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Corb Lund

Dark Horses

New West Records

LP

£29.99

Cat Number

LPNW5942

Release date
Expected 24 Jul '26

Release date: Expected 24 Jul '26

CD

£12.99

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CDNW6617

Release date
Expected 24 Jul '26

Release date: Expected 24 Jul '26

Throughout 2025, New West Records released limited edition vinyl reissues of Corb Lund’s back catalog as part of the Corb Lund Dark Horses Club. Each installment featured bonus tracks, previously unreleased material, and an exclusive acoustic track available only digitally. Now, as the series reaches its culmination, New West Records and Corb Lund are releasing 'Dark Horses' on both vinyl and CD. 'Dark Horses' is a collection of songs hand-picked by Corb from across his catalog, presented in chronological order and rerecorded as solo acoustic performances. Stripped down and intimate, these new versions offer a fresh perspective on familiar material — and the result is an illuminating listening experience that showcases the depth and craft of Corb’s songwriting.

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1. Untitled Waltz
2. Guitar from the Wall
3. No Roads Here
4. The Rodeo’s Over
5. Especially A Paint
6. Talkin' Veterinarian Blues
7. Priceless Antique Pistol Shoots Startled Owner
8. Counterfeiter's Blues
9. Sadr City
10. Louis L'Amour
11. Out On a Win

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Ratboys

Singin' To An Empty Chair

New West Records

2xSigned Coloured LP

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LPNW5989IE

Release date
6 Feb '26
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Signed green vinyl w/ etching

2xColoured LP

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LPNW7066IE

Release date
Expected 1 May '26
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Green & brown marble vinyl w/ etching

Release date: Expected 1 May '26

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Black vinyl w/ etching

Cat Number

LPNW5959

Release date
6 Feb '26
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Black vinyl w/ etching

CD

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CDNW6619

Release date
6 Feb '26

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CDNW6619IE

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6 Feb '26

Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album 'Singin’ to an Empty Chair' is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, vocalist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from. The music on the band’s sixth studio album – its first for New West Records – fills the space that person left behind with 11 songs showcasing Ratboys at the peak of their powers — twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve ever been, and perhaps more emotionally interrogative than ever before. The four-piece Chicago band followed up 2023’s highly acclaimed 'The Window' by reconvening with co-producer Chris Walla to begin tracking at a rural Wisconsin cabin before taking the songs to Steve Albini’s famed Electrical Audio studios in Chicago and later to Rosebud Studio in Evanston, Illinois. The results veer from bubbly power-pop on 'Anywhere' to irresistible post-country on 'Penny in the Lake', along with heart-piercing ballads like 'Just Want You to Know the Truth' and an exhilarating detour into the extraterrestrial on 'Light Night Mountains All That', which Steiner dubs the band’s mammoth “wormhole jam". 'Singin’ to an Empty Chair' also marks the first Ratboys album written since Steiner began therapy, which the singer/lyricist credits for the clarity found across the album’s unflinching examinations of relationship and self. Fittingly, as the album begins by extending a hand into the void, it concludes with a scene of serenity – all while weaving candid honesty, humor, chaos, and whimsy along the way. “It's not all doom and gloom,” Steiner says. “The experience of making this record definitely gives me hope for whatever happens next.”

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Barry says: Uplifting, poppy power punk that could easily have been one of the more bouncy acts on Fat Wreck Chords in the early 00's. Feel-good, melody rich punk.

TRACK LISTING

1. Open Up
2. Know You Then
3. Light Night Mountains All That
4. Anywhere
5. Penny In The Lake
6. Strange Love
7. The World, So Madly
8. Just Want You To Know The Truth
9. What’s Right?
10. Burn It Down
11. At Peace In The Hundred Acre Wood

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Joe Pernice

Sunny, I Was Wrong

New West Records

Signed Coloured LP

£29.99

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Cat Number

LPNW5954IE

Release date
3 Apr '26
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Black & blue splatter vinyl

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Black vinyl

Cat Number

LPNW5943

Release date
3 Apr '26
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Black vinyl

CD

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CDNW6615

Release date
3 Apr '26

“When a song comes, I make sure I don’t let it go by,” says Joe Pernice. 'Sunny, I Was Wrong', his first studio album of new material under his own name, was born during a period of concentrated inspiration and productivity. Songs were coming almost more quickly than he could get them down on tape, as though they’d been waiting to pounce at just the right time. With a little help from his friends, Pernice fashioned a handful of them into a beautiful refinement of all the qualities that have distinguished him as a songwriter over the years: his facility for aching melodies, his penchant for arrangements that nod to pop’s past without getting mired in nostalgia, and a deep empathy for the characters who inhabit his verses. Pernice has been catching songs for thirty years now, first with the alt-country legends Scud Mountain Boys and then with the indie-pop mainstays Pernice Brothers. In both of those groups he etched bittersweet stories out of songs that echo Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Williams. He’s the rare artist who can record a Barry Manilow covers album that doesn’t drip with condescension or irony. With Sunny, the album gradually came into focus—or at least an idea of an album. “I knew I wanted to make a studio record, and I knew I wanted to make a record. I didn’t want just a hodgepodge of tunes. I didn’t want to make a concept record, but I wanted something that needs to be heard from start to finish. I wanted it to be a destination. An event.” Sunny, I Was Wrong tallies up all of those things that do get away from us: friends and lovers we haven’t seen in decades, old promises broken, cherished dreams forgotten, best-laid plans unrealized.

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1. Peace In Our Home
2. Deep Into The Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann)
3. If You Go Back To California
4. Force Feed The Fire
5. The Black And The Blue
6. It Won’t Be Me (ft. Rodney Crowell)
7. I’d Rather Look Away (ft. Norman Blake)
8. Sunny, I Was Wrong
9. Is It Serious
10. Twenty-Thousand Times
11. It Got Away Rrom Me (ft. Jimmy Webb)

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Emmylou Harris

Spyboy

New West Records

2xColoured LP

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Double clear vinyl.

Cat Number

LPNW5953C

Release date
5 Dec '25
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Double clear vinyl.

“A good song can survive and shine in different ways in the hands of different musicians,” says Emmylou Harris. “It can have different meanings at different times in your life. A good song can travel with you anywhere.”

That philosophy has guided her fifty-year career in country music, during which she has covered countless songs across countless genres and put her own indelible stamp on each one. More specifically, it’s the philosophy that animates both Spyboy, her touring band in the late 1990s, and Spyboy, the 1998 live album that demonstrates how these musicians made her songs shine.

Sequencing old songs alongside new ones, the album tests the tensile strength of each one, pushing them into wilder and more psychedelic territory while remaining grounded in earthy country music. It’s completely unique in her catalog, a crucial document of an important chapter in her career, and it’s finally getting reissued after years of being unavailable. “It’s such a special record,” she says. “Well, they all are, but this one is really, really special. That was such a fantastic band and such an amazing time.” Spyboy grew out of Wrecking Ball, Harris’ groundbreaking 1995 collaboration with producer Daniel Lanois. In 1996 and 1997 together with Buddy Miller, Brady Blade and Daryl Johnson, The band, also named Spyboy, toured America and Europe together, never playing a song the same way twice.

Buddy Miller brought along his recording gear and recorded nearly every show on the tour. When their time on the road ended, Miller and Harris sat down together and they culled through hundreds of tracks to choose the ones that best represented the Spyboy ethos of endless possibility. They whittled the original release down to 14 tracks and in 1998 Eminent Records released Spyboy on CD.

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My Songbird
Where Will I Be
I Ain't Living Long Like This
Love Hurts
Green Pastures
Deeper Well
Prayer In Open D
Calling My Children Home
Tulsa Queen
Wheels
Born To Run
Boulder To Birmingham
All My Tears
The Maker
Thing About You
All I Left Behind
Get Up John
Sweet Old World

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Travis Roberts

Rebel Rose

New West Records

Coloured LP

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Red vinyl

Cat Number

LPNW5887C

Release date
1 Aug '25
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Red vinyl

If anyone knows how to roll with the punches, it’s Travis Roberts. At 24, the Texas songwriter has already battled addiction, buried friends, and been so broke he couldn’t put a roof over his head. Hell, he even joined an underground fight club just to pay for studio time. “Whoever won the fights took home the lion’s share of the money,” he explains, “but even if you lost, you made something. I lost a lot, but I got what I needed out of it.” It should be no surprise, then, that Roberts comes out swinging on his blistering debut, 'Rebel Rose'.

Recorded with Roberts’ longtime live band, The Willing Few, the album fuses earnest country storytelling with rowdy rock and roll energy as it blurs the lines between roots, punk, folk, and power pop. The writing is raw and visceral here, built on gritty portraits of working-class underdogs just trying to get by, and the performances are nothing short of explosive, propelled by a relentless rhythm section, searing guitars, and infectious melodic hooks. The result is an exhilarating album that defies easy categorization, an alternately bruising and triumphant reflection on growing up, getting clean, and giving it your all from an artist who’s taken more than his fair share of hits. Every fighter knows, it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is how many times you get back up.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bellemarie
2. Ink Ain't Dry
3. Kudzu
4. Rebel Rose
5. Arapahoe
6. Minefields
7. Hereford Blues
8. I've Got Reasons
9. All My Friends
10. Fake Magnolias

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Esther Rose

Want

New West Records

Signed Coloured LP

£25.99

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Cat Number

LP-NW-5912IE

Release date
2 May '25
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Yellow vinyl w/ signed sleeve

Signed CD

£12.99

Signed sleeve.

Cat Number

CD-NW-6595IE

Release date
2 May '25
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Signed sleeve.

Esther Rose was on a long solo drive when she started writing the opening title track of 'Want', her stunning fifth album. At first, the words seemed almost like a joke, something to keep herself amused as the miles passed. “I want a puppy, but I don't want a mess. I want to know where I’m going without GPS,” she sang from behind the wheel. Soon, the idea snowballed into a list of desires that spanned existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial; at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to a catchy melody that blends her pop instincts with country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. In other words, she was on her way to another classic Esther Rose song. This precise blend has made the Santa Fe-based artist one of her generation’s most beloved songwriters: someone whose live shows are known to conclude in mass tears and group hugs. Still, something was different this time. “For me, these songs felt like revelations,” she explains, comparing the 11-song record to a memoir, alive with kinetic storytelling and personal insight. In its newly direct and stirringly nuanced writing, you’ll hear about rock bottom encounters, shifting relationships with substances, evolving perspectives on adult partnership, and, as evidenced by those early lines in “Want,” a few jokes along the way. Vivid and bracing, Want places you in the passenger seat while each of these feelings arrive.

TRACK LISTING

1. Want
2. Tailspin (ft. Video Age)
3. Had To
4. Ketamine
5. Rescue You
6. Scars (ft. Dean Johnson)
7. Messenger
8. New Bad
9. The Clown
10. Color Wheel
11. Want Pt. 2

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The Devil Makes Three

Chains Are Broken

New West Records

The power of words isn’t lost on longstanding Americana triumvirate The Devil Makes Three - Pete Bernhard, Lucia Turino and Cooper McBean. For as much as they remain rooted in troubadour traditions of wandering folk, Delta blues, whiskey-soaked ragtime and reckless rock ‘n’ roll, the band nod to the revolutionary unrest of author James Baldwin, the noholds barred disillusionment of Ernest Hemingway and Southern Gothic malaise of Flannery O’Connor.

In that respect, their sixth full-length and first original material since 2013, ‘Chains Are Broken’ resembles a dusty leatherbound book of short stories from some bygone era. As the band began writing ideas for the record they veered off the proverbial path creatively.

Instead of their typical revolving cast of collaborators, The Devil Makes Three stuck to the signature power trio, with one addition. This time they invited touring drummer Stefan Amidon to power the bulk of the percussion.

Another first, they retreated to Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, TX a stone’s throw from the Mexican border to record with producer Ted Hutt (Dropkick Murphys).

The incorporation of new sounds as well as the experimentation in space finds The Devil Makes Three crafting a new yet still familiar sound. Coupled with a continued focus on in-depth lyricism that tells a story in every song, ‘Chains Are Broken’ is a liberating, rump-shaking collection of past, present and future.

TRACK LISTING

Chains Are Broken
Pray For Rain
Paint My Face
Can’t Stop
Need To Lose
All Is Quiet
Bad Idea
Deep Down
Native Son
Castles
Curtains Rise

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Spyboy

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