Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Thru The Flowers
2. Across My Shoulder
3. She Don't Need You
4. Lazy
5. Really Stupid
6. We Found A Way To The Sun
7. Where The Wind Blows
8. Stop Killing Me
9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
11. Ocean Blue
12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
14. Everything Shining Bright
15. Nothing Left
16. Across My Shoulder
17. Crash
18. Spacehead
19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

Disc 2
1.I'll Stick With You
2. Dreamwalk Baby
3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
4. Nothing Left
5. Out Of Reach
6. Carry Me Home
7. Don't Want Anything To Change
8. Think I'll Stick With You
9. Dreamwalk Baby
10. Run Baby Run
11. Thru The Flowers
12. Nothing Left
13. Where The Wind Blows
14. Out Of Reach
15. We Found A Way To The Sun
16. Don't Want Anything To Change
17. Across My Shoulder
18.Everything's Shining Bright
19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
20. Stop Killing Me
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

'The Age Of Everything' is Johnny Marr's fifth full length studio record. Written in London, developed live on the road across the East Coast of North America and recorded in Manchester, 'The Age Of Everything' captures the energy and tensions of the city. Sharp, fast and dynamic, filled with ideas and possibilities.

“This is the record that’s been the most cathartic. The title came to me early in the process and became an inescapable idea. It seemed to sum up the way I think a lot of people are feeling. It’s all encompassing, but it's not necessarily a negative statement. There’s a sense of overwhelm in the culture brought about by technology, but looking at it with a different light, there could also be a sense of possibility.” Johnny Marr

TRACK LISTING

1. Spin
2. Beyond The Rain
3. It's Time
4. How Come
5. Ophelia
6. That Feeling
7. In And Out Of Love
8. Just Once More
9. Fire With Fire
10. All In A Life

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

The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows', from Stockhausen to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' and from Bruckner to Sonic Youth via Glenn Branca. In Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker highlights the innovators of classical music and their fans and collaborators in pop who challenged the notion that such musical worlds were mutually exclusive.

Alker shines a light on the rich tapestry that exists between their borders through exclusive interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Nils Frahm, The Blessed Madonna, Jonny Greenwood, Soweto Kinch and Jean-Michel Jarre among others.

Released in 2015, Get To Heaven is the third studio album by British art-rock band Everything Everything. The album blends elements of indie rock, electronic, and experimental pop, showcasing the band’s signature complex rhythms, sharp lyricism, and dynamic vocal performances by frontman Jonathan Higgs. Featuring standout tracks like Distant Past, Regret, and No Reptiles, the album explores themes of political unrest, media influence, and societal anxiety, wrapped in vibrant, high-energy production. Get To Heaven received widespread critical acclaim for its bold sound and thought-provoking lyrics, solidifying Everything Everything as one of the most innovative bands of the 2010s. With its infectious hooks, intricate instrumentation, and emotionally charged songwriting, Get To Heaven remains a defining album in modern alternative music, appealing to fans of intelligent, genre-blending rock.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. To The Blade
2. Distant Past
3. Get To Heaven
4. Regret
5. Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread
6. The Wheel (Is Turning Now)

Side B
1. Fortune 500
2. Blast Doors
3. Zero Pharaoh
4. No Reptiles
5. Warm Healer

'Everything I Ever Saw' finds The Menzingers entering a new era in what's already been a storied career.

The Philadelphia punk legends' eighth album chronicles moments of significant change-- the personal, the political, and the universal-- while returning to the core creative principles that first put them on the map with listeners the world over. Twenty years in, The Menzingers have discovered that the wisdom gained with time's passing is even stronger than the emotional armor they once wore in their youth, and 'Everything I Ever Saw' captures the quartet embracing the here and now while strengthening the bonds that have held them together.

The Menzingers have always created as a four- headed unit, with all members (vocalist/ guitarist Greg Barnett, vocalist/ guitarist Tom May, bassist Eric Keen, drummer Joe Godino) throwing in their respective talents as part of the craft--but for 'Everything I Ever Saw', the group worked in creative symbiosis more than ever before. "The way we made this record feels the most like how the band was in the very beginning: Me and Tom coming to the band with the most basic element of a song, and the four of us shaping that," Barnett says.

Instrumental in building that excitement was locally centered and nationally renowned production legend Will Yip, who threw in with the Menzingers on 2017's 'After the Party' and their sonically expansive 2019 record 'Hello Exile'. This time around, Yip once again became an unofficial Menzinger while the band crafted these 11 songs in their South Philly space. "Working with Will was like a homecoming," May beams while talking about Yip's contributions. "We've grown up together over these years, and we're still incredibly close friends. He's the best at gassing you up and making sure everybody's on the right page, but he's also so good at pointing out stuff that might not fit the vision without being a fucking prick. He's the hardest working person that we've come across in the music industry, and he's incredibly inspiring."

TRACK LISTING

1. Chance Encounters
2. Better Angels
3. Romanticism
4. Other People's Money
5. Gasoline & Matches 
6. The Fool 
7. Nobody's Heroes
8. Breathe With Me
9. When She Enters My Dreams
10. Parade Day
11. Everything I Ever Saw

Acid Jazz presents the second volume of their Jazz Sessions series with the first album from the Matt Berry Trio, with Matt Berry joined by band members Phill Scragg and Graham Mann on ‘Everything’s Peachy’.

When not creating numerous indelible characters on the screen, Matt Berry has forged a remarkable, diverse and acclaimed career as a recording artist. Following the widely lauded ‘Heard Noises’ (2025) and a collaboration album with KPM ‘Simplicity’ (2023), he returns in yet another musical guise as leader of a studiobased mid-century jazz adjacent trio.

‘Everything Peachy’ is a 12-part instrumental suite, inspired by ‘the Sky King’ (American folk hero Richard “Beebo” Russell), who stole a large aircraft with no flight training, performing stunts and manoeuvres, before crashing to his own demise, and takes its name from his response to air traffic control.

Conveying variously the chaos, nostalgia, regret and acceptance of Russell’s maiden flight, it is an open, freeform and flowing composition, drawing influence from the electronic experiments of Miles Davis and the melancholy of Satie, to create another moment of musical beauty from Matt’s curious and ever-moving musical mind.

The Jazz Sessions series was conceived by Acid Jazz founder Ed Piller as a return to the jazz roots of the label. The first release came from former Style Council drummer Steve White, with his first album as leader ’Soul Drums’, further releases will follow over the next year.

TRACK LISTING

1. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 1
2. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 2
3. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 3
4. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 4
5. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 5
6. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 6
7. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 7
8. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 8
9. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 9
10. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 10
11. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 11
12. Everything’s Peachy, Pt. 12 

'Ruin Everything' is the fifth studio album Stockholm psychedelic-rock pioneers Les Big Byrd. Since forming in 2011, the four piece have perfected their blend of space rock, hypnotizing psychedelia and disciplined kraut. Fronted by songwriter and producer Jocke Åhlund, Les Big Byrd have toured around the world while building a rabid following, alternating between being one of Sweden's biggest rock bands at home and an underground psych act abroad. After the experimental and instrumental heavy 'Diamonds, Rhinestones and Hard Rain' (2024), 'Ruin Everything' finds Les Big Byrd returning to a more song-focused setting, reminiscent of their 2018 classic 'Iran Iraq IKEA'. With the band's most adventurous tendencies reined in in favour of a tighter, more focused sound ranging from the dystopian epic 'Big Flood' to the full-throttle space rock of 'Hökvind', 'Ruin Everything' is Les Big Byrd at their best yet.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hökvind
2. Artificial Sunlight
3. Nån annan dag
4. Time is a killer
5. Ruin Everything
6. Big Flood
7. Searchlight
8. Beginners Luck

Back in 1999 when David Byrne originally compiled this retrospective—making it the first in our critically acclaimed World Psychedelic Classics series—the idea of doing a psychedelic album from outside the U.S. or Europe was a total surprise. More than twenty years since this anthology first hit the shelves, the mutants are back in stock— with their electric guitars, cans of bug spray, and deviant, freaky psychedelia.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ando Meio Desligado
2. Ave, Lúcifer
3. Dia
4. Baby (1971)
5. Fuga No. II
6. Cantor De Mambo
7. Adeus, Maria Fulô
8. Desculpe, Babe
9. El Justiciero
10. Panis Et Circenses
11. A Minha Menina
12. Bat Macumba
13. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
14. Baby (1968)

Oscar ‘Sholto’ Robertson is a drummer, multi instrumentalist and producer based in London. Growing up with a love for jazz, soul, krautrock and 60s & 70s soundtracks. The music invites you into a warm array of colours, analogue gooeyness, instrumental grooves and a euphoric sentimentality

SHOLTO returns with ‘Everything Is Stolen Anyway’, his first release since ‘The Sirens’, reuniting with Phoebe Coco. A hazy blend of cinematic trip-hop and psychedelic folk textures, the release leans into mood, space and atmosphere, presented as a limited 7” with instrumental B-side.

TRACK LISTING

1. Everything Is Stolen Anyway (with Phoebe Coco)
2. Everything Is Stolen Anyway (Instrumental)

Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat. If it happens - a big if - it does so naturally, and perhaps nobody knows that better than Band of Horses, whose landmark debut 'Everything All The Time' still, after twenty years, feels as vital and, dare we say, transcendent as when it came out in 2006.

Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell formed Band of Horses in Seattle in 2004, after the end of his nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa’s Wierd. Carissa’s Wierd trafficked in beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. Band of Horses rose from the ashes of that well-loved band, buoyed by Bridwell’s warm, reverb-heavy vocals, and woodsy, dreamy songs oozing with tension, longing and hope. Armed with a fresh Sub Pop deal and a smashing batch of songs, the band recorded their debut full-length, 'Everything All the Time', with producer Phil Ek at Seattle’s Avast studios.

At times raggedly epic ('The Great Salt Lake') and delicately pensive ('St. Augustine', 'Monsters'), 'Everything All The Time' is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows. That’s part of the genius in Band of Horses: they craft intelligent, classic movements within their songs, perfectly balancing desperation and hope, calmness and mania, love and fear. And of course there’s the massive single, 'The Funeral', which became a defining song of the era, and continues to inspire new generations of fans and artists alike. On top of tons of film and TV placements, the song was sampled by Kid Cudi, and transformed into a 2025 dance edit by acclaimed producer/multi-instrumentalist Gryffin.

Now, on the occasion of the 20th birthday of the album, Sub Pop and Band of Horses present the definitive snapshot of the band circa 'Everything All The Time'. For this anniversary release, the album has been fully remastered, with the artwork refreshed and expanded into a gatefold jacket with liner notes by Phil Ek. And the album is accompanied by an additional LP of bonus tracks, including the 2005 tour EP, a trove of previously unreleased studio and live tracks, and rarities like 'The End’s Not Near' (as featured on The O.C.) and a demo version of 'The Funeral'.

TRACK LISTING

1. The First Song
2. Wicked Gil
3. Our Swords
4. The Funeral
5. Part One
6. The Great Salt Lake
7. Weed Party
8. I Go To The Barn Because I Like The Barn
9. Mons
10. St. Augustine
11. (Biding Time Is A) Boat To Row
12. Part Two
13. Coal Mine
14. Worry Song
15. The End's Not Near
16. The Funeral (Demo Version)
17. Wicked Gil (Demo Version)
18. Our Swords (Demo Version)
19. I Go To The Barn Because I Like The / Monsters (Live At The Crocodile)

During the 1980s the late Black Symbol was a massive supporter of reggae music in Birmingham's Handsworth community and thirty years later he offered Reggae Archive Records a similar level of support. Not only did he allow them to release his back catalogue and new music, he also introduced them to many other Birmingham artists with whom they went on to work with.

Sadly, we lost Black Symbol just over two years ago, with the support of his family, Reggae Archive have decided to reissue a classic and very in demand 12" single, 'Loving Jah / Everything Has Its Time'. Two unique and very spiritual slices of UK roots reggae at its best.

This great single barely sold upon release, not because of any lack of quality, but because Black Symbol's brothers and fellow band members had little option but to travel the country by bus and train with boxes of the record, trying get it stocked anywhere that would take it. Few copies made it to shops beyond Birmingham. The record had minimal self-distribution and the London based reggae industry mostly ignored Britain's second city, only being interested in promoting their own releases or in one case offering a pittance for the band's rights, an offer firmly rejected.

It may be a very rare record, but its quality meant that those in the know were soon trying to find themselves a copy, an often-futile task. The arrival of the internet barely made the search much easier with copies appearing infrequently averaging perhaps one copy showing up every two years or less. Inevitably the demand has seen prices climb with copies now fetching in excess of £200, assuming you can beat the competition and be first in the queue to purchase one.

Reggae Archive originally shared both tracks with a wider audience back in 2015 with their Black Symbol compilation album. If anything, that release created even more of a demand for the original 12" single with its extended mixes. Knowing that for many reggae fans it is the format of choice, Reggae Archive are pleased to be releasing a straight reissue of the original 12" as a fitting tribute to our great friend Black Symbol.

TRACK LISTING

1. Loving Jah
2. Everything Has Its Time

Exactly three years after the debut album, 'Life Like' DEAD BOB continues to mine the archives of old and new demos that JOHN WRIGHT has created over the years, including two of the last songs demoed for NOMEANSNO with brother ROB WRIGHT.

Whereas ' Life Like' was primarily a solo project of John, since the formation of the live band the gang, FORD PIER, BYRON SLACK, KRISTY LEE AUDETTE and COLIN MACRAE take a far more active role in this record.

'Nothing Changes Everything' is a 35 min, 8 song release that takes you on Bob's journey and keeps you wondering, “Where the f**k is this going next!” Balls to the walls and head in the clouds, you're in for a treat.

With a couple years under their belts and return of SELINA MARTIN to collaborate on another song, Dead Bob takes it to the next level.

May Day 2026 welcomes the release of The Boo Radley's third album since they got back together at the start of this decade.

'IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING' is their ninth record since forming in Wallasey back in 1988.

It was their third album, 1993's 'Giant Steps', that announced them as genuine visionaries, fusing shoegaze with psychedelia, dub reggae, jazz, and Beach Boys-influenced harmonies. 1995's chart-topping follow up, 'Wake Up!' featured the inescapable sound of that Britpop Summer that was 'Wake Up Boo!'

Continuing on from the comeback album, 'Keep On With Falling'(2002), and its follow-up , 'Eight' (2023), the new album from the iconic British alternative rock trio is a defiant statement of perseverance and creative survival from a band that has weathered industry indifference, lineup changes, and two decades of separation. Fans can expect the band to continue their trajectory of experimentation balanced with the melodic sophistication that has defined their best work.

TRACK LISTING

1. Affected 
2. Rejected
3. Soloarcide
4. Do Better, Know Better 
5. Hey, I Know
6. Living Is Easy 
7. King Budgie 
8. Through The Crack In The Window 
9. Bring Them Back Again 
10. This Is The Place 
11. Song For Natalie 
12. Wasn't I Enough?

'Everything', the debut album from Chicago quartet Bnny, may as well be a field recording taken from the lone country of grief. Written in sessions that span several years by singer Jess Viscius as she processed the death of her partner, the album is a chronicle of love at its most complex and loss at its most persistent. In the same vein as 'Sky Blue Sky'-era Wilco or the harrowing vulnerability of Tomberlin or Helena Deland, Viscius’ songwriting is evocative and intentional. A longstanding member of the Windy City music scene, the album was produced by Dehd’s Jason Balla, and the sparse arrangements pick apart complicated truths while feeling both timeless and transcendent.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ambulance
2. August
3. Promises
4. Take That Back
5. Time Walk
6. So Wrong
7. Sure
8. Not Even You
9. Blind
10. Dreaming
11. Thaw
12. Little Flower
13. Stardust
14. Voice Memo

'Everything Seems Better Now' is the debut record from Los Angeles emo-punk band Vs Self. Vs Self has built a following within California DIY, and 'Everything Seems Better Now' blew them onto the scene across the US, with top tracks 'Homesick', 'Leave Everything', and 'Yesterday By Beatles Or: Imagine By Y oko Ono As Sung By John Lennon'. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Homesick
2. Waves
3. Promise
4. Heartache
5. Leave Everything
6. Desert
7. Worthless
8. Yesterday By The Beatles Or: Imagine By Yoko Ono
As Performed By John Lennon
9. Leave Everything
10. Ti Esrever
11. Still
12. Wake
13. Mourn

First released in 1984, 'Eden' is the acclaimed debut album from Everything But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 26-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks.

Recorded and mixed over nine days in September 1983 and produced by Robin Millar, 'Eden' spawned the UK Top 40 hit 'Each And Every One' and went on to sell over half a million copies worldwide.

Thorn and Watt met at Hull University in 1981 and over the next two years became successful solo artists and songwriters on London indie Cherry Red. 'Eden' signalled a major label move to Blanco Y Negro/ Warner and is the merging of the pair's respective worlds. Thorn's unshowy soulful voice and Watt's jazz-folk guitar and latinflavoured arrangements take centre stage. The sound is sharpened by lyrics that offer both acerbic takedowns and a bittersweet disarming intimacy.

The album features a handpicked band including Simon Booth (Weekend, Working Week) on additional guitar, Colombian double- bassist Chucho Merchan, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D'Oliveira, veteran alto saxophonist Peter King, and Charles Hayward from experimental London futurists, This Heat, on drums.

Some B-sides from the time were recorded shortly after the 'Eden' sessions. Later tracks from the same year point towards the tighter pop sound the pair were to develop both on the road and on the follow-up album. June Miles-Kingston (Modettes, Fun Boy Three) joins on drums, Phil Moxham (Young Marble Giants) on electric bass, and Johnny Marr guests on harmonica on Native Land.

The running order follows the template of the last deluxe edition in 2012, but - with the master tape only recently unearthed - adds the duo's 1983 version of Paul Weller's 'English Rose', originally recorded for the NME's Racket Packet cassette.

Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album features the original artwork by Jane Fox in a new layout by John Gilsenan at IWant Design, with full lyrics, credits and photos from the period.

TRACK LISTING

1. Each And Every One
2. Bittersweet
3. Tender Blue
4. Another Bridge
5. The Spice Of Life
6. The Dustbowl
7. Crabwalk
8. Even So
9. Frost And Fire
10. Fascination
11. I Must Confess
12. Soft Touch 
13. English Rose
14. Laugh You Out Of The House
15. Never Could Have Been Worse
16. Mine
17. Gun Cupboard Love
18. Easy As Sin
19. Native Land
20. Riverbed Dry
21. Don’t You Go
22. Each And Every One (Home Demo 1983)
23. Bittersweet (Home Demo 1983)
24. Even So (Home Demo 1983)
25. Frost And Fire (Home Demo 1983)
26. Soft Touch (Home Demo 1983) 

First released in June 1994, 'Amplified Heart' is the seventh studio album from Everything But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singerwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and arrives in a new 31-track deluxe CD reissue edition featuring additional B-sides and extra tracks.It also contains the original version of what was to become the band's biggest hit, 'Missing'.

If Todd Terry's famous house remix took Missing onto the world's dance floors and global pop charts in 1995 (#2 on US Billboard Hot 100; #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay; #3 on the UK Top 40; #1 in Canada, Germany and Italy), the original version also remains a timeless classic and one that perhaps better reflects the enduring appeal of the album's modern-retro hybrid of ardent folk-soul and scratchy electronica.

The genesis of 'Amplified Heart' was anything but easy. Written in the aftermath of Watt's harrowing near-death experience in 1992 from a rare auto-immune disease, the lyrics - written alternately by the duo - are raw unflinching stories of love and isolation in extremity.

To anchor the album's heart, the pair turned in part to folk-rock legends Danny Thompson (double bass), Dave Mattacks (drums), and engineer Jerry Boys (Sandy Denny, REM), but also to electronic producer, John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) to find the loops and dusty sounds that give the record much of its underlying atmosphere. There are cameo roles from Richard Thompson on electric guitar ('25th December') and veteran string arranger Harry Robinson ('I Don't Understand Anything', 'Two Star').

Pitchfork awarded the album 8.6 in a 2019 reappraisal, noting the album's enduring influence on artists that followed such as The xx and Beth Orton and concluded "The duo's spare, pensive style never sounded more fully realized than here."

Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road, the tracklist varies slightly from the last deluxe edition in 2013 with a smattering of newly-unearthed live recordings and a previously unreleased remix. The original artwork is newly laid out by John Gilsenan at I Want Design and features full lyrics and credits, and images from the period by fashion and documentary photographer Corinne Day and Richard Haughton.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rollercoaster
2. Troubled Mind
3. I Don’t Understand Anything
4. Walking To You
5. Get Me
6. Missing
7. Two Star
8. We Walk The Same Line
9. 25th December
10. Disenchanted
11. I Don’t Understand Anything (Demo)
12. Rollercoaster (Demo)
13,.Two Star (Demo)
14. Troubled Mind (Demo)
15. We Walk The Same Line (Demo)
16. Richard Says (Demo)
17. Back At Square One (Demo)
18. Two Star (Harry Robinson’s String Arrangement) (Demo)
19. Straight Back To You 
20. Lights Of Te Touan
21. These Days (Live)
22. Each And Every One (Live)
23. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (Live)
24. Rollercoaster (Toronto, 1994) 
25. Troubled Mind (Toronto, 1994)
26. Walking To You (Toronto, 1994)
27. 25th December (Toronto, 1994)
28. Missing (London, 1997) 
29. Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix, Radio Edit)
30. Missing (Ultramarine Remix)
31. Rollercoaster (King Britt Scuba Ambient Mix)

PDD welcome Dense & Pika's Techno imprint to their growing roster of labels. Kicking things off is the HUGE Charlotte de Witte remix of Eats Everything’s techno monster “Space Raiders”

Originally released in 2019 as the Belgium artist was ascending to the top of the scene, Charlotte de Witte’s dark and twisted remix of Eats Everything's incredible 'Space Raiders', helped cement her as a Techno force of nature. Now for the first time the remix alongside the original version is available on vinyl!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Space Raiders (Charlotte De Witte Remix)
B1. Space Raiders (Original Mix)

Tony Bontana, the Birmingham rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist, releases his 35th album My Name, which is also his first to receive a proper vinyl pressing. The album follows an impressive 2025 in which he performed with Nourished By Time, Mark William Lewis, YHWH Nailgun, TAGABOW and 454.

His earlier 2025 album The Beautiful Malaise made The Wire’s annual top 50, and he appeared as the sole feature on Nourished By Time’s album The Passionate Ones, where Marcus praised his “freewheeling spirit.”

Tony’s production work has appeared on records by Billy Woods, Cities Aviv and Novelist, with upcoming collaborations planned with Blackhaine and DJ Python. The single Battered Chips has received airplay from NTS, Esk on Rinse and Huw Stephens on 6 Music.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Tasty hip-hop nugget from Brum ripe with that warped and gurgling production, slightly benzo’d in parts but riotous in others and definitely delivered with a passion and authenticity that many in the game try to replicate.

TRACK LISTING

A1. My Name Feat Izzi Richards
A2. Soft Dreams
A3. John Osbourne
A4. Absolution
A5. Recoup Feat Leo Sierra
A6. Charge It
A7. Don’t Cost A Thing
B8. Wherever I Go
B9. Battered Chips
B10. Microplastic
B11. About Face
B12. Hype Williams & Holy Water Feat Leo Sierra
B13. Grief
B14. Step 5
B15. October Fallacy

"These tracks are mostly early iterations of the songs released on ‘caroline 2’. Minimal acoustic versions of ‘Coldplay cover’ and ‘U R UR ONLY ACHING’; an impromptu version of ‘When I get home’ recorded in Peckham Rye park in 2022 ); We have also included a recording of the club track from the first half of ‘When I get home’. This was recorded from the front bathroom of Avalon Cafe and is a track produced by our friends Daniel S Evans and Jennifer Walton.

We have always loved the quality of phone and portable mic recordings: both how casual and informal they feel, but also because they tend to capture freer and more explorative playing in that precious writing stage, before a song congeals into something solid. It feels like there is almost something mysterious at work in these recordings that can never be replicated or mimicked. ‘greek2go’ - is also a phone recording. It was recorded in what was then the empty shell of a former Greek dark kitchen, but has since become our studio - and is an improvisation with three guitars and singing in an empty, reverberant room. It never made it onto the album but it is a piece of music we are really proud of.”

TRACK LISTING

A1: Greek2go
B1: U R UR ONLY ACHING (demo)
B2: _you Never Really Get That Far​_ (Coldplay Cover)
B3: When I Get You Home (demo)
B4: Before You Get Home From The Club Bathroom

In 1993, Propagandhi recorded their first album, ‘How To Clean Everything’, and released it via a then fledgling Fat Wreck Chords.

The album was hugely successful at not only putting the label on the map, but even more so at establishing Propagandhi as a massive force in the punk scene.

Leaning more toward the skate punk tradition than the band’s current work, ‘How To Clean Everything’ was a clear launch point for Propagandhi, filled with aggressive metal riffs and a young snarky delivery of lyrics about human rights, equality and radical left-wing politics.

Singer / guitarist Chris Hannah explained his reasoning for this reissue (with a twinge of his beloved sarcastic wit): “Maybe it’s the bath-salts talking, but I have come to believe that there is value in having something that haunts you until you are dead. I give you… ‘How To Clean Everything’.”

The reissue includes the full original album, three outtakes that Fat Mike cut from the initial record and a rare four-song demo.

The album is remastered from the original analogue reels.

TRACK LISTING

Anti-Manifesto
Head? Chest? Or Foot?
Hate, Myth, Muscle, Etiquette
Showdown (G.E./P.)
Ska Sucks
Middle Finger Response
Stick The Fucking Flag Up Your Goddam Ass, You
Sonofabitch
Haille Sellasse, Up Your Ass
Fuck Machine
This Might Be Satire
Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread?
Pigs Will Pay
Homophobes Are Just Pissed ‘Cause They Can’t Get
Laid
Leg-Hold Trap
I Want U 2 Vant Me
Middle Finger Response (Demo Version)
Hate, Myth, Muscle, Etiquette (Demo Version)
This Might Be Satire (Demo Version)
Fuck Machine (Demo Version)

Brand new collection curated personally by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. Spanning over forty years from their debut single 'Night and Day' through to the acclaimed contemporary electronica of 2023's UK Top 3 album 'Fuse'.

Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, the album comes with a 16-page booklet containing full lyrics and comprehensive credits.

TRACK LISTING

1. Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
2. Nothing Left To Lose
3. Tracey In My Room (Lazy Dog Bootleg Vocal Mix)
4. Walking Wounded
5. Single
6. Corcovado
7. Before Today
8. No Difference
9. Driving
10. Each And Every One
11. Rollercoaster
12. I Don't Want To Talk About It
13. The Only Living Boy In New York
14. Cross My Heart
15. Run A Red Light
16. Night And Day 

'Thank You For Almost Everything' is the sophomore album for Headache, a collaboration between writer and poet Francis Hornsby Clark and music-producer Joseph Thornalley aka Vegyn. This new album follows on the surprise underground success of their debut: 'The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth'.

'Thank You For Almost Everything' continues the original’s distinct style of Trip-Hop / Downtempo Electronica but combining with its own unique (and now imitated) AI-voiced spoken word. For this new album, Headache steps away from the hum-drum of Blighty and instead focuses his gaze to sunnier shores. Recalling personal histories of ruffled hair and school cafeterias, ancient unsolved Albionic riddles, Rome’s changing seasons and its poignant graffiti, arguments with girlfriends at luxury hotel beachfront restaurants, and what it truly feels like to be alive in this inscrutable but beautiful world.

The project features a further collaboration with artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt who returns to design the packaging and cover for this new album. This double 12” vinyl release, like the first, includes the instrumental versions exclusive to the vinyl version.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nineteen Sixty Five
2. Wholesale Anthem
3. I Appreciate You
4. Dodge This!
5. The Joy Is Ours
6. Trophy Life
7. It Opens If You Turn The Handle
8. His Story
9. Most Undo Tomorrow
10. Nineteen Sixty Five (Intrumental)
11. Wholesale Anthem (Instrumental)
12. I Appreciate You (Instrumental)
13. Dodge This! (Instrumental)
14. The Joy Is Ours (Instrumental)
15. Trophy Life (Instrumental)
16. It Opens If You Turn The Handle (Instrumental)
17. His Story (Instrumental)
18. Most Undo Tomorrow (Instrumental)

Formed in the mid-eighties Midlands, they are still not only eating pop but spewing it up in a chaos of thrilling ideas on new album ‘Delete Everything’. Their eighth record sees them further refine, define and deconstruct their melange of industrial rock, loop da loop techno, gonzoid hip hop and punk rock into a series of captivating sci-fi anthems. The band still look and sound like they have stepped out the pages of 2000 AD magazine with Graham Crabb and Mary Byker trading vocals like bouncing Duracell bunnies to the itching, compulsive beats surrounding them. Davey Bennett brings the bottom end and Cliff Hewitt plays the beats whilst Adam Mole delivers guitar aggro and sometimes waves his keyboard around with a delinquent glee. Still creative, still in a world of their own Pop Will Eat Itself have deleted everything and started all over again. 

TRACK LISTING

1. The Slammer
2. Bruiser
3. Incarcerate The Rich
4. Disco Misfits
5. Their Law (Ain't Our Law)
6. Vive Le Rok
7. Mofo Face
8. Superficial Intelligence
9. Never Mind The Botox
10. Built For Fun
11. Play A Fast 'Un
12. Where There's Hope

7” Tracklist:
1. Aggravation
2. Spaceboy

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

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

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Though we've not been without hints of Sherwood's unique dubby outlook (he's just not been sitting about), it's been a long time since a full album from him and 'The Collapse Of Everything' provides the perfect return for one of the most innovative and creative musicians and producers in the world. Absolutely stunning progressive, dub-adjacent pieces studded with huge guests too (Brian Eno on 'vocals'!)

TRACK LISTING

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

After a year of playing festivals like Slam Dunk and 2000 Trees and touring throughout Europe, As December Falls return with the supercharged single 'Angry Cry' - playlisted on Spotify’s New Music Friday, Rock Rotation, All New Rock, The Scene etc and saw support from BBC Radio 1’s Alyx Holcombe as her track of the week, as well as Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Distorted Sound and more - As December Falls announced their new album 'Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine' is the next step for the Nottingham pop-punkers. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Burn It All Down
2. Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine
3. Ready Set Go
4. Therapy
5. For The Plot
6. Fall Apart
7. Rewrite
8. Bathroom Floor
9. Angry Cry
10. I’m No Good Alone
11. Grim Reaper
12. I Can’t Relate
13. Sometimes I Hurt My Own Feelings
14. This Isn’t Us
15. Bathroom Floor (Demo) *
16. Ready Set Go (Alt Version) *
17. Therapy (Alt Version) *
18. For The Plot (Alt Version) *
19. Grim Reaper (Alt Version) *
20. Fall Apart (Alt Version) *
21. Burn It All Down (Alt Version) *

*Deluxe CD Only

The Armed return with their new album The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed, the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed album Perfect Saviors. After completing a trilogy of albums laser-focused on dissecting artistic authenticity in the Information Age, The Armed began work on new material with no premeditated rules or concepts favouring only raw expression and urgency to herald a new era for the project.

What emerged is a furious and confrontational new album—The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed. Still genre-defying, yet overtly pissed, it's an unfiltered expression of Weltschmerz, the German term describing the anguish of the world’s reality versus our idealized visions of what it should be. “This record rejects sanitized, G-rated rebellion curated for upper middle-class tastes,” vocalist Tony Wolski explains. “It’s music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality.”

The album includes performances by Ken Szymanski, Patrick Shiroishi, Urian Hackney, Kurt Ballou, Troy Van Leeuwen, Meghan O’Neil, Cara Drolshagen, Tony Wolski, Brian Wolski, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Ben Chisholm, Prostitute, Zach Weeks, Mark Guiliana, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, and Derek Coburn.

TRACK LISTING

1. Well Made Play
2. Purity Drag
3. Kingbreaker
4. Grace Obscure
5. Broken Mirror (feat. Prostitute)
6. Sharp Teeth
7. I Steal What I Want
8. Local Millionaire
9. Gave Up
10. Heathen
11. A More Perfect Design

Released in 2015, Get To Heaven is the third studio album by British art-rock band Everything Everything. The album blends elements of indie rock, electronic, and experimental pop, showcasing the band’s signature complex rhythms, sharp lyricism, and dynamic vocal performances by frontman Jonathan Higgs. Featuring standout tracks like Distant Past, Regret, and No Reptiles, the album explores themes of political unrest, media influence, and societal anxiety, wrapped in vibrant, high-energy production. Get To Heaven received widespread critical acclaim for its bold sound and thought-provoking lyrics, solidifying Everything Everything as one of the most innovative bands of the 2010s. With its infectious hooks, intricate instrumentation, and emotionally charged songwriting, Get To Heaven remains a defining album in modern alternative music, appealing to fans of intelligent, genre-blending rock. This much sought-after cult classic is now reissued on vinyl for the first time in a decade, newly expanded with 12 bonus tracks,B-sides and previously unreleased outtake demos.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL:
Side A
1. To The Blade
2. Distant Past
3. Get To Heaven
4. Regret
5. Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread
6. The Wheel (Is Turning Now)

Side B
1. Fortune 500
2. Blast Doors
3. Zero Pharaoh
4. No Reptiles
5. Warm Healer

Side C
1. We Sleep In Pairs
2. Hapsburg Lippp
3. President Heartbeat
4. Brainchild
5. Yuppie Supper
6. Only As Good As My God

Side D
1. Pressure
2. Magnetophone
3. Live Intro
4. To The Blade (To The Bone)
5. Indigo (Demo)
6. Give Me Your Blood (Demo)

CD:
1. To The Blade
2. Distant Past
3. Get To Heaven
4. Regret
5. Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread
6. The Wheel (Is Turning Now)
7. Fortune 500
8. Blast Doors
9. Zero Pharaoh
10. No Reptiles
11. Warm Healer
Bonus Tracks:
12. We Sleep In Pairs
13. Hapsburg Lippp
14. President Heartbeat
15. Brainchild
16. Yuppie Supper
17. Only As Good As My God
18. Pressure
19. Magnetophone
20. To The Blade (To The Bone)

For their 4th full-length studio album, 'Everything Must Go', Goose teamed up once again with D. James Goodwin, who produced their critically-acclaimed 2022 studio effort, Dripfield. As before, the band pushed themselves to create another cohesive effort representative of their unique brand of irresistible songcraft, fluid musicianship, and spirited improvisational performance.

The album contains a blend of fan-favourite live staples and brand-new songs, sure to delight old and new listeners alike. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Everything Must Go
2. Give It Time
3. Dustin Hoffman
4. Your Direction
5. Thatch
6. Lead Up
7. Animal
8. Red Bird
9. Atlas Dogs
10. California Magic
11. Feel It Now
12. Iguana Song
13. Siliver Rising
14. How It Ends

Arm's Length was formed in early 2019 in the small Canadian town of Belleville, Ontario when best friends Allen Steinberg and Jeremy Whyte nally began writing music together after years of knowing each other. Setting out to create a great new indie infused emo sound with shades of pop-punk, Arm's Length made waves in this scene with the release of their first two EPs, 'Whats Mine Is Yours' and 'Everything Nice' in 2019 and 2021 respectively, including coverage on Pitchfork, NPR, and more. They have since released their debut album, 'Never Before Seen, Never Again' Found in 2022, and are releasing a new album in 2025.

TRACK LISTING

1. Theme Song
2. No Sleep
3. Gallows Humour
4. Safer Skin
5. Eve (Household Name)
6. Garamond
7. Watercolour
8. Talking With My Hands Again
9. Loathe
10. Blank Slate

Over recent years The Sherlocks have become one of the most exciting live bands in the UK. Selling out tours across UK & Europe, the band have also achieved chart success with x3 Top #20 albums. Yorkshire brothers Kiaran & Brandon Crook joined up with band members Alex Proctor & Trent Jackson. With an incredibly passionate, loyal fan base, their fans have followed the band's journey from pubs/clubs to selling out venues out all across the world, as well being asked to tour in arenas/stadiums with the likes ofLiam Gallagher, Kings Of Leon, Kaiser Chief, The Libertines and many more.

TRACK LISTING

Everything Must Make Sense
Man On The Loose
How Are You Feeling?
Death Of Me
Bones
28
Bedlam Town
Tough Times Don't Last
Better Alone
Here Comes The Rain

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The Return Of The Loft!

The Loft notched up an impressive list of firsts for Creation Records' artists back in the mid-80s. First Creation band on TV, first to hit the top of the indie singles chart, first to be invited on to a major UK tour and first Creation band to record a coveted BBC radio session - for Janice Long's Radio One show in 1984. Then they split up.

Since that infamous onstage tragedy; splitting up mid-song, at the Hammersmith Palais in front of 3,000 people when on the verge of Big Time indie greatness, the band has reunited. Just as their status as one of the UK's most influential guitar bands of the 80s continues to grow and to influence a host of younger artists, and thirty nine years after that acrimonious split, it seemed the time was right to record their debut album.

Last year, after a sell-out show at London's MOTH club and their heralded appearance at the Glas-Goes Pop festival, the group was invited by BBC 6 Music's 'Riley & Coe' to record its fourth BBC session, at Maida Vale's famous Studio 4. Within 6 months the session was rush released by Precious Recordings of London on glorious ten inch vinyl. Enter Hamburg based, Tapete Records, who, hearing rumours about new Loft material, snapped up the album and signed the band without hearing a single note.

The album was recorded in Hackney in August and produced by Dexys' Sean Read with the original Loft line up of Pete Astor (guitar /vocals) Andy Strickland (guitar), Bill Prince (bass) and Dave Morgan (drums).

'Temporary' features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, 'Temporary' was recorded at Russell’s own west London Copper House studio, alongside sessions in Tottenham, Cumbria, Dorset, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and is set to build on previous acclaimed releases including 2018’s eponymous, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album.

On 'Temporary', Russell reboots his musical DNA: while his music had previously been about rhythm, words and melody in that order, on Temporary he swaps rhythm and melody, the rhythm taking up less space and the melody coming to the fore. Musically some songs are inspired by the sonic thought experiment “what if folk music had ‘gone digital’ in the 80s, just as reggae had?”, while spiritually and lyrically the themes encompass grief and loss. The results – elevated by an intriguing and diverse set of collaborators who sound like the best and freshest versions of themselves – are the most luminous and relaxed compositions of Russell’s career. Every song sounds washed in sunshine and graced by tenderness. More fragile and quieter than previous Everything Is Recorded output, it might be one of the gentlest records ever made about death. In Russell’s own words “making the album was joyous, a way of hallowing life.”

TRACK LISTING

1. October
2. My And Me (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Ricky Washington And Alabaster DePlume)
3. Porcupine Tattoo (feat. Noah Cyrus And Bill Callahan)
4. Never Felt Better (feat. Sampha And Florence Welch)
5. Ether (feat. Maddy Prior)
6. Losing You (feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble And Yazz Ahmed)
7. Firelight (feat. Florence Welch, Berwyn And Alabaster DePlume)
8. The Summons
9. No More Rehearsals (feat. Roses Gabor, Jah Wobble, Jack Peñate And Yazz Ahmed)
10. You Were Smiling (feat. Samantha Morton)
11. Norm (feat. Bill Callahan)
12. Swamp Dream #3 (feat. Clari Freeman-Taylor)
13. The Meadows (feat. Roses Gabor, Kamasi Washington And Ricky Washington)
14. Goodbye (Hell Of A Ride) (feat. Nourished By Time)

Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, returns with a brand new single, 'Porcupine Tattoo' - a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons - Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan - who appear on record together for the very first time.

The collaboration came together while Russell was hosting sessions for a forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album, one set to build on previous acclaimed releases including 2018’s eponymous, Mercury Prize-nominated debut album. Reaching out to Callahan - an artist he’s long admired and whose song “I’m New Here” was covered by, and provided the title for, Gil Scott-Heron’s final, Russell-produced studio album - Russell asked the simple question “who would you like to write a song for?”. “Noah Cyrus” was Callahan’s reply. The final single features Callahan’s original demo vocal, pitched down and resting on layers of sub bass and complemented by Cyrus’ crystalline counterpoint vocal. It was recorded during a rainy week of sessions in a bungalow at Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont, which Russell described as “comfortable but haunted”. The song continues a lineage of Russell productions – from 'I’m New Here' to Bobby Womack’s 'Deep River' and Damon Albarn’s 'History of a Cheating Heart' – that explore a sparser, more acoustic side of his sound.

The limited edition 7” vinyl single is released on XL Recordings in partnership with Drag City, Bill Callahan’s long term label home. The 7” exclusively features a second collaboration between Everything Is Recorded and Callahan in the form of 'Norm', a tribute to the Austin-based singer songwriter’s favourite comedian Norm MacDonald.

TRACK LISTING

1. Porcupine Tattoo - Everything Is Recorded, Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan
2. Norm - Everything Is Recorded Feat. Bill Callahan

First new material from UK soul heroes Stone Foundation for over a year. As they head into their 11th studio album due in 2025, this taster of new material shows the band experimenting with new sounds and influences whilst still remaining distinctively Stone Foundation. Mick Talbot (The Style Council, Dexys) joins the band to bring some of his trademark keyboard magic to both tracks. Strictly limited to 500 units worldwide, don't miss out on what is sure to be another future Stone Foundation collectible.

TRACK LISTING

A. Fix You Up
AA. Everything & All I Want

Exploring late-night, after-hours meditations on sound; ‘Everything Above The Sky (Astral Travelling with Luke Una)’ is a new compilation by the titular DJ, promoter and enigmatic cultural curator. Off the back of the E Soul Cultura phenomena, this compilation comes at a timely point in Luke’s rich career as he soars the heights of playing all over the world. Avoiding any chance of his sound being pigeonholed, Luke has put together a tracklist of songs and music that have a transcendental feel, after coming off the grid, going back to source, outside the city walls .

Music has long been believed to aid out of body experiences and many of us have searched long and hard for a combination of those elusive ingredients that might alleviate some of the monotony of everyday life, our daily routines and obligations, and those things that seem to block us from the spirit of the universe. In this collection, Luke selects music with all the right ingredients in just the right quantities, allowing the listener to engage in an esoteric journey of enlightenment through sound. Being a prolific collector of music, Luke initially delivered enough tracks to compile several compilations, making the licensing process the biggest effort to date for the label. The music moves softly and slowly, never becoming too intrusive, exemplifying the wonderful elevating properties of simple songs played from the heart.

Luke’s Everything Above The Sky manifesto reads, “Astral Travelling in the meadowlands with acid folk, spiritual jazz, around midnight hocus pocus, cosmic psychedelic soul, magical spellbound whirling swirling love songs, Brazilian ballads of light into machine soul gospel utopia dreaming, Balearic bossa, Outer Space ancient African drum, the breath of trees, escaping the big bad modern world, gathering round winter fires, walking amongst the bracken in Padley Gorge in late summer twilight, overlooking the Hope Valley, escaping ego, detaching and finally letting go amongst the stars with the slowly floating people. It’s beautiful beyond. Everything above the Sky”.

Beginning his career as an original Sheffield house young blood in the mid 1980s, Luke’s move to Manchester and partnership with Justin Crawford saw the birth of Electric Chair, a cornerstone cult night in the UK underground club scene. Then came Electric Elephant, a Croatian festival paying homage to their wild eclecticism from Balearic to Brazilian to É Soul, house, disco and techno. Luke’s much loved, long-running Homoelectric night and more recently Homobloc sell out festival for 10,000 souls has been at the forefront of Manchester’s LGBTQ+ cultural landscape. Luke’s Friday evening show on Worldwide FM captured imaginations and became a cult four-hour must-listen monthly journey for fans all over the world. Today, Luke remains, as ever, at the forefront of a changing milieu, pairing the momentous legacy of Manchester’s 80s and 90s scene with the delivery of what today’s club communities need to get down. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Having fallen down the cracks of the sofa providing the soundtrack to the late night disenfranchised across two incredible compilations; our trusted socio-spirit-guide takes some time out for meditation and ascension, moving from "inside" to, generally, a more "outdoorsy" state of being on 'Everything Above The Sky'. Designed, at least in part, to aid astral travelling; a selection to escape the mundanities and indeed the troubles of our present times. Luke’s shamanic skills as a nightclub technician transfer equally well to a more horizontal mode of listening; take off your shoes, feel the soil underneath your feet, lie down in the daisies, look up to the sky - it’s full of wonderment!

As usual there's some true curios (not least the ‘bongo mix’ of "Pacific State" (!!)), and some magical moments of spiritual jazz and cosmic soul; but it’s in the slowly unwinding majesty of acid folk that the compilation really finds it footing – relishing the expansiveness and novelty of nature – as much an inspiration for our curator as any debauched nights spent sweating and dancing to repetitive machine music.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
SIDE A:
1. John Martyn - Small Hours
2. Stephen Whynott – A Better Way
3. April Fulladosa - Sunlit Horizon
SIDE B:
1. Sylvain Kassap - Plancoët
2. Manu Dibango - Night In Zeralda
3. Henri Texier - Hocoka Time
4. Nivaldo Orneleas - O Que Ha
5. 808 State – Pacific State (Massey’s Conga Mix)
SIDE C:
1. Magma - Eliphas Levi
2. Homelife - Stranger
3. Michael Gregory Jackson - Unspoken Magic
SIDE D:
1. Dora Morelenboum - Avermelhar
2. Simone - Tudo Que Você Podia Ser
3. Experience Unlimited – People
4. Otis G. Johnson - I Got It
5. Mel & Tim - Keep The Faith

CD Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. John Martyn - Small Hours
2. Stephen Whynott – A Better Way
3. April Fulladosa - Sunlit Horizon
4. Sylvain Kassap - Plancoët
5. Manu Dibango - Night In Zeralda
6. Henri Texier - Hocoka
7. Nivaldo Orneleas - O Que Ha
8. 808 State – Pacific State (Masseys Conga Mix)
9. Magma - Eliphas Levi
10. Homelife - Strangers
Disc 2
1. Michael Gregory Jackson - Unspoken Magic
2. Dora Morelenbaum – Avermelhar
3. Simone - Tudo Que Você Podia Ser
4. Experience Unlimited – People
5. Otis G. Johnson - I Got It
6. Mel & Tim - Keep The Faith
7. Anita Strandell - Elektriska Du (Bonus Track)
8. Camarón - Romance Del Amargo (Bonus Track)
9. Michael Gregory Jackson - Unspoken Magic (Solo) (Bonus Track)
10. Luke Una Spoken Word Manifesto (Bonus Spoken Word Track)

First time on vinyl for David Sylvian’s 29-track career-spanning compilation from 2000.

Features key songs from Japan and Rain Tree Crow, as well as David’s Virgin Records solo years.

Also includes key collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp and Alesini & Andreoni.

Alongside the remixes of “Ghosts” and “Bamboo Houses”, the album features tracks such as the beautiful ‘Ride’ from the ‘Secrets of the Beehive’ sessions, two dobro pieces written with Bill Frizell and “Cover Me with Flowers” from the ‘Dead Bees On A Cake’ sessions, plus the classic “Some Kind of Fool’ taken from Japan’s sessions for ‘Gentleman Take Polaroids’.

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Side A
The Scent Of Magnolia (5:36) – David Sylvian
Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Remix ( 5:17) – Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Blackwater (4:22) – Rain Tree Crow
Albuquerque (Dobro #6) (1:22) – David Sylvian
Ride (8:00) – David Sylvian

LP1 - Side B
The Golden Way – Remix (5:54) – David Sylvian, Alesini & Andreoni
Ghosts – Remix (3:47) – David Sylvian & Japan
Pop Song (4:30) – David Sylvian
Every Colour You Are (4:44) Rain Tree Crow
Godman (3:58) – David Sylvian

LP2 - Side C
God’s Monkey (4:09) – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
Let The Happiness In (5:37) – David Sylvian
I Surrender (9:24) – David Sylvian
Thoroughly Lost To Logic (1:17) – David Sylvian

LP2 - Side D
Jean The Birdman (4:12) – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp
Cover Me With Flowers (6:33) David Sylvian
The Boy With The Gun (5:15) – David Sylvian
Riverman (4:56) – David Sylvian
Aparna & Nimisha (Dobro #5) (0:56) – David Sylvian

LP3 - Side E
Midnight Sun (4:02) – David Sylvian
Orpheus (4:48) – David Sylvian
Some Kind Of Fool -2000 (7:31) – David Sylvian & Japan
Cries And Whispers (2:33) – Rain Tree Crow
Wanderlust (6:41) – David Sylvian

LP3 - Side F
Laughter And Forgetting (2:33) – David Sylvian
Buoy- Remix (5:15) – Mick Karn Featuring David Sylvian
Weathered Wall – Remix (5:43) – David Sylvian
Bamboo Houses – Remix (5:21) - David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Come Morning- Remix (3:56) – David Sylvian, Alesini & Andreoni

Mark William Lewis’ acclaimed ‘Pleasure Is Everything’ & ‘God Complex’ receives a limited vinyl press on tastemaker London label Scenic Route Records.

Scenic Route Records is proud to announce the first vinyl press of Mark William Lewis's critically acclaimed EPs Pleasure Is Everything and God Complex. These releases, which have collectively amassed nearly 3 million Spotify streams, capture the raw and evocative sound that has earned Mark a dedicated following within London’s underground music scene. Influenced by left-field pop, ambient, and indie rock, is deeply personal, reflecting his experiences and the unique perspective gained from living on the 18th floor of a tower block in London.

Mark's music has been widely praised for its emotional depth and innovative songwriting, with support from publications such as Pitchfork and The Fader praising his ability to create atmospheric soundscapes that resonate with listeners on a profound level. This vinyl press offers fans a chance to experience these early EPs in a format that enhances the warmth and texture of his music.

As Mark continues to build his presence with sold-out shows at Cafe Oto & and international tours alongside NYC rapper MIKE, this pressing serves as both a celebration of his early achievements and a milestone in his artistic journey. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his music, the repress of Pleasure Is Everything and God Complex is an essential addition to your collection, offering a deeper connection to the intricate, emotive world of Mark William Lewis.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Already causing a bit of a stir with those in the know. Obvious Dean Blunt references aside, remember this is from Scenic Route - the same label that broke Nourished By Time last year. I think we may have something special here...

TRACK LISTING

A1. Cold Paris Vogue
A2. Life With Life
A3. Cut Glass
A4. Sauna Death
A5. High Energy
A6. Pleasure Is Everything
B1. Taken
B2. Angel Investor
B3. Painkillers
B4. Blue Honda 

After critically acclaimed reissues of their mid-90s material, Seefeel return with their first new music since 2011. Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album which presents a contemporary evolution of their trademark sound. Mainly composed and performed by the core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, with bass on two tracks from Shigeru Ishihara. Mastered by Berlin-based engineer Stefan Betke aka Pole at Scape Mastering, and designed by Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Sky Hooks
A2. Multifolds
A3. Lose The Minus
B1. Antiskeptic
B2. Hooked Paw
B3. End Of Here

On Oceanator’s third full-length album, 'Everything is Love and Death', songwriter Elise Okusami showcases her exceptional pop sensibilities, delivering 11 tracks full of melodic depth and lively energy. Produced by Grammy nominated engineer/producer Will Yip (Title Fight, Turnstile, Bartees Strange), the new album features some of the biggest and boldest songs Okusami has ever written, such as the anthemic and sludgy 'Drift Away', featuring backing vocals from NNAMDÏ.

Oceanator’s music has been praised in outlets such as Stereogum, Pitchfork, NPR and SPIN, who described Okusami as having “the kind of voice that can silence a room.” The band has shared the stage with the likes of Jeff Rosenstock, Laura Jane Grace, PUP, and others with a notable touring history across North America and Europe.

TRACK LISTING

1. First Time
2. Lullaby
3. Cut String
4. Happy New Year
5. Get Out
6. Home For The Weekend
7. Be Here
8. All The Same
9. Drain The Well
10. Drift Away
11. Won't Someone

Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed.

For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been since 2012’s ‘Toward the Low Sun’ – they flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. What else is there to say or do but that? Music’s their language, their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the label says, ‘Love Changes Everything’.

The Dirty Three – Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White – formed up in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar drums and violin or viola, and within a couple years, they’d broken out – out of Australia, out of anything else they might have been inside of, to boot – and got worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet, ceaseless like, and cut seven albums out along the way. After this, their unique style of play, fitted together like puzzle pieces, was decoupled, more often than not, and pieced together in many other, fruitful collaborations with many other esteemed talents. Over the past 20 years, they’ve gotten together a few times, renewed the vow, revved the engines and played some shows, or made an album. Like now –

These are the sounds of Dirty Three getting up to speed again:
- the original fury of their drums/guitar/violin-or-viola power trio, cutting three unique paths through the wild into sudden convergence –
- piano-plucked melodies ringing sweetly out over an undulating landscape flowing with guitar, drums, violin or viola, and synths! And broken hills, forests, lakes and deserts. And mountains rising in the distance...
- mercurial shifts in mood; sudden descent from tumult of flights and heights into deep canyons of heart-struck adagio.

Equally sudden second-winds, feisty activity in their extremities never really ceasing. Opening depths. Wariness and patience allowing them to get caught up in loops, become ambient, transcend, and then fight their way back in again. Their wild and wandering heart not simply a spry derivative of collective sea legs; a telepathy already old as time evidenced way back in the beginning of their thirty-years-and-some run.
- such mood! Once desolate fields pouring full of emotion, wandered into, come upon as if by happenstance (but actually sourced by the divining rods in their hands).

- all of it – everything changed by love and bubbling up with the clarity of just-struck spring water; translucence giving way to muddy gushes of distortion – dirty guitar, smears of violin, drums at times pounded upon beyond the microphones’ ability to receive...

And when received, and committed to “tape”, or whatever they used – the master could well be carved in plates of amphibole – this music has been untethered from its streams of consciousness and reconsidered as a recording; brought to bear through edits, overdubs and mixes, re-sequenced and made suite-like. Made into this album. These lot were born to be as weathered as they are today. Time doesn’t matter. They make their gathered wisdom of the ages sing like something new every time. It renews. And Love Changes Everything. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I've long been a fan of Dirty Three's unique brand of cataclysmic, free-wheeling post-rock / experimental chamber music, and their latest is a brilliant summary of their sound in one grand statement. Sweeping waves of guitar and soaring violin arpeggios break upon the shore into brittle streams of flickering pizzicato and droplets of tentative piano. Stunner.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Love Changes Everything I
Love Changes Everything II
Love Changes Everything III
Side B
Love Changes Everything IV
Love Changes Everything V
Love Changes Everything VI

All Black Everything, the debut EP by UK-based, Parisian bassist, vocalist and composer Amy Gadiaga, is an expansive, boundary-pushing 5-track collection showcasing prodigious bass playing and a voice brimming with power and emotion. It's a profound exploration of self-acceptance that presents both a celebration and acknowledgement of Gadiaga's deep-seated darkness.

Inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement All Black Everything confronts racial identity complexities and the challenges of being a societal 'black sheep' and sees Gadiaga courageously transform her insecurities into a narrative of self-empowerment.

Born to parents of Senegalese, Gambian, and Malian descent, and hailing from the outskirts of Paris, the multitalented Gadiaga has been making waves in the UK music industry since she moved to London aged 18. With a fresh and unique style that bridges the old school jazz tradition of musicians such as Betty Carter and Wayne Shorter with the raw, rootsy modern sound of artists such as D'Angelo, Stevie Wonder and Twinkie Clark, Gadiaga's breadth of ambition and revitalising approach have brought early critical acclaim and ardent fans.

Signalling the arrival of a significant new voice on the London music scene, All Black Everything communicates the liberating essence of embracing individuality and presents a journey through Gadiaga's personal struggles, standing as a testament to art's transformative power and encouraging listeners to find strength in their uniqueness. "All Black Everything is very much an exploration and embracing of one of my archetypes in life which is the black bird/black sheep" she explains. "That feeling of not thinking you belong anywhere, of being misunderstood and really tending to your own. No helping hand. But it's ok sometimes because you also feel like nobody can compete with you, you're one of a kind."

TRACK LISTING

1. Paloma Negra
2. Soar When I'm Alone
3. Full Sun (해찬)
4. Petite
5. All Black Everything

Celebrating 45 years of Blancmange, Everything Is Connected (Best Of) is the first collection to be curated by Neil Arthur, tastefully blending a mixture of hits and personal favourites. Originally from the UK’s post punk DIY scene, Blancmange found success in 1982, long player ‘Happy Families’ selling Gold in the UK, and its 3 singles becoming international hits. They went on to have 7 Top 40 hits and 70 weeks in the UK album charts. Long-standing admirers include Moby, John Grant and Honey Dijon, who states that “British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that.”

TRACK LISTING

LP:
Side One
1 Living On The Ceiling
2 Waves
3 Blind Vision
4 Don’t Tell Me
5 The Day Before You Came
Side Two
1 What’s The Time?
2 Distant Storm
3 Mindset
4 Reduced Voltage
5 Some Times These

CD:
Disc 1
1 Sad Day (Original Version)
2 I’ve Seen The Word
3 God’s Kitchen
4 Feel Me
5 Living On The Ceiling
6 Waves
7 Game Above My Head (12 Inch Version)
8 Blind Vision
9 That’s Love, That It Is
10 Vishnu
11 Don’t Tell Me
12 The Day Before You Came
13 What’s Your Problem
14 Lose Your Love
15 Why Don’t They Leave Things Alone
16 Drive Me
17 I’m Having A Coffee
18 The Western
19 Just Another Spectre
Disc 2
1 The Fall
2 Last Night (I Dreamt I Had A Job)
3 Jack Knife (Red Shift EP)
4 What’s The Time?
5 We Are The Chemicals
6 Anna Dine
7 Distant Storm
8 I Smashed Your Phone
9 Not A Priority
10 Mindset
11 This Is Bliss
12 Clean Your House
13 Commercial Break
14 Some Times These
15 Reduced Voltage
16 Take Me
17 Again, I Wait For The World
18 Wish
19 Empty Street 

Their third collaboration with Grammy Award winning producer Dave Fridmann, “Nothing/Everything” will be released on ltd edition bright yellow 7” ” vinyl with more out of this world art-work by illustrator Casey Raymond.

Nothing/Everything is a wistful, stark, magnificent seven minute psychedelic epic. It’s The Lovely Eggs as you’ve never heard them before. “Nothing/Everything is the Yin/Yang of life,” explains Holly. “There’s hope and despair, patience and frustration, birth and death, the mundane and the extraordinary. It’s the magnificence of “Being” walking hand in hand alongside life’s daily grind. This song is simply what is. It’s not looking forward or back. It’s us now. It’s uplifting and it’s tragic.

It is probably the longest and most meaningful song we’ve ever written and recorded. It’s our magnum opus about life.”

With the full 7 minute and two second version on the A side, the B gives you the radio edit.

In another world, society has built an immense mountain.

To make the mountain bigger, they must make the hole they live in deeper and deeper. All of society is built around the creation of the mountain, and a mountain religion dominates all thought. At the top of the mountain is rumoured to be a huge mirror that reflects endlessly recurring images of the self, and at the bottom of the pit is a giant golden snake that is the primal fear of all believers. A “Mountainhead” is one who believes the mountain must grow no matter the cost, and no matter how terrible it is to dwell in the great pit.

The taller the mountain, the deeper the hole.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Solid gold synth-pop perfection here from Everything Everything, with bright guitar stabs and echoing percussive snaps perfectly working behind Higgs' huge sounding, perfectly fitting vocals. It's a triumphant, majestic return for EE.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wild Guess
2. The End Of The Contender
3. Cold Reactor
4. Buddy, Come Over
5. R U Happy?
6. The Mad Stone
7. TV Dog
8. Canary
9. Don’t Ask Me To Beg
10. Enter The Mirror
11. Your Money, My Summer
12. Dagger’s Edge
13. City Song
14. The Witness

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. The soundtrack of the award-winning documentary includes timeless hits from Little Richard like “Tutti Frutti”, “Rip It Up”, and “Long Tall Sally”, plus two covers from Valerie June and Cory Henry, and a piece from the film’s original score, composed by Tamar-Kali Brown.

TRACK LISTING

Good Golly, Miss Molly – Little Richard
Strange Things Happening Every Day – Valerie June
Baby (demo) – Little Richard
I’m Just A Lonely Guy (all Alone) – Little Richard
Tutti Frutti – Little Richard And His Band
Long Tall Sally – Little Richard And His Band
Lucille – Little Richard And His Band
Bama Lama Bama Loo – Little Richard
Rip It Up – Little Richard And His Band
Ready Teddy – Little Richard And His Band
The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard And His Band
Send Me Some Lovin’ – Little Richard And His Band
Tutti Frutti – Cory Henry
Legacy – Tamar-kali Brown

The Big Moon are excited to announce the deluxe edition of their third album Here Is Everything. The album features remixes from Marika Hackman and Art School Girlfriend, brand new tracks ‘Summer Still Comes’ and ‘Round Forever’ (which sees bassist Celia Archer on lead-vocals duty for the first time), as well as some exclusive live versions of album tracks.

Celia Archer on ‘Round Forever’ –
"Round Forever is about all the time and energy we spend trying to understand ourselves and other people so that we can properly communicate and what a gift that can be. It’s also about how sometimes that’s all a total waste of time and you need to stop working and overthinking and let it go!"

Following a storming summer of festivals, including a packed slot at Glastonbury in June, The Big Moon recently announced a run of UK + EU shows for December this year. The tour kicks off in Genk on 5th December, taking in Paris, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford, finishing up at London’s Union Chapel for a very special stripped-back performance on 18th December. Tickets are on sale now.

Here is Everything focuses on motherhood, with lead vocalist Jules Jackson giving birth during its inception. The rest of the band doubled-down in the studio, taking Jules’ embryonic song frameworks and stepping forward as one, revelling in an innate, giddy togetherness and with a clutch of genuinely fantastic tunes.

Here Is Everything was mostly self-produced, with the expert guidance and expertise of co-producers CECIL (Self Esteem, Jehnny Beth, PJ Harvey) and the Grammy Award winning producer Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Deer Hunter, and the producer of Walking Like We Do).

TRACK LISTING

1. 2 Lines
2. Wide Eyes
3. Daydreaming
4. This Love
5. Suckerpunch
6. My Very Best
7. Ladye Bay
8. Trouble
9. High And Low
10. Magic
11. Satellites

BONUS TRACKS
1. Summer Still Comes
2. Round Forever
3. 2 Lines (Live At The HAC Bow)
4. This Love (Live At The HAC Bow)
5. Satellites (Live At The HAC Bow)
6. Suckerpunch (Marika Hackman Remix)
7. Trouble (Art School Girlfriend Remix)

The mid to late 1960s in Brazil produced the creative arts and music movement Tropicalia, of which the band Os Mutantes were the most outrageous. Their creative cannibalism produced psychedelic gems unlike anything happening anywhere at the time. They were exactly what their name implies - a mutant genetic recombination of of elements of John Cage, The Beatles (circa "Sgt Pepper") and bossa nova. This collection brings together the best tracks from the four albums they released between 1968 and 1971; "Os Mutantes", "Mutantes", "A Divina Cemedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado" and "Jardim Eletrico".

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ando Meio Desligado
A2. Ave, Lúcifer
A3. Dia
A4. Baby (1971)
A5. Fuga No. II
A6. Cantor De Mambo
A7. Adeus, Maria Fulô
B1. Desculpe, Babe
B2. El Justiciero
B3. Panis Et Circenses
B4. A Minha Menina
B5. Bat Macumba
B6. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
B7. Baby (1968)

THE PICCADILLY RECORDS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2023.

Everything Is Alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it.

While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995’s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what’s come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for 2023 and beyond.

For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here Slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is hopeful.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: When Slowdive returned in 2014, there was a real sense of jubilation and satisfaction that the shoegaze legends were finally getting their well deserved dues and plaudits. However in the years following their return, the world's landscape changed significantly. Not just on a global scale, but also on a personal level for members of the band. 'everything is alive' was born during a heavy period of grief, which can be felt on the closer “The Slab” - a visceral and overwhelming wall of sound that you just want to crawl into for solace and to escape the troubles of the world.
Despite these moments of sadness, there is real artistry in the way Slowdive manages to reflect on the human experience and how we navigate it throughout our lives. This in turn results in an absolute marvel of a record, with some of Slowdive's best work to date. Opener “Shanty” is an all-consuming shoegaze epic of colossal proportions, whilst the gorgeous “Prayer Remembered” is an atmospheric slice of ambient perfection that harks back to Slowdive's 1990 debut EP. The dreamy ”Alife” swirls amongst Rachel Goswell's ethereal vocals, which is then followed by the stripped back and vulnerable delivery of Neil Halstead on the exquisite and delicate “Andalucia Plays”. Then there's “Kisses”, the album's most 'pop' moment but also one of its best. Finally, we have the woozy headiness of “Skin In The Game” and the synth led and almost post-rock “Chained To A Cloud”, both of which just further emphasise the greatness of 'everything is alive'.
With 'everything is alive', Slowdive are well and truly full of life. Whilst their 2017 self-titled felt like a celebration of their legacy, the poignancy and beauty of 'everything is alive' feels like Slowdive never left and we hope they stay with us forever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Shanty
2. Prayer Remembered
3. Alife
4. Andalucia Plays
5. Kisses
6. Skin In The Game
7. Chained To A Cloud
8.. The Slab

Everything Will Change is a feature-length documentary concert film of The Postal Service’s performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA during their 2013 reunion tour. A collaboration between Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (from Dntel), with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, The Postal Service released Give Up, their one and only album, in 2003. That record went on to sell over a million copies and most of the band’s fans never had the chance to see them perform live. In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Give Up, the band reunited to tour the world. Everything Will Change captures one of the nights when everything did change. 

TRACK LISTING

1. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
2. We Will Become Silhouettes
3. Sleeping In
4. Turn Around
5. Nothing Better
6. Recycled Air
7. Be Still My Heart
8. Clark Gable
9. Our Secret
10.This Place Is A Prison
11. A Tattered Line Of String
12. Such Great Heights
13. Natural Anthem
14. (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan
15. Brand New Colony

Everything Is Alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it.

While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995’s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what’s come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for 2023 and beyond.

For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here Slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is hopeful.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Hallelujah! The Kings and Queens of Shoegaze return with a beautiful record which feels like everything you'd want from a new Slowdive LP. It ticks all the boxes. Everything they've done rolled into one blissed-out dream. It's brilliant!

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
1. Shanty
2. Prayer Remembered
3. Alife
4. Andalucia Plays
SIDE B:
5. Kisses
6. Skin In The Game
7. Chained To A Cloud
8.. The Slab

Formed in Manchester in 2007 after Jonathan Higgs and Jeremy Pritchard met at Salford University; they were joined by Higgs's Northumberland school friends Michael Spearman and Alex Niven - High concept coursed through Everything Everything from the off: they unwittingly named themselves after a Radiohead song (in the manner that that band named themselves after a Talking Heads song); soon there was a great deal of record company interest in their work - Niven left the group to take his doctorate at Oxford and was replaced by Alex Robertshaw – this line up remains intact today

Working with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten (aka Faultline), the recording of Man Alive was completed mainly in a chapel in North Wales. The album sounded unique. Nothing dates like the future, yet Man Alive sounds dateless, placeless, and as a result, stands up perfectly many years later.

Man Alive was only the beginning of the group's adventures in – to use their words – 'Mismatched styles of music mashed together.' The result is often exhilarating; there are Brazilian drums and a prog guitar breakdown in Schoolin', classical influences, as well. Its subject matter is often way outside the realms of conventional songwriting; MY KZ, UR BF explored the different Americas: the cosy self-centred domesticity of programmes such as Friends versus a foreign policy based on killing

The album's artwork was striking – a photograph of a fox by Swiss photographer, Laurent Geslin, reflecting the track Tin (The Manhole) which deals with the theme of depression, through, as the band said in 2010, "the story of an urban fox that ingests all our pollution and grows massively in a sort of dream sequence. We chose photos of an urban fox for this reason, but we partly attacked the code of the digital image to create a glitch distortion . . . a reference to digital manipulation and chaos as well as our modern lives online".

TRACK LISTING

Standard LP Tracklisting
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form / Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights

Deluxe LP Tracklisting
MY KZ, UR BF
Qwerty Finger
Schoolin'
Leave The Engine Room
Final Form / Photoshop Handsome
Two For Nero
Suffragette Suffragette
Come Alive Diana
NASA Is On Your Side
Tin (The Manhole)
Weights
Luddites & Lambs
Suffragette Suffragette (2008 Single Version)
Crisis Over (Demo)
Come Alive Diana (Demo)
Hey Jude Law (Demo)
The Kids Are Obese (Demo)
Riot On The Ward
DNA Dump
Photoshop Handsome (2009 Single Version)
Even The Dogs / Hiawatha Doomed
Schoolin’ (Acoustic)
Wizard Talk

Former Mind & Matter bandmates James “Jimmy Jam” Harris and Michael Dixon teamed up for 1978’s gospel-boogie banger “You’re All I Need” b/w “You’re Everything” on the private Mad label.

TRACK LISTING

A. You’re Everything
B. You’re All I Need

As the world burns Dog of Man release their second full length album - Everything is Easy. This is exactly what you need right now.

This is music to lose your shit to, a ritual of intense catharsis. For those seeking a way out, Everything is Easy could well be your party record.

Despite the ironic title, Everything is Easy delves into neuroses, madness and breakdown, delivered with punchy grooves, spidery guitar lines and gloriously distorted accordion. Recorded live to two-inch tape at Brixton Hill Studios and mixed on the tape down to a single stereo track, then mastered on another tape. Dog of Man ditched the editing software, instead chasing a raw, tight and breathless vibe that captures the frantic energy of the live shows.

The debut album from Keeley, Ireland’s rising stars of the modern dreampop scene. Fronted by enigmatic singer-songwriter-guitarist Keeley Moss, whose singular vision has created an amazing buzz amongst the global dreampop and nu-gaze music scene. Her songs draw from the energy of classic rock and the lyricism of folk and pop traditions, exuding a maturity about which Irish broadcaster Fiachna Ó Braonáin noted...
"Keeley goes further and deeper and carries us into a musical dreamworld that reaches in and out all at once."

Produced by Alan Maguire with mixes by veteran engineer Paul Tipler (House Of Love, Placebo, Stereolab).

Features the internationally acclaimed rocker “The Glitter And The Glue” as heard on Steve Lamacq, Radcliffe & Maconie (6Music), Mickey Bradley (BBC Radio Ulster), Rhys Mwyn (BBC Radio Cymru), and John Kennedy (Radio X), for whom she recorded a session in October 2022.

Vinyl and CD come with a special lyric insert.

TRACK LISTING

01. Seeing Everything
02. Arrive Alive
03. The Glitter And The Glue
04. Floating Above Everything Else
05. To A London Sunrise
06. Echo Everywhere
07. Forever’s Where You Are
08. Never Here Always There
09. You Never Made It That Far
10. Totally Entranced
11. Shine A Light

Married around a shared love of machine-led funk, outsider soul, 70s-80s nautica and 21st century basement disco, Bright & Findlay (formed of multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright and Groove Armada's Tom Findlay) are set to release their debut album 'Everything Is Slow' on 9th June via Athens Of The North.

After hearing James' 2019 single 'Tigers Roar' on the radio, Tom reached out to see if they could work together on some new music for Groove Armada's last studio album 'Edge Of The Horizon'. While three tracks from these sessions made the album, the two concurrently struck up a friendship in creating a musical language of their own, leading them to form the beginnings of a new partnership tagged Bright & Findlay.

The first Bright & Findlay release, 2021's 'Slow Dance' EP, was Gilles Peterson included it in his tracks of the year, they recorded a Block Party mix for Huey Morgan and it also received support from Don Letts, Tom Ravenscroft, Bill Brewster, Dam Funk (Apple Music), Bluey (STR4RA/Incognito), KCRW, Triple J and beyond.

With a blueprint laid out, the pair began work on more songs, initially exchanging sketches back and forth between their respective studios before adding and subtracting, layering and finessing an album's worth of music. The pair share production and instrumental work across the record, with James taking vocals and guitars and Tom's ear for arrangement proving second to none.

Opening with the low end arpeggio of 'Hello In The Dark (Standing)', the instant earworm groove of 'Fireflies', and the underground soul hit 'Slow Dance'; the album has a stunning move and feel to it, packed front to back with sunshine boogie, cosmic disco and lashings of Balearic funk.

'When I Look Into The World' is the beautifully melancholic downbeat highlight of the album, featuring a touching string arrangement from James that counterbalances Tom's strong bassline. It comes across like a rediscovered private press record, hidden in a dark basement since the early 80s. Tom says "James sent this to me as a demo with just him and his guitar. We've built it into something that tugs at the heartstrings". James adds "The world has been and always will be a beautifully chaotic and equally troubling place. For me this song wraps up the light and shade of life on Earth as a human".

Club needs are also accounted for with the Dâm-Funk inspired 'Space & Time' and the Metro Area vibe of 'NY Disco (Smile)'. Tom says "As the name suggests, 'NY Disco' is inspired by the Brooklyn disco scene, Morgan Geist, Environ, all that good stuff. All my vintage synths make a guest appearance on this one".

All the artwork for the album and singles is by James (who works under the Fuzzy & Magic tag) and ties back into the feel of their sound. James states "I was inspired by a visit to Charmouth last summer with my family. The rocks and ancient stones we found on the beach worked so well as micro sculptures whilst I was listening back to the mixes of the record. There was a real light and shade texture from the stones that I felt complimented the music and songs".

TRACK LISTING

1. Hello In The Dark (Standing)
2. Fireflies
3. Slow Dance
4. When I Look Into The World
5. Flowers
6. Everything Is Slow
7. It's Only Rain
8. Leave It All Behind
9. Space & Time
10. NY Disco (Smile)
11. Doom

On Everything Harmony, the fourth full-length studio release from New York’s The Lemon Twigs, the prodigiously talented brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario offer 13 original servings of beauty that showcase an emotional depth and musical sophistication far beyond their years as a band, let alone as young men.

Everything Harmony successfully blends the brothers’ distinct personalities while giving voice to their eclectic influences. Opening the album with the unassuming acoustic folk of plaintive “When Winter Comes Around,” which echoes the sophisticated grandeur of classic Simon & Garfunkel recordings, they immediately switch things up to the sunny classic pop motif of “In My Head.” “Corner of My Eye” channels an Art Garfunkel-like vocal melody over a moody, vibraphone-tinged backing track suggesting the chamber pop of Brian Wilson.

While they had no grand concept for Everything Harmony, both the D’Addarios felt a “palpable mood of defeat” prevailed while writing and recording it. “New To Me” was inspired by their shared experience with loved ones suffering from Alzheimer’s, “What You Were Doing” is dressed in the tortured jangle of vintage Big Star, while “Born To Be Lonely,” written after watching John Cassavetes’ Opening Night, deals with what Brian calls “the fragility that often comes with age.”

Everything Harmony is a unified song cycle born of shared blood and common purpose. With two musical heads being better than one, there’s no shortage of ideas to draw on. Their only impediments are time and the challenge of keeping up with their own prolific musical inspiration. “We share an intuition and tend to be influenced by one another,” says Brian, “so the lyrical ideas on this record tend to complement each other. Writing has never been the issue for us. It’s completing, editing and compiling that takes the time. We’re trapped in a web of songs!”

TRACK LISTING

1. When Winter Comes Around
2. In My Head
3. Corner Of My Eye
4. Any Time Of Day
5. What You Were Doing
6. I Don’t Belong To Me
7. Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life
8. What Happens To A Heart
9. Still It’s Not Enough
10. Born To Be Lonely
11. Ghost Run Free
12. Everything Harmony
13. New To Me

Everything But The Girl - aka EBTG - was formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Their debut single was a stark jazz-folk cover of Cole Porter's Night and Day.

Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn’s unique voice and Watt’s arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul.

In the 1990 they released three albums, Amplified Heart, Walking Wounded and Temperamental, which gained them huge critical acclaim and commercial success. Then in 2000 they chose to quit. Tracey focused on family life away from the spotlight before returning with a run of solo albums and best-selling autobiographical books. Ben moved into DJing and remixing, and launched the respected electronic label, Buzzin' Fly. He returned to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020.

Now at last, the duo return with their new LP, which sees Tracey’s distinctive dolorous vocals topping their downtempo grooves. And as you’d expect, the songwriting is exemplary. Some, 20 years on, it feels like a natural progression from their ‘90s sound, filtered through the uncertainty and confusion of the intervening years.

TRACK LISTING

1. Nothing Left To Lose
2. Run A Red Light
3. Caution To The Wind
4. When You Mess Up
5. Time And Time Again
6. No One Knows We’re Dancing
7. Lost
8. Forever
9. Interior Space
10. Karaoke

Emotive, break-beat minimalist trio GoGo Penguin are back, with their brand new album “Everything Is Going to Be OK”. Bursting with the optimism of new beginnings, with a new drummer, their new record label, (Sony Records' electronica and classical imprint XXIM Records), and a subtly updated and developed sound, the band are ushering in a more ambient era.

“Everything Is Going to Be OK” is born from a time of turbulence and loss. During an oppressive grieving period, the studio offered the band a sanctuary from real life. The resulting project, given such vibrant life here, draws its strength from a shared understanding and empathy. Life has many great aspects to it and despite the lows, we should be mindful and grateful to celebrate the highs at every turn. Through our hardships, we will emerge stronger - everything is going to be ok.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I've loved GoGo Penguin in every iteration of their sound thus far. Minimal loungy jazz business, flickering electronica and grooving soulful instrumentals, they've all been brilliant. It's a big thing then, when I say with some confidence then that the optimistic melodic turns and perfectly produced hazy flicker of 'Everything Is Going To Be Ok' is by far my favourite GGP sound yet. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

You’re Stronger Than You Think
Glimmerings
Saturnine
Glow
Friday Film Special
Soon Comes Night
An Unbroken Thread Of Awareness
We May Not Stay
Everything Is Going To Be OK
Last Breath
You’re Stronger Than You Think (Revisit)
Parasite
Sanctuary

Everything Returns reconvenes the original Black Ox Orkestar lineup after a 15-year hiatus. Arising from the fertile Montréal post-punk scene of the early 2000s, the band comprises Scott Gilmore, Jessica Moss and Thierry Amar of Thee Silver Mt. Zion (Amar also continues to compose and play bass for Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Gabriel Levine of Sackville. Black Ox made two acclaimed albums of roiling acoustic avant-folk in the mid-2000s, exploring Eastern European and North African folkways through the lens of a gritty, resonant indie rock sensibility, juxtaposing interpretations of instrumentals from various Jewish, Romani and Arabic traditions with originals led by Gilmore’s politically-charged Yiddish vocals. These early albums have since become lodestars for many among a new generation of Yiddish, Klezmer and radical Jewish diasporic music practitioners and fans.

First revealing its resurrection in February 2022 with a surprise flexi 7” single issued by leftist magazine Jewish Currents as a gift to its thousands of subscribers, Black Ox has indeed fully and fruitfully reunited. Exquisitely recorded by Greg Norman (Jason Molina, Nina Nastasia, Electrical Audio), Everything Returns picks up right where the band left off: an incisively atmospheric, melancholic yet resolute album of uniquely modern Jewish folk music, with piano, violin, upright bass, clarinet and cymbalom making up the core instrumentation, and the vocal tunes sung primarily in Yiddish, alongside album centerpiece “Viderkol” and closer “Lamed-Vovnik” where English also features.

This is not fusion music, but diaspora music: a cross-cultural call and response of musical lexicons, emerging from the history of Jewish persecution and displacement, the musicology of 19th century repertoire from Jewish shtetls, the improvisational traditions of nusakh in Jewish music and taqsim in Arabic music, and a wider polyglot dialogue of Jewish, Slavic, Arabic, and Central Asian musical traditions. Lyrically and stylistically, Everything Returns connects key current issues—from refugees forced to leave their homes, to the return of fascism and exclusionary nationalism—with the legacy of modernist Yiddish poetry and song.

The new Black Ox Orkestar album is a sublime, poetic, politically-informed statement of re-energized diasporic musical intent, where Gilmore’s voice and the band’s simmering arrangements conjure an ardent, doleful balladry that echoes the sound and sensibility of artists like Tindersticks, The National, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. Everything Returns is a haunting, richly textured, darkly sparkling song cycle at once from a vanished world and very much of our time and place.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A hugely welcome return for one of the most affecting voices in CST history here, with Black Ox Orkestar bringing us the appropriately titled 'Everything Returns'. Swooning folksong and filmic whimsy come together with an unfalteringly well-written flair. There are many reasons that CST are probably my favourite label of all time, and Black Ox Orkestar are one of them. Beautiful.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tish Nign
2. Perpetual Peace
3. Oysgeforn / Bessarabia Hora
4. Mizrakh Mi Ma’arav
5. Skotschne
6. Viderkol (Echo)
7. Epigenetik
8. Moldovan Zhok
9. Lamed-Vovnik

For the first time ever, Love’s original run of singles from 1966 to 1969 are collected and reissued, together along with two exclusive 7”s. The first vinyl box set from one of the all-time great psych-pop bands should thrill and enlighten fans in equal measure.

New Land were granted access to the original analogue master tapes courtesy of Rhino / Warner and all tracks were remastered especially for these singles by Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Bill Inglot.

Presented inside a deluxe box with spot-on gloss finish, the eight 7” singles, each featuring unique and original picture sleeves with Elektra-style New Land labels.

The two bonus singles include the previously promotional only ‘Que Vida’ / ‘Hey Joe’ and the newly created ‘Always See Your Face’ / ‘August’ single.

At the centre of this set is a 62-page booklet featuring track-by-track annotation by original guitarist Johnny Echols and in-depth liner notes from Grammy Award-nominated writer Andrew Sandoval. For this package the label have unearthed never-before-seen photographs of the band and included rare posters, singles, original master tapes and more. Every set also comes with a set of two promotional postcards.

Licensed with the blessing of Elektra Records founder and the man who signed Love, Jac Holzman, this is the first time a release has been put together which focuses on the band’s incredible run of singles through the 1960s.

“The musicians known collectively as Love were a group of five uniquely talented individuals... and though the full story of this fascinating cast of characters has yet to be told, this boxset represents a small sample of the body of work produced by this group and has proven to be timeless.” - Johnny Echols.

A must have for any fan, this is the ultimate collector’s item. The music inside shines brighter than ever.

Debut studio album on Columbia Records from Manchester born & London based R&B singer and songwriter Pip Millett. She has previously released three EPs - 'Do Well' (2019), 'Lost in June' (2020) and 'Motion Sick' (2021). Although R&B musician Pip Millet hails from Manchester, her soulfully somber vocals have serenaded the ears (and hearts) of music lovers across the globe this past year.

Now, with the announcement of her highly anticipated debut album ''When Everything Is Better, I’ll Let You Know'', the singer and songwriter takes one step further into the global spotlight. Serving as a two for one, the news of the debut album comes in tandem with a brand new single titled “Slow." And don't let the title of her debut single on the project fool you, Millet is not slowing down any time soon. If "Slow" is any indication of what to expect from the album...the songstress is set for global domination. "Slow" comes to life through a black and white visual directed by KC Locke, showcasing the tracks soulful ethos that perfectly encapsulates the thrills and subtleties of young love. Millet eloquently flirts with romance throughout the entire track, describing how to adorn her. Featuring her sultry tones, “Slow” captures the essence of womanhood—a prominent theme to expect through the rest of her forthcoming album. When Everything Is Better, I’ll Let You Know is set to be released on October 21st. The album will prove to be Millet's strongest body of work consisting of seventeen tracks where she acknowledges her personal growth, explores self-love infused with narratives of the highs and lows of love. Her raw lyricism allows listeners to witness all the paths that have led to the woman (and artist) she is today. Millet radiates maturity while reflecting on the current cultural landscape around her, having a point of view that translates both inside and outside of the studio. 

THEMES: Motherhood, parenthood, birth, lockdown, friendships, love.

The last time you heard them it was welcoming the release of their dazzling second album, Walking Like We Do, back in January 2020, when life was very different to how it is now. That was a coming-of-age record, bold songs for Saturday nights and sad songs for Sunday mornings. So much has changed, continues to change, and promises to change some more. And in this world of constant change, we yearn for the familiarity of a constant. Thankfully, one constant remains the unique, jubilant, unassailable bond that sews this brilliant London band together and what that does for their music, too. Another such constant is their collective ear for melody and knack for writing smart, sharp, and infectious indie-pop knockouts.

Like so many records landing in store and on streaming services right now, Here Is Everything was conceived during the weight and worry of lockdown in a pandemic. Worlds were turned upside down and inside out. Lives became seismically different, whilst every day a carbon copy of the last. So, whilst Covid pulled the duvet tightly up over our heads and sat on it whilst we muffle-screamed that we could not breathe, it was also the unlikely backdrop to welcoming new life. Vocalist Juliette Jackson might have started lockdown teaching fans how to play guitar on Zoom to help pay the rent (including, to her eternal bemusement, one Courtney Love), she ended it as mother to a super little human being.

Here is Everything documents the arrival of that fragile but mighty baby in real time, and the excitement and fear felt by this fragile but mighty mother. Meanwhile, the rest of the band doubled-down in the studio, taking Jules’ embryonic song frameworks and stepping forward as one, revelling in an innate, giddy togetherness and with a clutch of genuinely fantastic tunes.

The record is introduced today by Wide Eyes, a pure, uplifting song of collective jubilance. It sounds like a band in the form of their lives, having the time of their lives, and against all the odds. It sounds instantly like The Big Moon whilst sounding unlike any of the music that’s gone before it.

Here Is Everything was mostly self-produced, with the expert guidance and expertise of Adam Cecil Bartlett (Self Esteem, Jehnny Beth, PJ Harvey) and the Grammy Award winning producer Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Deer Hunter, and the producer of Walking Like We Do).

TRACK LISTING

1. 2 Lines
2. Wide Eyes
3. Daydreaming
4. This Love
5. Sucker Punch
6. My Very Best
7. Ladye Bay
8. Trouble
9. High & Low
10. Magic
11. Satellites

Esmerine presents Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More, its first album in five years, following a celebrated run of Juno Award winning and nominated records throughout the preceding decade. Founded by ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor percussionist Bruce Cawdron and cellist Rebecca Foon (Saltland, Silver Mt Zion, Set Fire To Flames), the acclaimed instrumental music ensemble and has long embroidered emotive chamber works using threads of post-classical, post-rock, Minimalism, neo-Baroque, jazz, pop and a wide array of folk traditions. Esmerine conjures a distinctive and immediately identifiable sound that consistently defies the trappings of “fusion”, forging emotive cinematic soundtracks under the overriding sonic sensibilities of postpunk grit, Wall-of-Sound, drone and dark ambient. Recorded by longtime co-producer Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes), the new album manifestly carries on in this fine tradition. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More completes Esmerine’s “Anthropocene” triptych: a series of album-length meditations that began in 2015.

[The phrase "Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More" was coined by author Alexei Yurchak in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, published by Princeton University Press in 2005]

The album grapples with existential tensions between atmosphere and airlessness, seclusion and claustrophobia, forbearance and satiation, scarcity and abundance; it is one of Esmerine’s most restrained and wistful works. Instrumental densities ebb and flow, melding into each other with gauzy timbral warmth, sometimes tracing fleeting tendrils outwards, but always rotating around the saturnine gravitational force of a darkly glowing sonic center. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More is like a somber forest lit by a closely-orbiting opalescent planet; it could be the alternate score to Von Trier’s Melancholia or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Esmerine planted these compositional seeds before pandemic rooted everyone in place, under the auspices of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and a 2019 residency at Le Château de Monthelon in France. Lasek then began documenting the band between lockdowns in various stripped-down configurations with spartan remote equipment at the rural Québec homesteads of Cawdron and Foon, culminating in final sessions at Foon’s converted barn in summer/fall 2021, notably with extensive use of the barn’s resonant acoustic piano. Brian Sanderson appears on his fourth Esmerine album since joining in 2012, continuing to expand the ensemble’s ethnomusicological sensibility and melodic sound palette with guitars, ngoni, ekonting, hulusi, and brass horns of all sorts. Everything Was Forever… also signals the full integration of bassist Philippe Charbonneau, who joined Esmerine as a touring member pre-pandemic and plays throughout the new album, along with sound design contributions via synth, tape echo and other processing. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More features the pandemic collage artwork of Maciek Sczcerbowksi, in a second Esmerine album art collaboration following their Juno award for Album Package of the Year for Lost Voices in 2015

TRACK LISTING

A1 Blackout
A2 Entropy – Incantation / Radiance / The Wild Sea
A3 Entropy – Acquiescence A4 Hymn For Rob
B1 Imaginary Pasts
B2 Fractals For Any Tonality
B3 Foxtails & Fireflies
B4 Wakesleep
B5 Number Stations

Cult producer Princess Chelsea crafted her upcoming “nervous breakdown album” Everything is Going to be Alright, at home in pastoral Aotearoa New Zealand. The album, due this October, is a comforting offering. These aren’t wallowing sad songs, instead, they chronicle Chelsea Nikkel's recovery, and provide a hopeful and cathartic listen.

Princess Chelsea’s cinematic, dreamy pop has been refined over 11 years, five albums, an E.P, and 11 singles. Her delivery and songwriting is distinctive for layering almost naive earnestness with cynical, tongue-in-check wit and aural sparkles. Her 2018 girl group meets grunge track ‘I Love My Boyfriend’ and her 2011 Nancy & Lee inspired ‘Cigarette Duet’ have recently raised their heads into a wider public consciousness via the grass roots influence of a new Tik Tok Generation.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Everything Is Going To Be Alright
2. The Forest
3. Love Is More
4. Time
5. I Don’t Know You
SIDE B
6. Forever Is A Charm
7. We Kick Around
8. In Heaven
9. Dream Warrior
10. Everything Is Going To Be Alright (Pt. 2)

Imperfect Stranger is the pseudonym of Glasgow based soundtrack composer and producer Kenny Inglis. “Everything Wrong is Right” is his debut solo album for Castles in Space.

Born in 1975, Kenny didn't listen to much music, unless it was the opening credits to a TV show or a film score that had caught his ear. "I loved the pre-title music on a lot of those 80's U.S. TV shows. From the family orientated stuff like The A-Team, to darker dramas such as The Equalizer. My mother would let me stay up to watch the opening sequence of the latter then send me to bed because the story would be too heavy for a kid. That left me with this hanging sense of ambiguity as to what would happen in that hour after the titles came up.”

Exposure to a work colleague’s tiny project studio in a kitchen cupboard was a lightbulb moment for him and the experience of utilising music technology as a way of writing and producing entire tracks stirred a wave of determination to chase a career in music using the opportunities that technology could offer. Kenny figured the best way to move forward was to start a small project studio and learn his craft as a recording engineer. "It was a bit of a shock to the system. I literally had no idea how to work any of the equipment. Kenny focused on learning as much about the craft as he could whilst winging his way through recording and mixing everyone from the likes of singer/songwriters to bands, to voiceovers artists and anything in between. "Eventually, I stopped writing the music I thought people would want to hear, and started writing the music I wanted to make. I didn't come from a music loving background, but I was always obsessed by the way music and film would interact - how music brings this atmosphere and tone to even the most mundane visual stuff. I wanted to capture that. I wanted to grab some of that ambiguity I felt from the TV shows of my childhood and make it into a project of some sort". That project was Spylab. A dark, downtempo project with a cinematic edge. The initial demo consisted of three tracks, with the melancholic 'This Utopia' leading the playlist.

"At the time you did demos on normal cassette tapes. I remember having this endless battle with the bias control to try and get the best sound I could on these little tapes. Ten went in the post one Monday morning, and the following Monday there were three offers from three different labels. Studio K7 were interested in a singles deal, as was Flying Rhino in London. But then there was an offer from a Chicago based label by the name of Guidance Recordings. They wanted an album, and were offering a $15,000 advance. It wasn't a difficult decision to make"

Writing and recording Spylab 'This Utopia' began in 1999. The album took a whole year to produce. The album was to catch the attention of Mary Anne Hobbs at Radio One. At the time Mary Anne was presenting The Breezeblock - a late Sunday night show with an eclectic playlist of alternative electronic music. Picking out the album's title track 'This Utopia', Mary Anne would go on to play it no less than 8 weeks in a row. A request for Spylab to DJ on the show was to follow. "I had never DJ'd before. I think I had a week to figure out how to do that and put a playlist together. I'm not entirely sure how I pulled that off.” In March 2001 the Spylab album was finally released to a hoard of excellent reviews. A North American live tour would follow. From the launch party in Los Angeles, to a sell out show at SXSW in Austin. "I then started a new project under the name Cinephile. It had some of the core elements of the Spylab sound but it was deeper, more cinematic.” Kenny received news that a track from the previous project Spylab had been requested by HBO for the first episode of a new TV drama called Six Feet Under. This was to become a major turning point in Kenny's career. The Spylab track 'Celluloid Hypnotic' dropped during a poignant party scene of the first Six Feet Under episode. Within a couple of days Kenny was getting requests for music from other music supervisors. "It was a chain reaction. The Six Feet Under sync was like the tip of an iceberg. One day I called CBS in America and they put me on to the CSI music supervisor and I managed to get on a call with him. I sent the Cinephile stuff out and within a few months I got this fax through from CBS - a quote request for one of the tracks for a potential use on CSI. It changed my life."

The tone and style of Kenny's music sat perfectly with the CSI score requirements. So much so he found himself part of a pool of incidental writers who worked on all three aspects of the franchise - CSI, CSI: NY, and CSI: Miami. This would continue until 2013, when the last of the series would come to an end.

"I was juggling a bunch of stuff for those ten years. Writing material for CSI, whilst releasing new Cinephile stuff and playing live. As Cinephile continued to gather pace, one of the tracks from Kenny's efforts on CSI was chosen for the Hollywood trailer for the Samuel L. Jackson film 'Lakeview Terrace'. Further trailers would follow, from Gangster Squad to Dead Man Down, Spike Lee's Undisputed Truth, to Fifty Shades Freed.

At the same time, Kenny picked up his first factual commissions in the UK, and this too would be the beginning of a regular run of fully scoring factuals and documentaries. By 2021, six of these had won BAFTAs. He also would find himself soundtracking adverts for the likes of Nike, Audi, and American AirlinesIn early 2020, Kenny made a return to focusing on his own music under the pseudonym Imperfect Stranger. A tweet from Colin Morrison from Castles In Space regarding a charity compilation album 'The Isolation Tapes' caught his eye. Kenny had made a start on his debut album as Imperfect Stranger and submitted the track 'Hymn To The Sun' (which would become the lead track on the album). Further discussions ensued, and the album found a home on CiS. "I had been doing TV and film stuff for almost ten years. It paid the bills and was as close to a 'real job' as I'd had, but I yearned to get back to writing for myself, so doing an album for Castles in Space was a joy.

“The music I write is like a diary. There's an authentic narrative to everything i do. I don't write tracks for the sake of writing. I write tracks to diarise and process the stuff that I've lived through, and the experiences that have come along with the passing years. That's what makes me tick. It's a very public and vulnerable way of expressing myself. If people want to know the real me, all they have to do is listen."

Twice Mercury Prize nominated, 5 time Ivor Novello nominated and critically acclaimed, Everything Everything launch their new forthcoming studio album 'Raw Data Feel'.

On Raw Data Feel, Everything Everything set about revolutionising modern pop music, with Higgs abandoning his own brain and letting technology do at least some of the thinking: feeding LinkedIn T&Cs, Beowulf, 4Chan forum text and the teachings of Confucius into A.I. automation processes and using its responses as a basis for the record's lyrics, song titles and artworking.

This new phase is a rapturous return and - staying true to form - sees the band continue to push the ribbon on melody & rhythm with a heavy helping of electronic exploration.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Everything Everything are back! This time taking the fruitful modern phenomena of AI generation and neural networks to produce some of the most effervescent and poppy productions we've heard from EE thus far. It's brilliantly surprising in parts, but so seamlessly put together that you can't fail to enjoy it. Sleek pop perfection.

TRACK LISTING

1. Teletype
2. I Want A Love Like This
3. Bad Friday
4. Pizza Boy
5. Jennifer
6. Metroland Is Burning
7. Leviathan
8. Shark Week
9. Cut UP!
10. HEX
11. My Computer
12. Kevin’s Car
13. Born Under A Meteor
14. Software Greatman

The final William Stuckey release unfortunately did not make it on time for the man himself who sadly passed last year, with support of his family we are very happy to do this 45 justice.

The previously unreleased 'Everything That's Good In Life' A Very suitable unreleased track up there with his finest moments, it's got everything that would have made this a classic over the years and no doubt will make it a future classic for years to come, flipped with an alternate 7" Mix of 'Hold Me Close' this is a rock solid 45. You know what to do.

TRACK LISTING

1. Everything That's Good In Life
2. Hold Me Close (7 Inch Mix)

Sea Power (formerly British) announce what will be their first new album in five years – Everything Was Forever. Their music has won them some remarkable admirers – Lou Reed, David Bowie and London's National Mari- time Museum. Indeed, the BSP fanbase now includes Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. Peter Capaldi is a con- firmed BSP fan. "A band of stark originality," he wrote in his foreword for the reissue of the band's 2003 debut album, The Decline Of British Sea Power. "BSP's songs bring you the bite of the wind, the fury of the sea, and music that is simply exhilarating." Daniel Radcliffe has talked in detail about his plan to get a BSP tattoo (featuring the 2002 T-shirt slogan Bravery Already Exists). Benedict Cumberbatch is also an admirer of the band.

Supported by their ever loyal fans who have very generously crowd funded the making of the next studio LP, BSP were able to get through the ravages of Covid and are on course to release their 7th studio LP later in 2021 and hopefully get back on the road.

Fifteen years on from their first concert, British Sea Power continue to make bold, galvanising, idiosyncratic marks on the world. Race horses and massive ocean-going yachts have been named after the band. London's National Maritime Museum recently opened a new £35m exhibition wing. Visitors are greeted by huge, sculpted quotations from Shakespeare and Coleridge – and a lyric from British Sea Power.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Sea Power return, with 33.3% less name and at the very least 85.6% more dedication to angsty, cinematic rock a-la Arcade Fire / Sufjan / Codes In The Clouds et. al. It's a vibrant and rousing selection, and one that is as beautiful as it is nuanced. Really lovely stuff.

TRACK LISTING

Scaring At The Sky
Transmitter
Two Fingers
Fire Escape In The Sea
Doppelganger
Fear Eats The Soul
Folly
Green Goddess
Lakeland Echo
Vestiges *
Amsterdam *
We Only Want To Make You Happy 

* Bonus Tracks For Deluxe 2LP Editions.

This Very Best Of compilation is the very first, spanning their entire career.

Motörhead are the true embodiment of rock n’roll excess. A hybrid of punk, rock and heavy metal played with relentless, ear-curdling power. They were a force of nature and nothing short of life-changing for millions, their approach to life and music; there was no “off” switch and they became legends as a result. Fronted for their entirety of their career by Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, they released twenty two studio albums over their 40 years together.

Amassing chart topping records, a Grammy award and racking up 15 million worldwide sales. Their signature song, Ace Of Spades perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour, pushing at every musical boundary.

Nothing was harder. Nothing was faster. And certainly nothing was louder. Anyone disputing this fact need look no further than any heavy metal gig and play ‘spot the Motörhead T-shirt and jacket’, they still outnumber anyone else, hands down. Motörhead has truly become a lifestyle for several generations of rockers, metalheads, punks, bikers, athletes, rebels, outcasts, and freethinkers all around the world. Few bands in modern history can instantly ignite the adrenaline of music fans the way they can, they changed the course of hard rock… forever. 

TRACK LISTING

2lp Tracklisting:
overkill
We Are Motorhead
Snaggletooth
Rock It
Iron Fist
R.a.m.o.n.e.s.
Orgasmatron
Burner
In The Name Of Tragedy
Cradle To The Grave
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
The Game
Bomber
1916
Killed By Death
Just Cos You Got The Power
Ace Of Spades
Rock Out
I Am The Sword
God Save The Queen
Queen Of The Damned
Motorhead

4lp Tracklisting:
Overkill
We Are Motorhead
Snaggletooth
Rock It
Orgasmatron
Brotherhood Of Man
In The Name Of Tragedy
Bomber
Sacrifice
The Thousand Names Of God
Love For Sale
Killed By Death
I'm So Bad (baby I Don't Care)
Smiling Like A Killer
Sharpshooter
Queen Of The Damned
Keys To The Kingdom
Cradle To The Grave
Lost Johnny
The Game
Ace Of Spades
Burner
Stone Dead Forever
Bad Woman
Just Cos You Got The Power
Stay Out Of Jail
No Class
I Am The Sword
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
God Save The Queen
R.a.m.o.n.e.s.
Iron Fist
Rock Out
Dirty Love
Shine
Overnight Sensation
On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
I Ain't No Nice Guy
Sucker
1916
Choking On Your Screams
Motorhead

Everything But The Girl's best-selling debut album, 'Eden' is the latest re-release from the duo to benefit from half-speed remastering at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and a fresh 180gm vinyl pressing.

Originally released in May 1984, the album spent almost six months on the official UK album chart peaking at number 14 and spawned the UK Top 40 hit, Each and Every One. The label wanted further singles but the duo preferred the album to grow by word of mouth. 'Eden' achieved gold album status in the UK and has gone on to sell more than 500,000 copies worldwide.

Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn met at the University of Hull in 1981; they formed Everything But The Girl initially as a side-project, as both had already established themselves on the UK independent music scene as teenagers - Tracey with her lo-fi minimal girl group, Marine Girls (later name-checked as one of Kurt Cobain's favourite bands); Ben as a young guitarist and singer-songwriter, collaborating with alt-folk icon Robert Wyatt on his debut EP.

In the summer of 1983 the pair - having each gone on to to release debut solo albums - decided to pool their new songs for 'Eden'. It was recorded with producer Robin Millar (chosen for his work with Weekend and The Pale Fountains) at his Power Plant Studios in Willesden, North West London.

"All the songs were written on guitar in Hull in early 1983. We were living in one room with a shared kitchen on Pearson Park," recalls Tracey. "Power Plant seemed very glamorous by comparison. Sade was recording downstairs. We were upstairs."

The sessions featured a band handpicked by Ben and Tracey: Working Week's Simon Booth on second guitar, This Heat’s Charles Hayward on drums, and South American musicians Chucho Merchan (double bass) and Bosco D’Oliveira (percussion) plus a clutch of top horn players from the English jazz scene. The line-up was part friends from London, part musicians Ben admired from trips to the Bull's Head jazz room with his dad when growing up, in particular Peter King (alto sax).

"We were intent on being non-rock," says Ben. "No clichés. No snare drums, no solid body electric guitars or electric bass. We wanted soft horns, Gretsch guitars, no fuss, a lightness of touch. We were into pop, latin, torch songs, sharp lyrics."

The album was released on the newly-formed imprint Blanco Y Negro (co-run by Mike Alway and Rough Trade's Geoff Travis) through Warner, and signalled Everything But The Girl’s move from an independent - Cherry Red - to a major label.

The artwork by Marine Girls band member Jane Fox was delivered as a three-dimensional collage of hand-drawn art and torn paper. Warner (who were marketing and distributing the record) didn’t really know what to do with it. The original version didn’t even have the name of the band on it. In the end it was photographed and printed on ‘reverse-board stock’ - unusual for a major release at the time.

TRACK LISTING

Each And Every One
Bittersweet
Tender Blue
Another Bridge
The Spice Of Life
The Dustbowl
Crabwalk
Even So
Frost And Fire
Fascination
I Must Confess
Soft Touch

Blackaby - aka London songwriter and multi-instrumentalist William Blackaby - offers-up his first two EPs - 'What's On The TV?' and 'Everything's Delicious' - on limited edition, random coloured recycled 12" vinyl, out 21st May 2021. Blackaby’s 2020 debut EP ‘What’s On The TV?’, released via Hand In Hive, served as a look back at the songwriter’s childhood, recounting hazy playground memories and his messy, formative teenage years. His second collection, ‘Everything’s Delicious’, is described by Blackaby as “another brief flirt with memory lane - not walking down it as much as peering from a safe distance”. In a poem written to accompany the new EP, William writes: “All grown up and what now? Let Time-Out decide. Is that a thin patch? Another day done and dinner’s on. What have I done? Left a mark or a stain?”

TRACK LISTING

1. What's On The TV?
2. Stevenson
3. Warm And Sweet
4. Semolina
5. Sweet Lemonade
6. My Paula
7. No Long Grass
8. Bubblegum
9. Lee

“Saturday Specials” sees the legendary Bristol drum & bass don Clipz remixing Everything Is Recorded’s acclaimed second album “Friday Forever” in its entirety. Clipz’s first album length project, split here across three volumes; and at first a strange but ultimately rewarding hybrid of the two artists’ involved styles. This third and final set of club ready remakes features the talents of Everything Is Recorded collaborators Infinite Coles & Berwyn.

Swerving between adderol-fuelled, agro-jungle and smoother-edged, mainroom rollers, it's another perfectly curated and classy display of everyone involved's unique take on modern dnb. Winner!

TRACK LISTING

1. Walk Alone - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ Feat. Infinite Coles, Berwyn
2. Dream I Never Had - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ
3. The Night - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ Feat. Berwyn

“Saturday Specials” sees the legendary Bristol drum & bass don Clipz remixing Everything Is Recorded’s acclaimed second album “Friday Forever” in its entirety. Clipz’s first album length project, split here across three volumes; and at first a strange but ultimately rewarding hybrid of the two artists’ involved styles. This second set of club ready remakes features the talens of Everything Is Recorded collaborators Ghostface Killah, FLOHIO and Maria Somerville.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: New drum n bass is apparently due a huge market uplift this year. And there's plenty of reasons to see why: acts this this, alongside Tim Reaper, Disclosure and Coco Bryce are adding new twists to this long established genre; tickling the speaker stacks once again and hitting the accelerator. Hold on tight!

TRACK LISTING

1. Pretending Nothings Wrong - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ Feat. Ghostface Killah
2. I Don’t Want This Feeling To Stop - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ Feat. FLOHIO
3. That Sky - Everything Is Recorded & CLIPZ Feat. Maria Somerville

‘The Take Off and Landing of Everything’ was recorded in Real World Studios and at the band’s facilities at Blueprint Studios, Salford. As with previous albums, the million selling ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ and platinum follow up ‘build a rocket boys!’ it was produced by the band’s keyboardist Craig Potter. The making of ‘The Take Off and Landing of Everything’ saw the band take a new approach to writing and recording. Previously songs were mostly developed by the band as a whole but this new album sees individual members and subgroups take the lead on several tracks.

‘Honey Sun’ was written and recorded at home by guitarist Mark Potter, his brother Craig wrote the music for ‘Real Life (Angel)’ and bassist Pete Turner built ‘Colour Fields’ using apps on his iPad. The first track to be heard from the album, ‘Fly Boy Blue / Lunette’ was developed by drummer Richard Jupp alongside Pete and Mark whilst both Guy and Craig were away from the studio.

The album features several guests including the Hallé Orchestra (‘Manchester’s oldest band’ as Guy affectionately calls them) with Pete McPhail, Tim Barber, Bob Marsh and Kat Curlett adding brass to selected tracks and tour mate and long term friend Jimi Goodwin of Doves adding backing vocals on ‘New York Morning’.

Despite the changes in approach musically and lyrically ‘The Take Off and Landing of Everything’ contains many familiar elements for fans of the band. Early taster ‘Fly Boy Blue / Lunette’ harks back to debut single ‘Newborn’ in its step change melody and rhythmic shift mid song whilst ‘New York Morning’, the first single proper from the album, carries at its centre the type of life affirming refrain that run through elbow songs from ‘Scattered Black and Whites’ from their debut to ‘Open Arms’ from ‘build a rocket boys!’.

Sharp eyed elbow watchers will also note the presence of ‘Charge’, which was performed live during the band’s last run of UK arena shows during the ‘build a rocket boys!’ campaign in December 2012. The song demonstrates that elbow retain an ability to deliver the darker side of human nature that echoes the likes of ‘Little Beast’ and ‘I’ve Got Your Number’ from earlier albums.

Familiar themes return, the welcoming of old friends, the mourning of past loves and, as Guy would say ‘some of the big and little, positive and negative, life experiences that any group of men approaching forty can expect’.

TRACK LISTING

1. This Blue World
2. Charge
3. Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
4. New York Morning
5. Real Life (Angel)
6. Honey Sun
7. My Sad Captains
8. Colour Fields
9. The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
10. The Blanket Of Night

Following on from the recent and well received half-speed masters of ‘Amplified Heart’ and ‘Walking Wounded’, Buzzin’ Fly are proud to release EBTG’s 1999 album ‘Temperamental’.

The album is a follow on from the global success of Walking Wounded in 1996 and features a myriad of rhythmic pop styles, including deep house grooves, fierce drum & bass and hip-hop infused funk. It contains the singles Five Fathoms, Blame and the title track Temperamental.

The original vinyl was released on a limited edition ‘DJ friendly’ vinyl which is now a collectable item. The artwork for this new edition has been re-created from the original source material to bring it in line with the original CD version. Like the previous two releases, it has been Mastered and Cut at half-speed by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

Friday Forever is the second album from multi-artist project Everything Is Recorded, helmed by producer artist Richard Russell. This follows the critically acclaimed and Mercury Music Prize nominated debut of 2018, Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell. Friday Forever takes on a multi-lensed perspective of a classic night out, followed closely by the sobering reflections of the next morning. The album features an array of new collaborators – in British rappers Aitch, Flohio and Berwyn, Irish singer songwriters Maria Somerville and Kean Kavanagh, the inimitable voices of A.K. Paul, James Massiah, and returning vocalist Infinite Coles – as well as established names like Ghostface Killah and Penny Rimbaud.

TRACK LISTING

10:51 PM / The Night
09:46 PM / Every Friday Thereafter
12:12 AM / Patients (Fucking Up A Friday)
01:32 AM / Walk Alone
02:56 AM / I Dont Want This Feeling To Stop
03:15 AM / Caviar
04:21 AM / That Sky
05:10 AM / Dream I Never Had
09:34 AM / Pretending Nothings Wrong
10:02 AM / Burnt Toast
11:55 AM / This World
11:59 AM / Circles

Walking Wounded was first released in April 1996 and debuted at #4 on the UK Album Chart and contains four UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits "Walking Wounded" and "Wrong," and set new a benchmark for the intersection of contemporary electronic music and smart pop songwriting.

The album was programmed and produced by Watt in 1995 largely in the basement of the duo's north London home demo studio. "Just an Akai sampler, a computer, a synth and guitar, an inexpensive vocal mic, and an 8-track tape machine," he says of the process. "We were writing in reverse - mood first, then songs, learning and we went along. It just felt like a new frontier," adds Thorn. Producer John Coxon of the recently formed drum'n'bass-inspired duo Spring Heel Jack - and with whom the Watt and Thorn had worked on Amplified Heart - was invited to provide a backing track for the album's title song, and beats specialist Howie B worked on the groove for Flipside. The album was then mixed at The Townhouse in west London by Watt and young emerging engineer, Andy Bradfield.

The new vinyl edition has been mastered by long-time Everything But The Girl mastering engineer, Miles Showell, now at Abbey Road Studios, who is one of only a handful of engineers specialising in half-speed mastering that uses new techniques to more faithfully reproduce the sound of original master tapes.

TRACK LISTING

Before Today 
Wrong
Single
The Heart Remains A Child
Walking Wounded
Flipside
Big Deal
Mirrorball
Good Cop Bad Cop

Foals’ creative ambition for ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1’ resulted in a striking state-of-the-world-address of an album in which apocalyptic lyrical themes were equalled by the sheer impact of the music.

Now Foals complete that artistic statement with the release of ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2’.

“Part two is a heavier listen, the guitars are more emphasised and there’s some big riffs on it,” explained Philippakis in an interview with NME. “It’s a rock record and it definitely carries on the narrative from part one. Part one ended with a lot of fire and destructive imagery, part two is trying to respond to that: how you can continue in the wreckage and through the scorched earth? We’re just excited for people to hear it because it completes the journey of what we’ve made over the last year-and-a-half.”

Whereas ‘Part 1’ melded Foals’ disparate influences into a thrilling melting pot of sounds, much of ‘Part 2’ simmers with pure visceral intensity. ‘The Runner’ and ‘Black Bull’ are streamlined attacks, with vehement rhythmic onslaughts the foundation for even bigger riffs. It’s an approach that also informs ‘10,000 Feet’, as it lurches ominously from dreamy soundscapes into a heavyweight collision of post-punk and psychedelia.

Yet ‘Part 2’ also echoes the opening chapter’s eclectic nature. The cinematic instrumentals ‘Red Desert’ and ‘Ikaria’ underline that ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ is a journey rather than a mere collection of songs, while ‘Wash Off’ marries manic world music-tinged grooves with a punk-like intensity.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The foals return with the second part of their superb 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost..' series, and this one's possibly even better than the first. Smooth synths, soaring melodies and percussive, nigh-dancefloor arm-wavers. Classic foals +.

TRACK LISTING

1. Red Desert
2. The Runner
3. Wash Off
4. Black Bull
5. Like Lightning
6. Dreaming Of
7. Ikaria
8. 10,000 Feet
9. Into The Surf
10. Neptune

Spanning a career well into its third decade, Spoon returns with a ‘Best Of’compilation, ‘Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon' In addition to the 12 fan-adored tracks making up this single LP, Spoon return with the bold new single “No Bullets Spent.” How many rock bands from the past 25 years could get away with a greatest-hits album? Spoon stand alone, with a career-spanning retrospective culled from all over their unique songbook. It’s a flawless compilation of their best-known, best-loved tunes, yet it’s still full of surprises—the only thing you could expect from a band that’s spent their whole career taking people by surprise.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: For a mindblowing nine albums worth of material, it's hard to collate a 'Best Of' that accurately represents a band who have consistently and reliably smashed it out of the park. There are none of the big hits here that I wouldn't expect to be here, The Underdog sounds every bit the proto punk-folk clanger it was back in 2007, 'I Turn My Camera Off' kicks things off and I honestly couldn't think of a better appetiser than that. This is a brilliantly diverse and essential summary of a great band at a ridiculously good price. Get on it!

TRACK LISTING

I Turn My Camera On
Do You
Don't You Evah
Inside Out
The Way We Get By
The Underdog
Hot Thoughts
I Summon You
Rent I Pay
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
Got Nuffin
Everything Hits At Once
No Bullets Spent

Amplified Heart was Everything But The Girl’s million-selling and critically acclaimed seventh studio album and now appears for the first time on vinyl in a deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition mastered at half-speed for optimum audio fidelity by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios.

The record - released in early 1994 by UK alt-pop duo Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - contains the original version of what was to become the band’s biggest hit, Missing. If Todd Terry’s famous house remix took that song onto the world’s dance floors and upper reaches of the global pop charts in 1995 (#2 on US Billboard Hot 100, #1 on US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, #3 on the UK Top 40, and #1 in Canada, Germany and Italy), the original version also remains a timeless classic, now in heavy demand on modern streaming services, and one that perhaps better reflects the enduring appeal of the album’s modern-retro hybrid of ardent folk-soul and scratchy electronica.

Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt met whilst at University in Hull in the early 80’s. Both were signed independently to indie label Cherry Red Records, Ben as a solo artist and Tracey as part of the band The Marine Girls. They formed Everything But The Girl in early ‘82, releasing one single on Cherry Red (Cole Porter’s ‘Night & Day’) before signing to Blanco Y Negro records and releasing their debut album ‘Eden’ to critical acclaim.

Following this, they released 5 further highly praised and commercially successful albums including the much-loved classic singles, These Early Days, Driving and the covers ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ and ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’. ‘Amplified Heart’ was the seventh full-length album released in June 1994, featuring the singles ‘Missing’ and ‘Rollercoaster’. Primarily an acoustic driven album, it features heavyweight session musicians and guests, Danny Thompson (bass), Martin Ditcham (percussion), Dave Mattacks (drums) and Richard Thompson lead guitar on the track 25th December.

“We’ve alway been proud of Amplified Heart” says Ben, reflecting on the new edition. “It’s both close to the bone - understandable given it’s background - but also gentle in it’s touch, and shot through with resiliance. The newly mastered pressing sounds amazing - as good as the original tapes.” “I think it’s a real rebirth record” adds Tracey, “the momenent we got our mojo back. And it’s where ‘Missing’ began, so it’s a significant album for us.”

TRACK LISTING

Rollercoaster
Troubled Mind
I Don’t Understand Anything
Walking To You
Get Me
Missing
Two Star
We Walk The Same Line
25th December
Disenchanted

Released in September 2008, "Everything Is Borrowed" became the bands fourth consecutive Top 10 album. The Title was described by Mike Skinner as 'all about peaceful, positive vibes' and in the six years from when "Original Pirate Material" was released, The Streets and Skinner undoubtedly became the voice of a generation. Now reissued on heavyweight vinyl, it completes the series of essential Streets album reissues.

The album formed a prominent part of the band's 2018 and 2019 Greatest Hits Tour. "The Escapist", the first single from the album, become an instant classic when it originally dropped as a free download to an unexpecting audience ahead of the album release. It was the first new music from the band for over two years and has stood the test of time and is one of the most eagerly anticipated tracks of the recent live shows. Likewise, the albums other two singles, "Everything Is Borrowed" and "Heaven For the Weather", have also become a bedrocks of the tour.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Reissue of this crowd-pleasing Streets album. Anyone that's caught Mike on his recent tour should know most of this by now!

TRACK LISTING

Everything Is Borrowed
Heaven For The Weather
I Love You More (Than You Like Me)
The Way Of The Dodo
On The Flip Of A Coin
On The Edge Of A Cliff
Never Give In
The Sherry End
Alleged Legends
The Strongest Person I Know
The Escapist
To Your Face (iTunes Bonus Track) 

Originally released on Factory Benelux in December 1981, this 12” featured Everythings Gone Green, which had previously been on the reverse of the band’s second 7” single ‘Procession’ in September 1981,and ‘Cries And Whispers’ and ‘Mesh’ whose titles were flipped on the cover causing confusion amongst fans and compilers ever since. This 12” features remastered audio and is pressed on heavyweight vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
Everything’s Gone Green

Side 2
Cries And Whispers
Mesh

• Soul Asylum’s debut album.
• Produced by Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü).
• First time on vinyl since original pressing
• Reissue co-produced by Twin/Tone co-founder Peter Jesperson and Grammy®-winning producer Cheryl Pawelski. Soul Asylum first hit the Minneapolis music scene in early 1981.

Originally produced by Bob Mould, this reissue is co-produced by Twin/Tone Records co-founder and Replacements manager, Peter Jesperson and Grammy®-winner and Omnivore Recordings, Cheryl Pawelski. This fresh vinyl pressing of Soul Asylum’s debut, Say What You Will . . . Everything Can Happen is the first since it’s original 1984 Twin/Tone release and has been restored and mastered by Grammy®-award winning engineer, Michael Graves at Osiris Studio and cut by Chris Muth at Taloowa.

From playing chaotic house parties in their home city of Oxford to becoming major festival headliners across Europe, Foals’ trajectory has been remarkable. They’ve earned critical acclaim (NME and Q Award wins, plus Mercury Prize, Ivor Novello and BRIT Award nominations) and fan devotion (1.7 million sales of their four Gold-certified albums) in equal measure. And while the majority of contemporaries have fallen by the wayside, Foals continue to hit new peaks.

After more than a decade in the game, Foals again embrace that love for the unconventional with the bravest and most ambitious project of their career: not one, but two astonishing new albums: ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’. A pair of releases, separate but related, they share a title, themes and artwork. ‘Part 1’ is released on March 8th, with ‘Part 2’ following later in the year.

“They’re two halves of the same locket,” frontman Yannis Philippakis explains. “They can be listened to and appreciated individually, but fundamentally, they are companion pieces.”

Fundamentally tethered but possessing their own personalities, the two bodies capture the most compelling, ambitious and cohesive creations they’ve ever produced. Eager to break the traditional pop song structure which they felt they were becoming increasingly tapered to, the 20 tracks defy expectation. There are exploratory, progressive-tinged tracks alongside atmospheric segues which make the music an experience rather than a mere collection of songs. Yet the band’s renowned ability to wield relentless grooves with striking power and skyscraper hooks also reaches new heights.

The album’s lead single ‘Exits’ is a case in point, featuring Philippakis conjuring the image of a disorienting world via a contagious vocal melody. It’s a fresh anthem for Foals’ formidable arsenal, but also an ominous forecast.

“There's a definite idea about the world being no longer habitable in the way that it was,” says Yannis. “A kind of perilousness lack of predictability and a feeling of being overwhelmed by the magnitudes of the problems we face. What's the response? And what’s the purpose of any response that one individual can have?”

‘Exits’ signposts what to expect thematically from both instalments of ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’. The title is a warning that anything – from the tiniest fleeting moment of inspiration through to the planet’s own biological diversity – can be under threat of being irrevocably erased.

It’s a theme that permeates throughout the album’s material, as Foal mirror the public neuroses that have been provoked by our current cultural climate. Paranoia of state surveillance? Fear of environmental collapse? Anxiety over Trump’s next potentially cataclysmic move? It’s all there in these apocalyptic songs.

“Lyrically, there are resonances with what's going on in the world at the moment,” summarises Yannis. “I just feel like, what’s the utility of being a musician these days, if you can’t engage with at least some of this stuff? These songs are white flags, or they’re SOSs, or they’re cries for help… each in a different way.”
The new albums’ journeys began as the ‘What Went Down’ era ended. Founding bassist Walter Gervers departed on amicable terms after playing the Festival Paredes de Coura in Portugal in August 2017. Foals felt that he couldn’t be replaced – a decision that ushered in a period of recalibration, reorganisation and, ultimately, rejuvenation.

After taking a little time out, Foals – completed by Jimmy Smith (guitar), Jack Bevan (drums) and Edwin Congreave (keys) reconvened – with Yannis on production duties, who, together with Edwin, also covered the bass parts. They began by writing in a rehearsal space before exporting those sketches into the recording phase at 123 Studios, Peckham, with the assistance of engineer Brett Shaw. They’d repeat the cycle between the two spaces, effectively creating an ongoing feedback loop as they sought to push every new idea to the finish line.

TRACK LISTING

1. Moonlight
2. Exits
3. White Onions
4. In Degrees
5. Syrups
6. On The Luna
7. Cafe D'Athens
8. Surf Pt.1
9. Sunday
10. I'm Done With The World (& It’s Done With Me)

As thrilling and unpredictable as anything in Deerhunter’s near 15-year career, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? was recorded in several strategic geographic points across North America, and produced by the band, Cate LeBon, Ben H. Allen III, and Ben Etter. Forgetting the questions and making up unrelated answers, Deerhunter’s eighth LP is a science fiction album about the present. Exhausted with the toxic concept of nostalgia, they reinvent their approach to microphones, the drum kit, the harpsichord, the electromechanical and synthetic sounds of keyboards. Whatever guitars are left are pure chrome, plugged straight into the mixing desk with no amplifier or vintage warmth.

STAFF COMMENTS

Javi says: Is it a guitar? Is it a synth? Is it some old-time harpsichord-y thing plugged through a sh*t-ton of reverb? Your guess is as good as mine. The only thing for sure is that indie darlings Deerhunter have created their most consistent and nuanced album since 2010’s ‘Halcyon Digest’ in their seventh LP, ‘Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?’.
With fellow Top 20 maverick Cate Le Bon at the production helm, there’s nothing the band can’t do—whimsical groove-laced indie and atmospheric expansiveness are married perfectly on songs like the opener “What Happens to People?” and penultimate bop “Plains”, and just as the voice of God bids us good morning on “Detournement”, guitarist Lockett Pundt’s sole offering “Tarnung” is already preparing to tuck us into bed.
Every song is a stutter-funk gem, a space-age exploration of pastoral life, a strutting jaunt into the end of days. Every song is a grower, and boy, how big they grow…

TRACK LISTING

1. Death In Midsummer
2. No One’s Sleeping
3. Greenpoint Gothic
4. Element
5. What Happens To People?
6. Détournement
7. Futurism
8. Tarnung
9. Plains
10. Nocturne

Since Beach Slang came into being, bandleader James Alex has taken to performing his group's heartfelt anthems as more intimate solo renditions. Appropriately dubbed "Quiet Slang," these alternate reality versions of Beach Slang's music have now simultaneously been stripped down and fleshed out in the studio to include piano and cello. Following on from the recent We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags EP, Quiet Slang now bring you a full album of such songs - 'Everything Matters But No One Is Listening' .

TRACK LISTING

1. Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas 
2. Noisy Heaven [
3. Future Mixtape For The Art Kids
4. Filthy Luck 
5. Dirty Cigarettes 
6. Too Late To Die Young 
7. Spin The Dial 
8. Young Hearts
9. Throwaways 
10. Warpaint

Bambara are a Brooklyn based dark, noise / punk band with a Western slant. The trio consisting of twin brothers Reid (vocals / guitar) and Blaze Bateh (drums) and childhood friend William Brookshire (bass) formed in Athens, GA, deriving their name from a character in the cartoon ‘Aeon Flux’. They moved to a basement apartment in Brooklyn where they recorded their ambitious debut album ‘Dreamviolence’ (2013), their sprawling noise-collage EP ‘Night Chimes’ (2014) and their snarly, apocalyptic sophomore album ‘Swarm’ (2016) to much acclaim.

Although Reid plays all the guitar on their records, Bambara recently added two guitarists to their live shows, allowing Reid to sneer and stagger around the stage as he sings unhindered by instruments.

TRACK LISTING

Dark Circles
Doe-Eyed Girl
José Tries To Leave
Night's Changing
Monument
The Door Between Her
Teeth
Human Hair
Steel Dust Ocean
Sunbleached Skulls
Wild Fires
Backyard
Back Home

Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell features an eclectic international and inter-generational cast of collaborators and musicians who include (in order of appearance on the album) Sampha, Obongjayar, Kamasi Washington, Giggs, Ibeyi, Wiki, Syd, Rachel Zeffira, Infinite, Green Gartside, Peter Gabriel and Owen Pallett. The twelve track album features previous singles ‘Close But Not Quite (feat. Sampha)’, ‘Mountains Of Gold (feat. Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington)’ and ‘Show Love (feat. Syd and Sampha)’, which have been described as “the embodiment of pure, creative freedom” by Noisey and “a celebration of artistic freedom” by Dazed, while The New Yorker stated “Russell’s vision, it seems, is about the power of collaboration … a grand synthesis of XL’s stylistic history."

Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell was recorded at Russell’s west London studio, The Copper House. Over the past couple of years, the studio became a creative second home for the revolving cast of both new and established artists who passed through to write, record and share ideas, mixing traditional recording sessions with extended, uninhibited live jams that lasted long into the night. With Russell at the production helm, a spirit of soundsystem-inspired collaboration and experimentation runs through the heart of an album that is born out of some spontaneous moments of togetherness and periods of intense personal reflection for its creator, and is at once soulful, timeless and boldly modern.

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Close But Not Quite (feat. Sampha)
3. She Said (feat. Obongjayar & Kamasi Washington)
4. Wet Looking Road (feat. Giggs)
5. Mountains Of Gold (feat. Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki & Kamasi Washington)
6. Show Love (feat. Syd & Sampha)
7. Echoes In The Bone - Interlude (feat. Rachel Zeffira)
8. Bloodshot Red Eyes (feat. Infinite & Green Gartside)
9. Cane (feat. Ibeyi)
10. Purify - Interlude (feat. Infinite & Peter Gabriel)
11. Be My Friend (feat. Infinite)
12. Everything Is Recorded (feat. Sampha & Owen Pallett)

Everything But The Here And Now marks a real period of growth for the fledgling outfit, who have concentrated on pushing the whole sound of the band forward from the solid DIY roots they sunk on 2016 debut album You Might Be Right.

Exploring new territory that includes washes of synths, keys and atmospheric production courtesy of Hookworms’ Matthew “MJ” Johnson (Drenge, Doe, Martha, Honeyblood), they’re also forging ahead into new lyrical pastures that reflect the often turbulent, yet upward trajectory of their experiences as a band and in their personal lives.

In their short lifespan, Happy Accidents have already garnered attention from publications including Noisey, DIY, Kerrang! Magazine and Upset. After catching the attention of BBC Introducing London, the band went on to be be played by Annie Mac and Huw Stephens at BBCR1, Steve Lamacq at BBC 6music and John Kennedy at Radio X.

Arcade Fire return for their latest album since 2013's 'Reflektor', Quickly following the snap-release of their 'Everything Now' 12" released last month, 'Everything Now' (the album) bursts into the limelight. 'Everything_Now (continued)' precedes 'Everything Now' (i'm sensing a theme here), both of them working together to ease you back into the orchestral, epic ways Arcade Fire have long been known for. As soon as we kick in to the titular piece proper, we get longing but upbeat piano blazing a path melodically for Butler's unmistakeable vocal affectations, before introducing swarming strings and frantic pizzicato bass. It's not surprising that the piece ebbs and flows through minimalistic orchestral lulls to euphoric, instrumentally dense passages with ease, that being the Fire's Raison d'être, and it is achieved without any trouble here.

'Signs Of Life' walks a little more towards the disco dancefloor end of the spectrum, with old-school hip-hop affectations segueing easily into stabbing horns and rolling, grooving bass guitar. It's another sign of a well-heeled group of composers that they can flit between their oft-repeated (but unmistakeable) trademark sound and something a little more off-piste.  

Move On a little bit, and 'Chemistry' is a blazing walk across a tropical Caribbean beach, with throbbing tropical percussion ducking the rest of the instrumentation, lending a noticeable compressor thump. Saturated, balmy swarms of reverb lurching into distorted guitar and multi-part vocal harmonisation for the call-response chorus.  

While the duo of 'Infinite Content' and 'Infinite_content' seem identical (try telling that to a C++ programmer), they actually represent different sides of the same coin, with the blazing post-punk distorted power chords of the former being re-interpreted by the same band but on a beach, mojito in hand, and sun blazing down for the underscored iteration. 

As we roll into the latter half of the album, 'Electric Blue' cuts an impressive shape with it's neon synths and treble-heavy falsetto putting things firmly into 70's disco territory, while the pulsing motorik rhythms and gothic sulk of 'Put Your Money On Me' and the stunningly evocative atmospheric longing of 'We Don't Deserve Love' are bookended with a closing version of 'Everything Now (continued)' but this time, minus the underscore. Details are everything (now). 

TRACK LISTING

1. Everything_Now (Continued)
2. Everything Now
3. Signs Of Life
4. Creature Comfort
5. Peter Pan
6. Chemistry 
7. Infinite Content
8. Infinite_Content
9. Electric Blue
10. Good God Damn
11. Put Your Money On Me
12. We Dont' Deserve Love
13. Everything Now (Continued) 

Enter the all-encompassing universe of Everything, a score by Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano. Game creator David OReilly has built an interactive world for you to explore at your choosing. Whether you decide to take the role of a microbe inside a plant in the desert, or a star in the furthermost galaxy, each layer of the game is coated with ambience which takes the simulation even further into the limitless boundaries of each world. Composers Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano have shaped this experience with their intricate 4-hour soundscape, alongside the continuous narration by philosopher Alan Watts. Words from Ben and Sebastian, April 2017:

“Composing something quite modular yet coherent that connects with the idea and fabric of the game was quite a task. We discussed many approaches, from really mathematical and direct, to abstract and philosophical, and we ended up with a mixture of both. Every element depends and builds on another and connects to previous and following songs. May it be on a compositional or on an abstract and conceptual level, the game and the music follow the same path and shares almost the same inspirational DNA.“ — Ben Lukas Boysen "Working on the soundtrack has been a truly inspiring collaboration. What fascinates me about the game is the self-exploratory approach it allows the player to experience; there is no purpose other than just being. This concept gave us wonderful freedom in searching for sounds and ideas that would fit the game.

Throughout the score there is a subtle level of drama which gives depth to the game, yet the music never becomes predominant taking the player away from the main experience of being anything. Honest, simple and beautiful, Everything has been a rewarding creative journey to contribute to." — Sebastian Plano Though the score has an important part to play in heightening the atmosphere of the game, it has the capability of being a standalone album – carefully sequenced down to a 10-track selection by label founder Robert Raths. There is a considerably therapeutic quality about it, allowing the audience to transcend into a meditative state, which is what makes it a perfect partner for Everything. The music is a whole world of its own, yet part of the game’s universe.

TRACK LISTING

1. Opening
2. We?re Here
3. Winding And Unwinding
4. Eisenach
5. An Infinite Day
6. Opening Light
7. Aalystice
8. Inside Air
9. After Our Efforts
10. Reaching Light

Announced in late 2016 with the single ‘All Because Of You’, described as “a future classic” (CJ Mackintosh) and “absolutely necessary” (Soul Clap), BBE are proud to present Kiko Navarro’s brand new solo album ‘Everything Happens For A Reason’. A highly respected artist for many years now, Kiko Navarro is a name synonymous with the Balearic House sound, thanks to his residencies at Space & Pacha as well as his countless productions and remixes.

‘Everything Happens For A Reason’ displays a dizzying array of musical flavours, with guest appearances from DJ Spen, Boris Dlugosch and multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Poso, whose compilation ‘The Language Of Tambores’ is coming soon on BBE. Within a framework of warm, soulful House music, Kiko explores afro-latin rhythms, broken beats, nu-jazz and straight up Chicago-inspired acid. A deep re-imagining of Maze & Frankie Beverly’s 80s classic ‘Twilight’, irrepressible floor-filler ‘I Can Show You The Way’ and a new orchestral version of 2007 classic ‘Soñando Contigo’ are among the immediate highlights, but this album is so much more than the sum of its parts. ‘Everything Happens For A Reason’ sees iko Navarro concentrating his wealth of experience curating and creating music into a highly potent and deeply personal soundtrack to his life and career so far.

TRACK LISTING

1. All Because Of You Feat. Julie McKnight
2. Twilight
3. Right On Feat. HanLei
4. I Can Show You The Way
5. What We Need Feat. Dj Spen & Dana Weaver
6. Black Is Back Feat. Boris Dlugosch
7. Everything Happens For A Reason Feat. Isis "Apache" Montero
8. Lo Siento Feat. Concha Buika
9. La Cosa
10. Ohashiah
11. Twi-Reprise
12. Cranc
13. Humanity Feat. D7
14. Soñando Contigo Feat. Concha Buika (Orchestral Version)
15. Painful Goodbye Feat. Paco Colombas & Gabriele Poso
16. Adolescence (Outro)

Everything Is Forgotten, the new album from Methyl Ethel (Perth, Australia), is a vivid, compelling and mysterious creature, all sinewy, curvaceous pop nuggets and enigmatic currents. Written and recorded by frontman Jake Webb, the album was brought to life by acclaimed producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals). The pair’s collaboration infusing the band’s shoegaze dream-pop palate with electronic and polyrhythmic flourishes, allowing Webb’s keening, gender-fluid vocals and searing poetry to take centre stage.

The Flexibles are a Punk Rock Band. The Flexibles bend space and time, flex your head, space your Punk, a jarring lightning bolt of truth to the heart of the matter. Comprised of Richard Youngs, his young son Sorley Youngs and family friend Andrew Paine, they operate within Glasgow city limits, outsiders in an outsider culture. Swirling around the wild, searing guitar playing and cosmically infused songwriting of Sorley, The Flexibles' Pink Everything is a concept album of sorts, on the surface a narrative about space travel, the state of the human race in the modern Acopalyx. While vicious in its take down of humanity's own death-drive, the subtext of Pink Everything describes a world where anything is possible. Perhaps the Acopalyx, or Apocalypse, needs to happen for us to be re-born. Anything can be Pink.

Over both sides, The Flexibles depict a realm where fantasy and reality are inexplicably fused together… Sorley’s lyrical flourishes touch on the stream-of-conciousness imagery that seems to be swimming in the Youngs genepool, but there are dashes of real life. When I Was 86 has Sorley tearing modern living apart both from the perspective of the anti-hero Arcosta – an alien visitor to Earth but also from his own perspective as a young man making sense of a reality that needs changed. Smothered by Richard’s electronics and the super-massive fuzz bass of Paine, it’s a radical stomper. Album opener Pink Everything however, offers the flip: a distorted, crazed sermon that essentially asks Why Not? Why can’t everything be pink, true and truthful. Side B comprises a suite chronicling Arcosta’s journey, struggling to comprehend the things we do; capitalism, the endless grind of work-play, the rituals that to extra terrestrials and indeed to children unaffected by cynicism seem meaningless.

As a power trio, The Flexibles blow apart pre-conceptions, burn down barriers and paint them pink. The Flexibles believe anything can be possible and embody an ultimate creative freedom, unencumbered by age barriers, limits. Anything can be Pink.

The album finds Alex Turner and Miles Kane reunited with James Ford (production and drums) and Owen Pallett (string arrangements) and joined by Zachary Dawes (Mini Mansions) on bass, recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘The Age Of The Understatement’ at Shangri La Studio in Malibu.

Featuring current single ‘Bad Habits’, ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ is a more open and expansive work than its predecessor, wearing its influences less obviously on its sleeve – by turns the album is soaring, snarling and breathlessly seductive.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Once again, Alex Turner and Miles Kane deliver a minor-key slice of melancholic yet melodic indie-rock. Dark reverbed vocals, snappy snare hits and oy-like shouting appears completely naturally, the sound not suffering at all from a change of pace. The strings on show here further emphasising the crescendo of both tone and density, and exacerbating the lifting tension present. Low-fi but meticulously crafted, and yet another reason (as if you needed one) that Turner and co. deserve your attention.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aviation
2. Miracle Aligner
3. Dracula Teeth
4. Everything You’ve Come To Expect
5. The Element Of Surprise
6. Bad Habits
7. Sweet Dreams, TN
8. Used To Be My Girl
9. She Does The Woods
10. Pattern
11. The Dream Synopsis

7"  Bonus Tracks (Indies Exclusive Vinyl Only)
1. Bad Habits
2. The Bourne Identity

Brilliant new Ltd 7" single taken from their third album "Get To Heavern" which charted Top 5. The follow up to "Distant Past" & "Regret", this single is set to follow onto radio playlists across all major networks, plus ad campaign. Backed with exclusive track "Live Intro".

Vertical Scratchers is John Schmersal (ex-Brainiac/Enon, live Caribou, and Crooks on Tape) and Christian Beaulieu (ex-Triclops!/Anywhere). Their debut album is 'Daughter of Everything'. Simplicity was the inspiration: get in the van, rehearse in the van, tour in the van, stay mobile. “I have played in a lot of bands with complicated set-ups and implemented technologies,” says John. “I also do a lot of recording and editing on computers, so part of the desire for simplicity was about wanting things to be as organic and in real time as possible.” This impulse to keep things moving is reflected in the songs themselves. Most Vertical Scratchers songs clock in under the two-minute mark but often go in twice as many directions as your average-length song. Pop deception. Think the Kinks with a Buzzcocks brevity. Daughter of Everything was recorded live in Los Angeles at The Smell in September of 2012. The special guest appearance lead vocal from Robert Pollard was recorded at Waterloo Sound in Ohio by Todd Tobias.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wait No Longer
2. Turn Me Out
3. Memory Shards
4. Pretend U Are Free
5. Way Out
6. Chambermaids
7. U Dug Us All
8. Kingdom Come
9. Someone
10. Run Around
11. These Plains
12. Get Along Like U
13. My Only Want
14. Rainbows
15. The End