"Volume One" introduces a boy and girl choir making music the old-fashioned way: by hand and with as few machines as humanly possible. The She & Him story begins when in 2006 when renowned one man band M. Ward, recorded a duet with a girl named Zooey Deschanel. A delightful recording session, the experience led to a dialogue between the two about collaborating further. This, in turn, led to Deschanel admitting to secretly making dozens of home demos and hoarding them like acorns for the winter. Realising that if songs were acorns then this was indeed her wintertime, Deschanel sent the recordings to Ward and the demos became the basis for their first record, entitled "Volume One". Aiming to achieve the warmth and charm of pop and country records from the early and mid twentieth century, Ward, who also produced the record, and Deschanel, who wrote most of the music, called upon the help of a number of extraordinary musicians including: Rachel Blumberg, Adam Selzer, Mike Coykendall, Tom Hagerman, Peter Broderick, Mike Mogis, and Paul Brainerd.

The follow up to the well received debut album ‘Apples’ sees Nurses’ unmistakable elastic melodies, heady pop hooks and knack for catchy songwriting get right under your skin.

It’s a bolder, heavier, groovier, record. Mixed with Scott Colburn (whose production credits include Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ and Animal Collective’s ‘Feels’) this is a three dimensional being, solidifying the band’s evolution from a bedroom recording experiment to a fully fleshed dynamic ensemble.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fever Dreams
2. You Lookin’ Twice
3. Extra Fast
4. Through The Window
5. So Sweet
6. Trying To Reach You
7. New Feelings
8. Wouldn’t Tell
9. Dancing Grass
10. Gold Jordan
11. Eternal Thrills

The debut album from The Supreme Dicks, available on vinyl for the first time.

Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who’ve found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock. They may have inhabited the same sonic and physical space as colleagues like Dinosaur Jr (Lou Barlow was an occasional Dick, and at least one early Dinosaur Jr show was actually played by Dicks in disguise), but they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favor of a bleak and unblinking certainty. Honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. Obtuse and yet so essential that it can’t help but feel familiar to anyone who’s ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there's any point to all of this. And, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.

The Supreme Dicks formed while students at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College in the twilight of the Reagan era. The campus was a fractured posthippie free-for-all that many students theorized was a right- wing think tank experiment in pitting progressives against each other. The constantly revolving lineup centered around songwriters Daniel Oxenberg and Jon Shere, and whoever else was around and willing to torture an instrument. They advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. This may do much to explain the constant, unrelenting tension that provides the driving force behind the most powerful moments in their music. Regardless of tempo or arrangement, Supreme Dicks songs play like soundtracks to autoerotic asphyxiation, haunting tones that ring in the ears at the moment consciousness is lost and not guaranteed to return.

TRACK LISTING

In A Sweet Song The Arabian Song The Sun's Bells
Jack Smith
That I May Never Forget And Stay Garden Of Your
Past Jack-O-Lantern
River Song
The Fallout Song
Azure Dome
The Forest Song (or Especially When The October
Wind With Frosty Fingers, Punishes My Hair)
Hyacinth Girls
Ten Past Eleven
Woody Would've Wanted It That Way
Strange Song

The second album from The Supreme Dicks, available on vinyl for the first time.

Falling somewhere between Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle and SALEM in the lineage of musicians who’ve found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, Supreme Dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock. They may have inhabited the same sonic and physical space as colleagues like Dinosaur Jr (Lou Barlow was an occasional Dick, and at least one early Dinosaur Jr show was actually played by Dicks in disguise), but they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favor of a bleak and unblinking certainty. Honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. Obtuse and yet so essential that it can’t help but feel familiar to anyone who’s ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there's any point to all of this. And, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.

The Supreme Dicks formed while students at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College in the twilight of the Reagan era. The campus was a fractured posthippie free-for-all that many students theorized was a right- wing think tank experiment in pitting progressives against each other. The constantly revolving lineup centered around songwriters Daniel Oxenberg and Jon Shere, and whoever else was around and willing to torture an instrument. They advocated the teachings of Wilhelm Reich and were vocal about focusing their creative energy via celibacy. This may do much to explain the constant, unrelenting tension that provides the driving force behind the most powerful moments in their music. Regardless of tempo or arrangement, Supreme Dicks songs play like soundtracks to autoerotic asphyxiation, haunting tones that ring in the ears at the moment consciousness is lost and not guaranteed to return.

TRACK LISTING

Synaesthesia
CúChulain (Blackbirds Loom)
Columnated Ruins/Seeing Distant Chimneys
Along A Bearded Glade
Swell Song
Showered
A Donkey's Burial In A Tower On A Mirage
Adoration De L'Agneau Mystique
Porridge For The Calydonian Boar
Siberian Penal Colony (Ode To Joel Stanley)
Green Wings Fly Adventure (Showered Reprise)

Having discovered a shared affinity for the sounds of 1972 - particularly glam and progressive rock - they started getting together to work on music at Canty’s warehouse studio space. Two years later, hoping to graduate the band from its studio-shut-in phase to its live ensemble phase, they recruited Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Medications) and Mark Cisneros (Medications) to hold down the rhythm section. Both talented multi-instrumentalists and producers in their own right, Cisneros and Ocampo quickly started contributing their own riffs and arrangement ideas.

The band’s self-titled debut includes seven songs that were recorded throughout 2012 at Canty’s studio. During that time, Morel and Canty’s demos were torn up and expanded through extensive improv sessions alongside Ocampo and Cisneros. Tracks that started out small and introspective were blown up to a size and volume more befitting of the group’s cavernous practice space.

The tone is dark, but the lyrics – which cover themes covers themes like sickness, breakups, corruption, drugs, fame, and losing ones mind – shouldn’t be read as straight biography. They’re works of fiction; character studies that just happen to touch on topics that are close to home.

TRACK LISTING

1) Better Than Bad
2) Low Lying Dreams
3) Hospital
4) Dali’s House
5) Playboy
6) Mind Control
7) Transmission

The giant avalanche that is THE LONDON DIRTHOLE COMPANY is back with another slab of prime-time partisan punk noise. With a Futurist disdain and Dadaist sense of sardonic humour, the MODERN IST EP celebrates the realities of the Family Of Noise as a truly interactive social experiment. The genuinely odd bunch of protagonists that make up the bands personnel stretch the boundaries of conventional group structure and methods. A truly outsider approach that reverberates with its nebulous intensity and spirit of joy. The result is a fractious cacophony created (on this record) by four drummers, 3 guitarists a bass player and 2 different vocalists. Live the band rotate up to a dozen singers if occasion and availability conspire. The music has elements and attitudes in common with The Monks, Velvet Underground, Pussy Galore and The Fall without any direct plagiarism or imitation. These bands are but ships in the night to the Battleship Dirthole and its crew of desperate fellows. PROFESSOR THE CONFESSOR is an intimate memoir of utterances from the dark recesses of The Professor’s mind. CRYING ONIONS is a sleazy ballad of all-consuming pleasure, timeless romance, sensual purgatory, erotic possession, empty tears, disrobing and eating an onion. TOMORROW, TODAY faces up to the bleak realities of a passion consumed and the vagaries of the staring up from the gutter as you watch your former partner dance the same dance you fell for with someone else. The strapping fit and healthy London Dirthole Company pedigree on this recording; The Nuns, Pulkas, Echobelly, Headbutt, Felix Moment Power Trio, Lot Lizards, Project Dark, Headcleaner.

After getting used to eclectic sounds but always rooted in disco music, boogie with some proto-house drift, at the stroke of a dozen reissues, Omaggio delights us with a two tracks new-wave masterpiece, released in the mid-'80s on Color Record, seminal Flemish label, first and only recording of the Sound On Sound project. The original tracks "Macho" and "Depression" have been fully restored and come courtesy of Peter Gillis. Mr. Gillis is a highly regarded artist, sound engineer, composer and producer who has worked for some of the most important Belgian studios as well as an absolute pioneer of the Euro House scene, and a signatory of some of the greatest hits in this genre.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Macho
B1. Depression

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TRACK LISTING

A1. Marcellus Pittman - Everybody Party
A2. Javontte - Late Night Love
A3. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith Ft Jon Dixon - Neo Solaris
B1. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith - 11 Minutes Of Funk
B2. Jon Dixon - Belle Isle Bounce
C1. Norm Talley - Dreaming In Detroit
C2. Gerald Mitchell AKA Soul Saver - KAORI
D1. Kenny Dixon Jnr - I'm Goin Black
D2. Delano Smith - Hot Lovely Relations
E1. Omar S. - VAT 69 (Godson Mix)
F1. Rick Wilhite And Delano Smith - Pipe Putta 

Classic italo house EP produced in 1991 by Ivan Iacobucci under the moniker of KGB, now out on vinyl including a new unreleased remix.

TRACK LISTING

A1: Detroit 909
A2: Scream (Wake Up!)
B1: Bondage (Mysterious Remix)
B2: Detroit 909 (2021 Remix)

DBH Music are honoured to present you some pearls of disco & funk on black gold! Starting with the groudbreaking and essential Cloud One - "Patty Duke" from 1979, written and produced be the genious Pater Brown & Patrick Adams!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Patty Duke Instrumental Part 1
B1. Patty Duke Instrumental Part 2

The first full album from Toronto’s Tre Mission, “Stigmata” achieves something remarkable. He takes a genre which we think we know and which, in all honesty, he should have no right interfering with. Then he re-shapes it into something entirely new. Coming over as the missing link between Wiley and Outkast, Mission elaborates the connections (via his own roots in the Caribbean) between UK grime and North American rap and makes the whole thing sound as natural, as soulful, as hard and heavy as you like.

From the woozy atmospherics of the title track onward, you know you’re in for something special. Tre hits the beat with his precise, complex flow, managing to express the kind of fragility which distinguishes the very best grime MCs. Wiley - Tre’s earliest supporter and champion in the UK - features on “Real Grind,” while Canadian hip hop legend Saukrates joins him on “Get Doe,” the pair serving to signal the range of his work. Mission trades verses with JME on “Rally,” something like a sequel to “If You Don’t Know.” “On Road” combines an old skool twostep feel with uneasy, bleary tension for one of the stand-outs of the record. “In The Hallway” is epic, widescreen bounce with the added bonus of a verse from Skepta. “Jack Pot” is sparse, harsh, bass-heavy grime, Tre's flow matched by Merky Ace. Another stand-out is “Boy In The Corner,” a story rhyme that also acts as a tribute to Dizzee Rascal and a genre classic. When you allow for the fact that Tre also produced most of “Stigmata,” you know you’re dealing with a serious proposition.

TRACK LISTING

Ntro
Stigmata (ft Thes)
Real Grind (ft Wiley & Andreena)
Jessica (ft K-OS)
Rally (ft JME)
On Road
In The Hallway (ft Skepta)
Money Make (Her) (ft Andreena)
Jack Pot (ft Merky Ace)
Get Doe (ft Saukrates)
Boy In The Corner *
Milly
Cold Summers (Outro)
* = CD Only Track

Music from the "Rauhnächte" - DIE WILDE JAGD go hunting in the thicket of Neo-Krautrock, Electronica and Synthpop.

Every year anew, during the Rauhnächte (those harsh nights between Christmas and Twelfth Day), the Wild Hunt (Die Wilde Jagd) rides across the country: raucous, jeering hunters from the nether world, whose path it is better not to cross. This is an ancient Germanic myth, which, in slightly varied form, is known in many parts of Europe and whose name Ralf Beck and Sebastian Lee Philipp have aptly chosen for their new project. The two first met in 2006 in Düsseldorf's Salon des Amateurs , a meeting place for new and established experimental musicians and artists, also known as Germany's "postpunk Hacienda". It seems no coincidence that Düsseldorf is the duo's founding city: their music is full of subtle references to local acts, such as Kraftwerk, NEU!, DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Pyrolator, the Krupps and Propaganda. Since their first meeting, Beck and Philipp regularly come together during the time of the Rauhnächte to record in Beck's well-equipped studio. Using the numerous analog keyboards and recording devices assembled there, and combining them with a diverse range of percussion instruments, they create their own "hunting music", which at times sounds unsettling, like swampland or a dark forest, but also urgent and pressing, like incandescent lasers or a hypnotic dance. Their soundscape is marked by repetitive guitar loops, electronic percussion, drums and synthesizers. Booming tom-toms and medieval-sounding flutes herald the start of the hunt. Whispering, reciting voices conjure up the spirits of the woods, while synthetic sounds, melodies and noises flit about before they are re-captured, structured and grounded by crystalline beats and pulsating bass lines.

About the musicians: Ralf Beck is a musician and producer from Düsseldorf. He has released several albums as part of the duo Nalin & Kane, as well as under the name Unit 4. He collects old synthesizers and effect pedals and has already worked together with Karl Bartos. In his studio Uhrwald Orange he has recorded music by Propaganda, Kreidler, Black Devil Disco and many more.

Sebastian Lee Philipp is part of the Berlin-based electro-wave duo Noblesse Oblige and composes music for theatre and radio plays. Between 2001 and 2006 he lived in London where he ran the club night "Caligula" and performed as a DJ.

TRACK LISTING

1 Wah Wah Wallenstein (7:46)
2 Austerlitz (7:24)
3 Torpedovogel (3:59)
4 Durch Dunkle Tannen (4:56)
5 Der Elektrische Reiter (6:45)
6 Morgenrot (6:27)
7 Jagd Auf Den Hirsch (7:25)
8 Der Meister (4:18)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2015 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 12.01AM SATURDAY APRIL 25th.

The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded only three months after Shades of Deep Purple and originally released in October 1968, just before their first US tour. The structure of the album is similar to that of their debut, with four original songs and three rearranged covers; including a unique version of River Deep Mountain High. The music style is a mix of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and hard rock, with several inserts of classical music arranged by the band's keyboard player Jon Lord.
This super rare mono mix on white vinyl will be on the Harvest label, audio is cut from the high resolution transfer of the original analogue master tape that has been used in the Hard Road Mark 1 CD box set.

Format: 12” – white vinyl – mono mix

Limited edition Record Store Day exclusive, available to independent retailers only, 5000 units worldwide.

TRACK LISTING

1. Listen, Learn, Read On
2. Wring That Neck
3. Kentucky Woman
4. Exposition/We Can Work It Out
5. Shield
6. Anthem
7. River Deep, Mountain High

The holidays are weird, man. Ostensibly, they’re about family and fun and food and festivities, but more often they portend arguing with your family about politics- and that mental dance you have to do where you’re like “Should I get Trevor a gift even though my funds are dwindling and I’m not even sure if he’s going to get me one in return so this could end up being a whole awkward thing???”

The reality of the holidays lies somewhere more liminal, in the space between joy and depression, between excitement and boredom, between “peace on earth and goodwill toward men” and “I think I might murder my entire family.” So who better to teach us the true reason for the season than Dude York, a band whose music so often seems to exist in an in-between space of their own? Dude York are funny and serious and earnest and deeply ironic all at the same time. The three friends who comprise the band—Peter Richards (guitar, vocals), Claire England (bass, vocals) and Andrew Hall (drums, vocals)—have spent their four years together applying their particular Dude York-ian sensibility to topics like mental health, breakups, and the power of art and friendship.

Now they’ve returned with Halftime for the Holidays to pop some chestnuts right on your fire and tackle their most poignant theme yet; THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. Halftime for the Holidays is a holiday record for how the holidays actually feel. Tracks like “Takin’ Care of Christmas” (it’s exactly what you think it is) and “Jingle Bells Rock” (it’s not) deliver the requisite tacky cheer. “Greatest Gift is You” and “My Favorite Part (Of This Time of Year)” soar like the greatest pop-punk love songs, with the added benefit of CHRISTMAS. And songs like “Long Distance Christmas” and “Break Up Holiday” testify to the loneliness that they can spring on you without warning. It’s a record that manages to wrap the strangeness of sleeping in your childhood twin bed and the soft wonder of waking up to snow into one delightful white elephant present that you won’t re-gift.

Halftime for the Holidays is self-consciously goofy, but refreshing in its willingness to tackle the misery and joy of the season with equal force. So deck the halls, engage in a regrettable make out session underneath the mistletoe, and rest assured that no matter what kind of reindeer games the universe is playing with you this year, Dude York has you covered.

TRACK LISTING

01. Break Up Holiday
02. Hollywood Holiday
03. The Greatest Gift Is You
04. My Favorite Part (Of The Time Of Year
05. Long Distance Christmas
06. Takin Care Of Christmas
07. Jingle Bells Rock
08. True Meaning
09. Silent Night

All too often, rare records suck ass. Yeah they're rare, and only wotzizname from wherever the fuck has a copy, but they tend to be average variations of well known jams, with their scarcity merely a novelty.

But then there are records like this, popping up out of nowhere only to blow your musically obsessed mind! From a quick scan of the centre label, you'd be forgiven for thinking this is your standard Chicago acid track, desireable only for the posibility of a few motivational spoken word cuts. When you whack the platter on the player however, you experience something very different indeed. A spiritual journey through cosmic keys and subtle percussion, which vibrates at your very core, enriching your soul with every passing moment.

Frustrated at her students' lack of cultural awareness, Miami-Dade public school teacher Dr Mary Sullivan Bain recorded ‘Do You Know Black History’ in 1985, self releasing it as a single for educational purposes. Original copies didn't make it much much further than Florida’s public school libraries and the record has been shrouded in mystery up until now. Produced with no label constraints, this cross-genre grail sits comfortably in many boxes... 808’s, bass synths, deep chords, live percussion and effects dubbed into the mix. The production leans towards the electronic diy framework that informed the local sound on the Miami south side. The vocal side offers an inspirational account of Black history, full of passion and pain, while the instrumental side strolls through outer space and Ibizan sunset, sounding exactly like the kind of sublime ambient cut you'd find on a battered old Café del Mar. Reissued officially for the first time ever by Backatcha, this is a total one of a kind.

TRACK LISTING

A. Do You Know Black History
B. Do You Know Black History (Instrumental)

French producer Yse Saint Laur'ant is exactly the sort of artist you want to hear from as the sun begins to shine more often. He's a master of escapist, beauty, classy grooves that marry disco and Balearic into pure magic. 'Space Ride' does that on a bubbly groove with a cosmic edge and 'Saint Tropez' brings loose-limbed funk and boho percussion to a Provencal sound. 'Monaco' is bathed in sunlight and made all the more classy with some gorgeous stings and mellifluous chord work, then 'Esplanade' shuts down with a dubby, flute-led sound with a whimsical charm.

TRACK LISTING

Space Ride
Saint Tropez
Monaco
Esplanade

After an epic licensing odyssey that's taken us almost 20 years, we're finally able to announce the 5LP boxset release of the first ever official re-issue of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet.
The five albums; Shades Of Blues (1965), Dusk Fire (1966), Phase III (1968), Change Is (1969) and Live (1969), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artefacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000.
Many have tried - and failed - to reissue these albums by legitimate means. However, two decades since our initial approach, Universal Music has gone to great lengths to research their vast archives, and we have finally managed to succeed.
The complete Don Rendell & Ian Carr Lansdowne recording sessions have now undergone a full and unprecedented boxset reissue. We located and acquired the original analogue master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180g pressings replete with replica artwork - shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labour of love to the highest possible standard! The enclosed booklet contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton.
The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest, and the quality of our box set pays testament to that.

TRACK LISTING

1 Blue Mosque
2 Latin Blue
3 Just Blue
4 Sailin'
5 Garrison '64
6 Blue Doom
7 Shades Of Blue
8 Big City Strut
9 Ruth
10 Tan Samfu
11 Jubal
12 Spooks
13 Prayer
14 Hot Rod
15 Dusk Fire
16 Crazy Jane
17 On! [clip]
18 Les Neiges D'Antan (Snows Of Yesteryear)
19 Bath Sheba
20 Black Marigolds
21 Elastic Dream
22 One Green Eye
23 Boy, Dog And Carrot
24 Cold Mountain
25 Black Hair
26 Mirage
27 On Track
28 Vignette
29 Pavanne
30 Nimjam
31 Voices
32 You've Said It 

Charting a course between electronic experimentation and the dark echoes of 1980s post-rock, ishi vu’s music transports the young artist’s philosophical meditations in Gothenburg to imagined dancefloors worldwide. Created in response to a deep transformational experience, his debut album 'La Luz' is truly unique: channelling all genres and none into a depiction of some of the most fundamental human feelings. La Luz is a vivid and poignant distillation of club culture into something familiar, temporarily distant, but fresh. With the precision of someone who has thought carefully about an exact psychological, physical - and perhaps even spiritual - effect they want to provoke.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
La Luz BLue18
This Is Your Life - Vinyl Version
Isolated Incidents

Side B
Poison Dart
Bell-Tower Trip

Side C
Neverending Elation
Brightly Burning, Yet Alone
A.S.I.S.O.A. 1000

Side D
The Wasp
SANCTUAry, It MUST HappeN AGain!
10 Tolls: A Threnody For The Luz
Persuaded To Embrace In Saving Faith
[A CURIOUS END]

The idea for this album is centred around Cole's childhood. 2014 Forest Hills Drive is the address of his childhood home in Fayetteville, NC - which he bought back this year - coincidentally also in 2014. The record title celebrates this; and the album tracks centre around various times in his life: growing up, chasing his dreams and fame, and coming full circle to realize none of that matters - and rather family / friends and being able to come home is what counts.

TRACK LISTING

"Intro"
"January 28th"
€�"Wet Dreamz"
"03' Adolescence"
"A Tale Of 2 Citiez"
"Fire Squad"
"St. Tropez"
"G.O.M.D."
"No Role Modelz"
"Hello"
"Apparently"
"Love Yourz"
"Note To Self"

The first of 2 EPs 2 proceed the next Future Sound Of London album in 2025.

Side A is a deeply moody dark ambient journey through mists of choirs to a place of ritualist electronic beat swamp finally being spat on a leaf suburb road somewhere in Surrey - what just happened !

Side B unlike the previous side this begins far more reflective, as the journey progress it becomes more unsettling once more - a baroque minimalist piece followed by modular synths melding with breaks and drum machine - ambient field recordings , a mesh of carefully gathered and selected samples - FSOL perfection.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fentanyl
2. Being Human
3. Leafy Suburbs
4. Humans Being
5. Slow Moving Carcass
6. Out Of View

“We created a holiday inside our heads.”

‘A Deeper Life’, Chaos In The CBD’s debut album over 10 years in the making, is nostalgic for the duo’s nature-filled youth, exploring the magical coastline and lush rainforest of New Zealand. “The title refers to our childhood, which was idyllic,” says Ben. “It was just the sun, the sand, the sea, waterfalls, birds and fish…” The album’s blissful setting is also depicted on the album cover: a painting, by a childhood friend, of the beach where they grew up in Devonport.

‘A Deeper Life’ whirls that profound love of house music and wide-ranging influences – from Brazilian to R&B, ambient to Italo to deep house and downtempo pop – into a serene, cohesive whole with their signature finesse. The result is an international dance sound that feels unmistakably like Chaos and ebbs and flows from the beach party to the club to the afterhours.

On the album they’ve teamed up with a number of US legends and married their vocals with the UK underground: Josh Milan of house pioneers Blaze brings his soulful vocals to the bossa nova beats of ‘I Wanna Tell Somebody,’ a future jazz-dance anthem. Unheralded Chicago house hero and Larry Heard collaborator Lee Pearson Jr. goes deep over ‘More Time’’s broken beat flex. And on ‘Maintaining My Peace’, the brothers have matched veteran house singer-songwriter Stephanie Cooke with UK grime MC Novelist, on a slinky LDN interpretation of LA hip-hop and g-funk.

Also featured on the album are New Zealand jazz artist Nathan Haines, frequent collaborator Isaac Asaeili and more.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Rich, expansive, highly musical long player from New Zealand deep house poster boys Chaos In The CBD. With tons of character and a variety of moods and tempos explored throughout, it's one of those albums you know is gonna be on constant rotation throughout the year. Don't wanna miss this one folks...

TRACK LISTING

A1. Down By The Cove
A2. Mountain Mover Feat. Alex Cosmo Blake
A3. Maintaining My Peace Feat. Novelist & Stephanie Cooke
A4. Tears Feat. Saucy Lady
B1. Brain Gymnasium
B2. I Wanna Tell Somebody Feat. Josh Milan
B3. Ōtaki Feat. Finn Rees
B4. Love Language Feat. Nathan Haines
C1. A Deeper Life Feat. Isaac Aesili
C2. More Time Feat. Lee Pearson Jr. Collective
C3. Tongariro Crossing Feat. Nathan Haines
D1. Barefoot On The Tarmac
D2. Marlboro Sounds
D3. The Eternal Checkout Feat. Cenk Esen

By the early 1990s, multidisciplinary thinker, philosopher and mystic Terrence McKenna had found himself to be one of the darlings of the burgeoning rave scene - going on to become one of the most sampled voices in dance music to this day. However, the very high point of Terrence McKenna’s intersection with dance music is undoubtedly Alien Dreamtime - taking place at a 48 hour rave in 1993 San Francisco, a multi-media collaboration of didgeridoo, live video mixing and the sublime, techno-ambient, sonic wizardry of the unimitable Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum laying the foundation for McKenna to whip the audience into a frenzy as he belts out his musings on eschatology and peering behind the linguistic curtain through the power of the psychedelic experience. For the very first time, the recording of this seminal event is being released on vinyl format to help you tune into the Gaian mind.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Archaic Revival
A2. Transient Generator
A3. Alien Love
B1. Speaking In Tongues
B2. Aerobatic
B3. Timewave Zero

Phil Mison returns with a second album under his Ambala-moniker, presenting a generous set of aquatic beats and moonlit synth-grooves of the highest quality.

A true architect of the Balearic sound, Mison has released music under several monikers, among them Ambala, Reverso 68 and Cantoma, whose debut has been canonized as an all-time chill-out great.

On this sophomore Ambala LP, Mison continues to elaborate and seek new avenues for the chill-out sound, layering solid digital grooves with organic instrumentations and dreamy synth leads.

Several instrumentalists from the Music For Dreams roster guest the album. Guitarist Santino Surfers (Jonas Krag) serves up a number of exquisite solos throughout the album, ranging from smoky twang to Mediterranean romance. Composer Troels Hammer and pop ambient artist The Swan And The Lake provide tranquil sweeps of keys and synth, often blooming into dreamy little melodies.

Also featuring on the album are producers Anders Ponsaing, WALTHER and OliO.

TRACK LISTING

1. End Of The Day
2. Pyramid Parachute
3. Amor Bailar
4. Through The Gate
5. Morning Lights
6. Paradise
6. Release My Mind
7. Eko Mania
8. Sergios Theme
9. Blue Future
10. Slow River
11. Quiet Yellow Purple
12. Don't Forget
13. Amor Bailar (Dan Idjut Mainline Mix)

Originally released in 1985, this remastered deluxe edition of ‘Crashing Dream’, the second album from Los Angeles-based Paisley Underground band Rain Parade.

Includes a second disc of unreleased bonus material / alternate versions.

For fans of The Three O’clock, Dream Syndicate.

TRACK LISTING

CD1
Depending On You
My Secret Country
Don't Feel Bad
Mystic Green
Sad Eyes Kill
Crashing Dream
Shoot Down The Railroad
Man
Fertile Crescent
Invisible People
Gone West
Night Shade (Live At
Shibuya Hall)

CD2
Only Business
My Dog's Last Dream
Invisible People
Tranquility Base
The Sniper
Novocaine
Only Business
Ain't That Nothin'
Mystic Green
Don't Feel Bad
Home
Depending On You
Every Morning Does

wing!’s debut EP MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE is a ghostly instrumental hip hop project shaped by instinct, collaboration, and the constraints of a work lunch break - combining sample-based beat-making with live instrumentation.
Emerging from a period of creative exploration and personal transformation, MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE marks a pivotal moment for wing!, the moniker of Bexleyheath born-and-raised producer Adam Swan. “This EP was a breath of fresh air for me,” he shares. “It was the first time I had multiple tracks I was proud of. The idea of having an EP to listen back to and be excited about was completely new to me.”

Each track on the EP tells its own story, both in sound and in the moments of its creation. The first single "Out From Outer" was the first track written for the EP, and its original skeleton was conceived during wing!’s lunch break from working in a coffee shop - a habit that has been the basis of all of the tracks on the EP. “I was listening to a lot of Brazilian funk and thinking about how J Dilla layered samples on Geek Down,” he recalls. “I wanted it to feel like a live DJ endlessly flipping samples over a drum loop.”

The track served as the catalyst for the formation of wing!’s live band: after sending it to drummer Joe Killick, they had their first rehearsal and began transforming the music into a live experience, soon joined by bassist Kai Charlton. They made their debut at The Windmill Brixton in April 2024. As a trio playing live, they bridge the gap between beat-driven electronic & hip hop music and live jazz-inflected improvisation. Their blend of trip-hop textures with post-rock dynamics contributed to the EP’s final completion, with all three performing on the closing track.

Closing track In A Second I Will Need A Second’s post-rock inspired sound blends seamlessly with wing!’s more native hip-hop beatmaking. Drawing influence from the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Butch Kassidy, the track's energy is built around a drum crescendo of epic proportions. Initially hesitant to incorporate live drums over the usual sampling, wing! ultimately embraced the organic energy it brought to their live and recorded sound. The track’s momentum is driven by drummer Joe Killick’s subtle dynamic shifts. Kai Charlton brings deeply melodic bass, resulting in a piece that feels immense while remaining introspective.

The EP came hot off the back of opening Green Man Festival’s iconic Mountain Stage after winning the Green Man Rising competition.

MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE is wing! planting his flag in the ground, and making their first definitive statement. Boom bap grooves melding seamlessly with trippy ambiance and propulsive composition. With ‘In A Second I Will Need a Second’ the trio close out their debut EP in an epic conclusion. wing! continue to move from strength-to-strength, and have cemented themselves as one to watch with this release. With Missed It Just The Once, wing! establishes himself as an artist unafraid to follow his instincts, experiment freely, and find creativity in unexpected places.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Let The Rest Go
Out From Outer
Pack It In
In A Second I Will Need A Second

Side B
Let’s Just See (Physical Only Bonus)

Frenchman Franck Roger is as consistent as any of the deep house greats we have all loved and appreciated for many years. He returns to Seasons Limited with another EP of perfectly timeless sounds to back that up. Opening up this latest gem is 'Don't Make Me Wait', which is shimmering and candlelit, with wispy pads and aching vocal cries occasionally bursting out of the mix. 'The Number Track' has a more pronounced groove with lumpy kicks and this time neon chords bubble through nicely for zoned-out late-night hypnosis. 'Fast Lane' closes with a more insular and dark feel that takes you back to the early days of Chicago house with a devastating synth conveying great loneliness.

TRACK LISTING

Don’t Make Me Wait
The Number Track
Fast Lane

Australia's Dancing in Space crew have thus far kept their vinyl releases to a minimum, reappearing every so often with a fresh batch of their own excellent disco edits. Here they try something different, delivering a typically assured two tracker from one of the most talented and productive scalpel fiends in the business, Chicago scene stalwart Rahaan. A-side 'Allright' is a typical Rahaan rub, with the talented re-editor skilfully rearranging and lightly dubbing out what sounds like a turn-of-the-80s fusion of classic disco, synth-splattered boogie and soaring jazz-funk. On 'My Strategy', he successfully breathes new life into an old Philadelphia International favourite, opting for a largely instrumental extension that subtly pitches the track up, tempo wise, for greater dancefloor pleasure.

TRACK LISTING

Allright
My Strategy

Entering a new era with a refreshed lineup, Gen and the Degenerates return with 'Earthly Delights' — their most ambitious and fully realised project yet. Blending sharp wit with emotional honesty, the album unpacks identity, grief, sexuality and the chaos of modern life. A more cohesive yet expansive evolution of their sound, it’s a caustic, absurd soundtrack to strange times — never without joy or defiance.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Used To Be Charming
2. Hotter On The Internet
3. Rich Boyfriend
4. It’s A Lot
5. It Can Always Get Worse
6. Party At The End Of The Universe
7. Favourite Jumper
8. Sex Symbol
9. We Should Do This Again Sometime
10. Honey You’re Still In The Game

Sometimes a little pressure can be a good thing. For Scarlet Rebels, the task of following up two acclaimed albums that crashed into the UK Top 20 and turned the Welsh four-piece into one of the most talked-about rock bands of the last 10 years was a challenge they were determined to rise to.

The result is Scarlet Rebels’ electrifying fourth album, F'lawed By Design'. With frontman Wayne Doyle plus his brother, drummer Gary Doyle, guitarist Chris Jones and bassist Carl Oag teaming up once again with producer Chris Clancy, it sees the Llanelli band deliver 11 anthemic songs that combine the powerful with the personal.

'Flawed By Design' is the sound of a band at the top of their game, from Wayne’s emotive vocals and lyrics, to the powerhouse rhythm section and Chris Jones’ blazing guitar. Yet there’s an emotional core to 'Flawed By Design' that runs even deeper than its arena-sized ambition. By the band’s own admission, it’s the most introspective record they have ever written. It‘s that marriage of ambition, emotion and human connection that defines both 'Flawed By Design' and Scarlet Rebels themselves.

“I want us to be recognized for the depth of our material,” says Wayne. “I want us to be known as a band that writes heartfelt songs that resonate and touch people. We want to move people physically, but we want to move them emotionally too.”

With 'Flawed By Design', Scarlet Rebels have done just that.

TRACK LISTING

1. God's Honest Truth
2. This Is Happening Now
3. Don't Look Down
4. Chains
5. Stuck
6. Hanging On A Rope
7. Run
8. Happy Ever After
9. Never Be Enough
10. Let It Out
11. Fool Your Heart

Three years after the release of their debut album, Do Nothing return with their much anticipated sophomore, 'Friend World'. The Nottingham four piece consisting of Chris Bailey, Kasper Sandstrøm, Charlie Howarth, Andrew Harrison, emerge bolder, self-assured and more energetic than ever.

Lead single 'Stars' is a synth-laden track with hypnotic riffs, meandering vocals and bouncing basslines. The single, already a fan favourite, paves the way for listeners to enter the 'Friend World' that Do Nothing have created. At first glance, the album is overflowing with hard hitting guitars, infectious rhythms and frontman Bailey's signature razor-sharp witted lyricism, but dive deeper into tracks such as 'These People Want Blood' and standout track 'Loner', to find an alternative take on the album, representing a softer and more pensive side of the band's writing.

TRACK LISTING

1. Misery
2. The Nail
3. Act Natural
4. These People Want Blood
5. Stars
6. Smile
7. Dog 2
8. Loner
9. Yes
10. Paris Jesus
11. Incommunicado

'Doveland'. The title of Django Django's sixth studio album, takes its name from an online urban myth: a supposedly vanished midwest town that appears on no maps, yet some believe they once lived there, even holding souvenirs as proof. The idea of searching for an impossible place became the catalyst for their most personal and focused record to date. Stepping back from the genre-hopping spirit that defined their previous work, the band retreated to the German countryside with producer Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand) and composer/producer Polly Ester. The result is 12 tracks rooted in both imagination and lived experience. Quietly shaped by loss, grief, and the fleeting nature of human.

TRACK LISTING

1. Meteorite
2. Cameos 
3. Still Life 
4. Little Me (feat. Hak Baker) 
5. Year Of The Snake 
6. Quicksand 
7. Left Adrift 
8. So Heavy 
9. Bird Song 
10. Indigo Road 
11. Dirty Hotel Blues 
12. Feel Alright (feat. Max Pope)

Ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: “Happiness fucks you.” It's a lesson that's been writ large into her gritty, outsider songwriting for years, but never so powerfully as on her 2016 album, 'Puberty 2'. “Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one's almost more destructive than the other,” she says. “When you realize you can't have one without the other, it's possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that other wave.” On 'Puberty 2', that tension is palpable: a beautiful and brutal romantic hinterland, in which one of modern music’s defining voices came fully into focus.

2026 marks the ten-year anniversary of that landmark album, whose tracklist contains fan favorites 'Your Best American Girl' and 'I Bet on Losing Dogs'. To celebrate the occasion, Mitski and Dead Oceans release a limited-edition reissue of 'Puberty 2' on Forest Shadow vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Happy
2. Dan The Dancer
3. Once More To See You
4. Fireworks
5. Your Best American Girl
6. I Bet On Losing Dogs
7. My Body’s Made Of Crushed Little Stars
8. Thursday Girl
9. A Loving Feeling
10. Crack Baby
11. A Burning Hill

‘Skin and Blisters’: a record that comes good on all the tongue-in-cheek, slightly gruesome yet perpetually entertaining promise that their name - partly a homage to Succession’s Disgusting Brothers; partly a reference to the “bad sisters from Cinderella because we kind of feel like them on stage” - suggests. Across 11 tracks, the pair aim their lasers at hopeless exes and sugar daddies; productivity punishers and the sad drudge of the 9-5. Their delivery is riddled with deadpan absurdity, but at their core, Disgusting Sisters mean every word. “I hope people can relate to the songs because they really come from inside us,” says Josephine. “All the lyrics are inspired by real moments. We're not trying to pretend and I think that's what makes us kind of fresh - we're just being ourselves.” 

While the majority of ‘Skin and Blisters’ is an impressively DIY project - written and recorded by the band with the help of producer and live bassist James McManus - these early offerings were beefed up for the album with the help of producer Oli Bayston (Barry Can’t Swim, Rachel Chinouriri), giving a heavier nod to some of the pair’s more indie-centric influences, from Viagra Boys to Getdown Services. 

'Doggone' was recorded in Portland, Oregon in January of 2025 at the Center for Sound, Light and Color Therapy with longtime collaborator Ryan Oxford. It features Akron/Family founding member Dana Buoy (drums), Rick Pedrosa (Rose City Band/Abronia) on pedal steel & guitar, and Alex Chapman (bass). Guest contributions come from Devendra Banhart and Portland singer-songwriter Merle Law. The album will be mastered by Amy Dragon (Nathaniel Rateliff, Big Thief, Moon Duo).

'Doggone' centers around themes of community, aging, recognizing your gift is in your blood, carving out your own version of success, planting seeds/growing roots, and the impact of place on creative work. Silverstein continues to explore the intersection of loner-folk, cosmic country, and kraut-laden choogle found across his previous releases.

While writing the songs for this record, Silverstein discovered his uncle was a songwriter and manager for North Country Band, a 1970s Grateful Dead–inspired country-rock group from Minnesota. Silverstein had been DJing the album & showing live performances to friends before knowing his uncle's involvement. This furthered his understanding of his uncle's life in music (performing with Doc Watson, putting on shows for Jerry Jeff Walker, etc.) and gave him the inspiration and motivation to keep pressing on with the album.

Album art features an archival photo of Hat ‘n’ Boots, a famous landmark designed by Pacific Northwest artist Lewis Nasmyth in 1953 for a Western-style gas station, now in Seattle's Oxbow Park due to a community-led effort to save them from demolition. The iconic roadside attraction fell into disrepair after the original gas station closed in 1988. In 2003, the community rallied to have the structures moved, and they were restored and reopened as a park landmark in 2005. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Coming Back Around
2. Out of Tune (feat. Devendra Banhart)
3. Drop of a Dime
4. Portland Works
5. Realize (feat. Merle Law)
6. Patchouli
7. Amblin’
8. Helluva
9. Onlyness

In 1998, songwriting & production duo Emily Haines & Jimmy Shaw formed Metric & left Toronto for NYC in search of like-minded artists. In '01/'02, they were joined by drummer Joules Scott Key & bassist Joshua Winstead, & found themselves at the center of the city’s burgeoning alt-rock scene alongside bands like LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes, TV On the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol & more. Metric’s relentless pursuit of timeless songwriting & fiercely independent ethos have cemented their place as one of the most essential & ahead-of-the-curve bands of the last two decades; the trailblazing Toronto outfit is proof that you can amass an untouchable catalog without signing to a major label or changing your lineup. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Dark Saturday
2. Love You Back
3. Die Happy
4. Now Or Never Now
5. Art Of Doubt
6. Underline The Black
7. Dressed To Suppress
8. Risk
9. Seven Rules
10. Holding Out
11. Anticipate
12. No Lights On The Horizon

'Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story' is a freshly reimagined take on Car Seat Headrest’s beloved breakout, 'Teens of Denial', now celebrating its 10th anniversary.

On the original album, Toledo often used the name “Joe” as a pseudonym – a sly homage to Daniel Johnston. Revisiting 'Teens...' in the run-up to its 10th birthday, he felt called to give Joe a unique backstory and began tweaking the album to tell that tale. The group returned to the studio with 'Teens...' producer Steve Fisk to update accordingly – tweaking lyrics, revising arrangements, and recording new songs in the “Denial-style,” including ‘Optimistic Son” and the anthemic ‘Joe Drives Again’. The result retains 'Teens’ dark edge and youthful cynicism, but allows a bit of hard-won compassion into the mix.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fill In The Blank
2. Vincent
3. Destroyed By Hippie Powers
4. (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School For Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't A Problem)
5. Optimistic Son
6. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales
7. 1937 State Park
8. Joe Drives Again
9. Cosmic Hero
10. The Ravenous House
11. Connect the Dots (Song of Secretariat)
12. Joe Goes to School

Sarah Tandy is a unique voice in London's thriving jazz community, who has gained a reputation as a formidable and dynamic performer.

Sarah's talents have seen her much in demand, and she has worked with acts as diverse as Yazmin Lacey, Nubya Garcia, Yussef Dayes, Binker Golding, Jazz Jamaica, Femi Koleoso, Camilla George and Basement Jaxx. Originally a classically trained pianist, she released her debut album on the Jazz Re:freshed label in 2019. Widely acclaimed, she was nominated for Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year and went on to receive the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Instrumentalist.

During the touring hiatus in 2020, she took time to study music production and electronic music, which led to writing and production credits on Yazmin Lacey's recent album 'Voice Notes', and eventually the creation of her new full-length album 'Delicious Capricious'. A freewheeling ride incorporating elements of psychedelic funk, hip hop, deep groove, grime, trip hop, soul and London swagger, the album is bound together with a palpable love for the wildness and exuberance of jazz and includes featured guest performances from K.O.G., Kyra, Tee Peters and Akin Soul.

TRACK LISTING

1. My Motion feat. Akin Soul
2. Hyperjazz 
3. Keep Dreaming
4. Princess Peachy
5. You Need To Heal feat. Tee Peters
6. Unleash The Beast
7. Pressure feat. K.O.G.
8. Wayward Flames
9. Fragments
10. Imagine feat. Kyra
11. Aftermath

Babehoven, the Hudson NY based indie folk duo of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, return with their third studio album, 'I See Them, I See Me'. Through fourteen tracks that crackle with clear-eyed vision, Babehoven has crafted a transcendent new collection that gets back to the heart of what makes music meaningful and life worth living. For the first time in Babehoven's prolific output - which includes, most recently, 2024's 'Water's Here In You' - Bon and Albert blew the doors open on their process, inviting in three different engineers to capture the songs in four different studios. The all-star line-up includes Sam Evian, Kevin Copeland, and Phil Weinrobe, who also acted as co-producer. Much of 'I See Them, I See Me' was live-tracked with a six-person ensemble, with Weinrobe instilling a philosophy of "no playback, no headphones, and no preparation" to create maximal presence in the room.

From the opening track 'You're a Liar', the band establishes a new palette: a rollicking blend of indie and alt-country that sparkles with slide guitar, hardanger fiddle, and a sprightly vocal twang paying homage to Emmylou Harris and Patsy Cline, with classic folk-rock artists like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and The Band as further touchstones.

In 2024, during Babehoven's first headline tour, Bon suffered paralysis of her right vocal chord and was told she might never recover. In light of this, the album rings out as a sort of triumphant fist-pump. While many of Babehoven's songs are built on intricate cyclical melodies, 'I See Them, I See Me' is full of wide, catchy choruses - anthems to be sung by a crowd.

TRACK LISTING

1. You're a Liar
2. When You Look at Me
3. Lasagna
4. Monster
5. Blue Around You
6. Something True
7. Red Interlude
8. Jess Has a Place
9. Am I in a Dream
10. Wave Has a Place
11. Neck
12. Beetle on the Scene Pt. 2
13. Three Reds
14. Pelorus

'Winning Streak' marries Bacharach-inspired orchestral arrangements and confessional songwriting.

Strings and brass complement crooned vocals and honest storytelling. This push and pull between big band confidence and late- night vulnerability mirrors the album's emotional landscape, balancing outward movement with inward reckoning. With themes of regret, nostalgia, and optimism, 'Winning Streak' covers long shots taken on love, the emotional aftershocks of risky decisions, and the quiet negotiations we make with ourselves when things don't go as planned.

The album emerged from a period of taking stock: leaving Los Angeles, returning to the UK, and reassessing the definition of success. Rather than presenting success as a fixed destination, 'Winning Streak' reframes it as endurance, perspective, and the accumulation of small personal breakthroughs. It finds meaning in the quiet victories that only reveal themselves after plans have unravelled, and life has to be put back together again. Life moves quickly, knocks land often, and the goal posts keep shifting, but getting back up starts to feel like its own kind of winning.

TRACK LISTING

1. Best Laid Plans
2. Most of All 
3. One More Time 
4. Peril and The Pain 
5. Hail Mary 
6. Peace and Quiet 
7. Birdsong
8. Try Try Try
9. California 
10. All To Be Loved By You 
11. Estate Planning Advisory
12. Winning Streak

Much like a teacher, Meryl Streek imparts his knowledge and lived experiences to all who are willing to listen. His third album, ‘Stories They Don’t Teach You At School’, serves as an alternative form of education, delivered through a visceral blend of factual soundbites and raw emotion, loops and samples, guitars and bass. The lyrics resonate with core values of compassion, resilience, and community—themes rarely explored within a classroom setting or seen in today's fragmented society. By prioritising conviction over commercial success, the Dublin artist's outspokenness may invite controversy. Yet beneath the fervor lies a profound desire for positive social change at home in Ireland, and beyond.

Meryl Streek returned to Darkland Studios in Dublin to fine-tune the recordings previously made in a shed at the back of his ma's garden. Here he continued the genre-blurring nature of his earlier work, enticing listeners toward dissonant landscapes and hypnotic rhythms. Gentle piano tones collide with abrasive synths, creating a striking tension between beauty and noise. Streek tempers his rage when appropriate, integrating atmospheric textures and pop sensibilities into his ever-expanding sonic collage.

As is tradition with any Meryl Streek record, ‘Stories They Don’t Teach You At School’ unearths many uncomfortable truths. ‘Rotten Fruit’ examines media manipulation and the numbing proliferation of misinformation, all soundtracked by synth-punk. With gliding keys and a crunchy bassline, ‘Council Estates’ critiques systemic government failures affecting the working class. ‘Kelly’ is a slice of electronica that details an ongoing criminal investigation, currently classified as a “Contested Cause of Death”. The indie pop of 'The Chancer' brings much-needed attention to landlord politicians. As the album progresses, the mission remains absolute: to provide a voice for the voiceless.

To amplify these narratives, Meryl Streek handpicked a diverse group of collaborators for the project. ‘Rotten Fruit’ features Steve Ignorant of anarcho-punk collective CRASS. ‘Depression’ opens with a touching recording of the late Liam Norton, close friend and former touring companion, while Pete Holidai of The Radiators From Space contributes guitars on the song. Comedian Phill Jupitus provides the spoken outro for ‘The Chancer'. ‘Housing For All’ incorporates audio from Derelict Ireland campaigners Frank O’Connor and Jude Sherry. Venn Records owner and Gallows guitarist Laurent ‘Lags’ Barnard joins forces with Adebisi Shank bassist Vinny McCreith on the aggressive ‘Bullet,’ while Sophie Porter of Other Half provides bass guitar for ‘Life is Not a Rehearsal’. The album concludes with a three-minute spoken word piece by Frankie McNamara, the viral creator behind ‘Meditations for the Anxious Mind’.

In her 1990 protest anthem 'Black Boys on Mopeds', the late Sinead O’Connor warned, “To say what you feel is to dig your own grave”. With this release, Meryl Streek firmly holds the shovel.

TRACK LISTING

1. Welcome
2. Rotten Fruit
3. Rags To Riches
4. Council Estates
5. Depression
6. Kelly
7. Be The Hammer
8. The Chancer
9. Housing For All
10. Bullet
11. Life Is Not A Rehearsal
12. Frankie's Theme

With 'Lost Lost Lost', Pratt & Moody gather the defining moments of their journey and package it with fresh soul gold into one cohesive, slow- burning statement. What began as a series of cult 7” vinyl releases – often mistaken online for forgotten soul classics from another era – now finds its natural home in album form. Written and recorded with Timmion’s trusted house band Cold Diamond & Mink, the record captures the duo’s unmistakable chemistry: emotionally rich songwriting wrapped in warm, analog textures that blur past and present.

From the velvet sway of 'Addictive Touch' to the cinematic tension of 'You Bring Me Joy' and the beat ballad ache of 'Hard Way To Live', the album moves effortlessly between bedroom-soul intimacy and widescreen drama. 'Hang Tight' opens with a blissful piano figure that nods to gospel-tinged 1970s soul before unfolding into a full-bodied groove, while 'Hooked On Your Love' glows with golden-age group soul harmony sweetness. Across both sides, Pratt’s finely tuned vocals and Moody’s expressive guitar work anchor songs that feel timeless rather than nostalgic.

At its core, 'Lost Lost Lost' is an album steeped in atmosphere – lush downtempo moments sit alongside sweet harmony-driven soul, cinematic builds dissolve into dark restrained grooves. Analog string synthesizers, vibraphone accents, tremolo guitar, and deep-pocket rhythms create emotional tension without excess. Pratt & Moody’s strength lies in their melodic instinct: songs that feel big without being pompous or losing their human quality. The result is a record that feels cohesive, immersive, and that real thing – reaffirming the duo as key architects of the contemporary lowrider soul revival.

TRACK LISTING

1. LOST LOST LOST
2. ADDICTIVE TOUCH
3. YOU BRING ME JOY
4. HARD WAY TO LIVE
5. CHANGING TIDES PART 1
6. HANG TIGHT
7. WORDS WORDS WORDS
8. HOOKED ON YOUR LOVE
9. CREEPING AROUND
10. WHEELS TURNING
11. CHANGING TIDES PART 2

'I Don't Know How But They Found Me...Again!' is the deluxe version of Jensen McRae’s critically acclaimed 2025 album 'I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!'

Alongside the original album’s tracklist, the deluxe release features twelve new songs widely available for the first time: stripped-back versions of songs written before the recording of 'I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!' had finished, live favourites heard on McRae’s recent headline tours and festivals appearances, a new version of 'Mother Wound' featuring Maisie Peters as well as new tracks elsewhere featuring contributions from Brandi Carlile and Brittany Spencer.

On the new tracks, McRae explains: “There were so many songs I wrote after writing but before we finished recording the second album that still felt like they lived in this world--very much coming to terms with the reality that no one was going to save me from myself, and that healing is something I would ultimately have to do on my own. I think the sparseness aptly reflects the solitude that is required of that kind of healing--although there are of course a couple songs that required a team to put together and feel right.”

From the very beginning, fans have fallen in love with Jensen McRae for the sharp, evocative and clear-eyed songwriting. "The most profound choices of my life often felt like things I did before I was ready to do, and I had to grow into them,” says McRae. Her songs have a way of giving shape to these leaps, cliff jumps and trust falls, and on her 2025 album, 'I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!', Jensen McRae went further than ever, evolving from a promising young artist to a fully grown songwriter and star.

An avid journaler, McRae has been breathlessly documenting her existence since she was 18. Her first album, 'Are You Happy Now?', was a mission statement for the artist who grew up an automatic outsider: a Black Jewish girl from Los Angeles, hellbent on making folk music in spite of the world's attempts to box her into other, more stereotypically Black genres. McRae looked to her songwriting heroes (Alicia Keys, Carole King, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder) to build a sonic world all her own. As her audience grew and with myriad doors began unlocking, it "became the record of my coming-of-age. But it was a quiet coming-of-age, one that mostly took place inside my own head."

Next, 'I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!' took place against the backdrop of romantic turbulence and McRae's rapidly growing audience. "I had never been in love before," McRae said. "Not really. And then I had two life-altering relationships back to back in my early twenties. This album was primarily an exploration about how love and intimacy knock the wind out of you, can take your legs out from under you." She has also had multiple viral moments, including in the run up to writing 'I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!', when McRae posted a solo verse and chorus online, little more than a piece of a demo, and it took off. Covers, duets, and an avalanche of new fans followed (including the likes of Justin Bieber, Stormzy, and Dan Nigro to name a few); the song was the beginning of "Massachusetts", which would become her first Dead Oceans release.

McRae ventured to North Carolina to record 'I Don't Know How But They Found Me!' with Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Suki Waterhouse, Bon Iver), also enlisting the help of Hippo Campus's Nathan Stocker on guitar, Bon Iver's Matthew McCaughan on drums, and her younger brother, Holden McRae, on keys. "It felt like summer camp. None of us wanted to leave," McRae said. "It was such a joyous ten days of pure creative expression." In the process, I Don't Know How But They Found Me! found its footing--a vibrating, urgent collection of songs moored by razor-sharp lyrical specificity and timeless pop melodies.

The unusual title of her second album? Taken from a line in McRae's favorite film, Back to the Future. A key protagonist survives a hail of bullets, and the image resonated with McRae. “I really connected with the idea that I could've easily collapsed beneath the weight of what happened to me, but I didn't. I didn't even know it,” McRae says, “but I was bulletproof the whole time."

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rearranger
2. I Can Change Him
3. Savannah
4. Daffodils
5. Let Me Be Wrong
6. Novelty
7. I Don't Do Drugs
8. Tuesday
9. Mother Wound
10. Praying For Your Downfall
11. Massachusetts
12. Call It Even
13. God Has A Hitman
14. One More Cowboy
15. How You Get 'Em (Is How You Lose 'Em)
16. Taboo
17. Your Friend
18. Annihilated
19. Richard Siken
20. Just Like You
21. God Has A Hitman (feat. Brandi Carlile)
22. One More Cowboy feat. Brittney Spencer
23. Mother Wound feat. Maisie Peters

'DIGITiSE' picks up where HAAi's 2025 album 'HUMANiSE' left off, dropping us squarely on the dance floor with 10-tracks that sonically spread across multiple lanes, inspired by HAAi’s all- night-long DJ sets.

'DIGITiSE' continues to examine what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world: the relentless pace of AI and technology, the divisions it creates, and the toll it takes, offering up an antidote to that: community. To gather people in a room or on a dancefloor, to feel unity and belonging, is something HAAi has fiercely championed. 'DIGITiSE' opens
itself fully to that spirit.

The album brings the London-based, Australian-born producer, songwriter and DJ together with new collaborators Echonomist, Skybreak, and Cantoalegre (a children's choir from Medellín, Colombia) alongside artists HAAi has collaborated with previously – Pat Alvarez, ILA, James Messiah and Kaiden Ford.

'DIGITiSE' holds the hand of 'HUMANiSE' and walks it to the club.

TRACK LISTING

1. RE-HUMANiSE (feat. Kaiden Ford and Ila)
2. Printerlude
3. Ignition (feat. Echonomist)
4. Depth Perception
5. DIGITiSE (feat. Pat Alvarez)
6. Technology
7. HUMANiSE Radio
8. THANK U
9. I Wanna Feel Like Someone (feat. James Messiah)
10. Walking Walls (feat. Skybreak and Cantoalegre)

R&B singer and songwriter Michi’s debut album 'Dirty Talk' is a nostalgic trip through the ups and downs of love – “an excellent debut from a confident vibes conjurer” (Hearing Things).

Now, Michi teams up with Stones Throw label mates Knxwledge and Mndsgn for 'Dirty Talk: Sunshine Hotline Mixes' – remixes of Dirty Talk tracks, plus two brand-new covers.

Knxwledge has remixed four tracks, while Mndsgn has remixed two and joins Michi for covers of 'Emotions' by the Bee Gees / Destiny’s Child and 'Are You Lonesome?' by The Feminine Complex.

TRACK LISTING

1. If You Want Me (Knxwledge RMX)
2. There's No Heaven (Knxwledge RMX)
3. Memmy (Recuerdo) ft. Gabriel da Rosa (Knxwledge RMX)
4. Snoobie (Knxwledge RMX)
5. Emotions ft. Mndsgn
6. Are You Lonesome? ft. Mndsgn
7. Playing Pretend (Mndsgn RMX)
8. Memmy (Recuerdo) (Mndsgn RMX)

In January 2025 Alex Cameron exploded his life in a controlled detonation largely ignored by the universe. The charred remains of Cameron’s life fragmented and reassembled into 9 synthetic rock songs detailing his world’s deep confusion and regret.

He continues to find pieces of his own reflection in the shattered characters he creates and embodies. The promised Messiah. Agamemnon’s appetite for war. Mel Gibson’s ransom note. Humanity’s Pro-War destiny. A cold war breakup. These are songs of protest against life itself. This is the world our fathers feared and here is its soundtrack.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. No Soldier
2. Statue Down
3. Stand-in Man
4. Testoterone in Blue
5. Jesus Never Had No Porno

Side B
1. Ricochet
2. No Guns, Come Alone
3. Red Hook Rain
4. Violent Man

Mexican-born singer, songwriter, and producer Girl Ultra (Mariana de Miguel) continues to redefine the sound of Latin alt-pop and R&B with her signature blend of moody nostalgia, funk-laced grooves, and genre-defying experimentation. With a dedicated global fanbase and a reputation as one of Mexico’s most forward-thinking artists, she has become a leading voice in a new wave of Latin music that is both emotionally raw and sonically adventurous.

RRRomeo is Girl Ultra’s most ambitious and transformative project to date. Co-produced alongside the legendary funk duo Chromeo, the album was recorded between Mexico City and Los Angeles and draws inspiration from synth-pop, house, darkwave, indie rock, city-pop, and analog funk. Across eight tracks, Girl Ultra blends shimmering nostalgia with modern production, creating a bold and cinematic sound that reflects both her cultural roots and artistic evolution. Featuring collaborations with Buscabulla, Chromeo, Jean Tonique, and Empress Of, RRRomeo is a fearless statement from an artist pushing beyond genre boundaries and firmly establishing her place at the forefront of contemporary Latin alternative music.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. ¡El groove de Romeo!
2. Te Caigo
3. Mentirasmentiras (feat. Buscabulla)
4. RRRomeo
Side B
1. Denisse
2. Ironía (feat. Chromeo)
3. Ramera (feat. Jean Tonique)
4. Tomás (feat. Empress Of)

Futurismo proudly present a vital compilation born in the shadows of American punk; 'AMERICAN GRAVE Gothic Punk / Deathrock USA: 1978-1988', the third volume in their Altered Vision anthology series.

Drawing from darkest depths of the American spirit, 'American Grave' is testament to a subculture spawned from late night savagery, graveyard hangouts and suburban isolation. Deathrock, post-punk, goth, whatever term you prefer, this compilation showcases the sounds and aesthetics of a tarnished golden era, an underground movement that took the DIY concepts of punk and the velocity of a burgeoning hardcore scene and immersed it in echoes, distortion, tribal rhythms and macabre vocals, thematically preying upon cult horror flicks, surrealism, and the manipulation of religious iconography. Whilst the UK had a counterpart scene many would hail as Goth, this was different, this was a truly American incarnation, a new breed of youth haunted by the ghosts of old blues, garage and glam, bleak theatrical imagery dressed up to evoke a response, smeared eyeliner, leather, bones…black. This was a backlash against a culture in decay, bucking against a puritanical oppression brought on by the archaic social standards set by their parents. It was aggression manifested as gloom, it was a ceremony, the celebration of death.

'American Grave' has been co-curated by Wesley Eisold (Cold Cave/American Nightmare/Heartworm Press) in collaboration with Futurismo head honcho Del Jae, to bring you a haunting tracklist ranging from the all important integral mainstays of the genre to those rarer and more elusive artists, including many recordings that have never been reissued before on any format. Featuring the music of Christian Death, T.S.O.L., The Cramps, Of A Mesh, The Gun Club, Twisted Roots, Kommunity FK, The Brainz, Theatre Of Ice, Burning Image, Fur Bible, PSI Com, Shadow Of Fear, Super Heroines, 45 Grave and more.

The music on this compilation is reinstated further from a visual perspective by an array of incredible images by famed punk photographer Edward Colver, and lovingly designed to the level you would expect from a Futurismo release. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Christian Death - Spiritual Cramp
2. Of A Mesh - Guillotine
3. Super Heroines - Convicts
4. T.S.O.L. - Code Blue
5. PSI Com - Human Condition
6. Shadow Of Fear - In The Flesh
7. The Cramps - Human Fly
8. Burning Image - The Final Conflict
9. The Gun Club - Death Party
10. Your Funeral - I Want To Be You
11. The Brainz - Elementary Monster
12. Theatre Of Ice - She Sleeps
13. 45 Grave - Violent World
14. Middle Class - The Call
15. Altar de Fey - Veil Of Death (Demo)
16. Mighty Sphincter - Waltz In Hell
17. Dead Moon - Graveyard
18. Twisted Roots - Are There Cobwebs On My Face?
19. Fur Bible - Plunder The Tombs
20. Kommunity FK - Restrictions
21. Lords Of The New Church - New Church
22. The Naked And The Dead - Taboo
23. The Flesh Eaters - See You In The Boneyard
24. Red Temple Spirits - Dreamings Ending

The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the world's most iconic musicians with a career spanning six decades.

The definitive oral history of Pink Floyd as told by friends, associates, family members and the band themselves through exclusive, never before published interviews. Bestselling music author Mark Blake has been an associate and collaborator of Pink Floyd for over thirty years. Shine On takes on the behemoth task of capturing the most comprehensive history of the band ever compiled, drawing on huge amounts of new, archive and unpublished interview material with Gilmour, Waters, Mason and Wright.

No other writer has interviewed the members of Pink Floyd as often nor as thoroughly, which is candidly apparent in this textured, gripping and consistently surprising biography. For the first time, the band's story is told as an oral history with each chapter presented through the words of the band, their friends, contemporaries and supporting musicians. The accessible structure and high level of detail means that the narrative is both approachable to casual readers and magnetic to the committed.

Shine On is comprised of a significant amount of previously unpublished material, including a rare interview with Rosemary Breen lamenting that her younger brother Roger, aka Syd Barrett, should have never become a musician as well as exclusive new interviews with Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Guy Pratt, reflecting on their enduring legacy and rather more complicated recent twists and turns in the bands story. Shine on is a forensic retelling of one of the most turbulent and enduring groups in rock music history, a complex history that only someone as skilled and insightful as Blake can navigate.

A book about creative genius from the Talking Heads co-founder and author of How Music Works.

A 'Sleeping Beauty' is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time.

So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great.

This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up?

We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas - that greatness is always recognised, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of the people we now recognise as the world's great creators initially got little traction for their work. It was only later, often much later, that their work comes roaring back to life and made a lasting impact.

Discoveries as diverse as dark matter to continental drift, technologies from solar panels to the steam...

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A book about creative genius from the Talking Heads co-founder and author of How Music Works.

A 'Sleeping Beauty' is a brilliant idea that is ahead of its time.

So many breakthroughs in arts or science were like this, lost on their initial audience and only later revived and acknowledged to be great.

This book asks, why do some ideas fall asleep? And how do they wake up?

We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas - that greatness is always recognised, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of the people we now recognise as the world's great creators initially got little traction for their work. It was only later, often much later, that their work comes roaring back to life and made a lasting impact.

Discoveries as diverse as dark matter to continental drift, technologies from solar panels to the steam...

Blossoms return with their 6th studio album, ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’. Featuring singles 'Meet Me In Love' and 'Joke About Divorce', the Wedding Cake, nickname for Stockport’s Town Hall where band member Tom Ogden got married, spans 10 tracks and follows up the 2024 number 1 album 'Gary'. The album, produced by Shawn Lee, was recorded entirely to tape.

TRACK LISTING

1. Joke About Divorce
2. Husband
3. Meet Me In Love
4. The Kardashians
5. Additional Driver
6. Fall Into You
7. Guts
8. Uma Thurman
9. Where Have You Been My Whole Life?
10. The Deep End

Way Dynamic, the solo project of Melbourne’s Dylan Young, releases internationally 'Massive Shoe' – a third album that’s playful and understated, luminous and textured. Massive Shoe is minimalist folk-pop, art rock and baroque pop, produced and largely played by Young, who moonlights in Melbourne’s beloved Cool Sounds and Good Morning and has played drums with Snowy Band and Kankawa Nagarra.

It’s tempting to only compare these songs to those of yesteryear – Young’s falsetto, his ear for harmonies and the intricate arrangements all feel timeless. But there’s a sensibility, a turn of phrase, that feels deeply contemporary: it’s telling that Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield described 'Miffed It' as her “favourite song in a VERY long time”, and Katie, MJ Lenderman, This is Lorelei and Black Country New Road have all taken Way Dynamic on tour, while Sir Elton John said that he “just cannot stop listening” to 'Ibiza'. Young’s songs don’t shy away from sentiment, or equally from silliness: on any given song he might suggest a flight to space or earnestly lament a miscommunication. “Can we walk and talk as well?” he asks on “I Was the Dancer”, and we rush to accept the invitation.

TRACK LISTING

1. People Settle Down
2. I Was The Dancer
3. In Review
4. Miffed It
5. Mercy Town
6. My Visit (To Hell)
7. The Others
8. Hurricane
9. Ibiza
10. They Said
11. Evening Star
12. Officially

DJ Spanish Fly is one of the foundational figures of Memphis rap. Long before the city's underground sound would influence artists across the globe, his homemade mixtapes circulated hand-to-hand throughout Tennessee and the wider South, defining a raw, bass-heavy style that would become the blueprint for generations of rap producers.

'Cadillac Warning' collects a wealth of previously unreleased recordings from the 1990s, excavating the eerie, hypnotic world Fly built from primitive home recording equipment, drum machines and booming car stereos. Named after the talking alarm system in his prized 1978 Cadillac Coup DeVille, the album captures a period when the car was both status symbol and mobile headquarters, carrying his music from clubs and college campuses to gas stations and neighbourhood streets across Memphis.

Championed by the likes of A$AP Rocky, Legowelt, LIM, and more - DJ Spanish Fly's lasting impact on the wider hip-hop landscape is seeing a renewed global interest from underground rap and electronic music communities alike.

TRACK LISTING

1. Who's The Man
2. U Cain't Hide ft. Capt C
3. Jealous
4. Badguy
5. Git Buck ft. Lady Dia
6. Cocaine Call
7. Come Back
8. Shake Dat
9. The Medicine
10. Rollin’ In My Cadillac

'Jealous / Git Buck' offers a first glimpse into the world of 'Cadillac Warning', DJ Spanish Fly’s forthcoming collection of previously unreleased Memphis rap recordings.

'Jealous' opens with a field recording made by Fly in the early 1990s, capturing the talking alarm system of his prized 1978 Cadillac Coup DeVille as it warns would-be carjackers to “move away from the vehicle” – a moment that would later inspire the album’s title. One of the foundational figures of Memphis rap, Spanish Fly helped define the city’s raw, bass-heavy sound long before it spread across the globe. Built from eerie synths, booming 808s and DIY production, 'Jealous / Git Buck' captures the hypnotic street energy that made his homemade tapes legendary throughout the South.

Championed today by figures including A$AP Rocky, Legowelt and NTS Radio, Fly’s pioneering work continues to find new audiences across hip-hop and electronic music alike. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Jealous
2. Git Buck ft. Lady Dia

Written and produced alongside her sister Lucy Green between Phoebe's flat in Manchester and their parents' home in the coastal town of Lytham St Annes, 'Premature Nostalgia' finds Phoebe Green at her most psychologically unguarded - documenting the impulse to grieve moments before they've even disappeared, turning spiralling inner monologues, warped electronics and metallic textures into fractured, emotionally combustible alt-pop.

A darker and more enigmatic companion to 2025 EP 'The Container' and her acclaimed debut album 'Lucky Me', 'Premature Nostalgia' draws inspiration from artists such as Imogen Heap, Oklou, Jockstrap, James Blake, FKA twigs and Sega Bodega - embracing warped electronics, fragmented structures and more experimental forms of pop songwriting. The album also features collaborations with Picture Parlour's Katherine Parlour and incorporates field recordings and metallic textures pulled directly from Manchester's industrial landscape and club culture.

At its core, however, the album remains rooted in the bond between Phoebe and Lucy - sisters, collaborators and proud adopted Mancunians navigating the realities of independent artistry together.

TRACK LISTING

1. Showing Off
2. There's Always Someone Kicking The Seat
3. I Don't Play It Cool, I Play It Steaming
4. Polluting You With Me
5. Screen Glow Halo
6. Clothes Still On 
7. Double Vodka Lemonade
8. Pressing The Bruise 
9. Happy Birthday 
10. Silver 
11. Gum for the Aftertaste

The second album by South London seven-piece Fat Dog, 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)'. After releasing their debut album 'WOOF.' in 2024 and becoming one of the UK’s most exciting breakthrough bands in the process, they have a good reason to be tired. They’ve spent the period since 'WOOF.’s release spreading their raucous, infectious and irresistible bark around the world. The reason that they want you to cancel them is that they’ve been around the world and they’re tired. But if Fat Dog - Joe Love, Chris Hughes, Morgan Wallace, Ellis Dickson, Michael Dunlop, Dillon Harrison and Jed Bevington - are tired with the world, the world is not tired of them. In fact, the world can’t get enough of them.

With follow up 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)', Fat Dog have created an exhilarating, swaggering, panoramic, inventive, re-inventive, re-re-inventive electro-punk-art-pop-rock’n’roll-space-country triumph that deserves all the adjectives. Over ten mind-bending and melodic tracks, it blends electro-pop anthems, cascading rave bangers, cowboy-tinged pitstops and swirling psychedelia. Into its lyrical orbit, the record pulls mentions of addiction, family ties, love, AI, ancestry, extra-terrestrials, Chris Tarrant, S&M, B&M, H&M and M&Ms. 'Cancel Me (I’m Tired)' possesses all the rabid frenzy and electrifying excitement of their debut but now delivered on a grand and glorious scale. Big, big things are ahead. Fat Dog are only just getting going. 

This book begs the question: why should an album make you feel good? In 1989, The Cure’s Robert Smith was going to turn thirty years old. His fears and anxieties of age—having not yet written his pinnacle album—caused Smith to embark on the band’s undoing with Disintegration. The result was an LP drenched in melancholy sublime, a beautiful decree of breaking down to build anew.

From the fame and notoriety of The Cure after their hit, “Just Like Heaven,” to the departure of the only other consistent band member, Lol Tolhurst, it’s clear that the grisly spiral into the depths of pain is stamped throughout Disintegration. This book explores the depths of Smith’s masterpiece by way of the French Modernist Charles Baudelaire and his poem, “Spleen.” Much like Smith, Baudelaire took his temperament and softened the edges of sorrow, transforming it into a mass of supercharged emotion: a tenuous concoction of sin and sex, lust and monstrosity, self-hatred and fear… all cauterized by the malaise (and acceptance) of eternal melancholy. And through Disintegration lies Robert Smith’s corpus—his spleen.

It’s here that The Cure’s upheaval and Smith’s heroic martyrdom became the catalyst for his masterpiece.

Nothing But Thieves return with their fifth studio album, 'Stray Dogs'. Recorded at Angelic Studios — where the band made their debut album — 'Stray Dogs' reconnects the Southend five-piece with their DIY roots. The album was written in unison over a dedicated 5-month period, resulting in the band creating their most liberating and cohesive work to date. Featuring the euphoric new single ‘Evolution’, the 12 track album explores themes of community, belonging and shared experience.

Join The Pack 

TRACK LISTING

TBC

Joy Division release 'Eternal', a brand new multi-disc live boxed set.

Pulling together myriad audio sources from audience recordings to sound desk tapes to international radio broadcasts, the set features 16 full audio concert recordings across 14 CDs, plus ca. 2 hours 20 mins of live video on a DVD, recorded between March 1979 through May 1980, just two weeks before Ian Curtis' tragic death.

TRACK LISTING

CD1 - Hope And Anchor:
1. Exercise One
2. She's Lost Control
3. Shadowplay
4. Leaders Of Men
5. Insight
6. The Only Mistake
7. Disorder
8. Glass
9. Digital
10. Warsaw
11. Transmission
12. I Remember Nothing
13. Interzone
14. Ice Age
Recording date: 1st March, 1979
Audio source: Mixing an audience recording by Jonathan Crabb, with a second audience recording (taper unknown). Both recordings previously unheard.

CD2 - Bowdon Vale Youth Club + Acklam Hall:
Bowdon Vale Youth Club
1. Exercise One
2. She's Lost Control
3. Shadowplay
4. Leaders Of Men
5. Insight
6. Disorder
7. Glass
8. Digital
9. Ice Age
10. Warsaw
11. Transmission
12. I Remember Nothing
13. No Love Lost
Recording date: 14th March, 1979
Audio source: "Exercise One" from a sound desk recording, with the rest of the show from an audience recording by Malcolm Whitehead.
Acklam Hall, London
1. Disorder
2. She's Lost Control
3. Shadowplay
4. Wilderness
5. Insight
6. Candidate
7. Digital
Recording date: 15th May, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb

CD3 - The Factory, Manchester:
1. Dead Souls
2. The Only Mistake
3. Insight
4. Candidate
5. Wilderness
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Disorder
9. Interzone
10. Atrocity Exhibition
11. Novelty
12. Transmission
Recording date: 13th July, 1979
Audio source: A previously unheard sound desk recording.

CD4 - YMCA, London:
1. Dead Souls
2. Disorder
3. Wilderness
4. Auto-Suggestion
5. Transmission
6. Day Of The Lords
7. She's Lost Control
8. Shadowplay
9. Atrocity Exhibition
10. Insight
Recording date: 2nd August, 1979
Audio source: Sound desk recording.

CD5 - Futurama, Leeds:
1. I Remember Nothing
2. Wilderness
3. Transmission
4. Colony
5. Disorder
6. Insight
7. Shadowplay
8. She's Lost Control
9. Atrocity Exhibition
10. Dead Souls
Recording date: 8th September, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Duncan Haysom.

CD6 - Les Bains Douches, Paris:
1. Passover
2. Wilderness
3. Disorder
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Insight
6. Shadowplay
7. Transmission
8. Day Of The Lords
9. Twenty Four Hours
10. Colony
11. These Days
12. A Means To An End
13. She's Lost Control
14. Atrocity Exhibition
15. Interzone
16. Warsaw
Recording date: 18th December, 1979
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, France Inter.

CD7 - Paradiso, Amsterdam:
1. Passover
2. Wilderness
3. Digital
4. Day Of The Lords
5. Insight
6. New Dawn Fades
7. Disorder
8. Transmission
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. These Days
11. A Means To An End
12. Twenty Four Hours
13. Shadowplay
14. She's Lost Control
15. Atrocity Exhibition
16. Atmosphere
17. Interzone
Recording date: 11th January, 1980
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, VARA.

CD8 - Effenaar, Eindhoven:
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Digital
3. New Dawn Fades
4. Colony
5. These Days
6. Ice Age
7. Dead Souls
8. Disorder
9. Day Of The Lords
10. Auto-Suggestion
11. Shadowplay
12. She's Lost Control
13. Transmission
14. Interzone
15. Atmosphere
16. Warsaw
Recording date: 18th January, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording.

CD9 - The Warehouse, Preston:
1. Incubation
2. Wilderness
3. Twenty Four Hours
4. The Eternal
5. Heart And Soul
6. Shadowplay
7. Transmission
8. Disorder
9. Warsaw
10. Colony
11. Interzone
12. She's Lost Control
Recording date: 28th February, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.

CD10 - Lyceum, London:
1. Incubation
2. Wilderness
3. Twenty Four Hours
4. The Eternal
5. Heart And Soul
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Isolation
8. Komakino
9. She's Lost Control
10. These Days
11. Atrocity Exhibition
12. Heart And Soul
13. Incubation
14. Komakino
15. Isolation (Instrumental)
16. Isolation
Recording date: 29th February, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording (tracks 1-10), matrix sound desk / audience recording by Duncan Haysom (track 11), audience recording (tracks 12-16).

CD11 - Moonlight Club:
2nd April, 1980
1. The Sound Of Music
2. Wilderness
3. Colony
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. A Means To An End
6. Transmission
7. Dead Souls
8. Sister Ray
3rd April, 1980
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Glass
3. Digital
4. Heart And Soul
5. Isolation
6. Disorder
7. Atrocity Exhibition
8. Atmosphere
Recording date: 2nd & 3rd April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Andy Hooper.

CD12 - Winter Gardens, Malvern:
1. Disorder
2. Wilderness
3. Twenty Four Hours
4. Heart And Soul
5. Atmosphere
6. Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Isolation
8. Interzone
9. She's Lost Control
10. Girls Don't Count
Recording date: 5th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.

CD13 - Ajanta Theatre, Derby:
1. Dead Souls
2. Wilderness
3. Digital
4. Insight
5. Passover
6. Heart And Soul
7. Isolation
8. These Days
9. Transmission
10. She's Lost Control
11. Colony
12. Girls Don't Count
Recording date: 19th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.

CD14 - High Hall, Birmingham:
1. Ceremony
2. Shadowplay
3. A Means To An End
4. Passover
5. New Dawn Fades
6. Twenty Four Hours
7. Transmission
8. Disorder
9. Isolation
10. Decades
11. Digital
Recording date: 2nd May, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.

DVD:
Bowdon Vale Youth Club (14/03/79)
1. She's Lost Control
2. Shadowplay
3. Leaders Of Men

Apollo, Manchester (27/10/79)
1. Wilderness
2. Colony
3. Autosuggestion
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Shadowplay
6. She's Lost Control
7. Transmission

Apollo, Manchester (28/10/79)
1. Sound Of Music
2. Shadowplay
3. Colony
4. Day Of The Lords
5. Twenty Four Hours
6. Disorder
7. Walked In Line
8. I Remember Nothing
9. Transmission

Bonus: Soundcheck from TBC performance

Plan K, Brussels (16/10/79)
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Wilderness
3. Disorder
4. Colony
5. Insight
6. Twenty Four Hours
7. New Dawn Fades
8. Transmission
9. Shadowplay
10. She's Lost Control
11. Atrocity Exhibition
12. Interzone

Appears in two audio versions: original and restored audio (using Les Bains Douches 1979 audio)

A bold, immersive reimagining of Shaker musical tradition, Academy Award-winning composer Daniel Blumberg’s score for Mona Fastvold’s 'The Testament of Ann Lee' presents radical reinterpretations of traditional hymns with original compositions shaped directly on set. Developed in deep collaboration with Fastvold, the music grew alongside the film’s choreography and performances, drawing on the physicality and ecstatic vocal practices of Shaker worship.

Blumberg assembled nearly 100 singers, including extreme vocal improvisers Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Shelley Hirsch, Freya Edmondes alongside a cast of untrained voices – to create a wordless cacophony of vocal textures that mirrors the Shakers’ ecstatic spiritual practices. This vocal landscape intertwines with tuned percussion, spectral bell tones, celeste, and an ensemble of experimental string players, forming a sonic world that is both elemental and deeply spiritual. The soundtrack includes ten reimagined Shaker hymns performed by the cast, plus three original songs, including end‑credits song ‘Clothed by the Sun’ performed as a duet by Blumberg and Amanda Seyfried.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Testament of Ann Lee
2. Manchester
3. Hero Prayer One
4. Walk To Infirmary
5. Infirmary
6. Walk to Wardleys
7. Wardleys
8. Worship
9. Sex Celeste
10. Beautiful Treasures
11. Search for Ann
12. I Never Did Believe
13. Hunger & Thirst
14. Ship
15. Lower Deck
16. Today Today
17. Storm
18. All is Summer
19. Magical Boat Ride
20. John's Running Song
21. Whores
22. Niskayuna
23. The Eclipse
24. Bow Down O Zion
25. Building & Growing
26. William Walking
27. I Love Mother (Pretty Mother's Home)
28. Arrest
29. Stone Prison
30. Shattuck
31. Down to the Deep
32. Beautiful Treasures Funeral
33. Clothed by the Sun

The 2LP version of the Marc Bolan / T. Rex collection ‘1974-1977’ culls the cream from a plethora of previously unreleased rehearsal takes and studio demos, from arguably the most adventurous and pioneering period of Marc’s career.

Lovingly mastered and curated from a stash of Marc’s own tapes unearthed towards the end of 2024, the recordings are a fascinating document of an artist brimming with renewed vim and creativity. They also document how Marc and his super-hot band kept the tapes rolling when recording all over the world, from London to the USA, to Germany and France and back to London.

Included of course is I’m Dazed, the “lost” T. Rex single unearthed from those tape boxes in 2024. Remastered and released on cosmic yellow seven-inch on Marc’s birthday in 2025 (with a new take of Billy Super Duper on its B-side), it helped mark the occasion of Marc being awarded an official English Heritage Blue Plaque. The honour made him just one of 5 pop musicians to ever receive the accolade, alongside Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. Two very different takes of I’m Dazed shimmer here: the 2025 single version remixed by Steven Wilson, and another, much slower take, led by languid drums, clavinet and piano.

74-77 comes in 2LP packaging with photography by Kevin Cummins, The set was curated for Demon by “T.Rexpert” Martin Barden and mastering undertaken by AIR Studios’ Phil Kinrade.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bolan’s Zip Gun
2. I Really Love You Babe (Take 5)
3. All Alone (Working Version)
4. Calling All Destroyers (Working Version)
5. Savage Beethoven (Take 4)
6. Bust My Balls (Take 6)
7. I’m Dazed (Take 3)
8. Billy Super Duper (Warm Up)
9. Galaxy Wild (Take 2)
10. Damaged Suit (Take 5)
11. I Never Told You (Take 3)
12. Dreamy Lady (T.O.T.P. Take 3)
13. Ain’t That A Shame (Take 9)
14.. Funky London Childhood (Studio Take)
15. London Boys (Take 2)
16. We Love To Boogie (Take 4) (Overdub)
17. I’m A Fool For You Girl (Take 3) (With Overdubs)
18. 20th Century Baby (Studio Take)
19. Hot George (Studio Take)
20. Universe (Take 3 Instrumental)
21. Write Me A Song (Studio Take – Short Edit)
22. Celebrate Summer (Studio Take – Edit 1)
23. Mellow Love (Studio Take – Short Edit)
24. I’m Dazed (Take 2) (Steven Wilson 2025 Mix)

We went back to an older method of writing for this one.
We jammed and jammed and jammed.
I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant tunes.
We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live and then I took it home to Stu-Stu-Studio and did the vocals and bought in Tom Dolas & Brigid Dawson to put the finish on.

Spice is always nice.

Mixed it all up in the cauldron and thus we have a strange brew indeed
Floating in the smoke we have:
A couple long jams, a couple short jams and a finale that’ll dump a bucket of ear worms on you
(reminiscent of “the axis”?)
Dip your toe in organ rock and roll

So without further ado
We present to you
“OFF COURSE”

An album wondering where the fuck are we and how did we get here

A signal dispatched out into the darkness

We are here
We are alive
And we are together


CHEERS NO EARS
JPD/DG/OSEES 

The final album is both a love letter to early 80s New York and a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball.

Electronic music legends Soft Cell, aka singer and frontman Marc Almond and multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Ball, are set to release 'Danceteria', their sixth and final studio album.

'Danceteria' the album is a big, classy and playful farewell to 47 years of Marc and Dave making music as Soft Cell and features career-defining performances from our electronic pop legends. Reminiscent of Sparks and Pet Shop Boys and with lyrics Lady Gaga would kill for, the album takes you on a vivid journey through a day in early 80s New York, bouncing round the clock from night to bleary daybreak and headlong back into the club.

Marc provides an initial snapshot into the album: "'Danceteria' is a love letter to New York in the early 80's. The time we spent in New York - where we recorded our first 3 albums - shaped us both as artists and people. To celebrate this period is a fitting farewell to Dave Ball and the final Soft Cell studio album."

'Danceteria' is equally a tribute to the late, great Dave Ball. The final album is one of the last bodies of work Ball co-wrote and produced before his sad, untimely passing on the 22nd of October 2025. Almond led the obituaries, describing Dave as a "brilliant musical genius". The world's media followed, hailing him as an electronic music pioneer, plus music stars including Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys, Mute Records' Daniel Miller, Cabaret Voltaire and Richard Norris from Dave's techno duo The Grid contributing an outpouring of elegiac praise. Dave finished 'Danceteria' two days before he passed away and it is in full tribute to him that the album release went ahead as planned.

It is also because of Dave's passing that 'Danceteria' simply has to be the last Soft Cell album, as Marc explains: 'There can be no more recordings of Soft Cell without Dave, it would not be possible. The sad reality is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and live work aside, I can't write Soft Cell songs without him."

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Elusive (Vinyl Edit)
2. Danceteria
3. The Space Inside (Vinyl Edit)
4. Times Square (Vinyl Edit)
5. Two Of A Kind
6. The Rainbow Room (Vinyl Edit)
7. In Heaven (When I Dance With You)
8. Decadence Is Hard Work
9. Losing Yourself
10. After Hours
11. Wave To America
12. Out Come The Freaks

CD Tracklisting:
1. Elusive
2. Danceteria
3. The Space Inside
4. Times Square
5. Two Of A Kind
6. The Rainbow Room
7. In Heaven (When I Dance With You)
8. Decadence Is Hard Work
9. Crackland
10. What Is Your Morality
11. Losing Yourself
12. After Hours
13. Wave To America
14. Out Come The Freaks

Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city.

'Quiet Storm' expands on their sound and scale as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention, embedding their own coming-of-age story within a moving suite of cathartic abstraction. Songs allude to spirituality and the human condition, the tension between boldness and softness, ambition and persistent inner demons.

Speaking to the multidisciplinary nature of the project is the involvement of celebrated artist Glenn Ligon, whose work deals with Black identity and queerness. A central inspiration at the onset of recording, Ligon offered his work Figure #30 (2009) for the cover artwork, and following the completion of recording, he agreed to provide the project's name—an unprecedented gesture from the pioneering artist.

Listening to the final sequence, Ligon thought of "Quiet Storm," the 1970s radio format known for smooth, late-night programming with themes of life and love.

'Quiet Storm' brings the listener through various scenes, interludes, and arcs, marked by a sense that its movement is fluid and its characters are fleeting. Into-the-mirror monologues grapple with the existential and the immediate: survival, autonomy, purpose.

The album opens with the explosive, string-backed 'Vanity', featuring Grammy Award winner Axelle Fanyo. At first fixated on the crevices of a quiet room, “Vanity” unfurls under Fanyo's expressive soprano, traversing a wide emotional spectrum from sublime contemplation to poignant, heart-piercing pain.

Throughout the record, words spoken and sung are placed sparingly to powerful effect. '2MLN's beauty and catharsis is a collective slow march, featuring British-Nigerian artist Tony Njoku, with guitar and lead bass by Gabriel Evans, London's PIKE on drums, and Copenhagen's GB on keys and strings.

Heavy yet hopeful, Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang remind you of their journey so far. An appropriately cryptic and transportive outro for their open-ended opus, 'Quiet Storm' is a landmark level-up: self-produced, self-funded, and manifested out of sheer drive and conviction.
Through bent time and low-lit haze, undoubtedly, Space Afrika has arrived.

TRACK LISTING

1. Vanity (ft. Axelle Fanyo)
2. Crying Never Had a Voice ~ (ft. Vanessa Bedoret)
3. From the Heart of Knowing (ft. Alto Aria)
4. Ballad for A'G' (ft. RXK Nephew, Klein)
5. Black and Gold
6. H00D Ambient Validation (ft. Any1)
7. 2MLN (ft. Tony Njoku)
8. We Live. Joy
9. Pretty Gospel (ft. Kiala Ogawa)
10. If This Is Hell (ft. Deuén Regards)

Dylan John Thomas returns with his electrifying second album, 'Nothing Here Worth Taking'.

Entirely written by Dylan, the album was recorded at Magic Box studios over the past year. Anchored by the gravitational pull of his unmistakable vocal and longstanding relationship with the acoustic guitar, the 10-track set is gritty, raw and emotionally charged. A rousing, carousing blast of brass, blues, banjo, piano and classic, retrofutureproof, singalong songwriting. It marks a bold step forward for one of Scotland's most compelling voices.

Includes the singles 'Heaven Knows You're Lonely' and 'Got You On My Mind'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nothing Here Worth Taking
2. Heaven Knows You're Lonely 
3. The Bridge 
4. Got You on My Mind 
5. Call It a Day 
6. Dining With The Devil Next Door 
7. Come and Get It 
8. Thinking About You 
9. Sequel 
10. All the Days of My Life

Jason Dungan (aka Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe find beauty in the rhythms and repetitions of domestic life for collaborative album, ‘Routine’.

Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn’t set out to make an album. Instead, as the title ‘Routine’ suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive musical language to reflect the dreamlike meanderings and creative play of life's quiet moments. ‘Routine’ blends pop orientated sounds, Avant-garde minimalism, folk and new age with the emotive depth of filmscore.

Their meeting was not entirely coincidental. Previously in bands such as Squares and Triangles, Jason Dungan has since recorded multiple albums under the moniker Blue Lake, including the lauded ‘Sun Arcs’, pursuing his passion for self-built percussion and multi-string instruments. Johan Carøe meanwhile is a composer whose film soundtrack work has seen him collaborate with Angelo Badalamenti, Arp, and Sofie Birch, at whose Andersabo residency (curated by Dungan) the pair first met, resulting in the highly praised album ‘Repair Techniques’ written by Birch and Carøe.

‘Routine’ emerged organically over many years against the backdrop of great personal change. As Carøe said goodbye to his father and welcomed his first child, the pair sent each other fragments of melodies and patterns, working up responses when time allowed to assemble a sonic palette that combined acoustic instrumentation of zither, clarinet, cello, saxophone (among others) with the textures of tape, drum machine and Yamaha DX7 synth. Inspired by the vulnerability and DIY ethos of Arthur Russell’s home recordings, the vision of labels like Disques de Crepescule, and the art pop, experimentation inherent to late ‘70s and early ‘80s recordings from NYC and Japan alike, Dungan and Carøe conjured new forms for their folk, leftfield pop and avant garde influences from the low-lit living rooms of Copenhagen and rural Sweden. “I’m very interested in the ways in which music and art emerge from our wider experiences as people, workers, parents and in the daydreaming activity of making music,” Dungan explains of a process which allowed the duo’s individual styles to drift apart and merge together seamlessly. “I think the process was definitely capturing moments in time, but over a long time,” Carøe adds. “It was a bit like improvisation, but with time stretched.”

The music floats with grace and humility, remaining sophisticated yet acutely introverted. Whether on ‘Clouds’, where soft layers of zither and clarinet are moved along by a featherlight bass riff and the hypnotic clip-clop of the primitive groovebox, or the gentle grandeur of cello rising and falling through ‘Routine 1’, the album reveals itself over 10 instrumental tracks, evoking the ineffable calm that descends when the light changes and the world turns inwards. The act of time passing became a key creative ingredient to the evolution of the album, enriched with the exciting challenge to transform their passing rounds of home recordings via a slow release musical dialogue. Jason found creative moments in the twilight hours to lay down zither, melodica, acoustic guitar to name but few, while Johan utilising “line-in and headphones” would manipulate, stretch and pitch Jason's melodic pathways during newly born naptimes.

Carøe rhythmically plucks and slides the stringed cello instrument, leaving palpable foundations on ‘Hymn’ and ‘Chords’, in a treated, stylistic approach akin to Mabe Fratti, while ‘Silence’ draws to a close with a gospel touch. Dungan’s harp-motion zither flourishes reveal more classical connotations on ‘Reunion' with inspiration of Bedroom Community’s Nico Muhly as organs rise with Moogs, culminating with a climatic choral outro from friend, mezzo-soprano Anna Caroline Olesen.

‘Routine’ then is their first collaboration, an album of deep and sincere reflection with inviting overtones that gesture with unrushed authenticity. A document of a new-found friendship that opens a window into the most personal of spaces, where the daily practices of music and life exist side-by-side to wondrous effect.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chords
2. Clouds
3. Hymn
4. Mornings with Rita
5. Routine I
6. Silence
7. Home I
8. Home II
9. Reunion
10. Sweden Organ

When the members of Adult DVD first started experimenting with synths the Leeds-based band had zero expectations as to where it would take them. Now signed to Fat Possum Records, their debut album Adult DVD, establishes their landing point, an irreverent new voice existing in the space between electronic euphoria and spiky hardcore energy.

Both unique in their approach and thrilling in impact, the band’s music has been shown love by Stereogum, Rolling Stone UK and The Line of Best Fit among others. Their breakout moment came with the single “Bill Murray,” an incessantly catchy distillation of people on the internet believing Tom Hanks and Bill Murray are the same person. More recently, the glitchy and anthemic “Real Tree Lee” was an A-list record at BBC 6Music and had support from BBC Radio 1.

At both Brighton’s The Great Escape and SXSW in Austin this year the band were championed as one of the buzziest acts of the festival with snaking queues of people waiting hours to see them perform . A relentless touring schedule in 2025 saw them hone their status as festival headliners in waiting, picking up a global army of new fans and playing to huge crowds at Glastonbury, Green Man, End Of The Road and more. The band recently toured Japan where they were greeted by fans in homemade Adult DVD merch, played a series of sold-out shows and saw posts about their performances go viral with millions of views.

In the making of their exhilarating debut album, vocalist Harry Hanson and synth-player Greg Lonsdale, alongside Danny Blackburn (guitar/synth), Jake Williams (synth), Jonathan Newell (drums), and George Manson (bass), went harder on what was already working for them: witty observational songwriting based in real-life characters and a pulsating synth-punk sound perfect for both the rave and the mosh pit. Fusing together an intense musical workout with depictions of a motley crew of figures ranging from 5G conspiracy theorists to an existential cowboy, Adult DVD is the electrifying sound of a band exceeding their own expectations while going just as hard, if not harder than their adrenaline-fuelled live shows.

On Adult DVD Hanson and Lonsdale continue to take a screenwriter’s approach to songwriting, filling their lyrics with stories pulled from the outskirts of society yet painting a vivid and comic picture of modern Britain. “We don't take things too seriously,” Lonsdale explains. “The lyrics have got sillier, the songs have got sillier. We make music for people to enjoy, so let them have a laugh.”

Produced by the band at The Nave Studios Leeds , the general theme of the album is to let go and take life a little less seriously. “Cowboy On Aisle Three” conjures an image of a wrangler swapping the rodeo for a supermarket over a swaggering synth riff . It’s an EQ-pushing beast that merges an existential crisis with the band’s playful spirit and relentless pursuit of bangers. Speaking about the song, Hanson says: “I came up with the idea when I was in Lidl. I’m sure everyone has thought, ‘Imagine if I just went nuts now,’ to get out of doing the big shop.”

Adult DVD might favour fiction over facts but that’s not to say these songs don’t tap into something real. Album opener “Do As I Please” unpicks the myth of community spirit and zeroes in on the post-pandemic sensation of the self-serving individual. “World’s Best Boss,” meanwhile, rages against authority figures warped by tiny amounts of power (“I’m shaking your hand just because I get paid”) and the importance of establishing an identity outside work. Another hit of pure unbridled energy, the industrial clatter of “Jesus Christ Supercar” finds the band taking aim at life’s bullshitters all too quick to explain away their lack of adventure. It stands as the opposite to their song “Do Something,” one of a few occasions when Adult DVD tips its cap to the band’s older material. “‘Do Something’ was about somebody trying things,” Lonsdale explains. “‘Jesus Christ Supercar’ is about always putting an excuse in the way.”

Simmering with boredom, wasted time, scams and a preoccupation with death and sex, the Adult DVD universe is a place to escape to and also get lost. These are songs that untangle the complicated ways in which people find themselves living, mining both laughter and energy from thinking. “There isn't that much down time on the album,” Hanson says in reference to its pulsating energy and high BPM count. “It's got harder in both directions. It’s like the EPs but on steroids.”

Adult DVD closes with a two song salvo that pushes things to new heights. “Real Tree Lee” shows what happens when questioning the truth leads to falling down the “cretin side” of the internet and into a bog of conspiracy theories. “I remember my mate from school whose dad used to make his own diesel in his shed,” says Lonsdale. “There was another guy who had loads of guns, too. We were interested in writing about these old boys with wild shit going on and where they go when they spend too much time online.”

“Rolling Face”—an acid house exploration of a wild night out that ends with its main character out of his mind — brings the album to a close. Its frantic pace, heavy breakbeats, and chanted vocals captures the band’s pulsating live show, concluding a journey that hurtles out of the screen and into real life. “The album starts in the evening and by the end of it, it's like it’s 3am,” says Hanson.

That release, from the twin streams of mundanity and chaos of modern life, makes Adult DVD one of the most entertaining and essential albums of the year. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1.⁠ ⁠Do As I Please
2.⁠ ⁠Coffin Dodger
3.⁠ ⁠Cold Caller
4.⁠ ⁠Minimal Criminal
5.⁠ ⁠Jesus Christ Supercar
6.⁠ ⁠Cowboy On Aisle Three
7.⁠ ⁠The Steaks Are High

Side B
8.⁠ ⁠World’s Best Boss
9.⁠ ⁠All I Need
10.⁠ ⁠Ghillie Suit
11.⁠ ⁠Real Tree Lee
12.⁠ ⁠Rolling Face

Following the 2023 album 'Young Hearts', produced in collaboration with Kenny Beats, '22 Durnham Dew' finds Benny Sings turning inward for his most personal album to date.

After decades of touring and recording, Benny has embraced a more grounded, family-focused lifestyle. '22 Durnham Dew' was created with and about his immediate family, featuring contributions from both his wife and daughter. Across its songs, Benny reflects on fatherhood, family life, and the everyday moments of adulthood.

Long celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices in modern pop, Benny Sings continues to showcase the warmth, craftsmanship, and effortless charm that define his work.

TRACK LISTING

1. You Love Me
2. Do No Harm (ft. Baby Rose)
3. Homerun
4. 22 Durnham Dew
5. Pull Yourself Together
6. Syllable Salad
7. Be Myself (ft. Tune-Yards & Ana Tijoux)
8. Parachute
9. Castle
10. Real Person (ft. Elijah Fox)

Emerging in 2023, Die Anstalt are a Berlin-based post-punk and minimal synth trio who quickly established themselves with a blistering fusion of early EBM, synth-punk, and classic post-punk. Their sound channels the grit and tension of 1980s industrial sub cultures while feeling unmistakably contemporary. Recently signed to City Slang worldwide, the band are reissuing their independently released debut album through the label.

Die Anstalt sound like no one else, even if everyone hears something different. Depending on who you ask, you'll catch traces of Malaria!, Boy Harsher, DAF, early EBM, synth-punk, or X-Mal Deutschland. Then there's the surf guitar, a detail that shouldn't work but somehow holds the whole thing together. The result is theatrical, confrontational, hypnotic, and relentlessly physical. They write slogans that stick. They're appropriately furious. Live, they're less a concert than a controlled explosion.

Their songs give voice to generational exhaustion, the dystopian absurdities of the present, warmongers, the manosphere, and the constant sense that the world is coming apart at the seams. Somehow, they also sound unmistakably like Berlin. That doesn't happen often, maybe once a decade, if we're lucky.

Most of all, Die Anstalt are proof that beneath the noise, the algorithms, and the endless churn of industry discourse, something vital still burns: rage, conviction, and hope in equal measure. At their core, they are a punk band. No posturing. No compromise. No messing around. They don't ask for permission. They burn it all down.

TRACK LISTING

1. Alles Kariert
2. Kriegen
3. Der Mann
4. Kalter Schweiss
5. Stillstand
6. 11. Stock
7. Ich Will
8. Dieser Hass
9. Isolation (Bonus Track)

Werner ‘Zappi’ Diermaier has spent decades channeling spontaneity into a unique rhythmic language; a direct, instinctive and vital beat born from the creative freedom which has long defined the spirit of Faust. This same intuitive approach is at the heart of his new LP ‘Gugaruz’, created in collaboration with Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) and Elke Drapatz, a record which grew organically from shared experiences, chance encounters and the energy of collective interaction. The project’s unlikely starting point came in a Vietnamese restaurant, when Diermaier pointed to a piece of pickled baby corn and exclaimed “Gugaruz”, an Austrian dialect word for maize. That small moment triggered a chain reaction of ideas that would eventually shape the album’s imagery, titles and sound world. Popcorn cooking in a kitchen both became the source material for field recordings used on the opening track and inspired the cover artwork, establishing a process in which everyday sounds and environments became integral musical elements.

Throughout the album, Diermaier’s percussion serves as both foundation and driving force. His playing is entirely intuitive, developed in real time through improvisation and close interaction with the other musicians. Initial sessions as a trio, with Elke Drapatz operating the drum effects and trigger module and Dirk Dresselhaus on bass, were recorded in the latter’s ZONE studio in Berlin over a day and a half, before Uwe Bastiansen and Ilpo Väisänen added overdubs in Hamburg and Kuopio, Finland. The music captures moments as they happened, preserving the initial impulse rather than refining it into predetermined forms.

The titular “Gugaruz” introduces the album’s approach, transforming field recordings and percussion into a shifting landscape of metallic textures, resonant tones and atmospheric electronics. Next comes the expansive “Big Field”, inspired in part by the vast agricultural landscapes surrounding Diermaier’s home in Brandenburg. Built on a foundation of timpani-sized toms and metronomic cymbal, this fifteen minute psychedelic journey rides a hypnotic bassline through synth scree, languid guitar and reversed vocals, roaring into a crescendo before the melodic elements collapse in on themselves for the finale.

Elsewhere, “Saurer Regen” sees funky breaks and jazzy syncopation buried under an avalanche of guitar distortion and feedback, while “Space Agent” combines primal rhythmic drive with psychedelic and exploratory elements. The second half of the album moves into more spacious territory: “Yesterday’s Gift” and “Seeding” explore atmosphere and texture without abandoning the rhythmic sensibility that underpins the entire work.

Closing piece “Schleuse” returns to the album’s fascination with physical environments and found sound. Built from recordings made on the metal railings of a watergate near Diermaier’s home and expanded through additional harbour recordings, the track transforms elements of landscape and infrastructure into music.

‘Gugaruz’ stays true to the Faustian ideals, rejecting fixed structure in favour of a nonhierarchical musical collaboration built on listening and shared exploration. Shaped by the dialogue between Diermaier’s intuitive rhythmic approach, the interplay between Dresselhaus, Drapatz, Bastiansen and Väisänen and the use of the studio as an instrument, the album captures inspiration at its source, preserving the immediacy, energy and unpredictability of the moment in which it was created.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Gugaruz
A2 Big Field
A3 Saurer Regen
B1 Space Agent
B2 Yesterday’s Gift
B3 Seeding
B4 Schleuse

We Shine In The Darkness have made a superb start to life with two first EPs that both sold out. Their third is another hot one with dancefloor-savvy reworkings set to light up summer floors. The A-side reimagines 'Beachball', the beloved 1997 Ibiza house anthem that here becomes a smooth, nu-disco bumper with fine-grain synths and an electro-funk vibe that is finished with a great vocal from Ukrainian singer Teya Flow, lending the track fresh emotional pull. The B-side shifts into 'Gulf Dream', a deeper, more hypnotic and cosmic disco sound that takes its time to unfold, before closer 'Shining Star' channels New York's Neo funk lineage into something super cool and loved up, swaggy and full of summer heat. Vital cuts for vibey selectors.

TRACK LISTING

Beachball (feat Teya Flow)
Gulf Dream
Shining Star

The first definitive biography of one of the most influential British groups of all time. Told by lifelong fan and bestselling, critically acclaimed music historian Bob Stanley, this is the story of how a group of working-class boys from Newcastle Upon Tyne became the biggest act in the UK before the Beatle revolution of 1963.

Scoring 34 hit singles under their own name, The Shadows landed a further 35 hits alongside Cliff Richard who – along with other surviving members – has spoken exclusively to Bob for the book.

With a legion of famous fans from David Gilmour to Pete Townshend, ‘The Shadows’ aims to cement the group’s legacy as one of the most significant and commercially successful British acts in their own right

Carly Rae Jepsen returns with a new double album 'Day and Night'. Across 24 songs, the record dreams up a world lavish enough to hold the full expanse of her identity. The lead single 'On Wires' surges with urgency, capturing the dizzying pull of desire. “It’s about wanting someone so badly you can barely get through the motions of a night out,” she says. “It’s a real ‘come hither’ song, but the chorus is just me repeating ‘I want you,’ because that’s all I can think about.”

TRACK LISTING

TBC

LILDAVE215 is a proud Philly representative who channels funk, soul and acid jazz into his delicious take on disco. For this new outing on the young but already promising Sweet Breeze Sound label, he kicks off with 'Music Takes Me' which rides on slinky drums that slide irresistibly on nice dusty cymbals and has funky riffs down low. The vocals add simple but effective colour that adds to the feel-good nature. 'Carnaval Del Tiempo' is more Latin influenced, with prickly percussion and big vocals, even bigger drums and sax energy all added for when the sun shines down hot.

TRACK LISTING

Music Takes Me
Carnaval Del Tiempo

Amaze amaze amaze! Academy-Award nominee Daniel Pemberton’s original score for Project Hail Mary. Including stunning imagery from the film, plus over 85 minutes of music from Pemberton’s breathtaking, cinematic score, immersing fans deeper into Grace and Rocky’s extraordinary mission among the stars.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Ryland Grace, Cognition Assessment
2. Last Man On Ship
3. Humanity
4. You Were Loved (Burial)
5. Petrova Line
6. Erratic Maneuver Detected
7. Centrifuge
8. The Message
9. Entering The Tunnel
10. Barrier Language
11. Connection
12. Learning To Communicate
13. Rocky Moves In
14. God Willing
15. A Moment
16. Life is Reason
17. Grace Go Home
18. Time Go Fishing
19. Gravitational Aftermath
20. Tau Amoeba
21. Amaze Amaze Amaze (Fist My Bump)
22. Goodbye My Friend
23. Believe in the Hail Mary
24. Amaze Amaze Amaze (Life On Erid)

CD Tracklisting:
1. Ryland Grace, Cognition Assessment
2. Last Man On Ship
3. Invalid Operation
4. Water Based
5. Humanity
6. Box In A Box
7. Top Secret Clearance
8. You Were Loved (Burial)
9. Petrova Line
10. Erratic Maneuver Detected
11. Cannister Catch
12. Centrifuge
13. The Message
14. Entering The Tunnel
15. Barrier Language
16. Anybody Home?
17. Connection
18. Clock Numbers
19. Learning To Communicate
20. Finding Rocky Voice
21. Rocky Moves In
22. Grace Has Mate
23. God Willing
24. A Moment
25. Life is Reason
26. Grace Go Home
27. Three Days
28. Time Go Fishing
29. Excessive Centrifugal Force
30. Rocky Sacrifice
31. Gravitational Aftermath
32. Tau Amoeba
33. Wake Up Buddy
34. Amaze Amaze Amaze (Fist My Bump)
35. Goodbye My Friend
36. Xenonite Contamination
37. Believe in the Hail Mary
38. Amaze Amaze Amaze (Life On Erid)

It’s just over 30 years ago that former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and ex-Thieves frontman David McAlmont unleashed the extraordinary single ‘Yes’ at the beginning of a summer awash with Britpop and Ibiza rave. With its instant-classic sound, augmented by soaring ’60s strings, it sounded epic and most definitely unlike anything else at the time. Rightly, today it’s considered a stone-cold classic.

When it followed in the December of the same year, the album ‘The Sound Of…’ was an immensely satisfying and beguiling mix of classic songwriting, immaculate production, and blending of rock and soul. The album was also singled out by critics as one of the year’s very best. ‘The Guardian’ newspaper awarded it a maximum 5 stars while ’The Times’’s critic commented: “the monumental climax to the seven-minute-long 'You Do' provides a fitting end both to the album and to a relationship that shook so hard that perhaps it had to shatter.”

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Yes (Full Version)
2. What’s The Excuse This Time?
3. The Right Thing
4. Although
5. Don’t Call It Soul
6. Disappointment / Interval
7. The Debitor
8. How About You?
9. Tonight
10. You’ll Lose A Good Thing
11. You Do (Full Length)

CD Tracklisting:
1. Yes (Full Version)
2. What’s The Excuse This Time?
3. The Right Thing
4. Although
5. Don’t Call It Soul
6. Disappointment / Interval
7. The Debitor
8. How About You?
9. Tonight
10. You’ll Lose A Good Thing
11. You Do (Full Length)
12. Yes [demo]
13. Yes [four track demo]
14. Yes [instrumental]
15. You Do [demo]
16. You Do [mix 1]
17. Don’t Call It Soul [demo]
18. Don’t Call It Soul [original single version]
19. How About You? [original single version]
20. Tonight [Oompah demo]
21. Tonight (Overnight)
22. What’s The Excuse This Time? [355]
23. Yes [BB & Nigel Godrich 1995 remix]
24. The Argument [outtake from the “Tonight” session]

TEAM DRESCH ARE BACK with a NEW FUCKING RECORD, 30 years after their last full-length release. Sure, yeah, that’s a long time between releases. BUT, aren’t you dying to hear what 30 years of living, laughing, loving, and losing collagen sounds like? This album SOUNDS LIKE lungs full of grief expelling, eyes and guts wide open, yearning to be one with animals and nature, metal-flange-goth-grunge-punk-ass-rock-and-roll, loaded with inimitable vocal melodies and harmonies, Donna Dresch’s soaring guitaring that grabs you by the heart, so many other rad guitar parts all orchestrally intertwining, ass-thumping bass, and drumming mastery that deserves its own Grammys. The songs are wildly dynamic, compelling, moving, and just… BIG, in feeling and sound. Team Dresch is Donna Dresch, Jody Bleyle, Kaia Wilson, Marcéo Martinez, and Melissa York. Bleyle and Wilson share vocal duties, while Martinez and York take turns bashing the shit out of their drum kits. Bleyle, Dresch, and Wilson all take turns with guitars and bass on this record. Well, Kaia played bass on just one song (but not on the song 'One Song'). The lyrics tell stories of loss and grief, transition and transience, and telling the Christian Right to fuck right off, again. They paint landscapes rich in flora and fauna. In one way or another, these songs are all LOVE songs, when you look at love as the multitude of meaning that it is. If you’re already familiar with Team Dresch’s now widely considered classic emo-queercore sound, this record will give you some of that, but it’s going to take you on some unexpected twisted turns as well.

TRACK LISTING

1. One Song
2. Growing Underground
3. Heard A Bang
4. I've Really Become Some Thing
5. Jamie
6. Still Your Room
7. And Now Your Face
8. I Won't Tell
9. (Where Do) I Belong
10. Every Owl Leaves
11. Last One At The Party
12. Protectors

Globo, one of the 1990s’ great electronic music outliers, return with a 'Redux' version of their sample-heavy 1995 debut album, 'Pro War', released on vinyl for the very first time.

More than three decades later 'Pro War' is a work of supreme irony and a dark inversion of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous slogan, “War Is Over! If You Want It”. Written against the backdrop of Rwanda, the Gulf War and Bosnia, the album explored not only the machinery of conflict itself, but humanity’s recurring attraction to it.

Globo said: “We made 'Pro War' in 1995 and we were reacting to what we saw around us. Everything has changed since then, and yet it’s all somehow the same.” - Absurdist and intentionally darkly comic, 'Pro War' now feels as relevant as ever: a disorientating broadcast from an age of propaganda, conflict and media overload that never really ended.

The Norwich-London force that is Globo emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the UK underground’s most singular electronic acts, fusing sample collage, transmitted media, breakbeats, found sound, cinematic melody and rhythmic vocal montages into a sound that felt both human and eerily technological. While often mentioned alongside contemporaries such as Underworld, Globo occupied a far more fractured, satirical and confrontational space. Decades on, their work endures as an eerily accurate blueprint for the world that followed.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sixties Nineties
2. Alive
3. Beautiful Feeling
4. Flirt with Fascism
5. Onward
6. Cable Card
7. Guess Who’s Back
8. Adult Channel
9. Autosleeper
10. The Fight to Stay Alive
11. Pro War

Ipecac is excited to welcome Cor de Lux to the family. The North Carolina quartet create a boundary-less and lively blend of post-hardcore, shoegaze and experimental guitar rock that feels alive and not hastily edited together. Taking their cues from acts like Fugazi and Blonde Redhead, while sharing the stage with Pile, Superchunk, Archers Of Loaf and more.

The NC quartet have built their identity the old-fashioned way: loud rehearsals, instinctive collaboration, and live shows that turned curious locals into committed followers. They established a voice rooted in tension and movement: post-hardcore urgency, shoegaze atmosphere & guitar-centered unpredictability. Produced by J. Robbins, the album channels the live intensity without blunting its edges.

TRACK LISTING

1. Blind Smile
2. The Cringe
3. Ping Pong
4. Cannibals
5. The Western
6. Bread Bag
7. The Deli
8. Long Face People
9. Strawberries

Retracing two decades with Seattle’s Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, reveals one of contemporary electronic and experimental music’s most enduring producers, understatedly consistent yet endlessly curious. His expansive catalog balances melodic structure with textural refinement, drifting into techno, avant-pop, and ambient lanes while never squarely in any one of them.

Following 2023’s 'Long Light', among his most collaborative, song-forward albums to date, McIlwain returns to his minimalist roots for the towering 10th Lusine full-length, 'Melting Days'. Ten songs in conversation with loss and transition, defined by elemental layers and ascending loops that engulf his signature rhythms and beat patterns in pure radiance. “When you’re moving through grief, it’s as if you’re watching your previous life get foggier and foggier,” says McIlwain. While he didn’t set out to make a journey record, 'Melting Days' takes that feeling to its spiritual end, from catharsis to clarity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sightline
2. Bird’s Eye
3. Apparition
4. Farewell
5. Overlook
6. Pendulum
7. All Clear
8. Intruder
9. These Walls
10. Uncharted

Rayna's fifth full-length under the Black Meteoric Star again serves as a vessel for her lifelong love of dance music alongside spiritual themes, drag and her formative experiences in S/M culture. Since focusing it in Berlin in 2006, the project from the former member of LCD Soundsystem has always carried an avenger quality and here that energy is aimed directly at the current political moment. Wet celebrates the long shared history between electronic music and queer leather/SM culture, imagining a future where the two are fully reconnected. The sounds are sleek, stripped back electro worlds with sci-fi overtones and retro machines used to conjure everything from proto-rawness to ice cold minimalism.

TRACK LISTING

5am Open Air Sunrise
Buttplug Thumb Drive
Control Top
Feel The Energy
Pombagira
S Weat
Squuezed Into These Jeans
Subwoofer Speaker Freaker (feat. Scotia)
The Calling

They did not seem arrogant or entitled. I didn’t see them bossing around their staff or being horrid to studio assistants. But they did worry if this was all there was.

All this fame and fortune, was it really all that great? The world saw them as an overnight success, who had come from nowhere. But they knew from whence they had come. Perhaps that’s what kept them grounded.’ Hunter Davies, the only authorised biographer of The Beatles, revisits his treasured 39 notebooks filled with remarkable interviews to explore the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo as they were growing up and coming of age.

Drawing on a wealth of never-before-revealed, intimate material, and his own experience as a boy of similar age from a working-class Northern background, Hunter now tells the story of where they came from, what it was like, how it shaped their hopes and aspirations. Hunter spent three years with The Beatles, visiting all their homes, and each of them visiting his. He also spent time with their parents, school friends, teachers, girlfriends, members of the Quarry Men and many others from their inner circle.

Their conversations often harked back to the War, with memories of air-raid shelters and rationing, to the NHS coming in, the eleven plus and grammar schools, and council house life in the 1950s. We all know what they became famous for, but here Hunter takes us into the much more private world of their formative years, for this colourful, richly detailed, personal portrait of the young boys who were destined to come together and revolutionise music and pop culture.

David Bowie was the original influencer. For five decades, his songs helped shape the landscape of popular music. But what did he listen to? Which artists, songs and albums did Bowie tune in to throughout his life?This book, the first of its kind, reveals more than 100 artists that made it onto Bowie’s turntable.

David Bowie: Music Lover is a compelling mix of personal insight and expert commentary, jointly written by Bowie’s lifelong friend, collaborator and listening companion, Geoff MacCormack, and Jérôme Soligny, author of the seminal Rainbowman, who knew Bowie for 25 years. From Classical to Britpop, Electronica to Delta Blues, the book explores Bowie’s eclectic playlist, redolent of the decades he lived through but also of his deep interest in all genres and eras of music. It’s a story that begins with Little Richard on Bowie’s childhood Dansette record player, and ends with Kendrick Lamar, a go-to listen during the recording of Blackstar, released just two days before he died.

An indispensable guide for Bowie fans and all Music Lovers.

10th Anniversary Edition of The Frights' 2016 So-Cal Garage/Surf/Punk classic! Produced by FIDLAR’s Zac Carper, the deluxe edition package includes expanded liner notes, new photos and pressed on limited edition Pepperoni Burst vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. All I Need
2. Kids
3. Afraid Of The Dark
4. Puppy Knuckles
5. Tungs
6. Haunted
7. You or Me
8. Growing Up
9. You Are Going To Hate This
10. Of Age

Berlin's alternative rock / post-punk group Agatha is Dead! release their highly anticipated debut album 'Concrete' which features the singles 'Courtroom Drama', 'Kind Regards' and 'Cold-Hearted'.

Agatha Is Dead! began as a post-punk experiment between longtime friends Lilly and Noah, who first made music together during their school years. Drawing influence from Joy Division, The Cure, Molchat Doma and Fontaines D.C., their sound is defined by urgency, tension and atmosphere. The addition of drummer Joey Ramone Hansen — bringing a grunge and pop-punk bite — alongside Arthur on bass, completed the line-up.

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Referential Excess
3. Concrete
4. Kind Regards
5. Instincts
6. Cold-Hearted
7. Negative Space
8. Courtroom Drama
9. Strangers
10. Bedtime
11. You Wanna Be Loved
12. I Lost A Friend
13. Faster
14.Outro (Farewell)

'Afro-Disco Makossa' is the first album on Linear Labs built strictly for the dance floor, and Younge is uniquely qualified to make it. He didn't arrive at Afrobeat as an outsider paying tribute. Through his sister label Jazz Is Dead, he already helped define what modern Afrobeat sounds like. His sessions with Tony Allen (co-creator of the genre itself) and Highlife pioneer Ebo Taylor didn't just inform his musical vocabulary; they produced two celebrated modern classics. 'Afro-Disco Makossa' is what happens when that same artist asks a different question entirely: what would a Ghanaian producer in '76 have made if he set out to create an American disco record for his hometown? The result is a sonic patchwork of Afrobeat, funk, and disco built for the DJ of any era.

TRACK LISTING

1. Feel The High Life
2. Shake Down
3. Number One
4. Every Body
5. Fire In The Disco
6. Afro-Disco Makossa

Bonobo, AKA Simon Green, returns with his new album 'Distance in Static' — evoking fragments of memory and meaning echoed across more than two decades at the forefront of electronic music. The acclaimed British musician, producer and DJ — known for his richly textured, globally influenced sound palette — continues his long-standing tradition of inspired collaborations, featuring Joy Crookes, Ichiko Aoba, Nilüfer Yanya, Arooj Aftab, Nicole Miglis (Hundred Waters) and Aanya Martin.

Lyrics appear in English, Urdu and Japanese, while historic Iranian samples and guzheng recordings sit alongside Green’s own meticulously processed instrumentation, woven together across recording sessions spanning LA, Tokyo, London and beyond with a significant portion of the record completed at Neil Young’s legendary Broken Arrow Ranch in California. It’s a record that represents the culmination of over 25 years as an artist and DJ. A reminder, if ever one was needed, of Bonobo’s enduring influence — newly felt by a generation rediscovering ’90s genres through a contemporary lens. That duality — introspective composer and club-focused selector — sits at the heart of a body of work full of depth, detail and emotion: both beautiful and driving; as ambitious and forward-thinking as ever

TRACK LISTING

1. Dawn
2. Cycles
3. Fire on the Water (feat. Arooj Aftab)
4. Drift
5. Talk to Me (feat. Nicole Miglis)
6. Uncasually
7. Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes)
8. Youth’s Fountain (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
9. Shokoufeh
10. Can’t You See (feat. Aanya Martin)
11. ID700
12. Me and You
13. Equinoctial (feat. Ichiko Aoba)
14. Mercury (feat. Kanako Yamamoto)

'Keep Stepping!' is the follow up to 2025’s 'Away' EP which saw Jaime establish himself as a dynamic new producer with an exciting future.

Whereas his debut EP, 'Away' has deep connections to Jaime’s home in rural Kent, 'Keep Stepping!' is an EP with the city in mind. Inspired by Jaime's time living in South London, the EP takes inspiration from London’s soundsystem sonics with Rosso mixing in bright melodies and dreamlike atmospherics to create a sound of his own. Much like the hum of the capital, there is an underlying groove that flows through it, whilst Jaime’s playful production keeps the music sounding buoyant and fresh. Influenced by the exuberant atmosphere of summer in the city, 'Keep Stepping!' embraces positivity and the importance of getting out of your own head and engaging with the community around you.

TRACK LISTING

1. Devotion
2. Walk
3. Night After Night
4. Speak 

Wewantsounds is honoured to announce the first-ever international release of the legendary collaboration between Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) and Don Cherry, featuring Carlos Ward. Following Ibrahim’s recent passing, this long-awaited edition now stands as a timely tribute to his profound legacy. Recorded live in 1972 at Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, this highly sought-after album was originally released exclusively in Japan in 1974 on the cult jazz label Trio Records via its revered Nadja imprint. An essential chapter in the musicians’ discographies, the performance skilfully blends jazz with rich South African rhythms and global influences. This definitive reissue features fully remastered audio, the original artwork, and a booklet with new bilingual liner notes by Jacques Denis.

'The Third World-Underground' captures a rare convergence of three singular musical voices: Don Cherry’s nomadic imagination, Abdullah Ibrahim’s deeply rooted South African lyricism, and Carlos Ward’s muscular alto saxophone. By 1972 when this magical album was recorded, Cherry and Ibrahim had already spent a decade redefining jazz by pushing beyond its foundations and embracing a broader, global musical language.

Cherry—who had helped revolutionise jazz alongside Ornette Coleman—was in constant search of new musical pathways. Drawing inspiration from the traditional sounds of Turkey, India, Africa, and beyond, he cultivated a fluid, borderless approach that expanded far beyond the trumpet, incorporating voice, percussion, and communal improvisation into his work. Ibrahim brought an equally profound sensibility. A spiritual heir to Duke Ellington, shaped by Cape Town gospel, township jive, and the emotional weight of exile, he transformed the piano into an instrument capable of both celebration and lament.

Having first crossed paths in the mid-1960s, the musicians shared a deep mutual affinity that culminated in this performance. Recording under a name that reflected the era’s growing decolonization movements, the trio created a fearless, boundary-defying statement across seven hypnotic pieces, including 'Don’s Song' and 'Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro'. The music unfolds as a continuous conversation: Ibrahim’s cyclical piano figures provide an emotional foundation while Cherry and Ward drift, soar, and chant in ecstatic unison, searching collectively for new ground.

Originally released in Japan in 1974 on Trio Records, the album was never reissued on vinyl, gradually attaining cult status among collectors and fans of Don Cherry and Dollar Brand alike. As Jacques Denis writes in the new liner notes, “More than half a century later, the music in this album, emancipated from all preordained order, still surprises, offering a delight of the present moment that lingers long after the needle leaves the groove.”

Freed from convention, 'The Third World-Underground' remains a restless and deeply human work of collective discovery whose resonance continues to unfold with every listen.

TRACK LISTING

1. Don's Song 
2. Cherry 
3. Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro 
4. Jabulani-Easter Joy 
5. Waya-Wa-Egoli 
6. Swazi 
7. Wayeah-Wayeah-O

'Draw The Outline' is the third album from Irish singer songwriter Sorcha Richardson, and the first she has made since leaving Dublin for West Kerry.

Written at the foot of a mountain, a short walk from the sea, it sets aside the synths of her earlier records for the warmer textures of woodwinds, saxophone, Hammond organ and piano, with acoustic guitar holding everything in place. These are quiet, unhurried songs about intimacy and perception, about how two people can share the same moment and remember it differently, lit throughout by a dry humour that keeps them honest. Led by the single 'Illinois Again', it is an album that doesn't rush to explain itself, and is all the more rewarding for it.

For anyone who loves Feist, Aldous Harding or Laura Marling. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Sea Pink Moon 
2. Grenadine 
3. Fake Venice 
4. Illinois Again 
5. Ellen Forever 
6. Dog's Best Man 
7. Adam (Pacing in the Park) 
8. The Orchard 
9. Sunshine Season 
10. The Video

Kokoroko today announce Tempos Difíceis Sempre Passam, a new remix EP reimagining tracks from their acclaimed album Tuff Times Never Last through the lens of some of Brazil's most exciting contemporary artists.

Translating the album's title into Portuguese, Tempos Difíceis Sempre Passam reflects both the enduring message at the heart of the original record and the creative dialogue between Kokoroko's expansive musical world and Brazil's rich, genre-defying music scene. The four-track collection brings together a handpicked group of artists whose individual approaches blur the boundaries between a variety of genres and contemporary Brazilian sounds.

To be released digitally and on limited vinyl, the EP also sees the return of acclaimed artist Luci Pina, whose artwork for Tuff Times Never Last is reimagined for this new chapter, creating a visual thread between the original album and its Brazilian counterpart.

Leading the announcement is Never Lost (Luedji Luna Remix), available now on all digital platforms. The celebrated Brazilian singer-songwriter brings her unmistakable warmth and emotive vocal sensibility to the track, offering a beautifully understated reinterpretation that deepens the song's themes of hope, resilience and togetherness.

Completing the EP are three further remixes from across Brazil's vibrant musical landscape. Onome of Kokoroko joins forces with acclaimed guitarist Nyron Higor for a richly textured rework of Da Du Dah, while producer Aleh Ferreira delivers a rhythm-driven reinterpretation of the same track. Closing the collection, Bruno Berle transforms Closer To Me with his signature blend of intimate songwriting, Brazilian groove and experimental pop sensibilities.

Together, the remixes offer fresh perspectives on Tuff Times Never Last, extending the album's spirit of optimism while celebrating the creative connections between London and Brazil. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 - Kokoroko - Da Du Dah (Onome Remix Feat. Nyron Higor)
A2 - Kokoroko - Never Lost (Luedji Luna Remix)
B1 - Kokoroko - Da Du Dah (Aleh Ferreira Remix)
B2 - Kokoroko - Closer to Me (Bruno Berle Remix) 

Northern Earth is Dean McPhee's sixth full-length album and the second release on his own label, Bass Ritual. Expanding on the low-end focus of 2024's Astral Gold and last year's The Bradford Boar on the Folklore Tapes label, Northern Earth integrates overdriven guitar, a wooden snare drum pedal and a powerful 18-inch subwoofer, pushing his sound further beyond the sparse fingerpicked solo guitar of his earlier releases. Drawing on influences from psychedelic rock, British folk, dub and underground electronic music, the album's three expansive compositions - including the side-long title track - were honed through live performance and recorded live with no overdubs at McPhee's home in Bradford. His solo setup - stacked valve amps, subwoofer, guitar, percussion pedals and expansive pedalboard - now functions as a single self-contained instrument, layering hypnotic basslines, ritualistic loops and fluid melodies with physical weight and a deep sense of space.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Indica Fields (5:21)
A2. Appleby Fair (12:52)
B1. Northern Earth (18:10)

Ringo Starr’s eventful and remarkable life laid bare in a first-of-its-kind mosaic biography of one of the greatest musicians of all time. Often overshadowed by his former bandmates, Starr’s remarkable story is no less compelling. ‘Ringo: A Fab Life’ highlights a life so jaw-droppingly eventful that one is left wondering how he also had time to become one of the best musicians on the planet.

Through an episodic, mosaic format critically acclaimed author Tom Doyle takes readers through the ride of a lifetime, from Starr’s brushes with death as a child bought up in poverty, through to dizzying heights of fame and success with The Beatles and beyond. By examining pivotal moments, anecdotes and cautionary tales, we see Starr soar as part of the biggest band in the world - and then try and cope with life outside of it: a film career, misadventures with friends, children’s TV narrator, furniture designer, marriage to a Bond girl, before eventually finding peace and sobriety as one of the elder statesmen of rock. So much more than another Beatles related biography, we follow Starr’s career far beyond the rose-tinted sixties, through the various addictions and career left turns in the seventies and eighties, before reaching the 1990’s, his legacy and reputation intact.

The life of Richard Starkey is long overdue a proper inspection and this book - with exclusive new interviews conducted by Doyle with, amongst others, Starr himself - provides a never-before-seen level of detail that will delight hardcore fans and curious readers alike. Ringo: A Fab Life - hilarious, moving, insightful and constantly surprising - is the definitive account of one of the greatest living musicians and the uncontested best drummer in The Beatles.

On edit imprint Disco Mind's tenth release, they hand over the reins to iconic Italian DJ, producer and remixer Beppe Loda, once resident DJ at influential rural club Typhoon during the 1980s - and it's that period that inspired the four scalpel jobs on show. 'Mr Rocket' is a chugging chunk of oddball early 80s headiness, while 'Tu Sei' sees Loda rework what sounds like a synth-laden fusion of space rock and intergalactic jazz-funk. On side B, he does a great job on spiralling, big hair-sporting disco-rock number 'Falling', before showcasing more spacey synths and chugging rock riffs on 'Marzio'.

TRACK LISTING

Mr Rocket
Tu Sei
Falling
Marzio

There's a dance scene in Tadeusz Konwicki's Kafkaesque 1965 drama film 'Salto' that lodged itself in Przemysław Jankowiak's head while he was conceiving'Everything Always Changes, For We're Truly Here'. The film plays like a dream and the dance works almost like the payoff, a haunting, poignant moment that subtly references the title itself, which loosely translates as 'leap'. "I like listening through images and seeing through sound," explains Jankowiak, who's better known as 2K88. His music has always been cinematic, but this album in particular, made alongside acclaimed British artists Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller and Bianca Scout, plays like slow cinema, meditating on themes that smolder evocatively without ever fully igniting. It's best described as hypnagogic R&B, a reverie of affecting vignettes pieced together from unexpectedly vivid elements: sensual vocal hooks, free-flowing raps, submerged rhythms and rough, craggy atmospheres. The four contributors pass sounds and memories back-and-forth, imagining melancholy sci-fi hymns, inverted pop songs and neo-trip-hop outlines that melt away at the edges, falling into a captivating rhythm of their own.

The project was originally commissioned by Unsound in an effort to match up Polish and British artists. Jankowiak had already released 'SHAME', an album that reflected on the impact of Polish rap in the late 1990s and early 2000s, juxtaposing these elements with the aesthetics of UK club music, so presented himself as the obvious figurehead. Miller, Duffus and Scout were at the top of his wish list of collaborators and before long, the quartet were on their way to his home city of Gdynia for a residency, where they began to figure out the harmony between their respective approaches. It was planned as a live performance at first, with 2K88 overseeing and corralling the ideas from each of his allies. Miller, who is widely acclaimed for his unique fusion of rap, noise and ambient music on albums such as last year's 'Joseph, What Have You Done?', would add poetic, inclement contemplations; Duffus, whose weightless, genre-blending productions have seen her release on AD93 and tour with indie rap heavyweight MIKE, provided cloudy but self-assured vocal hooks; while Scout, a producer and performer who shivered between gothic pop and medieval ambiance on 2023's 'The Heart of the Anchoress' offered haunted textures and desolate chorals.

"I think in the back of all our minds was a possible release if the collaboration worked out well," laughs Unsound's Mat Schulz. "And of course it did." After the live performance in Kraków, the four artists turned the dream into a reality, projecting the same ideas onto 10 fully developed tracks. And on the opener, 'Everything Always Changes', the concept solidifies, with coarse noise rubbing against Scout and Duffus's airy vocal tones and booming analog bass provoking tension before Miller's familiar voice cuts through the clouds. "There's a war where the sea meets the sky," he sibilates, "where the lines blur into fantastical dissonance." His imagery matches Jankowiak's faded soundscape, bringing to mind a half-remembered, long-promised history lost to time and politics. "It's trapped in this romantic haze," says Miller. "It conjures images of fictional seaside towns, ghosts of past grandeur living through imaginary romances in the present." And his voice returns on 'Creeping Thistle', AutoTuned to curve gracefully around sparsely populated, burned out terrain: ominous synths, wailing police sirens and reverb that seems to swallow everything around it.

On 'The Quiet's Song' familiar R&B hits and stabs are isolated and surrounded by ominous negative space that Scout impedes on with her reserved incantation. Loose, casual piano themes wisp through the frame like smoky exhalations and those sirens still groan away somewhere in the distance. The various threads are knotted into a more legible form on 'Poetic Fallacy', when Jankowiak's decelerated beats overlap with heartbreaking half-speed melodies and Duffus's elegant hooks. Scout takes the mic for a moment and a broken de-tuned guitar picks out the remnants of a riff. But it's the aptly-titled 'Salto' that gives the album its nucleus, fixating on Jankowiak's all-important visual reference and using its imagery to power a genuine pop miniature, a gauzy, abstract modern R&B anthem that's as impressionistic and suggestive as Konwicki's's film.

TRACK LISTING

TBA

'LOVE', Dexys Midnight Runners latest, possibly last ever album, is a luminous collection of scenes and reckonings. Stories of family and friends, tales from past and present. All drawn from Kevin Rowland’s life, each an individual jewel, threaded together with love. Songs begun three decades ago sit alongside those written in the last year. A vivid depiction of Rowland's Irish immigrant childhood (‘My Life in England Pt 1’); a moving letter to his grandchildren (‘You’re Alright’); a wistful moment at the start of a love affair (‘I Want To Be Holding You Next Christmas’); a pin-perfect portrait of time spent with a dying parent (‘Once A Man, Twice A Child’); the difficulties of relationships when you're older (‘Old Love’). All deeply personal, all true, all here; the full human span of relationships, family and intimate emotion.

The theme of this album - Kevin's ninth, Dexys' seventh - gradually emerged as the songs progressed. "I don’t remember when it happened, but I just thought, 'Hang on, these are all love songs, of different kinds',” he says. "I knew then: Call it 'LOVE'." These are love songs, but not of the usual pop style. Not will-she-won't-she romance, but something more emotional and all-encompassing. Those small moments that illustrate a rollercoaster sweep. "Everyone came at this project with love," he says. To tell a lifetime of different loves. A love life.

'LOVE' is also their first album under the Dexys Midnight Runners name since 1985’s 'Don’t Stand Me Down'. “We realised a couple of years ago that some young people know Dexys Midnight Runners from ‘Geno’ and ‘Come On Eileen,’ but some that we spoke to, were confused by the name, Dexys. And some, thought Dexys was a different outfit to Dexys Midnight Runners.,” says Kevin. “Since Dexys returned in 2012, we’ve always felt what we do is worthy of a young audience, so it was a no brainer to revert to Dexys Midnight Runners”.

Those familiar with Kevin’s wonderful autobiography, Bless Me Father, will recognise some of the people in these songs: his dad, his brother, his first love, more recent romances. But this is a Dexys Midnight Runners album, the group of players where Kevin began his music career, and where he works best. So his lyrics are explored and highlighted, lifted to greater heights by the songwriting and creativity of long-time collaborators Sean Read, Mike Timothy and Jim Paterson. There are strings, too, arranged by Brian Irving, originally from Belfast.

Fellow Belfast man, DJ and musician David Holmes, is the album's producer. Holmes had long wanted to work with Kevin and Dexys: “They were the first act I was ever truly obsessed with, the first I saw live”. David's older sister bought him a Walkman when he was 11, and his first cassette was Searching For the Young Soul Rebels. When Kevin sent him a demo of ‘Once A Man, Twice a Child’ (written with Sean soon after Dexys' triumphant 2024 Glastonbury appearance), David was captivated. "His song writing is so strong," he says.

TRACK LISTING

1. My Life In England Pt. 1
2. You’ve Got The Love
3. Once A Man and Twice A Child
4. You're Alright
5. I Want To Be Holding You Next Christmas
6. I’ll Always Love You
7. Strange Feelin
8. It's Over Now
9. Old Love
10. My Life In England Pt. 2

The second instalment of Chapter Music’s acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series 'Can’t Stop It!' is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album.

The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout.
This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for perhaps the first time.

'Can’t Stop It! II' features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including 'Lamborghini' by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic 'Do the Job' by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors’ Mark Seymour.

Bonus tracks include the astounding 'How' by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' 'Fool's Gold' by at least five years, and Tasmania's own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Systematics– International Voltage
2. International Exiles – Let’s Be Sophisticated
3. Asphixiation – The Crush
4. Tactics – Watch My Hands
5. Severed Heads – Lamborghini
6. The Goat That Went “OM” – The Pirate Song
7. Use No Hooks – Do the Job
8. Microfilm – Centrefold
9. Scattered Order – Swiss Like Knives and Forks
10. The Jetsonnes – Newspaper
11. Rhythmx Chymx – The Now Generation
12. Brrr Cold – Mothers At War
13. SoliPsiK– See Saw
14. Wild Dog Rodeo – Charging the Lighthouse
15. Belle Du Soir – Treasure Island
16. Ya Ya Choral – God’s Buzzsaw
17. Essendon Airport – I Feel A Song Coming On
18. Swell Guys – Sidetracking
19. Scapa Flow – Somewhere
20. Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind
21. Lachelle – Purple Hearts
22. Chainmale – Freakout
23. This Five Minutes – How
24. Chocolate Grinders – People With Leukaemia
25. Tiny Town – Living Out Of Living
26. Aural Indifference – Baby Love

Reissue of Gwenifer Raymond's debut 'You Were Never Much Of A Dancer' from 2018. Speaking about how her musical journey, Gwenifer says "When I was about eight years old a pretty formative thing happened to me, my mum bought me a cassette tape of Nirvana’s 'Nevermind'. Being so young I'd had no real interest in music prior to that, but I did have a ‘My First Sony’ cassette player that I used to listen to audiobooks. Anyway, I put the tape in, pressed play, and what I heard blew my little 8 year old mind. I don't know what it was about that wall of sound that so captured me, but I spent many hours hyperactively running around the house with headphones on, volume at full blast, and Nevermind on repeat. It was either for Christmas or my birthday that year, that I asked for a guitar.

"I spent all my teenage years playing either guitar or drums in various punk and rock outfits around the Welsh valleys, but around that time I was also getting seriously into older stuff, Dylan, The Velvet Underground and the like. Through those cheap compilation CDs you could get then, I found that a common influence amongst these guys was pre-war delta and country blues, as well as Appalachian music. Eventually I stumbled upon Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Roscoe Holcomb, and they became the holy trinity of musicians I so wanted to able to play like. Eventually, I tracked down a blues man in Cardiff who could teach me and it was in studying these guys that I was introduced to John Fahey and the whole American Primitive thing.

"I’ve always loved being in bands and the sonic chemistry it produces, but at the same time it’s always a bit of a compromise that those sounds in my head have to pass through and be translated by someone else’s. Sometimes it can be for the better, but sometimes not so much. American Primitive was the first time it had occurred to me that you didn’t really need anything more than one solo instrument to fully express yourself, especially when those feelings and moods refuse to be articulated in words, sometimes it's a mystery to yourself what it is you’re expressing. I still play in hard rock and punk bands and love to wail and hit my guitar with a complete lack of any subtlety or nuance, but in the end I think that all these things are really part of a circle, feeding back into itself. It’s all just a lineup of strange mutations."

TRACK LISTING

1. Off To See The Hangman, Part I 
2. Sometimes There's Blood 
3. Idumea 
4. Off To See The Hangman, Part II 
5. Face Down Strut 
6. Laika's Song 
7. Oh, Command Me Lord! 
8. Sweep It Up 
9. Requiem For John Fahey 
10. Dance Of The Everlasting Faint 
11. Bleeding Finger Blues 
12. Sack 'Em Up, Parts I And II 
13. It Was All Sackcloth And Ashes

This special 45 RPM release marks the start of an electrifying new chapter for Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. Teaming up with Femi Koleoso of Ezra Collective, Seun bridges generations and continents while preserving the legendary fire of Egypt 80. Koleoso’s production brings a fresh, contemporary pulse to two explosive new tracks that launch Seun’s latest sonic and political journey.

Side A: Debuted live and propelled into viral status after a blistering Coachella performance, 'Na Dem' ('It’s Them') finally receives its definitive studio version - a fierce indictment of the hypocrisy and greed of the global ruling class. Featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, the track fuses Egypt 80’s incendiary horns with Morello’s weaponized guitar work, creating a powerful fusion of Afrobeat and radical rock rebellion —a track designed not just to move feet, but to spark global reflection and resistance.

Side B: On the flip side, Seun Kuti dives into a pan- African sonic dialogue with 'Problems', creating a rhythmic and spiritual bridge between Lagos and Kingston. Featuring Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist Kabaka Pyramid, the track pairs conscious lyrical flow with Seun’s gritty vocals over rolling percussion, a propulsive bassline, and hypnotic rhythm produced by Femi Koleoso. “Problems” addresses the systemic challenges facing oppressed communities worldwide in a heavy, grooving anthem of resilience.

A collector's essential, this 7" vinyl is more than just a musical release - it is a global protest manifesto pressed into wax.

TRACK LISTING

1. Na Dem (feat. Tom Morello)
2. Problems (feat. Kabaka Pyramid)