label name printed on the original front cover) has since become a collector’s item and is even namechecked on the infamous NWW list.

TRACK LISTING

1. One Way Spit
2. Female Tracks
3. Witness
4. Tricia
5. Boy Friend
6. Leisurely Waiting
7. New Smooth Lunch
8. Manhattan
9. Flight Taken
10. Tell Me
11. Blue Girls

True enough, “loose lips sink ships” but depending on what’s being said, those same lips have the uncanny fast’n’loose power to SHAKE HIPS. Now just like all those sage philosopher kings and queens of yore would say, friends, it’s long time we: SPILL IT!

Melbourne, Australia’s LOOSE LIPS couldn’t concur more on their debut album Last Laugh, proudly released by Dig! Records, and self-released by the band from their home base in Melbourne, Australia.

The world may be ending, and you’re not getting any younger, but rock’n’roll rings eternal, so we’re letting it all hang out across 10 unadulterated tracks of spirited revelry, plenty: young, loud and snotty. But also skilled, melodic and heartfelt.

If you haven’t yet heard the word, Loose Lips are Josh Hardy (guitar/ vocals; the Chats and the Unknowns), Ethan Stahl (bass/ vocals; Chubby and the Gang, The Prize, Street Sweeper) and Nadine Muller (drums/ vocals; the Prize). The sum of their top-shelf pedigree, Last Laugh, is a certified heater sure to rattle your jelly brain and jumpstart all your other fun parts.

Forged from rock’n’roll incarnate, Josh and Nadine met on tour with their other bands, and bonded handedly over their love of 60s groups like the Ronettes, The Dave Clark 5 and the Shangri-Las, alongside their later counterparts: the New York Dolls, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Blondie. Last Laugh is a DIY love letter sealed with a kiss; made by friends, for friends—new, old and waiting in the wings.

TRACK LISTING

1. Too Late To Call
2. Careful What You Wish For
3. Don't Mess Me 'Round
4. Comin Home
5. Last Laugh
6. Good By Johnny
7. Nothing That I Want
8. Out Of Time
9. Inside
10. Tonight We Go

Karate’s first five years, boxed in classic Numero fashion and annotated by frontman Geoff Farina. Collaging DC posthardcore, De Stijl, and Django Reinhardt, this five LP set includes their self-titled debut, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, period 7”s, and previously unissued 1993 demo. 41 late millennium accounts of 2AM bike rides, punk house floors, skinny dipping, regrettable tattoos, and Interstate 95 commuting, all remastered from the original tapes and housed in sturdy tip-on sleeves for the discerning Karate enthusiast. Don’t drown.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 S/T
A1 Gasoline
A2 If You Can Hold Your Breath
A3 Trophy
A4 What Is Sleep?
A5 - - -
B1 Bad Tattoo
B2 Every Sister
B3 Bodies
B4 Caffeine Or Me?

LP2 In Place Of Real Insight
C1 This, Plus Slow Song
C2 New Martini
C3 Wake Up, Decide
C4 It’s 98 Stop
D1 New New
D2 The New Hangout Condition
D3 On Cutting
D4 Die Die
D5 Today Or Tomorrow

LP3 The Bed Is In The Ocean
E1 There Are Ghosts
E2 The Same Stars
E3 Diazapam
E4 The Last Wars
E5 Bass Sounds
F1 Up Nights
F2 Fatal Strategies
F3 Outside Is The Drama
F4 Not To Call The Police

LP4 Demo
G1 Cherry Coke
G2 Remembering To Forget
G3 Hard Song
G4 First Time
H1 Dating Is Stupid
H2 Starfish
H3 Schwinn
H4 Remembering Reprise

LP5 7” And EPs
I1 Death Kit
I2 Nerve
I3 Cherry Coke (7inch Version)
J4 The Schwinn (7inch Version)
J5 Operation: Sand
J6 Empty There

Ixona is the second LP from Chicago composer Conor Mackey under his Lynyn alias. Crafted primarily using hardware, Lynyn’s masterful instrumental electronic compositions draw on a wide range of influences including drum and bass, dub-techno, and acid, immersing the listener in an environment that’s both vastly spacious and startlingly intimate. As intricate breakbeats skitter through granular textures and pointillist swarms, this place that is no place assembles itself and glows.

A classically trained musician and composer, Mackey has worked alongside a wide variety of collaborators from symphony orchestras to pop singers. He plays guitar in the avant-jazz band Monobody, and has produced records with his Sooper Records labelmates NNAMDÏ and Warm Human. By day, he writes functional music informed by neuroscience principles for a specialty streaming platform. With his Lynyn project, Mackey drills down into the glittering particulars of finely hewn machine music: how clusters of artificial shards can lock together into living movement.

Mackey’s work is informed by the dense, propulsive intricacies of IDM artists like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, whose influence rings brightly over Lynyn's 2022 debut, lexicon (Sooper Records). In the years following lexicon's release, Mackey found himself diving into turn-of-the-millennium minimal dub techno from artists like Pole, Basic Channel, and Deepchord. The album Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records by Jan Jelinek proved especially influential on Lynyn's next moves. "It’s very much a sink-into-the-couch kind of record. It’s extremely spacious, but it feels very close -- very haunting, but comforting at the same time," he says. "There’s these little vinyl clicks and pops, and the percussion is built out of micro-sounds, and then you have these planes of pads and loops in the background. On Ixona, I tried to integrate those components into the style I’ve been working on for years."

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Nobody Knows Me
2. Roll 5321
3. Versilitude
4. Light Morph
5. RESton

Side B:
6. 4m Hiero
7. Iliamna
8. The Fold
9. Night Shift

Greg Foat, Moses Boyd and Jihad Darwish in a classic piano trio setting. Three Superb musicians skillfully performing Foat's distinctive and endearing compositions.

TRACK LISTING

1. Her Love Is All I Need
2. Skipping Tones
3. Opening Time
4. Redemption
5. Dreams Of Peace
6. Awakening
7. Awareness
8. Transcendence

A surf guitar landmark! Dick Dale’s 1962 debut LP Surfers’ Choice introduced the world to the thunderous sound of surf guitar, as pioneered by the man who invented the style. Largely recorded at Dale’s legendary Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Beach and featuring such tunes as “Let’s Go Trippin’,” “Surf Beat,” and “Misirlou Twist,” this groundbreaking album forever changed the face of rock guitar. Now, this seminal release has been cut by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI on colored vinyl!

TRACK LISTING

Surf Beat
Sloop John B.
Take It Off
Night Owl
Fanny Mae
Misirlou Twist
Peppermint Man
Surfing Drums
Shake N' Stomp
Lovey Dovey
Death Of A Gremmie
Let's Go Trippin'

Steve Gunn’s compositions, from either his instrumental or vocal-accompanied work, have always been studies in tension. 'Music for Writers', the first Gunn album under only his name since 2021, takes those studies to a new level. It is an instrumental album based around guitar, synths and more, it leads the listener to tightly and deeply focus on minute changes and variations in style. It is a masterpiece in fragile, small-scale world-building that occupies a unique space within Gunn's wider discography. Composed and recorded during Gunn’s time at the Pedvale Art Residency in Latvia, the tracks result from Gunn pairing new audio to the experiences in the area surrounding the compound and photography he took while on the grounds. The results range from the wistfully evocative and inquisitive 'Park Entrance' to the inviting and exploratory 'Pedvale Sunrise'. This listener keeps getting pulled into the entrancing gravitational pull of 'Slow Singers On The Hill'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sky (Debesis)
2. Safety
3. Park Entrance
4. Mossy Stump
5. Cat
6. Slow Singers On The Hill
7. Sunday
8. Snow / Water
9. Dog
10. Pedvale Sunrise

Room for the Moon Live documents an ecstatic evening imagined by the prismatic producer and performer Kate NV. Recorded during a one-off show held a few years after the 2020 release of Room for the Moon, the album finds NV coloring inside and outside of her solo persona’s expressionistic lines, fronting an eclectic eight piece band that picks up and expands upon material from her whimsical and endlessly intriguing sophomore album.

For NV, Room for the Moon Live is more than just a yardstick marking the five years passed between the release of her sophomore album. The recording documents a vital, and since unrepeated, night when the combined sound and soul of the album and members of her musical inner circle provided a space of respite during a particularly heavy and isolating period. “The most important theme of the concert was being a team — together,” NV says, “Playing music and trying to spread joy during dark times. It was a very important thing for me to do.”

TRACK LISTING

A1. Not Not Not
A2. Du Na
B1. Sayonara
B2. Ça Commence Par
B3. Marafon 15
C1. Tea + Lu Na
C2. Plans
D1. Telefon
D2. If Anyone’s Sleepy
D3. Outro

Handy Record's 'Natural Frequencies' Imprint returns for its 5th Release with Jinjé.

The four track EP 'Days like This' graces the label fusing sounds in the realms of Breaks , Bass , Progressive and techno.

Days like this opens up a new sonic realm for Natural Frequencies with flickering synth's, soaring analogue embellishments warping around a driving subsonic bass and crunchy drums. Delving deeper into the wormhole with vocal snaps and hypnotic layering, keeping your head down and energy up on the dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Days Like This
A2. Lollypop Sausage
B1. Star Glider
B2. Cretan Ebony

London’s melodic punk outfit Burnt Tapes have released their most powerful and emotionally chargedrecord to date: New Lungs. Out now via Lockjaw Records, the album is a cathartic journey throughmental health struggles, lost connections, and the desperate hope for renewal.

Produced by Daly George (Creeper, Milk Teeth), New Lungs was recorded in two parts — split between the rustic isolation of an old stable-turned-studio in Aldershot and the famed Ranch Studios in Southampton. The band took a more collaborative, experimental approach to writing this time, building tracks piece by piece and capturing the visceral energy of their live shows.

Sonically, New Lungs builds on the grit and heart of 2019’s Never Better, but cranks up the intensity. Think big, anthemic sing-alongs, driving guitars, and a heavier edge, without losing the melodic honesty fans have come to love. Thematically, the record deals with the toll of depression, anxiety, broken relationships, and the disorienting struggle of trying to move forward while feeling stuck in the past.“

This album nearly killed us to make,” the band admits, “but it feels like the closure we needed. It’s us working through everything—the burnout, the self-doubt, the weight of the last few years.”

With standout tracks like MOTHERSGUILT, New Lungs, You Only YOLO Once, and Graveyards, the album delivers both punch and poignancy—perfect for fans of Hot Mulligan,The Menzingers, and Heart Attack Man. 

TRACK LISTING

A-1 Crisis Actors
A-2 MOTHERSGUILT
A-3 Little Sister
A-4 You Only YOLO Once
A-5 New Lungs
B-1 Shelf Life Of The Party
B-2 Office On Repeat
B-3 Future Strangers
B-4 OnlyFriends
B-5 So Long, Sundays

Celebrating 30 years of their seminal Sophomore album, comes The Cranberries’ “No Need To Argue”, their worldwide multi-platinum beloved masterpiece. This now includes newly mixed Remastered Audio from the original album’s producer Stephen Street.

The deluxe 2 disc editions feature 2 brand new remixes from Chvrches’ Iain Cook, unreleased live music from Woodstock ’94 and the unearthed demo of fan favorite “Zombie”.

TRACK LISTING

1LP
Side A
1 Ode To My Family
2 I Can't Be With You
3 Twenty One
4 Zombie
5 Empty
6 Everything I Said
7 The Icicle Melts
Side B
1 Disappointment
2 Ridiculous Thoughts
3 Dreaming My Dreams
4 Yeat's Grave
5 Daffodil Lament
6 No Need To Argue

Deluxe 2LP
Side A
1 Ode To My Family
2 I Can't Be With You
3 Twenty One
4 Zombie
5 Empty
Side B
1 Everything I Said
2 The Icicle Melts
3 Disappointment
4 Ridiculous Thoughts
5 Dreaming My Dreams
Side C
1 Yeat's Grave
2 Daffodil Lament
3 No Need To Argue
4 Ode To My Family (Iain Cook Remix)
5 Zombie (Iain Cook Remix)
Side D
1 Zombie (Demo)
2 I Can't Be With You {Live From Woodstock 94'}
3 Ridiculous Thoughts {Live From Woodstock 94'}
4 Daffodil Lament {Live From Woodstock 94'}

Ben Pest and ARA-U unite for the next release on No Static / Automatic. Kaos Sympatic EP started life with the pair recording jams of various vintage studio kit, including an EMS VCS3, Roland VP330 and an Orgon Systems prototype known only as the “Silver Box”, which developed into full tracks over subsequent sessions. Ben Pest has been busy releasing high grade club tracks including collabs with Radioactive Man and Kursa for Asking For Trouble and Love Love Records last year, and with solo EPs dropping on Cultivated Electronics and Posh End music. Here he links with NS/A boss ARA-U, turning out some of their headiest material to date.

The EP kicks off with ‘Err Hello’, it’s wholly discordant, lairy, and unapologetically weird. ‘‘Get A Grip’ drifts in with hallucinatory wafts of sound over a warped riff, building into a granular, distorted headfuck of a hoover-bass moment. This one will make the subs rattle on the right side of distortion. On the B Side title track ‘Kaos Sympatic’ gets stuck in with a big broken beat and guttural sub that transforms into a techno drop to drive this track home. Finishing up, ‘Slapback’ serves up a cut of high energy electro funk, coming off like classic ERP on heat. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Err Hello
A2. Get A Grip
B1. Kaos Sympatic
B2. Slapback

Director Tim Burton once again teams up with composer Danny Elfman to create chaotic and fantastical music for the Ghost with the Most! Though very few of his collaborations with Burton are sequels, Elfman jumped at the chance to revisit his work from the original Beetlejuice. After 36 years, it was easy for him to get into the mindset he found in 1988. Speaking to Forbes, Elfman said that getting “the chance to jump back into the same playground” with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice after all these years was “a real treat.”

The ‘Lovin’ You’ album opens with its first single ‘Lover’. The song interpolates Joan Armatrading’s classic ‘Love And Affection’, which earned the praise of the legendary songwriter herself: “I love how he’s used my song and I love his song.”

That single sets the standard for a record which finds Richard at the peak of his powers. It’s a set which spans the many facets of his sound, from his classic string-soaked acoustic balladry and anthemic indie-rock, through to flashes of Americana, soul and glitchy electro beats. Its themes are intimate and personal, dominated by love, romance and affecting messages of support for those struggling with life’s challenges.

The songs on ‘Lovin’ You’ were written by Richard, who co-produced the album with Chris Potter and Emre Ramazanoglu. There is also the track ‘I’m A Rebel’, co-written and produced with Mirwais of Madonna fame.

TRACK LISTING

1 Lover
2 Out Of These Blues
3 Heavy News
4 Oh L'amour
5 I'm A Rebel
6 Find Another Reason
7 Lovin' You
8 Live With Hope
9 Crimson Fire
10 Fly To The Sun

On May 4th, 2024, Jamael Dean sat at the bench of a grand piano at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles. He didn’t know what he’d play until his fingers struck the ivory. For the next hour the prodigious jazz talent improvised a solo piano set, seamlessly weaving together original compositions, improvisations, and his reconstructions of jazz standards.

Oriki Duuru, which means “piano poems” in Yoruba, is an unabridged recording of what unfolded that night.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Eledumare
2. Don’t You Know I Care (Or Don’t You Care To Know)

Side B
1. Dance Cadaverous
2. Rise & Fall
3. On Green Dolphin Street

Side C
1. Cancer
2. Tin Tin Deo
3. Paradox

Side D
1. Light Blue
2. Mystic Seeker
3. Akoda
4. When There Is No Sun

This deluxe 30th Anniversary edition features newly unplugged versions of five classic tracks ‘Cast No Shadow’, ‘Morning Glory’, ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Acquiesce’ and ‘Champagne Supernova’, all newly mixed by Noel Gallagher.

TRACK LISTING

CD Tracklisting
DISC 1
1. Hello (Remastered)
2. Roll With It (Remastered)
3. Wonderwall (Remastered)
4. Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered)
5. Hey Now! (Remastered)
6. [Untitled] (Remastered)
7. Some Might Say (Remastered)
8. Cast No Shadow (Remastered)
9. She's Electric (Remastered)
10. Morning Glory (Remastered)
11. [Untitled] (Remastered)
12. Champagne Supernova (Remastered)

DISC 2
1. Cast No Shadow (Unplugged)
2. Morning Glory (Unplugged)
3. Wonderwall (Unplugged)
4. Acquiesce (Unplugged)
5. Champagne Supernova (Unplugged)

LP Tracklisting
DISC1
SIDE 1
1. Hello (Remastered)
2. Roll With It (Remastered)
3. Wonderwall (Remastered)

SIDE 2
1. Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered)
2. Hey Now! (Remastered)
3. [Untitled] (Remastered)
4. Bonehead's Bank Holiday (Remastered)

DISC 2
SIDE 1
1. Some Might Say (Remastered)
2. Cast No Shadow (Remastered)
3. She's Electric (Remastered)

SIDE 2
1. Morning Glory (Remastered)
2. The Swamp Song (Version 2) (Remastered)
3. Champagne Supernova (Remastered)

DISC 3
SIDE 1
1. Cast No Shadow (Unplugged)
2. Morning Glory (Unplugged)
3. Wonderwall (Unplugged)

SIDE 2
1. Acquiesce (Unplugged)
2. Champagne Supernova (Unplugged)

From the ashes of the Shop Assistants and Meat Whiplash came the Motorcycle Boy, one of the great lost Scottish pop groups of the late 1980s.

Featuring the unmistakable voice of the late Alex Taylor, the band traded under an enigmatic name inspired by Mickey Rourke’s character in Francis Ford Coppola’s avant-garde film noir Rumble Fish.

The Edinburgh-based five-piece were feted as the ‘next big thing’ and went on to release a string of classy singles – but it was the old, old story. Dropped by a major label, the Motorcycle Boy’s debut LP was recorded and never came out – well, not until a few years ago, about 30 years after it should have done – and the band split up, their chance at world domination gone.

Fans, though, remember their bittersweet pop gems – and now their only BBC session for the legendary John Peel is released on Precious Recordings of London. This four-song outing at Maida Vale features the LP title track ‘Scarlet’ and much loved ‘Under The Bridge’, plus the previously unreleased ‘I Could Make You Happy’, perhaps as close to indiepop as they ever got.

With sleeve notes by Michael Kerr and a plethora of unseen images, this release is limited to 500 copies worldwide. Don’t miss out.

When you’re running a label, a demo occasionally comes across your desk that makes you reconsider everything you thought your label was all about. For Balmat, such was the case with this stunning album from Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, and Hahn Rowe. It sounds like nothing we’ve released so far- and that very otherness opened up a whole new world of possibilities for us.

Fans of ambient, experimental electronic music, and sound art will be familiar with Vitiello, a New York native, long based in Virginia, who has collaborated with a cross-generational list of greats: Taylor Deupree, Steve Roden, Lawrence English, Tetsu Inoue, Nam June Paik, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pauline Oliveros, and many more. On labels like 12k, Room40, and Sub Rosa, he has explored a wide range of minimalism, microsound, lowercase, ambient, improv, and other styles. But this album is something different. It may begin in ambient-adjacent territory, but it quickly veers off, and it just keeps zigzagging, taking on elements of krautrock, post-punk, dub, and the groove-heavy interplay of groups like Natural Information Society and 75 Dollar Bill.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Last Minute Guitar
A2. Piece 2 At 77BPM
A3. Rhythmic Rhodes
A4. #6
B1. Rasun112
B2. First Improv
B3. New Prepared Guitar
B4. Mrphgtrs1

Smugglers Way is pleased to announce its newest signing Guedra Guedra, the electronic music project of Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak. The sound of Guedra Guedra is a dazzling compound of visionary electronics and musical traditions drawn from across the continent of Africa.

On MUTANT, Abdellah blends analogue synths and drum machines, with field recordings from Morocco, Tanzania, Guinea and more, gathered while traveling across the vast landmass. MUTANT explores themes of identity, Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism, and decolonization, bridging the musical heritage of the continent with elements of techno, bass music and dub. “I wanted to have a cultural sound that explored innovation with African and diasporic music alongside the vibes of rhythm and the vibes of bass,” says Abdellah.

The music of Guedra Guedra is imbued with Abdellah’s vision of cultural and technological decolonization, one that celebrates Pan-Africanism and interrogates the way mainstream production tools lack the ability to capture non-Western musical expressions. “In African traditions, rhythm especially in its polyrhythmic form is not merely a pulse or a measure: it is a cartography of life. It expresses social complexity, layers of oral history, community dynamics, and the spiritual dimensions of existence,” he says. “Transmitting this richness from generation to generation through practice and listening is also an act of resistance, a way of preserving knowledge and sensibilities that dominant narratives have long tried to marginalize or simplify.”

Guedra Guedra further ties himself to his country’s culture with the ornate face mask he wears while performing. Created by the Moroccan artist Meryem Aboulouafa, the mask is inspired by the veils worn by the Zayan people of the Middle Atlas mountains in Morocco as they sing in structured circles, recite poetry, and play bendir drums, seeking a shared state of trance.

TRACK LISTING

1. Drift Of Drummer
2. Paradigm
3. Renegade
4. Calling Out
5. The Arc Of Three Colours
6. Tribes With Flags
7. Ring Of Fire
8. Four Lambs
9. Z
10. Tamayyurt
11. Enlightenment

Wao is the spontaneous and dreamlike new album from Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, and legendary Japanese duo Tenniscoats. Recorded over two unplanned days at the oceanfront artist haven Guggenheim House in Kobe, Wao captures the magic of pure improvisation, the joy of instant connection, and the quiet poetry of everyday life.

The project began in spring 2024, when Shabason and Krgovich traveled to Japan for their first tour as a duo. Label head Koji Saito not only organized the dates but arranged for Tenniscoats—Saya and Takashi Ueno—to serve as both openers and backing band. With only two rehearsals, the group found immediate musical chemistry on stage, their performances growing more fluid and playful each night. Anticipating their synergy, Saito booked time for them to record at Guggenheim House during a short tour break. The sessions were entirely unstructured: no songs, no plans—just instruments, a few mics, and the momentum of a shared feeling.

What emerged is a collection of songs that unfolded in real time. The first day saw Nick writing a melody in the yard, inspired by Japanese names for different types of clouds, while inside the others were unknowingly reviving a forgotten Tenniscoats tune. Tracks like “A Fish Called Wanda” and “Departed Bird” arose in moments like these, shaped by intuition and soft interjections of everyday wonder. Train sounds from the nearby tracks drift in and out of the recordings, adding texture and locality to the airy, intimate takes.

Musically, Wao floats between Tenniscoats’ delicate, experimental folk-pop and Shabason and Krgovich’s signature warmth and melodic clarity. There’s a gentle sense of surprise running through the album—ideas passed hand to hand, vocals offered up like gifts, each track arriving without force. The sequence of the record follows the order the songs were created, preserving the freshness and flow of the experience. A tribute to ease, trust, and the joy of making something ephemeral together, Wao is less a polished statement than a beautifully shared moment. As Saya whispered after one take, “Oh… wao.” That quiet awe says it all.

TRACK LISTING

1. Departed Bird
2. A Fish Called Wanda
3. Shioya Collection
4. Our Detour
5. At Guggenheim House
6. Ode To Jos'
7. Look Look Look
8. Lose My Breath

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters’ Return of Django is a classic. Lee Perry had already been making a name in the Jamaican music scene for about a decade before Return of Django hit the UK charts in 1969. It was released after Trojan released a hugely popular collection of Perry’s biggest instrumentals. This album is a must for everyone that enjoys that good old vintage reggae sounds.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Return Of Django
2. Touch Of Fire
3. Cold Sweat
4. Drugs And Poison
5. Soulful I
6. Night Doctor

Side B
1. One Punch
2. Eight For Eight
3. A Live Injection
4. Man From M.I.5
5. Ten To Twelve
6. Medical Operation

In C is a musical piece by the composer and performing musician Terry Riley. As one of the first minimalist compositions and a masterpiece of this genre it’s a response to the modern music that dominated the scene in 1968. The piece inspired a lot of famous composers, like Philip Glass and Steve Reich. In C consists of repeating cells and different rhythms, loosely based on the musical structures he had heard and loved in north African music and is comprised of 53 short musical phrases.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. In C Part 1

Side B
1. In C Part 2

“the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern; to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness.”

Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke toured Europe for two weeks in 2023, a wonderful passage through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland; Pareidolia, the duo's fifth collaborative release, is a remix made up of resonances from those shows. The movement of sound in each performance and the relationships of sound between them; a dynamic medley of colour and shape to pulse through earbuds, speaker cones and the air immediately surrounding you.

Improvisation is the preferred collaborative mode for Eiko and Jim. They both prepare separately, without discussing anything beforehand. The dialogue in the moment determines the performance; anything that takes place is a possible point of departure, allowing for a unique experience each time they play.

These 2023 shows marked the first time Jim and Eiko had played together outside Japan. Perhaps the flow of parts unpacked from their respective computers was inspired by the experiences of the tour: the nature of the assembled audience, the quality of the meal on the day at hand. Additionally, Eiko played flute and they both played a bit of harmonica intermittently throughout the performances. These live acoustic signals were routed back to the hard drives, to provide further material to play with — and as they travelled, recordings of the previous nights’ shows were among the materials for the next performance. With all this to play with, there was much fun to be had every night. Pareidolia’s final mix is one further rearrangement of the elements — comping — say, a bit of Jim from Paris against Eiko in Dublin for a minute, before bringing them both back into the same room for a spell before another set of interactions comes into play. The choices and edits represented here make yet another unique dialogue, as well as a kind of 'best' version of what they were doing on the tour.

For us at home, the sense of inevitability in the parts as they flow together might suggest structure; happily, this occurs without Eiko and Jim really committing to anything of the sort. Their available sound sources could present as a hot-wired noise onslaught, with all faders up full. Endless possible interpretations to be had on either side of the experience! This is one of several ways that the LP title and sequence of song titles come into play. Listeners hearing something more should have a good look in the mirror and perhaps consider the old saying: “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.”

It could only help!

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
Par
Ei

SIDE B
Do
Lia

Little Rocket Records are very proud to have worked on these historical recordings, which are licensed from the BBC and long overdue an official release.

Leatherface hailing from Sunderland, UK, formed in 1988 and many would say the best band Sunderland has ever produced, have left their mark in the Punk Rock halls of fame.

Their catalogue is of the highest quality, from Cherry Knowle in 89 to Mush in 91 to Stormy Petrel in 2010.

Singer/Guitarist Frankie Stubbs inimitable and distinctive gravelly vocals over songs like “I Want The Moon”, or “:Little White God” proving their pedigree.

They have a perfect blend of hardcore and post-hardcore sounds, sometimes described as a mix between Hüsker Dü and Motörhead.

They inspired many bands across the world, including the likes of Hot Water Music: Chuck Ragan, in particular, has frequently mentioned Leatherface as a key influence, even citing their album Mush as one of his favorites. Hot Water Music has also covered Leatherface songs, further solidifying the connection.

Dillinger Four /The Gaslight Anthem and many more besides..

This album captures Leatherface recording three sessions in the 90’s for none other than the great John Peel which, spans parts of their early career, hurtling you through the heady days of Radio and the privileged few who have ever walked the BBC Maida Vale recording studios, at the request of Mr. Peel himself.

Those fortunate enough to be Invited to record their music by John, would have it chiseled in musical stone, for the great man himself, leaving a timeless raw sound that only the BBC Maida Vale Studios could produce.

The front cover of the album itself defines one of their greatest periods, with a photograph taken by the famed Photographer and Musician Steve Gullick, without doubt Steve’s Photographic genius sets the tone for what has been captured and now Little Rocket Records brings these sessions to you. Sleeve notes by Sean Forbes (Rugger Bugger Records / Wat Tyler / Hard Skin etc.) round it off perfectly.

TRACK LISTING

1. SESSION LISTINGS (1991)
I Want The Moon
Springtime
Dreaming
Peasant In Paradise

2. SESSION LISTINGS (1992)
Games
Books
Not A Day Goes By
Additional Song
Cabbage

3. SESSION LISTINGS (1993)
Heaven Sent
In My Life
Do The Right Thing
Little White God

John Carroll Kirby brings his signature sound to film scoring with the official soundtrack album for feature film The Luckiest Man in America, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and received a wide theatrical release.

John Carroll Kirby’s background is steeped in jazz, but his signature sound blends genres and styles. He has collaborated with artists ranging from superstars Solange, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, and Steve Lacy (earning him a GRAMMY nod for the smash hit "Bad Habit") to beloved indie musicians like Connan Mockasin, Yves Tumor, Eddie Chacon, and Liv.e.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. The Luckiest Man
2. Sewing A Button
3. Board Of Desire
4. Lot Tour
5. Meeting Peter
6. Michael Winning
7. Michael Losing

Side B
1. Detective Chuck
2. Chuck Sad
3. Michael Giving Up
4. Bill’s Bargain
5. Patricia’s Theme
6. Patricia’s Theme Reprise
7. The Whammy

Passion Killers were from Barnsley, South Yorkshire and featured Dave Lentil, Daz White and Boffo. All three members were later, heavily involved in Chumbawamba but at the time of this demo Boff was already only on loan from Chumbawamba. This 1983 Demo was recorded in one day at Lion Studios, Leeds and features 11 melodic, simple, anarchist pop songs. The Band had already shared a split tape with Chumbawamba on Sky and Trees but this demo is the jewel in the crown of the Passion Killers recorded work. It features 'Start Again' which was released by Crass on 'Bullshit Detector 2'. The LP comes with a 16 page 11”x11” booklet featuring photos, lyrics, handouts, clippings and other stuff.

First released 15 years ago on vinyl by Demo Tapes and resurrected now by Sealed Records.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Fighting Carries On
2. What's Inside?
3. Big Tough Hard Man
4. Judging By Headlines
5. Passion Killers
6. Why?
7. Going Too Fast
8. Stand Together As One
9. Same Old Lies
10. Whose Life Is It Anyway?
11. Start Again

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete return with their seventh album, Corporal. It’s the Mexican duo’s finest, most ferocious work to date which sees them turbo-charge their psychedelic post-punk with a new electronic engine. Mixed by Antoine Goulet (live sound engineer for SUUNS) and mastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring), the most obvious comparison in terms of mood and mode is Primal Scream’s classic XTRMNTR, another record that processed personal and political conflicts and spat them out as distorted dance music. It shows the influence of the duo’s DJ sets and last year’s radical Remezcla remix collection on their way of thinking and why they are now namechecking the likes of Moor Mother, MF DOOM, Patrick Cowley, The Bug, Paula Garcés, Phil Kieran, Coby Sey, Run the Jewels and Anadol.“Playing other artists’ music is different,” says Lorena Quintanilla about the change of direction towards the dancefloor. “You’re not just listening, you’re watching how energy flows and how it affects other people. It gives you the chance to witness what moves other bodies.” And Corporal, as the title suggests, is all about the body. “The body is what carries the weight of stress, exhaustion, sadness. It’s the body that the system breaks first,” explains Lorena. “Unintentionally, while composing the album, our bodies were seeking joy in the songs. Reconnecting with pleasure became a way to open new dimensions – a way to escape, yet remain present.” The theme is carried over into the lyrics which, according to Lorena, variously refer to “the bodies that disappear, the abused bodies, the bodies we miss, the bodies that march together in protest, the bodies that are being controlled”.

TRACK LISTING

1. Regresar / Recordar
2. Ker
3. Dilación
4. Casi No Estar
5. Palabra
6. Riesgo
7. Reanimar El Cuerpo
8. Control
9. Regresar / Recordar (Jagz Kooner Remix)*
* CD Only Bonus Track

After previewing new solo music with June’s four track EP The Grand Designer, Adrian Sherwood delivers a brand new full-length work in August 2025, The Collapse Of Everything, his first solo album since 2012. A meticulously constructed album from the master producer and mixologist, Sherwood pushes his ever adventurous sound into new frontiers. Although underpinned by a natural dub sensibility, the music presented on The Collapse of Everything fluidly crosses genre borders and seamlessly fuses a wide range of influences from a lifetime of listening and producing.

Although Sherwood has been extremely busy in the last few years working with other artists; from remix work for pop artists such as Halsey, full length critically acclaimed dub reconstructions for indie-rock titans Spoon, and Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, or producing critically acclaimed late career albums for reggae icons Lee “Scratch” Perry and Horace Andy (“Midnight Rocker” was heralded the Guardian’s #1 Global album of 2022); Sherwood has not released an album as a solo artist since Survival & Resistance, released almost to the day, 13 years ago.

TRACK LISTING

1 The Collapse Of Everything
2 Dub Inspector
3 The Well Is Poisoned (Dub)
4 Body Roll
5 Battles Without Honour And Humanity
6 Spaghetti Best Western
7 The Great Rewilding
8 Spirits (Further Education)
9 Hiroshima Dub Match
10 The Grand Designer

The Cosmic Game is the fourth studio album by electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, originally released in February of 2005. Featured guests on the album include The Flaming Lips, David Byrne (Talking Heads), Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction/Porno For Pyros), Gunjan, Notch and more.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
A1. Marching The Hate Machines (Into The Sun) (ft. The Flaming Lips)
A2. Warning Shots (ft. Sleepy Wonder, Gunjan)
A3. Revolution Solution (ft. Perry Farrell)
A4. The Cosmic Game
A5. Satyam Shivam Sundaram (ft. Gunjan)

SIDE B
B1. Amerimacka (ft. Notch)
B2. Ambicion Eterna (ft. Verny Varela)
B3. Pela Janela (ft. Gigi Rezende)
B4. Sol Tapado (ft. Patrick De Santos)

SIDE C
C1. The Heart's A Lonely Hunter (ft. David Byrne)
C2. Holographic Universe
C3. Doors Of Perception (ft. Gunjan)
C4. Wires And Watchtowers (ft. Sista Pat)

SIDE D
D1. The Supreme Illusion (ft. Gunjan)
D2. The Time We Lost Our Way (ft. Loulou)
D3. A Gentle Dissolve

Acclaimed musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Kutiman returns with 'Dreams In Aspamia' - a stunning new 6-track EP of dreamy, instrumental cinematic funk, rich with trip-hop, jazz, and global music textures

Best known for his visionary fusion of groove, psychedelia, and visual art - Kutiman crafts a hypnotic journey here: jazzy guitars, double bass, analogue keys, and otherworldly manipulated vocals flow through lush, panoramic arrangements that recall Khruangbin, El Michels Affair, SAULT, and BADBADNOTGOOD.

This strictly limited one- off pressing comes on deep purple coloured vinyl with a hallucinogenic full- colour sleeve designed by Berlin- based artist Philipp Carbotta. Meticulously mixed by longtime collaborator Obas Nenor, it's a bold yet meditative listen - equally suited for audiophile immersion or chilled late-night sessions.

TRACK LISTING

Kedem
Fog Ahead
Pastoral Meloncholia
Dreams In Aspamia
Dimdum
So Long Stay Safe

With hits like "Silvia", "Black & Blue" and the platinum-certified "Animal", Miike Snow's self-titled debut pulls no punches.

These tracks defined an era, soundtracking Gossip Girl, Grand Theft Auto and countless festivals/clubs/house parties. Available here on 140g vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Animal
Burial
Silvia
Song For No One
Black & Blue
Sans Soleil
A Horse Is Not A Home
Cult Logic
Plastic Jungle
In Search Of
Faker

Dennis Bovell - aka Blackbeard presents this brand new album that shows he's in the best musical form of his life - featuring tracks that are neither strictly dub nor instrumental but manage to incorporate elements of both, Dennis brought together a peerless team of musicians to collaborate on 'Wise Music in Dub'.

In full splendour here are vocalists Carroll Thompson singing on a cover of Minnie Riperton's "Les Fleurs", Imagination's Leee John providing vocals on The Stylistics "You're A Big Girl Now", Papa Dee on "Don't Stay Out Late", while Winston Francis and Brinsley Forde feature on "My Heart Is Gone" and "Black and White" respectively.

Included here also are drummer Perry Melius, who has contributed to Aswad and African Headcharge and is a member Billy Ocean's current live band, Robin Hopcraft on trumpet and trombone and Idris Rahman on saxophone, both of whom are members of Soothsayer's. Sarah Tobias played flute, Nick Straker was on keyboards, John Kpiaye on guitar, Duke Baysee on harmonica and Ras Happa on repeater. Swizz The Panist played steel pans on Dutchie dUb and dUb Delight, Fabio Marchiori played organ on dUb hEaD, and Ian Alleyne provided acid guitar for dUb Season.

By blurring the distinctions between dub, vocal and instrumental music, Dennis has breathed new life into the genre. He explains, "I wanted to give the listener an insight into what dub means in the 21st century, so I pushed and pulled on all the right stops to create a bang up to date but unmistakable dub record." On 'Wise Music in Dub' Dennis proves his enthusiasm for new challenges and musical escapades, combined with his irrepressible talent and playfulness, remains undiminished.

Dennis Bovell - aka Blackbeard - has changed the face of UK music. A bold claim, and one he might be shy to agree with, but true nonetheless. Born in Barbados in 1953 and moving to South London when he was 12, after forming his band Matumbi in the 70s, guitarist, singer, bass player and producer Dennis went on to work with a Who's Who of modern music and was a key figure in UK Lover's Rock while he was at it.

TRACK LISTING

Train To DUbville
DUb Season
Dutchie DUb
DUb Together
Don't Stay Out Late Ft. Papa Dee
My Heart Is Gone Ft. Winston Francis
Black And White (Extended Mix) Feat. Brinsley Forde
DUb HEaD
You're A Big Girl Now Feat. Leee John
Les DUb feat. Carroll Thompson
DUb Delight

Dub To One, originally issued in 2007 on Secret Records as a companion CD to Lester 'Dillinger' Bullock's spirited deejay album, 'Ten To One', whose bold, brash braggadocio can still be heard echoing in and out, in and out and in and out of the mix here over a superb selection of dubwise rhythms from Niney The Observer

TRACK LISTING

Go Now Dub
Tell Me Dub
Dub Is Mine
Lonely Dub
My Dub Leads The Way
Dub To One
Black Dub
Memories Dub
Dub Jamboree
Dub The Fool
Hurry Bub
Happy Dub
Foreign Dub
Same Dub

The Mighty Rootsmen is a groundbreaking collaboration that brings together reggae legends Toots Hibbert, Gregory Isaacs, Luciano, Michael Rose, and the rhythmic prowess of Sly & Robbie, Mikey Chung, Robbie Lyn, and Sticky Thompson, alongside Zap Pow Horns members David Madden, Calvin 'Bubbles' Cameron, and Glen DaCosta.

Brought together by producer Ralph Sall (Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens) and recorded at the famous Anchor Studios in Jamaica. The album's unique sound comes from the decision to let the musicians' instincts drive the creative process, striking a balance between homage and innovation. Featuring classic tracks from the likes of Tom Petty, The Steve Miller band, The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. It is produced with a reverence for authenticity and musical mastery. This once- in- a- lifetime project brings together a dream team of Jamaican legends, paying tribute to their artistry and the art of collaboration.

This is Timeless classics with a reggae supergroup. Tracks like "Fly Like an Eagle" showcase Steve Miller's unexpected, soulful guitar work layered over a reggae groove. Meanwhile, Mike Campbell's guitar on "I Won't Back Down" deepen the album's connections to rock royalty. Yet, the project remains firmly rooted in reggae. "My intention was to try to do something that hadn't been done in reggae before by putting these giants of the genre together to make a record that leaves you with good feelings, they're very recognisable as the songs they are but have a distinct reggae feel and stamp." reflects Ralph.

The Mighty Rootsmen stands as a tribute to the enduring power of reggae musican album that brings joy, good vibes, and a profound connection to musical history. It's a groundbreaking collaboration, It's a celebration of reggae's iconic artists, seamlessly blending the genre's rich rhythms with rock and soul classics.

TRACK LISTING

I Won't Back Down (ft. Mike Campbell)
Love The One You're With
Fly Like An Eagle (ft. Steve Miller)
Peace Train
Take It Easy (ft. Cat Coore)
Drift Away
Summer Breeze
Don't Stop
Sunshine On My Shoulders
Come And Get It

The second album from Dublin’s For Those I Love, Carving the Stone is a stark and stirring portrait of modern Irish life. Expanding the intimate world of his acclaimed debut, David Balfe turns his lens outward - grappling with the pressures of working-class survival, the erosion of home, and the passage of time. Set to soaring instrumentals and raw spoken word, this is his most direct, urgent work to date: a deeply human collection of songs rooted in memory, resistance, and emotional honesty.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Carving The Stone
2. No Quiet
3. No Scheme
4. The Ox / The Afters
5. Civic

Side B
1. Mirror
2. This Is Not The Place I Belong
3. Of The Sorrows
4. I Came Back To See The Stone Had Moved

The first collection of unearthed, unheard material from Georgia's favourite folk hero, Robert Lester Folsom. Fans of the 1976 private press grail ‘Music And Dreams’ will revel in this carefully curated assemblage of mellow gold, including the prescient, potent cuts ‘See You Later, I’m Gone’ and ‘Heaven on the Beach With You’. ‘Ode to a Rainy Day’ is now available on ‘South Georgia Sun’ orange coloured vinyl.

Robert Lester Folsom’s story isn’t all that uncommon in the parlance of his era. He spent the 1960s growing up in Adel, Georgia, a small town nearer to Valdosta and Florida’s northern border than anything resembling rock & roll, obsessing over his guitar as his craft and skills grew. Folsom would write and record a wealth of material in the early 1970s, which makes up the backbone of ‘Ode to a Rainy Day’ - the first time these songs have been heard in decades.

‘Ode to a Rainy Day’ showcases both impeccable songwriting across light folk, downer pop, front porch rock and woodshed country tropes, combined with ingenious arrangements and technical skills across primitive recording equipment. The beauty of ‘Ode to a Rainy Day’ lies in its tracking of the seasons in its cycle, how each song feels like a different time of year. Folsom’s legitimate debut would have to wait until 1976, when he self-released the album ‘Music And Dreams’, which brings the ideas presented on ‘Ode to a Rainy Day’ into clear, polished relief, lushly appointed with synthesizers, clavinet, an army of percussion and multiple tracks of orchestration and arrangements that’ll make you feel like you’ve heard any of these wonderful songs before.

Folsom provides a homespun challenge to then-established artists as far flung as Todd Rundgren, Neil Young and KC & The Sunshine Band, albeit with touches that credit his upbringing from the decade prior. Had the record any manner of major label backing, it could’ve been a hit; as it stands, ‘Music And Dreams’ has quietly amassed a cult following, with original copies trading for handsome sums.

For fans of Art Lown, F. J. McMahon, The Rising Storm, Jode, Arthur Russel, Neil Young, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Art Garfunkel, Linda Perhacs, Vashti Bunyan, Todd Rundgren, Tim Buckley.

TRACK LISTING

Ode To A Rainy Day
Written In Your Hair
Love Is
Heaven On The Beach
See You Later, I’m Gone
She
On And On
Another Sunday Morning
Situations
Oblivion
Can’t You See
Blue Velvet
Show Me To The Window

‘Double Life’, the fourth Night Moves album and first in six years, is a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that singer John Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years.

Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music - inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early 1990s country, Panda Bear and (as ever) Gram Parsons - and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune for a while. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. ‘Double Life’ is about moving through, not moving on.

TRACK LISTING

Trying To Steal A Smile
Daytona
Hold On To Tonight
Almost Perfect
State Sponsored Psychosis
Ring My Bell
The Judge
White Liquor
The Abduction
This Time Tomorrow
Desperation

Alternative Tentacles proudly welcomes Dead Bob to the family with their brand new 7”, "Some Bodies / We Are The Humans"! Hailing from Vancouver Island, Canada, Dead Bob is the solo project of John Wright—legendary drummer of the now-retired punk rock powerhouse NoMeansNo. In this new incarnation, Wright is joined by Colin MacRae, Byron Slack, Ford Pier, and Kristy Lee Audette, reimagining two incredible covers to mark his reunion with the label that helped launch his legacy. He didn’t have to look far for the track “Some Bodies,” originally a NoMeansNo song from their 1985 release You Kill Me. This new version starts with rich vocal harmonies in the call back to the original a cappella intro and builds into an explosive reworking of the classic—with Audette’s powerful vocals along with bold horn arrangements driving it into new territory. The song loses none of its original intensity, instead gaining new layers and depth. NoMeansNo fans will be thrilled. On the flip side, "We Are The Humans" is a complete reimagining of Kraftwerk’s "We Are The Robots". In the age of AI, the track feels more relevant than ever with the new title and chant. The guitar and bass work is front and center, reminding listeners why John Wright's incredible songwriting legacy endures to this day. There’s a reason we say: Play it loud. With Dead Bob, John Wright and company do what few have managed since NoMeansNo’s retirement— honoring that stylistic past while boldly forging their own path forward. NoMeansNo fans, rejoice: a worthy successor has arrived and their name is Dead Bob.

TRACK LISTING

1 Some Bodies
2 We Are The Humans

Jeb Loy Nichols returns to Timmion Records with “Step In” b/w “Coming Home Love”, a gently captivating 7” that pairs his dusty storytelling with the deep soul finesse of Timmion house band Cold Diamond & Mink. Draped in southern soul flavors and soft-spoken wisdom, these two tracks are a testament to Jeb’s lifelong journey through the roots of American music – and his rare ability to make something instantly familiar feel fresh.

On the A-side, “Step In” rolls forward on a mellow backbeat and sun-drenched electric piano, painting a quietly joyful portrait of reunion. It’s a celebration of reconnecting – the warmth of being greeted, of returning to the rhythm of love, told with grace. On the flip, “Coming Home Love” takes things slower, drifting into classic soul ballad territory with an organ, soft horns and subtle guitar figures guiding the melody. It’s a masterclass in restraint – every phrase hanging gently in the air, every detail adding to the emotional weight.

Both tracks are pure, rootsy soul, captured live to tape in Timmion’s analog sanctuary and delivered with the confidence of a team that knows exactly where the groove lives. And while these sides stand strong on their own, they also offer a first glimpse into Jeb’s second full-length album with Cold Diamond & Mink – due out later this year

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. Step In

Side B:
1. Coming Home Love

“Jello Biafra and Ministry teamed up for this slab of wax. The title track is great. Imagine Ministry playing thrash, that’s what it is. ‘Hellfudge’ sounds like Flipper meets Jerry Lee Lewis, the lyrics take a nice roundhouse power swing at Jimmy Swaggart. ‘Time To Melt’ is a cool dirge / death rock type of song, but it’s too fucking long (almost twenty-five minutes). Overall this record is really good and Biafra fans won’t be disappointed.” —Thrashead, Flipside (Summer 1989).

“Jello’s first musical vinyl since the DKs, and you can surely tell it’s him on the title track. He uses his inimitable vocal / lyrical style to good advantage, teaming up with Ministry’s rhythm section to produce a Pailhead type rave like Ian did on their first release. ‘Hellfudge’ takes a ‘Sex Bomb’ riff and basic rock and roll approach, and makes it work, again with Biafra’s commentary. ‘Time To Melt’ takes up the whole side (1/2 hour) and is a painfully slow, atmospheric John Cale-type piece.” TY, MRR (March, 1989).

TRACK LISTING

A1 The Power Of Lard
A2 Hellfudge
B1 Time To Melt

‘Born Like This.’ is MF Doom’s last solo album. Featuring Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and seminal American poet and writer Charles Bukowski with beats from J Dilla, Madlib and ol’ Metal Fingers himself. “I’ve been a fan of Bukowski for a while. It was a friend of mine – damn, I forget the n*gga name – from Life Sucks Die, it’s a graffiti magazine but it’s real kinda edgy, out of Minneapolis. They did an interview with me and then me and Andrew [Broder] was friends ever since then. He said, ‘Your shit reminds me of this dude Bukowski, you gotta read his stuff.’ I was a little apprehensive at first, ‘cos I was like, ‘What kinda weird shit is this?’ Then he gave me a book, The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, and after that I just got into it. “So for this album, to celebrate all us writers, emcees, if you look at it, it’s a lot of words that we say, and we all write those words: if it was written down on a piece of paper it could be a short story or like a good book. So I saw where Andrew was coming from where he sees the similarities. In tribute to Bukowski I said let me get him as a guest appear ance…” DOOM as quoted in HHC.

“Whatever caused DOOM to scale back his output and go off the grid, he’s only come back from it sharper, stronger, and more powerful than before.” Pitchfork

“DOOM still has the sickest vocabulary, broadest frame of reference, and densest, most quotable rhymes in hip-hop… he has created an album of sublimely half-assed super-geni us.” Onion AV Club

TRACK LISTING

1. Supervillain (Intro)
2. Gazzillion Ear (Prod. J.Dila)
3. Ballskin
4. Yessir! (Feat. Raekwon)
5. Absolutely (Prod. Madlib)
6. Rap Ambush
7. Lightworks (Prod. J.Dila)
8. Batty Boyz
9. Angelz
10. Cellz
11. Still Dope
12. Microwave Mayo
13. More Rhymin’
14. That’s That
15. Supervillanz
16. Bumpy’s Message
17. Thank Yah

Wind-tousled life on the east coast of Scotland, the unhurried cultivation of sound and the warm feeling that everything might be alright in the end combine to enchant on Gulp’s latest single, Hope Shines Through The Haar. Shimmering into view as the band announces a third album, Beneath Strawberry Moons, the combined inspirations of Lindsey Leven and Guto Pryce are supplemented by the musicianship of Andrew Wasylyk as the stomach-butterflies of optimism flutter around and the lapping foams of the band’s ethereal, folkish psych-pop.

Musician and multi-media artist, Leven rejoins Pryce, who traces faintly around the simmering offbeat sounds of his life as a Super Furry Animal (as well as part of Das Koolies and The Pictish Trail), and supporting bandmates, Gid Goundrey (guitar) and Stuart Kidd (drums), for Gulp’s third album. The nine-track Beneath Strawberry Moons, released via ELK Records, follows their 2014 debut, Season Sun, released with Sonic Cathedral and the acclaimed All Good Wishes, which arrived four years later. Extending the gestation of a complete, new collection of work to seven years, accounting for the pair’s relocation from Pryce’s native Cardiff, Beneath Strawberry Moons emerges as a minimal-carbon-footprint, hyperlocal album, created amongst friends with no deadlines between Piggery Studio and the duo’s garden cabin in North East Fife.

Describing their surrounds as ‘idyllic’ and responding artistically to the significant life change, that has brought energy and release, Leven describes the album as “in the most part a love letter to this new way of life”, celebrating space, love, connection and time, cut with an underlying awareness of the fragility of this beauty. Having leaked new material, the cinematic showdown of Always So Far, back in May, the choice of Hope Shines Through The Haar as Gulp’s first single since 2018 links the pair’s delicately charged sense of abundant possibility, Scotland’s heritage and their bracing proximity to the sea.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sea Bear
2. Always So Far
3. Salt Years
4. Hope Shines Through The Haar
5. The Way We Live
6. Wildflower
7. Summer Storm
8. Someday In A City
9. Ultramarine Blue

This deluxe Medicine Show reissue arrives as an expansive 4xCD box set, collecting 42 Dream Syndicate tracks that span rare live recordings, radio sessions, rehearsals, demos, and previously unreleased material from 1983 to 1984. Alongside it, the original album returns as a standalone LP, all via Down There Records (distributed by Fire Records).

In 1982, The Dream Syndicate started their own record company, Down There Records, to release their self-titled four-song twelve-inch EP, which included the first versions of ‘When You Smile’ and ‘That’s What You Always Say’. They went on to sign with Slash for The Days of Wine and Roses, followed by A&M for the Medicine Show album. After years, the band has earned the right to reissue Medicine Show as a 42-song, 4xCD set featuring 29 unreleased recordings from the 1983 to 1984 era. For this special occasion, The Dream Syndicate are resurrecting their Down There label, which will be distributed by Fire Records.

Medicine Show has always been a controversial album, even before it was recorded. The indie rock darlings became the first Paisley Underground band to sign to a major label, hire a mainstream rock producer, change bass players, and spend months recording the album - after having banged out their previous one, The Days of Wine and Roses, in mere hours.

What this new box set reveals is that, as a live band, they were on fire. For the first time ever, the complete WXRT radio broadcast from the original reel-to-reel master tape is included. This is accompanied by rehearsal and live tapes of Kendra, recorded just before her departure.

It’s all part of the story: early, primitive versions of original songs, plenty of cover versions that the band mangled into something new, and a journey of finding themselves along the way. Thankfully, shows from venues like CBGB’s, Zaders, and Soap Creek reveal some incendiary magic. Beyond the live audio, the album itself has now been remastered from the original analog tapes.

Like many psychologically complex albums, Medicine Show took time to truly settle into listeners’ minds. It’s long overdue, but it has finally arrived.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting
1 Still Holding On To You
2 Daddy’s Girl
3 Burn
4 Armed With An Empty Gun
5 Bullet With My Name On It
6 The Medicine Show
7 John Coltrane Stereo Blues
8 Merrittville

CD Box Set Tracklisting
Disc One: Medicine Show + Unreleased Bonus Tracks
1 Still Holding On To You
2 Daddy’s Girl
3 Burn
4 Armed With An Empty Gun
5 Bullet With My Name On It
6 The Medicine Show
7 John Coltrane Stereo Blues
8 Merrittville
9 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Album Out-Take)
10 The Medicine Show (Solo Acoustic)
11 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live At WMMS, June 1983)

Disc Two: This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album... Live!
1 Tell Me When It’s Over (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
2 Bullet With My Name On It (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
3 Armed With An Empty Gun (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
4 The Medicine Show (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
5 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
6 Burn (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
7 The Days Of Wine And Roses (Live At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984)
8 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live In Lund, Sweden, 1984)
9 Bullet With My Name On It (Live At The Stone, San Francisco, 1984)
10 Witness (Live At The Stone, San Francisco, 1984)
11 Weathered And Torn (Rehearsal Recording, 1983)

Disc Three: The Road To Medicine Show
1 Still Holding On To You (Live At CBGBs,1983)
2 Armed With An Empty Gun (Live At CBGBs, 1983)
3 Let It Rain (Live At CBGBs, 1983)
4 The Medicine Show (Live At CBGBs,1983)
5 Bullet With My Name On It (Live At CBGBs,1983)
6 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live At CBGBs, 1983)
7 Burn (Live At CBGBs, 1983)
8 Morning Dew (Live At CBGBs, 1983)
9 Burn (Rehearsal Recording With Kendra Smith,1983)
10 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Rehearsal Recording With Sandy Pearlman, 1983)

Disc Four: What Is And What Should Never Be
1 Susie Q (Live At Club Zadar, New Hope, PA, 1983)
2 Evil Ways (Live At Club Zadar, New Hope, PA, 1983)
3 Don’t Fear The Reaper (Live At Club Zadar, New Hope, PA, 1983)
4 Bullet With My Name On It (Live At Club Zadar, New Hope, PA, 1983)
5 Still Holding On To You (Live At Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, TX, 1983)
6 Born On The Bayou (Live At Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, TX, 1983)
7 Don’t Fear The Reaper (Live At Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, TX, 1983)
8 Still Holding On To You (Rehearsal Recording With Kendra Smith, 1982)
9 Armed With An Empty Gun (Rehearsal Recording With Kendra Smith, 1982)
10 Witness (Live In Japan, 1984)