A recent signee to Chess Club Records, Jo Geller aka Jo From School, finds herself among the independent label’s pedigree of homegrown artists who have gone on to attain major success. Alumni such as Billie Marten, an artist long admired by Jo, as well as Wolf Alice, are just a couple of names who found their initial support through Chess Club.

At 22-years-old, Jo From School’s graceful, carefully crafted but devastatingly delivered songs hit with an air of maturity that lands far beyond her years. An embrace for spontaneity and imperfection gives her material its character; primarily as an artist focussed on doing things her own way.

Writing on the piano since the tender age of nine, Jo self-taught herself guitar as a teenager during lockdown, joining the illustrious Brit School: “I was the only musician in my world until I went to Brit School, then I was the worst musician there,” she says. “It gave me a kick. I went from thinking that it was cooler to not care about anything, to realising the more you cared, the cooler and more individual it made you.” 

TRACK LISTING

1. Release
2. Six Years Of Keeping On
3. Chicken
4. Underhand
5. Julia Roberts
6. Weight 

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

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Off the back of the success of their 2nd album ‘Caramel’ and on the brink of their biggest headline tour to date across the UK, Europe, US & Canada, Coach Party are excited to announce an exclusive pressing of their Club Caramel live sessions, featuring breakout singles ‘Disco Dream’ and ‘Girls!’.

10” Opaque Light Pink vinyl with printed outer sleeve shrinkwrapped, marketing sticker / Limited to 500 Copies.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
1. Do it for Love (Live from Club Caramel)
2. Girls! (Live from Club Caramel)

SIDE B:
3. Disco Dream (Live from Club Caramel)
4. Still Hurts (Live from Club Caramel)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).

At only 23 years old and with half a billion streams, 5 EPs and 2 full length albums, headline tours across UK, Europe, Asia, Australia & USA, and collaborations with Nile Rodgers and Todd Rundgren under his belt, Alfie Templeman continues to go from strength to strength.

This year marks the 5 year anniversary of his career-changing EP 'Happiness in Liquid Form' and to celebrate Alfie & Chess Club Records are excited to announce a vinyl reissue of this seminal EP - pressed exclusively for Record Store Day 2026. 

With the original 10” vinyl pressed in small quantity and sold out on pre-order, this 12” reissue comes in the form of a picture disc vinyl featuring the original EP on Side A, containing 2 of his most beloved fan favourites 'Things I Thought Were Mine' & 'Happiness in Liquid Form', as well as his collaboration with label mates Coach Party, 'My Best Friend'. 

Side B boasts 2 never-before-heard tracks from the Happiness in Liquid Form era, 'Only One' and 'Endlessly', both produced by The Vaccines founding member & drummer Pete Robertson whose production credits include Beabadoobee, Hinds, Jane's Addiction, Keo. Side B also features live & acoustic versions of breakout single 'Happiness in Liquid Form' performed for VEVO DSCVR, which combined have amassed almost 200k views on YouTube. 

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
1. Happiness In Liquid Form 
2. Things I Thought Were Mine
3. Maybe This Is Time
4. Obvious Guy 
5. Wish I Was Younger 
6. My Best Friend feat. Coach Party

SIDE B (EXCLUSIVE TO REISSUE):
1. Only One
2. Endlessly
3. Happiness In Liquid Form (Live) (VEVO DSCVR Artists to Watch Session)
4. Happiness In Liquid Form (Acoustic) (VEVO DSCVR At Home Session)

Coach Party figurehead Jess Eastwood says that ‘All I Wanna Do Is Hate’ is about: “Acting out against people who are trying to help, but you're not ready for that and choose to do the opposite of the advice you're given. This song is just about being incredibly angry, for what, is up to whoever is listening; but sometimes you need to go against everyone to learn a valuable lesson. Maybe you’ll write a cool angry song about it.” 

TRACK LISTING

1A What's The Point In Life
2A Parasite
3A Born Leader
4A Micro Aggression
5A July
1B Be That Girl
2B All I Wanna Do Is Hate
3B Hi Baby
4B All Of My Friends
5B Always Been You 

CRUSHED! is the culmination of a year’s worth of work, and builds on Cole’s streak of instantly catchy and meticulously crafted pop songs that are destined to be scream-along anthems. Incorporating threads of pop, emo and indie, CRUSHED! is a mark of Cole’s continued growth as a songwriter and producer, and is a brilliant and bold offering from an artist who continues to go from strength to strength as one of the most exciting young popstars in the UK. “I think of CRUSHED like it’s my diary. I took relationships and experiences I’ve had in the past and literally felt crushed every time I’d think about each scenario. Each song helped me get through unresolved trauma over sour relationships. As I wrote these songs in early 2022, each step of making these songs come to life has helped me overcome each unwanted memory in a different way. We recorded them in September, and having to revisit them so confidently knowing they would be out for the world to see was a whole other obstacle needing facing. But I know that I don't ever want to put music out unless it feels like you’re reading my diary. It’s where I am most authentic and vulnerable, and I wouldn't want you to see me any other way”. 

TRACK LISTING

1. HEARTBREAKERS
2. SAD GUY GEMINI
3. IS IT COOL 2 B FRIENDS?
4. YOUAREYOUAREYOUARE
5. HOMEWRECKER

Dreams, Pains & Paper Planes is Pixey’s first longer form project since the glittering Sunshine State EP arrived in October 2021, which had followed her hugely acclaimed early-2021 debut EP for Chess Club, Free To Live In Colour.

Commenting on the mini-album, Pixey says: “Dreams, Pains & Paper Planes is my biggest release to date. The majority of the record was written, recorded and produced by myself in my bedroom, alongside a couple of studio tracks. Genre bending was something I wanted to experiment with, tailoring to the moods of each song but still keeping to the core big beat elements. I wanted to write a record that kept a sunny sound but was more anxious lyrically. More than anything, I want the listener to feel like they can dip into an alternate world for a while, whether it’s comforting or not”

TRACK LISTING

1. Recycled Paper Planes
2. Come Around (Sunny Day)
3. I'm Just High
4. Kids!
5. Melody (From You To Me)
6. So, Just Smile
7. Treat Me Right
8. In My House

24 year old Mancunian alt pop star Phoebe Green's debut studio album 'Lucky Me' is due out in August 2022. Produced by Alex Robertshaw of multi time Mercy Award nominated outfit, Everything Everything and his production partner Tom Fuller, the album announcement comes off the back of supporting Self Esteem, Everything Everything & Baby Queen in one month alone, a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session & a Killing Eve sync.

TRACK LISTING

Break My Heart
Lucky Me
Make It Easy
Crying In The Club
Sweat
Clean
Just A Game
One You Want
Won’t Sit Still
DieDieDie
I Wish You Never Saw Me Cry
Leach
I Don't Wanna Make You Cold

Communing at the triangulation of words, music and image, O’Brien has always conjured powerful worlds: but none more powerful, or as immersive, than on her debut record. In the space that exists between her delivery – at once wry, silky, vicious, and self-assured – and the music – a dynamic, dancing call-and-response from her collaborators, guitarist Julian Hanson and drummer Oscar Robertson – lies a productive tension. Using a method of creating on-instinct, in constant communication with multisensory cues, O’Brien is carving out a space as a musical oracle for an ever-shifting era. The 11-track album was produced by indie super-producer Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Squid, Black Midi, Kae Temptest, Bat For Lashes, Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand) and recorded in his south London studio Mr Dan’s in late 2021.

“The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next” explains Sinead; “I thought about becoming undressed; testing my ideas, my voice. Working myself out across themes of identity, curiosity, creative process. Experimenting with the form and shape of language, using tone and delivery to get to the immediate centre of what I am saying. The record opens and closes with poems, these tracks have a really clear direction - a form which is set apart from the ‘songs’. I hold stops in different places, moving emphatically through the lyrics, changing the meaning. No punctuation - only the voice mapping out the way.”

“The album title “Time Bend and Break The Bower”, from the song ‘Multitudes’, came into my head and made its demands, an idea that pressed on me throughout the record. It has a very active role. The clock symbol is enlarged, it looms like a moon over my activity watching, counting me down to zero. Dripping with self-sabotage and the feeling of being chased; it pulls and pushes against the verses which talk of ’Multitudes’; the things that faithfully come back - the images, the words, creativity. It is creativity itself.”

Since 2020, O’Brien has garnered international critical acclaim from titles like Rolling Stone, DIY, Dazed, Dork, Loud & Quiet, NME, Paste, Stereogum, The FADER, The Guardian, The Quietus, and AnOther Magazine, among others. O’Brien has also been consistently supported on national radio: she counts Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1, and Steve Lamacq and Amy Lamé at BBC Radio 6 Music as champions of her music, with the latter station giving two tracks a spot on their B List. And O’Brien is building on her US support from the likes of Seattle’s KEXP alongside appearances at SXSW – in virtual form in 2021, and live with her band in Texas later this spring.

With a background on the design teams for John Galliano and, later, Vivienne Westwood, it’s no surprise that raven-haired O’Brien’s cultural touchstones also span a rich history of art, photography, film, dance and movement: from Helmut Newton femme fatales and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s bleak landscapes to modern performance by Michael Clark and Michael Laub companies, to the writings of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett. Recently tapped by Alessandro Micele’s Gucci to perform, it’s clear that O’Brien’s esoteric instincts will continue to inspire those beyond the industry as well as within it.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pain Is The Fashion Of The Spirit
2. Salt
3. Girlkind
4. End Of Days
5. Like Culture
6. The Rarest Kind
7. Holy Country
8. Spare For My Size, Me
9. There Are Good Times Coming
10. Multitudes
11. Go Again

Delete My Feelings is The Let Go's debut EP on Chess Club Records. The mixtape features self-produced bangers 'Woke' and 'Vegas' as well as current single 'Last Year's Model Club', which features additional production from Oscar Scheller (PinkPantheress, Arlo Parks, Ashnikko). The Let Go are Cole and Scout, 19-year-old Washington natives who relocated to the UK to attend LIPA in Liverpool. They write and produce all their own work together, with influences ranging from The 1975 and Billy Joel to Brockhampton and Dominic Fike, drawing influence from bedroom pop, hip hop, punk, indie and everything in between to create their own unique sonic landscape made for the here and now. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Delete My Feelings
2. Vegas
3. Woke
4. Last Year's Model Club
5. Beabadoobee
6. Ghost

English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alfie Templeman follows up last year's Happiness in Liquid Form EP with new album Forever Isn't Long Enough. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Shady
2. Forever Isn't Long Enough
3. Hideaway
4. Wait, I Lied
5. Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody
6. Film Scene Daydream
7. To You
8. One More Day