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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

Pinata: The 1964 Version - 2025 Reissue

    Single-LP Edit Of Piñata Lacquered At Half Speed Master By Metropolis Mastering In London For The Highest Fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. “Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ­lm on wax,” says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. 

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Supplier
    A2. Scarface
    A3. Deeper
    A4. High (ft. Danny Brown)
    A5. Harold’s
    A6. Bomb (ft. Raekwon)
    A7. Shitsville
    A8. Thuggin’
    A9. Real
    A10. Uno
    B1. Robes (ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
    B2. Broken (ft. Scarface)
    B3. Lakers (ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint)
    B4. Knicks
    B5. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid)
    B6. Watts (ft. Big Time Watts)
    B7. Piñata (ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller).

    Joni Mitchell

    Live At The BBC, 1970

      Joni Mitchell turns 80: Ermitage celebrates the nine times Grammy winner with the release of this vinyl album featuring the artist performing live on the BBC in 1970

      Star singer- songwriter of Canadian music and author of songs such as "Big Yellow Taxi", "River" and "A Case of You".

      For all the fans around the world always eager for the releases of the great singer- songwriter and particularly since a few months ago she returned to the stage after the brain aneurysm that struck her in 2015 and left her unable to speak or walk let alone play the guitar.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Chelsea Morning
      2. The Gallery
      3. Cactus Tree
      4. My Old Man
      5. For Free
      6. Woodstock
      7. All I Want
      8. California
      9. Big Yellow Taxi
      10. Both Sides, Now

      Roddy Woomble

      Sometimes During The Night We Fell Off The Map

        For almost thirty years and over seventeen albums (nine with his band Idlewild and eight as a solo artist) Roddy has established himself as one of Scotland’s most celebrated and unique songwriters and performers. A restless creative spirit, his music spans genres from the punk rock and anthemic alternative rock of Idlewild, to the meditative folk and uplifting electronica on his later solo releases.

        "Sometime During The Night We Fell Off The Map" was written with Roddy’s long time collaborator, guitarist Sorren Maclean, who also produced the collection of songs. Recorded in a 19th century church on the Isle of Mull, it features contributions from friends and family members. Following from Roddy’s 2023 electronic album ‘Almost Nothing’, the new collection returns to the more acoustic, contemplative sound of his early solo records, and again the physical release comes courtesy of Assai Recordings.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Still So Far To Go
        2. Break Up The Sun
        3. Still Painting A Picture Of You
        4. Theoriser
        5. Old Negatives
        6. I Can Make Sense Of Now
        7. Good Despite Everything
        8. Read It Like A Secret
        9. All Things Considered
        10. Christmas Without You

        Ann Powers

        Travelling : On The Path Of Joni Mitchell

          Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick wanderer forging ahead on routes of her invention, and of me on her trail, heading toward the ringing of her voice. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Joni Mitchell has inspired countless musicians and writers, while never stopping still herself.

          In Travelling, celebrated music critic Ann Powers seeks to understand the paradox of Mitchell – at once both elusive and inviting – through her myriad journeys. Drawing on extensive inter­views with Mitchell’s peers and deep archival research, Powers takes readers to rural Canada, charts the course of Mitchell’s musical evolution, follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats and explores the loves that fed her songwriting. Kaleidoscopic in scope and intimate in detail, Travelling is a fresh and fascinating addition to the Joni Mitchell corpus – and one that questions whether an artist can ever truly be known to their fans.

          Roony Keefe

          Grime : Documenting The Scene’s Rise And Reign

            This is the extensive legacy of grime, as told by a pioneer of the scene. With vivid imagery from Roony’s archive and firsthand accounts from MC’s, designers and artists, this illustrated guide invites you to experience the 140BPM beating heartbeat of grime – not just as a music genre, but as a living, breathing culture that continues to thrive, inspire, and boldly challenge the status quo. “Grime to some is a just a genre; a specific form of music.

            But, to those involved, and anyone brought up in London around the early 2000’s, it’s way more than a BPM. Grime is a way of life, a voice for the ambitions and dreams of the inner-city youth. It’s a vessel for our creativity and a way to express ourselves.

            It’s a rebellion to the system; to those who said we can’t or don’t deserve to be involved, be better, or to want more. Grime is the way you carry yourself, the way you talk, the way you wear your clothes. It’s a culture, it’s the heartbeat of the UK’s underdog story for this generation; it’s our punk.

            It’s acceptance across the world for the music we make and the respect we’ve commanded. It’s the evolution of the sounds brought to England and the culmination of cultures: the black, the white, the Turkish and the Asian, the working classes, the poor and the wanting more. It’s that little voice inside you that says, ‘go the extra mile and don’t give up’.” Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe stands as a trusted chronicler of the grime scene's early days.

            Starting as a fan armed with a handy cam, his RiskyRoadz series captured the buzz of the time, and blew up when YouTube emerged. He later directed iconic music videos that defined the genre's visual identity – from Skepta's "Man" and "It Ain't Safe," to Chip's "Scene," and Kano's "3 Wheel-ups." Legendary status runs in his bloodline; his grandmother is non other than 80-year-old viral sensation, Grime Gran. GRIME spotlights the people and places across East London that shaped the genre: from its inception in the early 2000s, to today.

            It's a portal into the gritty, authentic world of grime, offering a front-row seat to modern history; the beef, the social history, the personalities, the tracksuits, the tunes – and the reality of a revolution that reshaped a generation. Contents: What is Grime?LondonPioneersMarginalisation and CensorshipYouTube & The Quiet TimeGoing MainstreamIconic Artwork & VideosFashionGentrification& How We SpeakGirls of GrimeFriendshipsA-Z of Artists

            The Future Sound Of London

            Pre8a001 EpA

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

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

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

              TRACK LISTING

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

              Molly Tie

              Rebel Grrrls : The Real Story Of Women And Punk From The 1970s To Today

                The unfiltered story of women in the punk scene— celebrating the highs, confronting the lows, and proving the power of community.

                From the gritty streets of 1970s London to the sun-soaked beaches of 2000s California, Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story of Women and Punk is a raw and exhilarating exploration of rebellion and identity through the eyes of its fans. This book goes beyond the musicians, spotlighting the women who defied small-town limitations, challenged family expectations, and shaped the scene from the inside out.

                Molly Tie examines what the movement has meant to millions of fans, setting their experiences within a wider cultural and political landscape. What is it like to be a woman at a gig? Which bands and songs truly reflect the female experience in a male-dominated space? And how does our connection to alternative music change when powerful figures face allegations of abuse?

                Spanning every era—from the British explosion and American hardcore to riot grrrl, pop punk, emo, ska, and today’s activist revival—Tie reveals how women in the movement have fought to be heard, proving that, at its best, punk is about refusing to stay silent.

                Paul Molloy

                The Madmen Of Apocalypso

                  The Madmen of Apocalypso’ is the second solo album by Paul Molloy on Spring Heeled Records. Recorded between his work with The Coral ‘The Madmen of Apocalypso’ has found Molloy forging a genre hopping 11 songs of dystopian mayhem and apocalyptic satire. We find evil self replicating A.I robots taking over the world to jiving red hot Dixieland jazz; end of the world calypso dance crazes, alien invasion spy-fi soundtracks, Huxleyan style cloning, tycoons, typhoons and megalomaniac buffoons!

                  Think the Kinks, Harry Nilsson, The Beatles and the Bonzos meet Noel Coward and Monty Python in a 1920s jazz age saloon for a good old fashioned knees up. So blotto they did the Charleston into a black hole; transporting them through time a century later, only to find themselves in the midst of a new dystopian 20s..The age of The Madmen of Apocalypso…

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Doomsday Bottle Of Wine
                  When The Fatman Sings
                  Hey Nancy
                  Apocalypso
                  Luxury Bunker
                  Apocalypse Rag
                  Little Green Men
                  Artificial Intelligence
                  Absent Friends
                  Dolly The Sheep
                  Silicon Valley

                  Supreme Dicks

                  The Unexamined Life

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

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

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

                    TRACK LISTING

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

                    Supreme Dicks

                    The Emotional Plague

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

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

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


                      TRACK LISTING

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

                      The London Dirthole Company

                      Modern Ist EP

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

                        Dude York

                        Halftime For The Holidays

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

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

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

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

                          TRACK LISTING

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

                          The Primitives

                          Everything's Shining Bright - The Lazy Recordings 1985-1987

                            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 Twang

                            Neontwang

                              ‘NEONTWANG’ was recorded in London at Rory Attwell’s Lightship95 with the Warm Brains man on production duties, a combination that has delivered the band’s strongest set of songs to date.

                              ‘NEONTWANG’ also marks the full debut of new member Jon ‘Simmo’ Simkins as a full writing member of The Twang. Simmo was also the brains behind the video for album track ‘The Wobble’ which premiered on The Fly’s website in October who described it as ‘resembling Ariel Pink doing Tears For Fears’.

                              ‘NEONTWANG’ marks an important moment for the band. Their fourth album, lead singer Phil Etheridge described making it as ‘easily the most fun we've had in the studio since before the band got a record deal’. Having lived through (and survived) the slings and arrows of (much) outrageous fortune, the band have found a space where they are back to the core values that have kept them together as a writing unit for over a decade.

                              ‘NEONTWANG’ comprises a series of recordings that encompass light touch balladry, dub, trip hop and sunshine pop. That early leak of ‘The Wobble’ from the album points the way, a track that veers from delicate melody to overdriven industrial noise, it is the perfect pointer for an album that cares only for its own quality. Those who know their music may also note the echo of club culture, a constant driver for the band, in album closer ‘Bywyd Da’, with its reference to Inner City’s club classic ‘Good Life’. Welsh speakers (or users of Google translate) will get the joke.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1. City Lights
                              2. Larry Lizard
                              3. New Love
                              4. The Wobble
                              5. Sucker For The Sun
                              6. Almost Anything
                              7. Happy Families
                              8. Medicine
                              9. Bigger Than You
                              10. Step Away
                              11. Bywyd Da

                              Gregory And The Hawk

                              Leche

                                Gregory And The Hawk returns with her second FatCat album ‘Leche’, a more mature and honest collection of songs than her previous releases, which sees her expanding instrumentally onto piano and harp yet conveying a sense of her bedroom recording roots.

                                Contributors include Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Rob Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond Nights, Mice Parade, Swirlies), and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Swirlies).

                                TRACK LISTING

                                For The Best
                                Landscapes
                                Over And Over
                                Soulgazing
                                Geysir Nationale
                                Frebeight
                                Olly Olly Oxen Free
                                A Century Is All We Need
                                Leaves
                                Puller Return
                                Hard To Define
                                Dream Machine

                                Calexico And Iron & Wine

                                In The Reins

                                  Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and the members of Calexico convened in December 2004 at Calexico's home base of Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. The idea of working together had been tossed around for over three years, though neither bands' schedule loaned itself into making it a reality until then. The resulting session "In the Reins", is a mini-album that is a truly harmonious affair sure to satisfy fans of both bands. The seven tracks are Sam Beam originals and were fleshed out by the full Calexico band. The record also features newcomer Natalie Wyants on vocals, Salvador Duran, a local fixture of the Tucson Flamenco scene, on vocals and Botas. Of course no Wavelab experience would be complete without the appearance of Nick Luca (NL Trio/John Doe Band) and Craig Schumacher, both of whom contributed to the record in the form of engineering and performance.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  He Lays In The Reins
                                  Prison On Route 41
                                  History Of Lovers
                                  Red Dust
                                  16, Maybe Less
                                  Burn That Broken Bed
                                  Dead Mans Will

                                  Skip James

                                  The Rough Guide To Skip James

                                    Skip James was a Delta blues enigma, whose mesmerizing guitar playing and haunting voice produced bluer than blue masterpieces. This beautifully re-mastered collection of his seminal 1931 recordings shows why his otherworldly blues cast its spell on many blues greats from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton.
                                    Arguably the greatest of the original Delta blues guitarists with his mesmerizing and truly unique style. 'The Rough Guide To Skip James' highlights his diverse repertoire of songs ranging from deep, dark Delta blues to upbeat barrelhouse piano tunes and spirituals.

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
                                    I’m So Glad
                                    Drunken Spree
                                    If You Haven’t Any Hay Get On Down The Road
                                    Cherry Ball Blues
                                    Be Ready When He Comes
                                    Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
                                    Devil Got My Woman
                                    How Long “Buck”
                                    Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
                                    Cypress Grove Blues
                                    Illinois Blues
                                    22-20 Blues

                                    Various Artists

                                    The Men In The Glass Booth: Part 1

                                      In May 1976 a record was released that would have an unforeseen and lasting impact on the music industry “Ten Percent” by Double Exposure was an early release on the New York independent label Salsoul Records. America was in the grip of a disco explosion with new clubs opening on a weekly basis; Salsoul saw what was happening and swiftly created a sound for their label, heavily influenced by the music then coming out of Philadelphia, aimed directly at New York’s dance-floors. Records like “Salsoul Hustle,” “Tangerine” and “You’re Just The Right Size” by The Salsoul Orchestra borrowed heavily from the beautifully orchestrated Philadelphia International records but added a more percussive, bass heavy depth that New York’s DJs loved. So what was so special about this particular single then? Double Exposure was, after all, just another band, “Ten Percent” just another song; one of many “disco” records released that week. First of all Salsoul became the first record label to make a twelve inch single available to Joe Public - the exotic format was previously only available to DJs as promotional items or bought under the counter at certain record stores. Not only that though, the extended version was created by Walter Gibbons, a DJ at New York’s Galaxy 21 who’d built his reputation making exclusive versions of tracks to play in his sets.

                                      In 1976 it was unheard of for a DJ to set foot in a recording studio, being seen as little more than living jukeboxes by the serious music industry. Recording studios were strictly the domain of recording artists and producers so Walter found himself in a unique position, gaining access to a world no DJ had been granted before.

                                      Or so we thought...
                                      The Men In The Glass Booth tells the full story. Featuring ground breaking re-edits and remixes by some of the Disco era's most influential DJs including Walter Gibbons, Bobby DJ Guttadaro, Tom Savarese, Jellybean Benitez, Tee Scott and John Luongo, this opulent release also includes a 40 page book which features exclusive photos and insights from some of the story's key figures.


                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                      Patrick says: BBE answer the prayers of all us non-millionaire disco fans, taking us on a journey through the alternative 12" history via this exhaustive collection of acetates and DJ edits. Mega!

                                      Don Rendell And Ian Carr Quintet

                                      The Complete Lansdowne Recordings, 1965-1969

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

                                      TRACK LISTING

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

                                      The Lumineers

                                      The Lumineers - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                        The Lumineers’ breakout debut album captured hearts of fans and critics worldwide in 2012, leading to two Grammy-award nominations and a #2 Billboard chart peak. It features the hit singles “Ho Hey” “Stubborn Love” and “Submarines.”

                                        Celebrate the 10th anniversary with a remastered and expanded 2xLP edition pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl, featuring 6 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl, new liner notes, and all-new packaging exclusive behind the scenes photos.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        1. Flowers In Your Hair
                                        2. Classy Girls
                                        3. Submarines
                                        4. Dead Sea
                                        5. Ho Hey
                                        6. Slow It Down
                                        7. Stubborn Love
                                        8. Big Parade
                                        9. Charlie Boy
                                        10. Flapper Girl
                                        11. Morning Song
                                        12. Ain't Nobody's Problem
                                        13. This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
                                        14. Elouise
                                        15. Darlene
                                        16. Slow It Down (live)
                                        17. Scotland

                                        The Goa Express

                                        The Goa Express

                                          Debut album from The Goa Express, led by Clarkey alongside his brother Joe and best friends Joey, Naham and Sam.

                                          They met as young teenagers in Burnley - growing up in the rural shadow of England's industrial north, music was a means of escape and a vessel for friendship. Their shared adolescent experiences shaped their collective attitudes and behaviours and, ultimately, the sound and spirit of their band. 6music playlists and Radio 1 support has followed along with a heavy touring schedule.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          Honey
                                          It's Never Been Better
                                          Good Luck Charm
                                          You're The Girl 
                                          Small Talk
                                          Can't Stay Quiet
                                          Better Than OK
                                          Talking About Stuff
                                          Portrait
                                          Prove It

                                          Genesis

                                          The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)

                                            The 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)' will provide a deep dive into the music and visual elements around this seminal album and pivotal period of time for the band. The album was the pinnacle of the band’s early success and is regarded as one of the most important progressive rock records of all time.

                                            The Genesis band members have been involved in the oversight and approvals around this new Super Deluxe Edition of the album, including new liner notes. The album will celebrate its 50th Anniversary this year.

                                            The set will include:
                                            - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway remastered from the original 1974 tapes (2LPs or 2 CDs)
                                            - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Live At The Shrine Auditorium full live show from January 24th, 1975, including the two encore tracks for the very first time, “Watcher of the Skies/The Musical Box (3LPs or 2 CDs)
                                            - A Blu Ray audio disc with Dolby ATMOS and Hi Res mixes of the album, along with other select visual images
                                            - Select Demos and Outtakes From Headley Grange (part of a digital download card with the full audio from the set)
                                            -  A coffee table style book with Alexis Petridis liner notes, telling the story of The Lamb from the writing sessions to live performances, including band member commentary. The book will also feature images from Armando Gallo and other noted photographers, memorabilia and a 1975 Tour Programme reproduction

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Remastered 2024 (From The Original 1974 Tapes)
                                            1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
                                            2. Fly On A Windshield
                                            3. Broadway Melody Of 1974
                                            4. Cuckoo Cocoon
                                            5. In The Cage
                                            6. The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging
                                            7. Back In N.Y.C.
                                            8. Hairless Heart
                                            9. Counting Out Time
                                            10. The Carpet Crawlers
                                            11. The Chamber Of 32 Doors
                                            12. Lilywhite Lilith
                                            13. The Waiting Room
                                            14. Anyway
                                            15. Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist
                                            16. The Lamia
                                            17. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
                                            18. The Colony Of Slippermen (The Arrival · A Visit To The Doktor · Raven)
                                            19. Ravine
                                            20. The Light Dies Down On Broadway
                                            21. Riding The Scree
                                            22. In The Rapids
                                            23. It.

                                            The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway – Live From The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (January 24, 1975) Remastered 2024
                                            1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
                                            2. Fly On A Windshield
                                            3. Broadway Melody Of 1974
                                            4. Cuckoo Cocoon
                                            5. In The Cage
                                            6. The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging
                                            7. Back In N.Y.C.
                                            8. Hairless Heart
                                            9. Counting Out Time
                                            10. The Carpet Crawlers
                                            11. The Chamber Of 32 Doors
                                            12. Lilywhite Lilith
                                            13. The Waiting Room
                                            14. Anyway
                                            15. Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist
                                            16. The Lamia
                                            17. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
                                            18. The Colony Of Slippermen (The Arrival · A Visit To The Doktor · Raven)
                                            19. Ravine
                                            20. The Light Dies Down On Broadway
                                            21. Riding The Scree
                                            22. In The Rapids
                                            23. It.
                                            24. Watcher Of The Skies
                                            25. The Musical Box

                                            Finishing Move

                                            DOOM: The Dark Ages (Original Soundtrack)

                                              The game’s original score was created by Finishing Move, composers comprised of Brian Trifon, Brian Lee White, Jay Wiltzen, and Alex Klingle, who have delivered a soundtrack worthy of the Slayer’s legend. The music is a sonic reflection of the game’s adrenaline-fuelled action, its unique Medieval setting, and the raw energy of the classic DOOM experience.

                                              Elements of thrash metal, modern deathcore, early doom metal and Swedish black metal bleed into brutal guitar breakdowns and downtempo grooves, while traditional folk instruments such as the Nordic bass tagelharpa, balalaika and massive animal hide drums are combined with modern synths for a dark and gritty sound that feels raw, primal and unmistakably DOOM.


                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              4LP & 2CD Tracklisting:
                                              1. Invasion
                                              2. From The Ashes
                                              3. When The Shadows First Lengthened
                                              4. Unchained Predator
                                              5. Hebeth
                                              6. Atlan Battleground
                                              7. Sentinel Barracks
                                              8. Holy City
                                              9. Blood Red
                                              10. Last Bastion
                                              11. Unholy Siege
                                              12. Pursuit Of Demons
                                              13. Unyielding
                                              14. Infernal Chasm
                                              15. Hellspawn Rift
                                              16. Titanic Prison
                                              17. Ancestral Beast
                                              18. Transdimensional
                                              19. Cosmic Sea
                                              20. Into The Void
                                              21. What Lies Below
                                              22. Battle On The Blackened Tide
                                              23. Steel Beyond The Grave
                                              24. Rebirth
                                              25. Divine Retribution
                                              26. Wither And Writhe
                                              27. Rebuild
                                              28. Colossus Unleashed
                                              29. Onslaught Of The Damned
                                              30. Theomachy
                                              31. Blood Spill
                                              32. The Prince
                                              33. Between Hex And Flame
                                              34. Apotheosis
                                              35. He Is Out There

                                              2LP Tracklisting:
                                              1. From The Ashes
                                              2. When The Shadows First Lengthened
                                              3. Unchained Predator
                                              4. Blood Red
                                              5. Infernal Chasm
                                              6. Battle On The Blackened Tide
                                              7. Steel Beyond The Grave
                                              8. Pursuit Of Demons
                                              9. Into The Void
                                              10. What Lies Below
                                              11. Unholy Siege
                                              12. Divine Retribution
                                              13. Wither And Writhe
                                              14. Theomachy
                                              15. Blood Spill
                                              16. Between Hex And Flame
                                              17. Apotheosis

                                              The Subways

                                              When I'm With You

                                                In 2005, teenage trio The Subways made a phenomenal breakthrough with their Gold certified debut album ‘Young For Eternity’. It set them on the road to an endless succession of highlights, including their iconic ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ becoming a mainstay of rock radio and streaming playlists (with 100 million+ streams to date) extensive global headline tours, particularly in the UK and Germany, where they’ve played more than 500 gigs. They have also played shows as guests to everyone from Oasis to Foo Fighters via AC/DC, and hit seemingly ever major festival around, from Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and main stage sets at Reading and Leeds in the UK to major international events such as Rock Am Ring / Rock Im Park, Lollapalooza and Sziget. Twenty years on, and now five albums deep into their career, The Subways celebrate their 20th anniversary with the career-spanning collection ‘When I’m With You’.

                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                1. Oh Yeah
                                                2. Black Wax
                                                3. We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time
                                                4. Taking All The Blame
                                                5. Mary
                                                6. Alright
                                                7. Kalifornia
                                                8. Popdeath
                                                9. Just Like Jude
                                                10. Uncertain Joys
                                                11. I Need To Feel You Closer
                                                12. With You
                                                13. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
                                                14. At 1 AM
                                                15. Good Times
                                                16. I Won’t Let You Down
                                                17. Passenger’s Side
                                                18. I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say
                                                19. You Kill My Cool
                                                20. My Heart Is Pumping To A Brand New Beat
                                                21. It’s A Party
                                                22. Love Waiting On You
                                                23. Girls & Boys
                                                24. Rock & Roll Queen

                                                The Barr Brothers

                                                Let It Hiss

                                                  It’s been eight years since Montreal’s The Barr Brothers released a full-length album. In that time, life pulled them in new directions - personally and professionally - altering the way they make music together. Their fourth studio album, 'Let it Hiss', isn’t just a new collection of songs. It’s a document of transformation. The making of this record marked a pivotal shift: a pause for reflection, a reckoning with vulnerability, and a reconnection between the two brothers who’ve spent over three decades making music side by side. “In 2022, we found ourselves at a breaking point,” says Brad Barr, the band’s guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter. “It was clear something had to change. The real story of this record is the story of that change and everything that came after.”

                                                  “'Let it Hiss' is what happened when we stopped pretending everything was fine and finally listened to what was actually going on”, says Andrew.
                                                  The album opens in miniature: a tiny Mexican guitar, the soft pulse of piano, a bare rhythm, and a voice that offers both surrender and strength. "Take it from me,” Brad sings - not as command, but confession. From this first moment, the album invites you into a space where the flaws aren’t edited out - they’re amplified, celebrated. It’s a powerful introduction to a record rooted in honesty, rediscovery, and trust.

                                                  For the brothers, recording became a mirror. The process didn’t begin with sound - it began with truth. They confronted not just creative blocks, but personal ones. Old patterns. Unspoken tensions. Grief. Growth. Through it all, they found a rhythm again - not in precision, but in permission.

                                                  Brad and Andrew have been playing music together since they were kids, first in the shape-shifting rock outfit The Slip, and then as The Barr Brothers, blending American roots music, and experimental textures into something uniquely their own. Their reputation for intricate musicianship and emotional depth has earned them fans across the world—and praise from musical giants.

                                                  The title itself is an ethos. “It just felt right,” Andrew says. “To leave the hiss in. The discomfort, the imperfection, the struggle. We stopped trying to clean it all up. That’s when the music started to breathe again. To be fun”.

                                                  Certainly, 'Let it Hiss' foregrounds a sense of joyous abandon that wasn’t as perceptible on previous Barr Brothers records—you can hear it in the open-road anthem 'Run Right Into It' (featuring Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell) and the playful garage-band reggae of 'She Doesn’t Sleep With the Covers On'. But 'Let it Hiss' doesn’t completely abandon the intimate storytelling on which the Barrs’ brand was built: 'English Harbour' is a gorgeous folk hymn illuminated by harmonies from former tour mate Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and 'Moonbeam' is a lush, string-swept soul serenade given an extra touch of class by a Francophone guest vocal from Quebecois art-pop shapeshifter Klô Pelgag.

                                                  There’s a timeless quality to the songwriting on Let it Hiss - evident on songs like 'Naturally', a quiet nod to the era of classic craftsmen, where melody and message were inseparable. It’s music that trusts the listener, unfolding gradually, with arrangements that balance restraint and ambition in equal measure. Perhaps at the center of it all is 'Owning Up to Everyone', a track that captures the spirit of the album in miniature. “That one cracked something open,” says Andrew. “It felt like a way through.”

                                                  But all the freewheeling musical exploration and emotional upheaval that plays out over the course of 'Let it Hiss' still won’t prepare for the album’s closer 'Upsetter', a blast of sweat-soaked, punk-powered rock ‘n ’soul capped by an absolutely lobotomizing guitar solo. Quite simply, it’s the most berserker track the Barrs have ever committed to tape, pushing the 'Let it Hiss' philosophy so far into the red, it practically breaks the VU meter. “This was one where I thought, ‘well, there's no way this is going to make the record, ’because maybe it feels out of the blue for a lot of our listeners,” Brad reveals. “But I think our listeners will appreciate us just being who we are - and who we are includes stuff like this.”

                                                  Brad and Andrew produced 'Let it Hiss' themselves, working primarily as a duo out of their Montreal studio. To bring the album’s rawness and intricacy into focus, the band turned to mix engineer Jon Low (The National, Taylor Swift, Bon Iver). They called on trusted friends from their wider musical community to lend voices, instruments, and textures when the songs called for it—collaborations that felt less like features and more like natural extensions of the music. Many of these relationships were built over years of shared stages, late-night sessions, and a mutual commitment to the craft. In this way, Let it Hiss stands as both their most personal and most collaborative record to date.

                                                  'Let it Hiss' doesn’t resolve so much as reveal. It invites listeners to lean in - to the hiss, the weight, the wonder. As the Barr Brothers move forward, one thing is clear: they’ve found each other again and in doing so they found their way back to the music.

                                                  And the rest is hisstory.

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  1. Take It From Me
                                                  2. Let It Hiss
                                                  3. English Harbour
                                                  4. Run Right Into It
                                                  5. Moonbeam
                                                  6. She Doesn't Sleep With The Covers On
                                                  7. Naturally
                                                  8. Owning Up To Everyone
                                                  9. Another Tangerine
                                                  10. Upsetter

                                                  Miles Kane

                                                  Sunlight In The Shadows

                                                    Miles Kane’s (acclaimed English rocker and co-founding member of The Last Shadow Puppets with Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys) 2025 release, 'Sunlight In The Shadows', marks his first Easy Eye Sound album teaming up with GRAMMY-winning producer Dan Auerbach. Co-written with Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Daniel Tashian and Pat McLaughlin. The guitar-driven album signals a fresh direction in Kane’s ever-evolving solo career. Featuring 'Love Is Cruel', 'I Pray', and 'Electric Flower'.



                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    1. Love Is Cruel
                                                    2. Electric Flower
                                                    3. Sunlight In The Shadows
                                                    4. Coming Down The Road
                                                    5. Always In Over My Head
                                                    6. Blue Skies
                                                    7. My Love
                                                    8. Without You
                                                    9. Sing A Song To Love
                                                    10. Slow Death
                                                    11. I Pray
                                                    12. Walk On The Ocean 

                                                    The Diasonics

                                                    Ornithology

                                                      Following their 2022 critically acclaimed debut album 'Origin of Forms', named Library Music Album of the Year at PopMatters, the Moscow-based instrumental outfit The Diasonics return with 'Ornithology', a sophomore album that pushes their sonic boundaries forward while staying true to their unmistakable style. Recorded at their custom-built Studio 23—housed in a repurposed Soviet-era lamp factory—the album captures the result of two years of intense creative exploration and experimentation.

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      1. Jay
                                                      2. Black Owl
                                                      3. Мockingbird
                                                      4. Larks
                                                      5. Peregrine
                                                      6. Finch
                                                      7. Storm Petrel
                                                      8. Oriole
                                                      9. Guineafowl
                                                      10. Chickadee
                                                      11. Cuckoo

                                                      Dropkick Murphys

                                                      For The People

                                                        Dropkick Murphys’ new album 'For The People' shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, doing so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys’ earliest punk rock roots. 'For The People' is more than a title. It’s a heartfelt stance, a declaration of who this band is—and who they’ve always been.

                                                        The poignant album cover was created by renowned social/political artist Shepard Fairey's design firm Studio Number One, and the album was produced and mixed by longtime Dropkick Murphys collaborator Ted Hutt.

                                                        'For The People' rises to its moment: an expression of humanity at a time of relentless dehumanization, a promise of hope in an era fueled by fear-mongering, a declaration of solidarity in an age of disunion, a defiant rebuttal to the charlatans and demagogues who seek to divide us for their own power.

                                                        Dropkick Murphys proudly remain Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, the boys have created the kind of music that’s meant to be chanted at last call, in packed arenas, and during the fourth quarter, third period, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. Their celebrated discography includes four consecutive Billboard top 10 album debuts ('Turn Up That Dial', '11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory', 'Signed and Sealed in Blood', 'Going Out In Style'), along with 2005’s Certified-Gold album 'The Warrior’s Code' featuring the double platinum classic 'I’m Shipping Up To Boston'.

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        1. Who’ll Stand With Us?
                                                        2. Longshot (feat. The Scratch)
                                                        3. The Big Man
                                                        4. Chesterfields And Aftershave
                                                        5. Bury The Bones (feat. The Mary Wallopers)
                                                        6. Kids Games
                                                        7. Sooner Kill ‘Em First
                                                        8. Fiending For The Lies
                                                        9. Streetlights
                                                        10.School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)
                                                        11. The Vultures Circle High (feat. Al Barr)
                                                        12.One Last Goodbye “Tribute To Shane” (feat. The Scratch)
                                                        13. Dropped On My Head – Bonus Track
                                                        14. Take Your Bow – Bonus Track
                                                        15. Straight Edge (I Liked You Better) – Bonus Track
                                                        16. A Hero Among Many – Bonus Track
                                                        17. Sirens – Bonus Track

                                                        James Nice

                                                        Shadowplayers : The Rise And Fall Of Factory Records - New Edition

                                                          In 1978, a 'Factory for Sale' sign gave Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson a name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn' t have known it at the time, this was the launch of one of the most significant musical and cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying live scene soon translated to vinyl, and Factory Records went on to become the most innovative and celebrated record label of the next thirty years.

                                                          Always breaking new musical ground, Factory introduced the listening public to bands such as Joy Division, whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first album release, New Order, Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. Propelled onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur, Tony Wilson, Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness, such as the infamous Hacienda nightclub, which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982. Now fully revised and expanded with a new chapter, Shadowplayers is the most complete, authoritative and thoroughly researched account of how a group of provincial anarchists and entrepreneurs saw off bankers, journalists and gun-toting gangsters to create the most influential record label of modern times.

                                                          Based on both archive and contemporary sources, the book tells the full story of Factory' s heroic struggles, its complex web of inventive, idiosyncratic and tragic personalities, and ultimately, the acclaimed and much-loved music it produced.

                                                          Tim Burgess And Tom Sheehan

                                                          How High: A Portrait Of The Charlatans - Signed Edition

                                                            This is the inside story of The Charlatans, told through the lens of legendary
                                                            photographer Tom Sheehan and the words of the band's frontman Tim Burgess.

                                                            More than 250 of Sheehan's photographs - blending iconic shots with those seen here for the first time - are accompanied by moving and insightful text from Burgess, sharing his memories of a band at the very height of their powers.

                                                            Covering a decade of the band's story, the book captures recording sessions, live performances, cover shoots, tours and intimate moments snatched backstage and around the world.

                                                            Beautifully presented in a cloth-bound hardback, this book is a stunning visual
                                                            history of The Charlatans, one of the defining bands of a generation.


                                                            Rusty Egan

                                                            Rusty Egan : The Autobiography

                                                              Rusty Egan is one of the most iconic and influential figures in the electronic music industry. His career began in the music industry as a runner at DJM studios, followed by a stint at WEA Records. Rusty collaborated with former Sex Pistols member Glen Matlock, alongside Steve New and Midge Ure, to establish the new wave band Rich Kids. Their debut album, Ghosts of Princes in Towers, released in 1978, achieved both critical acclaim andcommercial success.

                                                              During the Rich Kids tours, Rusty met Steve Strange. This encounter led to Rusty's concept for a club night at Billy's, a Sohovenue, catering to fashionable punks and showcasing the music they were passionate about. In 1979, they moved their club night to the Blitz in Covent Garden.

                                                              As the resident DJ at the Blitz, Rusty played a pivotal rolein introducing British, German, and Japanese electronica to the Britishclub scene, essentially curating the soundtrack for the burgeoning New Romantic movement. Rusty Egan was instrumental in the formation of the band Visage with Midge Ure. Steve Strange joined them as the frontman (face and voice), and the lineup was completed by Billy Currie on keyboards, along with John McGeoch (guitar), Dave Formula (keyboards), and Barry Adamson (bass), all from the band MAGAZINE.

                                                              Beyond his band work Rusty co-founded the incredibly popular Camden Palace nightclub in London with Steve Strange, where he continued to champion and shape the development of electronica in the UK. He also established Metropolis Music, a publishing and production company,allowing him to create music as well as perform it. In more recent news, Rusty released his album Welcome To The Dancefloor in 2017, which featured collaborations with Midge Ure, Tony Hadley, and Peter Hook.



                                                              John Williams

                                                              Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

                                                                Mutant, in association with Walt Disney Music and LucasFilm, are proud to present a 20th anniversary celebratory pressing of John William's original score to the iconic final chapter of the Star Wars prequel trilogy - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

                                                                Following a powerful return to cinemas this spring, George Lucas' 2005 science fiction epic has continued to capture the hearts generation after generation. Returning for his sixth Star Wars film, John Williams brings the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker to life with a masterful flair. From the opening fanfare's hard pivot to the action packed dogfight, Williams weaves between kinetic adventure, and haunting heartbreak with grace and precision. In a series full of the absolute pinnacle of music ever committed to film, Revenge of the Sith sits proudly side by side, while feeling wholly unique.

                                                                Long out of print on physical media, and only being pressed on Vinyl for the second time ever, this limited edition release features incredible original artwork by Matt Ferguson and is pressed on 2x 140gm black vinyl. 


                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                1. Star Wars And The Revenge Of The Sith 
                                                                2. Anakin's Dream
                                                                3. Battle Of The Heroes
                                                                4. Anakin's Betrayal 
                                                                5. General Grievous 
                                                                6. Palpatine's Teachings 
                                                                7. Grievous And The Droids 
                                                                8. Padmé's Ruminations
                                                                9. Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan 
                                                                10. Anakin's Dark Deeds
                                                                11. Enter Lord Vader
                                                                12. The Immolation Scene
                                                                13. Grievous Speaks To Lord Sidious
                                                                14. The Birth Of The Twins And Padmé's Destiny
                                                                15. A New Hope And End Credits

                                                                Les Big Byrd

                                                                Kattguld - The PNKSLM Singles Volume 1 (2014-2018)

                                                                  Introducing 'Kattguld', the definitive collection of Les Big Byrd’s essential singles and EPs from their PNKSLM years.

                                                                  Volume 1 chronicles the band's prolific output between 2014 and 2018, capturing their signature blend of swirling psychedelia and melodic invention

                                                                  This long-awaited compilation brings together fan favorites and rare cuts, including the highly sought-after 'Back To Bagarmossen' and 'Two Man Gang' — two tracks that have become staples in the band’s catalog and frequent requests for repressing. A must-have for both longtime fans and new listeners, Kattguld offers a deep dive into one of Sweden’s most captivating modern psych acts.

                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                  1. Back To Bagarmossen
                                                                  2. Tinnitus Ætérnum
                                                                  3. Dandelion Seeds
                                                                  4. I Live In The Spring
                                                                  5. Two Man Gang
                                                                  6. My Valuable Hunting Knife
                                                                  7. A Little More Numb

                                                                  The Dwarfs Of East Agouza

                                                                  Sasquatch Landslide

                                                                    Pick a small spot (a point) in front of you (a small knot of wood a dog down the way). And tightly focus on this spot. And now slowly unfocus your gaze. Widen your gaze. Pan out without moving your eyes. Take it all in. A smeared and pixelated surface, swelling of contour and light. (Monet’s seepages of light, Altman’s overlapping nomadic dialogue.) Once you have unfocused with little to no center of attention, slowly close your eyes. And please feel very free to notice the light.

                                                                    All of the light that your eyes knocked back as you dilated your focal point. This exercise can be repeated a few times. Unfocusing does not always come easily. And it is probably best to not put too much effort into it. Best to not employ too much pressure. And we will not put too much pressure on this exercise to help us explain away the saturatedly and humidly psychedelic canopy of moan-‘n-twang and slackelastic-groove of The Dwarfs of East Agouza’s 'Sasquatch Landslide'.

                                                                    Mitch Hedberg has a great joke about the Sasquatch: “I think Bigfoot is blurry. That’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry! And that’s extra scary to me, because there’s a large out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.” 'Sasquatch Landslide'. A landslide of hazy configurations. Blurriness, far from a lack of detail, is an embroidering of detail, a horizontal expansion of surface and swarms of light. The name “Sasquatch” derives from the Salish word se'sxac, which means “wildmen.” And 'Sasquatch Landslide' is wild. Everything is unravelling. Offset. Décallage. A whole host of slippery tempos and pulses as the organs, guitars and saxophones loiter and lope over a skipping hop of beats, and everything emerges always mid-stream. It is all middle with no halfway point, no dead center, no bullseye. Everything twangs, moans, sweeps, slips, swings, skitters, slides and grooves out of nowhere. And the almost-human voice with no mother-tongue. There is something ecstatic (an elatedly miniscule frenzy) going on here but it is pushed beyond the ecstatic: a joyous-grotesque rolling right past trance to dance. Psychedelias appear out of the infra-spaces in between the apparitions and overlapping ‘regimes’ and registers—pushed and squeezed far beyond the recognizable. And these spaces groove joyously hard like some kind of illusive House music, houses completely submerged in molasses. BigFoot-work? (Oh my!) There is not a place to throw your anchor here in the furrowing humidity. That does and it does sound like some kind of landslide.

                                                                    A psychedelic encounter is a brush with the marvel of otherness. The point from which we speak of other, becomes other itself, in an ever-storm of other-production that shreds ideas of knowing and understanding what we think is going on. Time unhinged from the clock. Space unhinged from the frame. An unpinpointing hallucination, a hot get-down, an untethered throw-down of oscillations, fiercely, joyously, exuberantly incomprehensible. Listening to 'Sasquatch Landslide', a wildly unhinged reverie

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    1. Swollen Thankles
                                                                    2. Saber Tooth Millipede
                                                                    3. Double Mothers
                                                                    4. Titular
                                                                    5. Neptune Anteater
                                                                    6. A Body To Match
                                                                    7. Goldfish Molasses

                                                                    Paul Gorman

                                                                    Granny Takes A Trip: High Fashion And High Times At The Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique

                                                                      Granny Takes A Trip was more than just a shop and a fashion brand; it was the original rock and roll clothes boutique, the template for all that followed. What started as an odd retail venture/art installation in a depressed part of London known as World's End became an international byword for glam decadence in Manhattan and Hollywood, combining flamboyant style and all manner of countercultural activity to attract everyone from Pattie Boyd, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg to Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, the Beatles, and Lou Reed.

                                                                      Unfolding over a decade-and-a-half, this tumultuous story invokes a cast of often unique, sometimes entitled, unusually talented and troubled individuals on a collective mission to shake up austere, repressed, class-ridden Britain and white bread America. Some achieved this at great personal cost as darkness, addiction and tragedy stalked those behind the extraordinary shop facades.

                                                                      Much mythologised but never told, this cautionary tale has now found its definitive chronicler in celebrated cultural historian Paul Gorman who has had access to first-hand accounts from all the principal figures, as well as notes for a memoir and a much treasured scrapbook by Freddie Hornik, the tailoring entrepreneur who survived the death marches of central Europe after WW2 to acquire Granny Takes A Trip in the late 60s and transform into an unparalleled pop cultural force.

                                                                      Beautifully illustrated with archival images of the shop, principal players and the clothes themselves, this book concludes with a never-seen-before 48-page tour through the Rolling Stones' wild wardrobe of sartorial delights tailored and sold in the original shop.

                                                                      Eminem

                                                                      The Marshall Mathers LP - 25th Anniversary Edition

                                                                        'The Marshall Mathers LP' turns 25. To celebrate, a new edition of Eminem’s groundbreaking album arrives with two live bonus tracks: 'The Real Slim Shady' and 'The Way I Am', captured at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
                                                                        Iconic, uncompromising, and more relevant than ever — this is an album that redefined hip-hop for a generation and now expanded for a new one.

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        1. Public Service Announcement 2000
                                                                        2. Kill You
                                                                        3. Stan
                                                                        4. Paul – Skit
                                                                        5. Who Knew
                                                                        6. Steve Berman
                                                                        7. The Way I Am
                                                                        8. The Real Slim Shady
                                                                        9. Remember Me?
                                                                        10. I’m Back
                                                                        11. Marshall Mathers
                                                                        12. Ken Kaniff – Skit
                                                                        13. Drug Ballad
                                                                        14. Amityville
                                                                        15. Bitch Please II
                                                                        16. Kim
                                                                        17. Under The Influence
                                                                        18. Criminal
                                                                        Bonus Tracks:
                                                                        19. The Real Slim Shady (2000 VMA Performance)
                                                                        20. The Way I Am (2000 VMA Performance)

                                                                        Debsey Wykes

                                                                        Teenage Daydream : We Are The Girls Who Play In A Band

                                                                          An evocative coming of age story from one of the UK’s first ever female post-punk musicians. Debsey Wykes was the bass playing singer in the first all girl punk group Dolly Mixture. Thrown into the musky, misogynistic, male dominated world of the UK music industry in the late 1970s, they enjoyed unlikely #1 success alongside Captain Sensible of The Damned on1982’s even unlikelier cover version of ‘Happy Talk’, whilst fame and success on their own individual terms alluded them.

                                                                          Debsey went onto greater prominence with Saint Etienne with who she has performed since 1992, whilst in 2025, desirable Dolly Mixture reissues sell out around the world as quickly as they are printed. Featuring a cast of contemporary post-punk heroes – rom Paul Weller and the Jam (their first record label boss) to Madness and the Pogues – Teenage Daydream is a unique coming of age story of youthful ambition, enterprising DIY musical ethics and how an unlikely bunch of school-girl friends ended up on Top of the Pops in home made hula skirts.

                                                                          Olivia Dean

                                                                          The Art Of Loving

                                                                            'The Art of Loving' is a tender, intentional deep dive into the many dimensions of love – romantic, platonic, self, and everything in between. A multi-BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominee, 'The Art of Loving' features the the lead single ‘Nice To Each Other’.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            TBC

                                                                            WOODKID

                                                                            Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

                                                                              Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, one of the most-anticipated video games of 2025 soundtrack is available on vinyl. The game’s soundtrack was written by French multi-platinum artist WOODKID. The 16 original tracks on the album are featured within the game play, such as album focus track 'Any Love of Any Kind' by Woodkid featuring Bryce Dessner - an emotional and somber vocal track with piano, strings and guitar. 

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              1. To The Wilder
                                                                              2. Any Love Of Any Kind Feat. Bryce Dessner
                                                                              3. Black Drift
                                                                              4. Story Of Rainy
                                                                              5. Are You There
                                                                              6. Asphalt Maelstrom
                                                                              7. Fragile Things
                                                                              8. Quiet Strike
                                                                              9. Amekara Nijie
                                                                              10. Tmrrw
                                                                              11. Minus Sixty One
                                                                              12. And Now The Bonus Tracks Feat. Hideo Kojima
                                                                              13. To The Wilder Feat. Elle Fanning
                                                                              14. Any Love Of Any Kind (Choir Version)
                                                                              15. To The Wilder (Piano Version)
                                                                              16. To The Wilder (Instrumental)

                                                                              Sloan

                                                                              Based On The Best Seller

                                                                                'Based on the Best Seller', the new album from power pop auteurs Sloan, is a star-studded showcase of songwriting from the quartet of Andrew Scott, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson. From hooks of 'Live Forever' and 'No Damn Fears' that cut like a director’s final edit, to the hooky harmonies of 'Dream Destroyer' and 'Capitol Cooler' that deserve top billing, this alt-rock blockbuster proves once again: Sloan never skips the reel magic. 

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                1. Capitol Cooler
                                                                                2. Dream Destroyer
                                                                                3. Open Your Umbrellas
                                                                                4. Baxter
                                                                                5. Congratulations
                                                                                6. Live Forever
                                                                                7. So Far Down
                                                                                8. Fortune Teller
                                                                                9. No Damn Fears
                                                                                10. Collect Yourself
                                                                                11. Here We Go Again
                                                                                12. Already Know

                                                                                The Boomtown Rats

                                                                                The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory

                                                                                  The Boomtown Rats were one of the most successful bands of the 1970s in the UK. Their grown-up new wave and real time stories captured the imagination of a mass audience. As the leader of The Rats, Bob Geldof led his band of Dublin post-punkers right to the very top of the UK charts with UK No.1s 'Rat Trap' and 'I Don’t Like Monday’s'. 

                                                                                  In its gatefold sleeve with brand new artwork and commentary, all tracks have been selected by the band themselves. Released to coincide with their 50th anniversary tour, this is the very best of the Boomtown Rats and a one-stop shop of their words and melodies.

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  LP Tracklist:
                                                                                  1. Looking After No. 1
                                                                                  2. K.I.S.S.
                                                                                  3. Me And Howard Hughes
                                                                                  4. Here’s A Postcard
                                                                                  5. Dave
                                                                                  6. Drag Me Down
                                                                                  7. Rat Trap
                                                                                  8. Someone's Looking At You
                                                                                  9. Banana Republic
                                                                                  10. Diamond Smiles
                                                                                  11. When The Night Comes
                                                                                  12. Mary Of The Fourth Form
                                                                                  13. There’s No Tomorrow Like Today
                                                                                  14. The Elephant's Graveyard
                                                                                  15. She' So Modern
                                                                                  16. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
                                                                                  17. Trash Glam Baby
                                                                                  18. The Boomtown Rats!
                                                                                  19. Like Clockwork
                                                                                  20. Neon Heart
                                                                                  21. Up All Night
                                                                                  22. Monster Monkeys
                                                                                  23. I Don't Like Mondays
                                                                                  24. Joey's On The Street Again

                                                                                  CD Tracklist:
                                                                                  1. Looking After No. 1
                                                                                  2. K.I.S.S.
                                                                                  3. Me And Howard Hughes
                                                                                  4. Here’s A Postcard
                                                                                  5. Dave
                                                                                  6. Drag Me Down
                                                                                  7. Rat Trap
                                                                                  8. Someone's Looking At You
                                                                                  9. Banana Republic
                                                                                  10. Keep It Up
                                                                                  11. Diamond Smiles
                                                                                  12. When The Night Comes
                                                                                  13. Mary Of The Fourth Form
                                                                                  14. There’s No Tomorrow Like Today
                                                                                  15. The Elephant's Graveyard
                                                                                  16. She' So Modern
                                                                                  17. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
                                                                                  18. Trash Glam Baby
                                                                                  19. House On Fire
                                                                                  20. The Boomtown Rats!
                                                                                  21. Tonight
                                                                                  22. Like Clockwork
                                                                                  23. Neon Heart
                                                                                  24. Up All Night
                                                                                  25. Monster Monkeys
                                                                                  26. I Don't Like Mondays
                                                                                  27. Joey's On The Street Again

                                                                                  Youth Sector

                                                                                  Pop Couture

                                                                                    Hailing from Brighton, indie rock quintet Youth Sector expertly balance astute political observations with campy indie romps. Inspired by the art school greats DEVO and Talking Heads, their music is a coiled spring of urgency and unpredictable energy that offers a sense of catharsis for the confusion of modern adult life.

                                                                                    Across their critically acclaimed EPs, the Brighton quintet have never revelled in bleakness, managing to twist everyday narratives into music that is quite the opposite being upbeat, full of energy and with irresistible choruses you can’t help but sing along with.

                                                                                    Evidently Youth Sector are no strangers to weaving prescient issues of culture and politics into the warm embrace of strong grooves and sing-along choruses, but debut album ‘Pop Couture’ raises the bar considerably, marking their strongest statement to date. From grift culture to political corruption to the devolution of living standards, Youth Sector prove they can transform the weightiest subject matter into the most irresistible of choruses.

                                                                                    “'Pop Couture', our debut album, is a body of work which for a long time seemed out of our reach; it's the culmination of several years of development and is the vehicle for which we have been saving the best material we've ever written. The album explores prescient issues in our culture and politics such as grift culture, corruption and the devolution of standards in public life, but wraps these ideas in the warm embrace of strong grooves and sing-along choruses.”

                                                                                    “We've been more ambitious than ever on these recordings in terms of the scale of the songs we're writing, with the help of Richard Wilkinson (Bombay Bicycle Club, Spector, Kaiser Chiefs), this album includes our most expansive recordings to date. Woven throughout the record is a self-awareness and introspection from five individuals who have worked through the financial and personal burdens that come with being a small artist the modern music industry; the record is bookended by 'God's Work' and 'Not Coming Down' that explore the journey through different lenses.”

                                                                                    “Although the road to 'Pop Couture' has been long and arduous, Youth Sector can confidently confirm for any apprehensive listeners that it is certifiably all killer and no filler.”

                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                    1. God's Work
                                                                                    2. Crime
                                                                                    3. Fit For Purpose
                                                                                    4. Buy For Less
                                                                                    5. Spitting Image
                                                                                    6. The Ball
                                                                                    7. House Proud And Bed Bound
                                                                                    8. Primetime
                                                                                    9. Here Comes The Fear
                                                                                    10. Break Something
                                                                                    11. Not Coming Down

                                                                                    The Divine Comedy

                                                                                    Rainy Sunday Afternoon

                                                                                      Recorded at Abbey Road last autumn, ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is The Divine Comedy's thirteenth album and their first studio album since 2019's UK top 5 ‘Office Politics’. The band's last release was 2022's Best Of compilation ‘Charmed Life’ which also reached 5 in the UK album charts. The band’s Neil Hannon most recently wrote the original songs for the Warner Bros blockbuster ‘Wonka.’

                                                                                      Neil says: “My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my personality. A good chunk of that personality revels in the rumbumptious; celebrates the silly. And I made ample use of that for the Wonka songs. I have though, like everyone, a darker, more melancholy side. And for one reason or another it has been much in evidence of late. I needed to use this album as an outlet for those feelings. To work through some stuff. Mortality; memories; relationships; political and social upheaval. Everyone should get to make an orchestral pop album once in a while. It should be available on the NHS.“


                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      TBA

                                                                                      Real Estate

                                                                                      The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides And Other Detritus 2011-2025

                                                                                        'The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025' consists of rarities spanning Real Estate's last decade plus with Domino.

                                                                                        “This is something we’ve talked about doing for a while now: a compilation of non-album tracks with a title, subtitle, and maybe throw a span of years in there to make it official-sounding,” Martin Courtney said of the compilation. “The title comes from the lyrics to an unreleased song we recorded during the Atlas sessions at Wilco’s loft in Chicago back in 2013, which in turn references a great Frank Sinatra record. This feels to us like a worthy addition to the catalog and we hope you all love it.”

                                                                                        The compilation’s earliest track dates back to 2011, with a cover of The Strokes’ 'Barely Legal' for a Stereogum Tribute album, and the b-side of the 'It’s Real' / 'Blue Lebaron' 7”. Other covers include 'Paper Dolls' (The Nerves) from 2014, 'Days' (Television) from 2021, and of course 'Daniel' (Elton John) from 2024. It also includes 'In My Car', dating back to a Record Store Day fanzine flexi-disc from 2012, more b-sides including the tracks from the 'Atlas' bonus 7” from 2013, and an unreleased track entitled 'Two Part' from the 'Atlas' sessions.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        1. Pink Sky
                                                                                        2. Exactly Nothing
                                                                                        3. Barely Legal
                                                                                        4. In My Car
                                                                                        5. Two Part, Part Two
                                                                                        6. Paper Dolls
                                                                                        7. Blue Lebaron
                                                                                        8. Days
                                                                                        9. The Chancellor
                                                                                        10. Recreation
                                                                                        11. Daniel
                                                                                        12. Two Part

                                                                                        Black Lips

                                                                                        Season Of The Peach

                                                                                          Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, 'Season Of The Peach', a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks. The 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.

                                                                                          The album is a musical merry-go-round, a journey featuring road-weary tales from the underbelly of a lights-out America. It’s bookended by 'The Illusion' parts one and two: a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a sense of resignation, “you reach for the sky / but it’s an illusion.” Elsewhere, 'Wild One' plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell. A mantra for the hungover, a skin-crawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.

                                                                                          'Tippy Tongue' sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The Shangri-Las and Ronettes infiltrated by Jayne/Wayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records. Meanwhile, 'Kassandra' has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming its way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals. 'Zulu Saints' is an upbeat country honk, a good-time brush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phone-in show, looking for black-eyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.

                                                                                          For the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley’s new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020). In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.

                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                          1. The Illusion Part Two
                                                                                          2. Zulu Saints
                                                                                          3. Sx Sx Sx Men
                                                                                          4. Wild One
                                                                                          5. So Far Gone
                                                                                          6. Judas Pig
                                                                                          7. Kassandra
                                                                                          8. Baptism In The Death House
                                                                                          9. Until We Meet Again
                                                                                          10. Tippy Tongue
                                                                                          11. Happy Place
                                                                                          12. Prick
                                                                                          13. Hatman
                                                                                          14. The Illusion Part One

                                                                                          Hushtones

                                                                                          Wildfowers In The Mystery

                                                                                            Formed in the heart of Liverpool, Hushtones is made up of Martha, Mick, Caitlin, Abe, and Joe, who found each other through the city's vibrant grassroots music scene. From open mic nights to pub jam sessions, their journey is steeped in the kind of DIY ethos and community spirit that has long defned Liverpool's musical legacy.

                                                                                            Following their 2021 debut album 'Greetings From The Other Side', Hushtones earned coveted tour support slots with the likes of Red Rum Club, Tim Burgess, and She Drew The Gun.

                                                                                            Known for their distinctive blend of male-female dual vocals , heartfelt songwriting, and infectious guitar-driven soundscapes, Hushtones have been steadily carving out their place in the UK music scene. With continued airplay and support from BBC 6music, BBC Radio 1 + glowing praise from Clash Magazine, the band's momentum shows no sign of slowing.

                                                                                            Written over the course of two years, 'Wildfower in the Mystery' paints a picture of over-coming personal issues and the growing pains that come with pushing yourself into a new phase of life. This album is a time-stamp for all those amazing and scary new experiences.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            1. Fragments
                                                                                            2. Higher Places
                                                                                            3. Deja Vu
                                                                                            4. Come To The Garden
                                                                                            5. Drifting
                                                                                            6. Paper Flowers
                                                                                            7. Microscope
                                                                                            8. Stupid Things
                                                                                            9. Summertime
                                                                                            10. Manifest
                                                                                            11. Leave Me Out
                                                                                            12. Wildfower

                                                                                            Dan Jennings

                                                                                            Paul Weller: Dancing Through The Fire : The Authorised Oral History

                                                                                              The groundbreaking oral history on one of the most legendary musicians of all time: Paul Weller. Across musical history, certain artists have transcended their craft to become cultural icons, leaving an indelible mark on the world of sound and style. Paul Weller, the legendary British musician, singer and songwriter, stands among the select few whose influence spans generations.

                                                                                              His enduring popularity, traversing the explosive energy of The Jam to the sophisticated sounds of The Style Council and a prolific solo career spanning over thirty years, underscores the timeless appeal of his work. Weller also holds a unique position in music history: he shares the rare distinction with Lennon and McCartney as one of the few artists to achieve Number 1 albums in five consecutive decades. Dancing Through the Fire explores the fascinating narrative of Paul Weller's musical career, weaving together never-before-told stories, intimate insights and perspectives from the man himself and those who have been integral to his remarkable journey.

                                                                                              With unique access to his inner circle - including family, friends, bandmates, producers, and long-time collaborators - award-winning broadcaster and journalist Dan Jennings weaves together over 200 hours of exclusive conversations, allowing exclusive access to the man behind the music, including his unparalleled drive, creative struggles and personal triumphs that have shaped his iconic career and legacy. Endlessly candid, insightful and definitive in its approach, Dancing Through the Fire captures the essence of Weller's musical evolution through the voices of those who know him best.

                                                                                              The Hidden Cameras

                                                                                              Bronto

                                                                                                The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2001 by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb. Known for their blend of melodic pop, orchestral arrangements, and provocative lyrics exploring queer themes, the band gained early recognition for their theatrical live shows featuring go-go dancers, choirs, and string sections. Their debut album 'The Smell of Our Own' became a cult favorite, followed by critically acclaimed releases like 'Mississauga Goddam' and 'Awoo'. Over the years, The Hidden Cameras have remained a unique voice in indie music, mixing intimacy, activism, and baroque pop sensibilities.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                1. How Do You Love?
                                                                                                2. Undertow
                                                                                                3. Full Cycle
                                                                                                4. Quantify
                                                                                                5. I Want You
                                                                                                6. You Can Call
                                                                                                7. Brontosaurus Law
                                                                                                8. Wie Wild
                                                                                                9. State Of
                                                                                                10. Don't Tell Me That You Love Me

                                                                                                Huey Morgan

                                                                                                The Fun Lovin’ Criminal

                                                                                                  When Fun Lovin' Criminals released their debut album Come Find Yourself in 1996, its fusion of hip-hop, funk, blues and rock quickly became one of the most iconic and influential records of the decade. Now, in this fascinating memoir, frontman Huey Morgan describes his remarkable journey from journeyman to rock star. His is a story that begins in the early 1990s in New York, a marine freshly returned from combat and struggling to cope with his return to regular life.

                                                                                                  As Huey tries to kickstart his musical career, he finds himself falling into the criminal underworld to get by. But as his band begins to take off, can he extract himself before his chance of stardom goes begging?Written in Huey's indomitable and distinctive style, this is a book that brings the grit and glamour of 90s New York brilliantly to life.

                                                                                                  Grant-Lee Phillips

                                                                                                  In The Hour Of Dust

                                                                                                    Several years ago, Grant-Lee Phillips found himself wandering the elegant halls of the Norton Simon Art Museum in Pasadena, California. Amid a collection of highly detailed Indian paintings, one piece stood out. He jotted a note in his notebook, struck by both the imagery and the ominous title. That entry would eventually inspire the name of his 12th solo album: 'In the Hour of Dust'.

                                                                                                    “A common theme throughout Indian poetry and painting,” Phillips explains, “is this concept of ‘the hour of cow dust.’ It’s that moment when cows are led home and kick up dust; a cue to prepare the lamps. Night is about to fall.” While Phillips doesn’t shy away from today’s larger societal issues, 'In the Hour of Dust' is an intimate, self-produced album. Its stripped-down musical presentation and often autobiographical lyrics reflect personal reckonings, all set “against this larger discordant backdrop.” Like many, Phillips grapples with staying afloat in the chaos of modern life. For him, songwriting is a way to push back against the encroaching dark - to light the lamps and find a path forward, for both himself and his listeners. “We can focus on all the various freedoms being threatened,” Phillips says, “things we might’ve taken for granted a year or two ago. But eventually, it comes back to very human, primal things. I don’t see songs of love and songs of protest as that far apart. It’s all about recognizing the value of connection in a disconnected time.”

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. Little Men
                                                                                                    2. Did You Make It Through The Night Okay
                                                                                                    3. Closer Tonight
                                                                                                    4. Bullies
                                                                                                    5. Stories We Tell
                                                                                                    6. She Knows Me
                                                                                                    7. Someone
                                                                                                    8. No Mistaking
                                                                                                    9. Dark Ages (CD/LP Download Only)
                                                                                                    10. American Lions
                                                                                                    11. Last Corner Of The Earth (CD/LP Download Only)

                                                                                                    Ghostwoman

                                                                                                    Welcome To The Civilized World

                                                                                                      On their 4th LP, 'Welcome to the Civilized World', Ghostwoman are a sharper beast than ever. Hypnotic spells of psych-grunge, decaying Americana and ragged blues instrumental make up the intuitive tracklist; Evan Uschenko’s filthy guitars and snarling, livewire vocals and Ille van Dessel’s caustic drum beats consolidating the album’s essence. Recorded on old instruments and tape machine, the force and feeling of the record is potent - reckless, illogical and free.

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      1. Welcome To The Civilized World
                                                                                                      2. Alive
                                                                                                      3. That Jesus
                                                                                                      4. 5 Gold Pieces
                                                                                                      5. Levon
                                                                                                      6. Dime A Dozen
                                                                                                      7. When You All Were Young
                                                                                                      8. Song For Sunny
                                                                                                      9. From Now On
                                                                                                      10. Anhedonia
                                                                                                      11. Who Are You?

                                                                                                      Gwenifer Raymond

                                                                                                      Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

                                                                                                        Brighton-based, Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is set to announce her third studio album to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards. somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.

                                                                                                        Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a natural evolution for such an intensely questing, personally excavating artist. The album is Raymond’s first since 2020’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.

                                                                                                        Having toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker and Squid, and played festivals including WOMAD, Green Man, End of the Road and Transmusicales in France, Raymond began recording Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark; exploring textures and following threads alone in her flat’s home studio, trying to get a sonic grip on a world spinning out of control.

                                                                                                        Sci-fi and scientific readings provided a strange, objective clarity. One key reference was Tom O’Bedlam, an insane homeless mystic from Grant Morrison’s comic book series The Invisibles who sees holy words in street signs reflected from the city’s wet concrete, hidden meanings within the modern chaos. “The world seems to have been taking on an increasingly surrealistic tilt,” Raymond says, “and ol’ Tom makes more and more sense.”

                                                                                                        “I’ve always been a big sci-fi reader,” she says, listing Phillip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury amongst the authors she read avidly as a child from her parents’ extensive sci-fi collection. Raymond would go on to complete a PhD in Astrophysics at Cardiff University, before moving to Brighton to become an AI and video game programmer.

                                                                                                        Midway through writing her third album, then, she was drawn to the pulp sci-fi corners of Brighton market, picking up and devouring second hand tomes of strange science and the mystique of eternities. “A bunch of the stuff I was reading had these themes about the nature of infinity, and tying this into concepts about the afterlife,” she says. “Those thoughts were running in my mind a lot, especially when I was creating some of the droney sounds that book-end the album. The album enters from the cosmic void and exits through the galactic plane. Maybe you’re exiting out of hyperdrive into some strange planet where the album lives, then you zip out to find whatever is next.”

                                                                                                        At times, ladies and gentlemen, she found herself floating in space. The opener ‘Banjo Players of Aleph One’, for instance, is built on a celestial drone – its Gibson Mastertone banjo an off-world presence, purchased second-hand from a widow looking to pay for her husband’s funeral. “I had this image in my head of him somewhere very distant, playing the banjo on the cliffs of Mount On,” Raymond says. Hence the reference to Aleph numbers, a mathematical concept often used to describe the size of infinite sets, and by Rudy Rucker in his novel White Light to outline levels of the afterlife. “I’ve always felt a strong pull to the world of the weird, and I don’t think there’s a lot weirder than infinity, the product of a division by zero,” this atheist astrophysicist muses. “We all get divided by zero eventually.”

                                                                                                        ‘One Day You’ll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed’ has a more serene star-gazing feel, Raymond’s slide guitar tones resembling comets filling the night sky with warping, criss-crossing threads. The title track – a Tom O’Bedlam quote – is a frenetic blues that bends and twists like space-time. And lead single ‘Jack Parsons Blues’ is a passionate fingerpicking dervish full of Arabian flair and flamenco fury, named in honour of a 1940s Californian rocket scientist who helped found NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was also a friend of L Ron Hubbard and acolyte of Aleister Crowley.

                                                                                                        “I’ve long been obsessed with Jack Parsons,” Raymond says, recalling reading Fortean Times articles about him as a teenager. “He lived in this vast old mansion which he shared with a whole cast of oddballs and shysters. He also came to an abrupt end, blowing himself up in his home lab. For all his faults, I find him to be a sort of romantic character – full of boundless zeal and ideas. He was both a scientist and an embracer of the weird and esoteric. He’s oddly inspirational.”

                                                                                                        Converts to Raymond’s brand of Welsh Primitive will find plenty to clutch at their ankles here too, with tracks evoking mythical Welsh goddesses (the prairie-wide ‘Dreams of Rhiannon’s Birds’) and Raymond’s childhood woodland discovery of gruesome animal remains (the frantic, exotic ‘Bleak Night in Rabbit’s Wood’), played on a devil-haunted guitar.

                                                                                                        A kissing cousin of Lankum’s mutant folk, the furious, gothic and wonderfully wild ‘Champion Ivy’ sounds like Hell’s hoedown, while ‘Bliws Afon Taf’ (Welsh for ‘Taff River Blues’) is more pastoral and tumbling, wrapping the listener in spider threads of gossamer guitar. At Raymond’s blessed fingertips, the earthly meets the stellar on some far-off event horizon, and you can barely see the join. 


                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                        Banjo Players Of Aleph One
                                                                                                        Jack Parsons Blues
                                                                                                        Bliws Afon Tâf
                                                                                                        Bonfire Of The Billionaires

                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                        Dreams Of Rhiannon’s Birds
                                                                                                        Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
                                                                                                        Cattywomp
                                                                                                        Bleak Night In Rabbit’s Wood
                                                                                                        One Day You’ll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed

                                                                                                        David Byrne

                                                                                                        Who Is The Sky?

                                                                                                          David Byrne's 'Who Is the Sky?', his first new album since 2018’s acclaimed and award-winning 'American Utopia'. The album was produced by the Grammy-winning Kid Harpoon (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), while its 12 songs were arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra.

                                                                                                          Musical friends old and new, including St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner and American Utopia percussionist Mauro Refosco, also make appearances on 'Who Is the Sky?', which is led by the infectious single 'Everybody Laughs'.

                                                                                                          “Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word “everybody” a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it,” says Byrne. “Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that – hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.”

                                                                                                          Byrne was inspired to enlist Ghost Train Orchestra for the album after hearing their 2023 tribute album to the blind New York composer and street poet Moondog, and later that year jumped on stage with the group during a Brooklyn performance. Enticed by the 15-member Ghost Train’s varied instrumental lineup – which includes drums, percussion, guitar and bass along with strings, winds and brass – he thought to himself, “what if that’s what these new songs of mine sounded like?” Byrne asked if they’d want to serve as his band for the 'Who Is The Sky?' sessions, and they quickly agreed.

                                                                                                          “I suspected that intimate orchestral arrangements would bring out the emotion I sense is there in these songs,” says Byrne, who is planning to tour 'Who Is The Sky?' later this year. “It’s something that folks don't always hear in my work, but this time for sure I thought it was there. At the same time, I also see myself as someone who aspires to be accessible. I imagined that Kid Harpoon would help with that, as well as being a set of trusted ears, since there was a lot going on. People think of producers as people who mainly make a record sound good, and Kid Harpoon did that, but he was also aware of how important the storytelling is.”

                                                                                                          An admitted “stickler when it comes to grooves,” Byrne welcomed late-in-the-game contributions from Skinner and Refosco, with whom he’s recorded and toured for more than 30 years. Mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent and mastered by Emily Lazar, the finished product is about both hiding and revealing, or as Byrne puts it, “a chance to be the mythical creature we all harbor inside. A chance to step into another reality. A chance to transcend and escape from the prison of our ‘selves.’” These concepts are heavily incorporated in the 'Who Is The Sky?' album package, which was designed by Shira Inbar and finds Byrne nearly obscured by radiating, colored patterns and psychedelic, spiky outfits designed by Belgian artist Tom Van Der Borght.

                                                                                                          “At my age, at least for me, there's a ‘don't give a shit about what people think’ attitude that kicks in,” Byrne says. “I can step outside my comfort zone with the knowledge that I kind of know who I am by now and sort of know what I'm doing. That said, every new set of songs, every song even, is a new adventure. There's always a bit of, ‘how do I work this?’ I've found that not every collaboration works, but often when they do, it's because I'm able to clearly impart what it is I'm trying to do. They hopefully get that, and as a result, we're now joined together heading to the same unknown place.”

                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          1. Everybody Laughs
                                                                                                          2. When We Are Singing
                                                                                                          3. My Apartment Is My Friend
                                                                                                          4. A Door Called No
                                                                                                          5. What Is The Reason For It?
                                                                                                          6. I Met The Buddha At A Downtown Party
                                                                                                          7. Don't Be Like That
                                                                                                          8. The Avant Garde
                                                                                                          9. Moisturizing Thing
                                                                                                          10. I'm An Outsider
                                                                                                          11. She Explains Things To Me
                                                                                                          12. The Truth

                                                                                                          The Hives

                                                                                                          The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

                                                                                                            International Rock Sensation The Hives, the best live band on the planet and still your new favourite band, lauded on all continents for their masterful skill and reckless abandon in the rock music field, have once again, sooner than you expected, created a new body of work the likes of which have never been heard or indeed probably will again.

                                                                                                            A new record so full of energy, joy, anger and life that you will be questioning reality as you have known it.

                                                                                                            They finally did it. Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man.

                                                                                                            This long playing music album, consisting of thirteen pieces of music was crafted with commitment, abandon and skill in Sweden in cohorts with the esteemed producers Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Mike D of Beastie Boys.

                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                            1. (Introduction)
                                                                                                            2. Enough Is Enough
                                                                                                            3. Hooray Hooray Hooray
                                                                                                            4. Bad Call
                                                                                                            5. Paint A Picture
                                                                                                            6. O.C.D.O.D
                                                                                                            7. Legalize Living
                                                                                                            8. (Interlude)
                                                                                                            9. Roll Out The Red Carpet
                                                                                                            10. Born A Rebel
                                                                                                            11. They Can’t Hear The Music
                                                                                                            12. Path Of Most Resistance
                                                                                                            13. The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

                                                                                                            Simon Price

                                                                                                            CUREPEDIA: An A-Z Of The Cure

                                                                                                              The Cure are arguably the biggest alternative rock band in the world. Their popularity is not limited to any one country, or even continent. Between 1985 and 2000 every album they released went to at least Gold in the UK, the US or both. In America they have earned four Platinum albums, and they are estimated to have sold 30 million albums worldwide. Their iconic status as elder statesmen of Alternative Rock remains undiminished - if anything, their tireless touring has ensured that it has grown with every passing year - and lead singer Robert Smith is an endlessly fascinating figure to successive generations of fans. The Cure's influence reverberates through genres including Emo, Goth, Industrial and Indie Rock.

                                                                                                              The book is an encyclopaedic A-Z of The Cure examining and riffing on miscellaneous trivia, biographies of the band members past and present, summaries of each album and selected songs, details of the band's various tours and films, and essays on broader topics such as their image, their politics and their influences. Playful, eccentric and irreverent - true to the spirit of the band itself - CUREPEDIA is a comprehensive biography of one of the biggest alternative rock bands in the world.

                                                                                                              Wolf Alice

                                                                                                              The Clearing

                                                                                                                “The Clearing” the brand new album from Wolf Alice, releases 29th August 2025. Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion.

                                                                                                                The Sound

                                                                                                                Shock Of Daylight - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                  The Sound were a seminal English post-punk band formed in South London in 1979 by lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Adrian Borland, alongside drummer Mike Dudley, bassist Graham Bailey, and keyboardist Benita “Bi” Marshall. Though their debut album 'Jeopardy' is now widely recognized as a cornerstone of the post-punk movement, the band struggled to achieve commercial success on par with their peers, ultimately disbanding in 1988.

                                                                                                                  Despite this, The Sound’s music has endured, earning a devoted cult following among fans of post-punk and alternative music. After the uncompromising sonic direction of their 1982 album 'All Fall Down', 1984’s 'Shock of Daylight' was celebrated as a triumphant return to form. The EP features some of the band’s most beloved material, including the singles 'Counting the Days' and 'Golden Soldiers'.

                                                                                                                  Now available for the first time in a deluxe 2CD gatefold format, this expanded edition includes: Disc One: The original 'Shock of Daylight' studio recordings. Disc Two: The Lost Demo Recordings – features tracks that’ve only recently come to light, offering a rare glimpse into the band’s creative process. Complete with unseen photos and lyrics.  

                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                  CD1 – Shock Of Daylight:
                                                                                                                  1. Golden Soldiers
                                                                                                                  2. Longest Days
                                                                                                                  3. Counting The Days
                                                                                                                  4. Winter
                                                                                                                  5. “New Way Of Life”
                                                                                                                  6. Dreams Then Plans

                                                                                                                  CD2 – Restless Songs And Golden Soldiers
                                                                                                                  1. Golden Soldiers
                                                                                                                  2. A New Way Of Life
                                                                                                                  3. Counting The Days
                                                                                                                  4. Mining For Heart
                                                                                                                  5. Oiled
                                                                                                                  6. Steel Your Air
                                                                                                                  7. Fall Of Europe
                                                                                                                  8. Love Is Not A Ghost
                                                                                                                  9. Blood And Poison
                                                                                                                  10. Whirlpool

                                                                                                                  The Sound

                                                                                                                  Head And Hearts - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                    The Sound were a seminal English post-punk band formed in South London in 1979 by lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Adrian Borland, alongside drummer Mike Dudley, bassist Graham Bailey, and keyboardist Benita “Bi” Marshall. Though their debut album 'Jeopardy' is now widely recognized as a cornerstone of the post-punk movement, the band struggled to achieve commercial success on par with their peers, ultimately disbanding in 1988.

                                                                                                                    Following on from their critically acclaimed 'Shock Of Daylight' EP, the Sound returned to the studio to record their fourth full length studio album 'Heads And Hearts'. Includes the singles ‘One Thousand Reasons’, ‘Temperature Drop’ and ‘Under You’.

                                                                                                                    Now available for the first time in a deluxe 2CD gatefold format, this expanded edition includes the original studio album split over two discs and complete with bonus tracks, unseen photos and lyrics.  

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    1. Whirpool
                                                                                                                    2. Total Recall
                                                                                                                    3. Under You
                                                                                                                    4. Burning Part Of Me
                                                                                                                    5. Love Is Not A Ghost
                                                                                                                    6. Wildest Dreams
                                                                                                                    7. One Thousand Reasons
                                                                                                                    8. Restless Time
                                                                                                                    9. Mining For Heart
                                                                                                                    10. World As It Is
                                                                                                                    11. Tempurature Drop
                                                                                                                    12. Blood And Poison
                                                                                                                    13. Steel Your Air
                                                                                                                    14. Oiled
                                                                                                                    15. Shimmer

                                                                                                                    The Sound

                                                                                                                    In The Hothouse - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                      The Sound were a seminal English post-punk band formed in South London in 1979 by lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Adrian Borland, alongside drummer Mike Dudley, bassist Graham Bailey, and keyboardist Benita “Bi” Marshall. Though their debut album 'Jeopardy' is now widely recognized as a cornerstone of the post-punk movement, the band struggled to achieve commercial success on par with their peers, ultimately disbanding in 1988

                                                                                                                      Recorded at the Marquee Club across two August nights in 1985, 'In The Hothouse' is the only live album released whilst the band were still active. The set draws on highlights from the group’s back catalogue as well as material from 'Heads And Hearts' which had been released a few months earlier. Includes tracks 'Winning', 'Skeletons' & 'Sense Of Purpose'.

                                                                                                                      Now available for the first time in a deluxe 2CD gatefold format, this expanded edition includes the original live album split over two discs and complete with bonus tracks, unseen photos and lyrics. 

                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                      1. Winning
                                                                                                                      2. Under You
                                                                                                                      3. Total Recall
                                                                                                                      4. Skeletons
                                                                                                                      5. Prove Me Wrong
                                                                                                                      6. Wildest Dreams
                                                                                                                      7. Burning Part Of Me
                                                                                                                      8. Heartland
                                                                                                                      9. Hothouse
                                                                                                                      10. Judgement
                                                                                                                      11. Counting The Days
                                                                                                                      12. Red Paint
                                                                                                                      13. Silent Air
                                                                                                                      14. Sense Of Purpose
                                                                                                                      15. Missiles

                                                                                                                      Modern Nature

                                                                                                                      The Heat Warps

                                                                                                                        When Modern Nature toured their last album, 2023’s No Fixed Point In Space, it became apparent to Jack Cooper – the band’s main creative force – that they were already pulling away from the free, open-ended approach they had spent five years working towards; almost as if the music had become so abstract and elasticated, it now had to snap back towards something more structured. As they found themselves naturally locking into more fixed grooves, he realised a new direction had been set. Their new album – The Heat Warps – is the triumphant manifestation of where that new direction took them.

                                                                                                                        In the aftermath, Cooper’s songwriting, which had become increasingly impressionistic, found a new focus and the idea of making an album that followed a similar path to the last two increasingly seemed obtuse. The purpose was to forge a radical change. The core trio of him, Jim Wallis (drums) and Jeff Tobias (bass guitar) were augmented by a new guitarist – Tara Cunningham.

                                                                                                                        Modern Nature’s recent records have reflected an insular life. Cooper had moved out to the countryside in 2021 and had, in his words, been “hibernating” while he started a family. He felt this new band was a symbol for his reawakening and the perfect vessel for him to continue to explore themes that he’s sung about with Modern Nature – collectivism, our relationship with the natural world, the weight of consciousness – but with more directness and purpose. The key was the new dual guitar sound.

                                                                                                                        “I’ve always been drawn to bands where two guitarists work as a unit to move around and colour the rhythm section,” explains Cooper. “I’d been listening to the demos Television did with Brian Eno in the day and then that night I played with Tara for the first time at an improvised music show. We have a very similar approach to the guitar and that extends to the way we sing, so it gives the music an interesting balance.

                                                                                                                        “What we do is mirrored; a symmetry on either side of what Jim and Jeff are doing in the rhythm section. We’ve played with lots of amazing musicians who continue to orbit around what we do, but Tara joining the band felt like finding the other side to the square. Previous records have been performed by upwards of fifteen people but it was apparent the four of us could achieve something more powerful and more direct.”

                                                                                                                        In the time Modern Nature has been a band, the world has undoubtedly changed. The words Cooper had been writing previously were somewhat ambiguous but it had started to feel like he was sitting on the fence and that was something he needed to address. “Every day we’re confronted with a confusing and scary world,” he says. “Making music and creating things can feel flippant or unnecessary, but my own world view was defined and influenced by art and artists who weren’t afraid to highlight and offer solutions: Public Enemy, The Smiths or a wider American counterculture.”

                                                                                                                        “The community we’ve built our life around – artists, musicians and the people who gravitate to these things as way of communicating – are struggling to reconcile how they fit into an increasingly cruel world. This album, the themes and the lyrics are directed towards them because I think there are still seasons to be optimistic. There are amazing things happening all around us and it’s up to communities like ours to double down on the things we believe in. It feels as if being part of a group like Modern Nature and making an album that’s open, optimistic and ambitious is in itself part of the solution.”

                                                                                                                        As the new band started to play together more, the energy, excitement and telepathy between them gained momentum and it became clear they needed to make a record that captured that. They locked into a process where they booked a couple of shows, directly followed by four days in the studio (the all-analogue Gizzard Recording in east London). They’d spend two weeks living in each other’s pockets – a very condensed rush of creativity.

                                                                                                                        “It’s rare to hear a recording of a band playing in a room together,” adds Cooper. “And that interaction, the discrepancies in timing, synergy, in pitch, that’s where the magic really is, I think, and that’s what we wanted to capture.”

                                                                                                                        One additional (and slightly unlikely) influence on the record was Andrew Weatherall. Before he passed away, he’d played Modern Nature on his NTS show and Cooper was thrilled that he liked them. He made it an aim to make a record Weatherall might have played to his friends late at night. His motto “Fail we may, sail we must” is what the Can-esque track Pharaoh is about.

                                                                                                                        “It’s difficult to stay aware of the world around you without becoming despondent,” says Cooper. “Pharoah makes the case for finding a personal philosophy and trying to live a life that might inspire others or at the very least not hurt them.”

                                                                                                                        Elsewhere, Radio touches on the contempt capitalism has for the natural world. The line “there’s a fire all around” offers a kind of gallows humour. Cooper adds that recently they played the songs on a day that the news was showing footage of the Los Angeles fires. It occurred to him that it was perhaps an insensitive subject to be singing about but there again – in his words – he feels it’s “important not to turn away from these things.

                                                                                                                        ” The same desire not to shy away might also be attributed to Source, which touches on the recent riots in the UK directed towards asylum seekers, inspired by misinformation spread online.

                                                                                                                        For all this wrestling with the grimmer realities of 2025, The Heat Warps is ultimately not a record entirely consumed by anxieties. Its frequently beautiful sounds offer consolation and a wide-eyed optimism amid all the upheaval. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the transcendent album closer, Totality. As Cooper explains: “It was fascinating spending time in America as the country geared up for the 2024 solar eclipse. The news stations covered the event in the same way they’d cover a big football game or the Oscars. Everywhere I went, people were talking about the eclipse and for a few days it really seemed to capture the public’s imagination.“My friend’s dad had organised a huge party and had obviously done his homework. When he was running us through his preparation and how the day was going to go down, he said, ‘We’re hoping for totality, ’ and it blew my mind.

                                                                                                                        “The day of the eclipse I was driving through New Mexico and we stopped by the side of the road with hundreds of other people gazing up to the heavens. It felt exciting to be part of something that clearly resonated with people on such a profound level. It’s a fitting album closer and somewhere in there is a philosophy; a romantic nihilism”. And at its heart, right there is the core of Modern Nature’s appeal. Never more so than on this new record.


                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                        Pharaoh
                                                                                                                        Radio
                                                                                                                        Glance
                                                                                                                        Source

                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                        Jetty
                                                                                                                        Alpenglow
                                                                                                                        Zoology
                                                                                                                        Takeover
                                                                                                                        Totality

                                                                                                                        Florence + The Machine

                                                                                                                        How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - 10 Year Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                          2025 celebrates the 10th anniversary of 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful', Florence + The Machine's third studio album, originally released in 2015. The album entered the UK Official Charts at No.1 and become their third consecutive No.1 album. It also peaked at No.1 on the US Billboard Chart and in Australia, Canada, Switzerland and in the top 10 for most releasing territories. Selling over a million copies worldwide, the album has now achieved Platinum BPI certification in the UK. Includes hit singles, 'What Kind of Man', 'Ship to Wreck', 'Queen of Peace' and 'Delilah'. The album earned five Grammy Award nominations, in addition to being shortlisted for the 2015 Mercury Prize.

                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                          1. Ship To Wreck
                                                                                                                          2. What Kind Of Man
                                                                                                                          3. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
                                                                                                                          4. Queen Of Peace
                                                                                                                          5. Various Storms & Saints
                                                                                                                          6. Delilah
                                                                                                                          7. Long & Lost
                                                                                                                          8. Caught
                                                                                                                          9. Third Eye
                                                                                                                          10. St. Jude
                                                                                                                          11. Mother

                                                                                                                          Brad Mehldau

                                                                                                                          Ride Into The Sun

                                                                                                                            Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s 'Ride into the Sun', a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio, Samara Joy) and John Davis (who also engineered and mixed the album); drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, who also conducted on Mehldau’s 2010 album 'Highway Rider'.

                                                                                                                            'Ride into the Sun’s 10 Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are “inspired by, and reflect, Smith’s oeuvre.” Also included are interpretations of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’, which Smith also covered, and ‘Sunday’ by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, “I look at in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary godfather.”

                                                                                                                            Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles “and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years.”

                                                                                                                            “Elliott Smith masterfully rendered the dark/light admix not in the least through his distinct harmony,” Mehldau continues. “Specifically, he had a way of combining major and minor modes that was all his own. You hear that on the unique, captivating chord progression that he introduced on ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow’ for just a moment before the last verse of the song. I use it, extending it for my piano solo here. This kind of minor-major gambit has a long pedigree, and my own associations as a listener include the music of Schubert and Brahms, among others.

                                                                                                                            “One of Brahms’ biographers described the feeling of one of his pieces as ‘smiling through tears’, and it would be a good description for the opening tune of Elliott’s on this set, ‘Better Be Quiet Now.’ Here is a break-up song as tender as it is rueful; the protagonist is smiling sadly as he says goodbye.”

                                                                                                                            “‘Ride into the sun’ is a beautiful point in the lyric of one of the songs that we play, ‘Colorbars’,” Mehldau says. “Elliott Smith says in the original song, ‘Everyone wants me to ride into the sun’. When I listen to music, I have a feeling that I can be in communion with somebody who is no longer in this earthly realm, like he is here. And as far as ‘riding into the sun’, it’s maybe more of a perpetual riding into the sun with him. I don’t know… There’s something mystical there.”

                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            1. Better Be Quiet Now
                                                                                                                            2. Everything Means Nothing To Me
                                                                                                                            3. Tomorrow Tomorrow (feat. Daniel Rossen)
                                                                                                                            4. Sweet Adeline
                                                                                                                            5. Sweet Adeline Fantasy
                                                                                                                            6. Between The Bars
                                                                                                                            7. The White Lady Loves You More
                                                                                                                            8. Ride Into The Sun: Part I
                                                                                                                            9. Thirteen
                                                                                                                            10. Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
                                                                                                                            11. Somebody Cares, Somebody Understands
                                                                                                                            12. Southern Belle (feat. Daniel Rossen)
                                                                                                                            13. Satellite
                                                                                                                            14. Colorbars (feat. Chris Thile)
                                                                                                                            15. Sunday
                                                                                                                            16. Ride Into The Sun: Conclusion

                                                                                                                            David Bowie & Mick Jagger

                                                                                                                            Dancing In The Street - 40th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                              To celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'Dancing in the Street', a limited edition white vinyl 12" will be released on 29th August - 2 days after its anniversary, bringing together all of the song's mixes for the first time.

                                                                                                                              Speaking about the song, Mick Jagger said: ‘’We had such a laugh doing 'Dancing in the Street' with both the song recorded in the studio and the video done in one day. Remarkable how we pulled it off really. The video is hilarious to watch now. We enjoyed camping it up and trying to impersonate each other’s moves, making it up as we went along. It was the only time David and myself collaborated on anything, which is a real shame.”

                                                                                                                              30% of the retail price from the sale of this single will be donated by David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Parlophone Records to The Band Aid Charitable Trust (Charity Number 292199).

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              1. Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain Mix)
                                                                                                                              2. Dancing In The Street (Instrumental)
                                                                                                                              3. Dancing In The Street (Steve Thompson Mix) 
                                                                                                                              4. Dancing In The Street (Edit)
                                                                                                                              5. Dancing In The Street (Dub)

                                                                                                                              Tyler The Creator

                                                                                                                              Cherry Bomb - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Schoolboy Q are among the big guests on 'Cherry Bomb'. It is practically an all-caps homage to Pharrell's funk-rock vanity project, trading in the grayscale of his angst to explore the technicolour corners of his quirkiness.

                                                                                                                                The Odd Future frontman is at his most indecisive, swerving from high-decibel ear assaults ('Deathcamp,' 'Pilot') to sugary, saxophone-laced cuddle tunes ('Find Your Wings,' (expletive) 'Young / Perfect'). He makes the obligatory rap muscle-flexing feel like recess, hopscotching through Galaga blips with Schoolboy Q ('The Brown Stains of Darkeese Latifah Part 6-12 (Remix)') and playing lyrical hot potato with Kanye West and Lil Wayne ('Smuckers').

                                                                                                                                It takes patience to tag along, but hearing Tyler abandon shock for shock's sake to explore other sides of his oddness is a sign he's less interested in being rap's Quentin Tarantino, and more its Wes Anderson.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                1. Deathcamp
                                                                                                                                2. Buffalo
                                                                                                                                3. Pilot
                                                                                                                                4. Run
                                                                                                                                5. Find Your Wings
                                                                                                                                6. Cherry Bomb
                                                                                                                                7. Blow My Load
                                                                                                                                8. 2Seater / Hair Blows
                                                                                                                                9. The Brown Stains Of Darkeese Latifah Part 6-12 (Remix) / Special
                                                                                                                                10. Fucking Young / Perfect
                                                                                                                                11. Smuckers
                                                                                                                                12. Keep Da O’s
                                                                                                                                13. Okaga, CA
                                                                                                                                14. Yellow

                                                                                                                                Signs Of The Swarm

                                                                                                                                To Rid Myself Of Truth

                                                                                                                                  'To Rid Myself of Truth' marks a transformative moment for Signs Of The Swarm, as they evolve beyond their deathcore roots, infusing their sound with elements of industrial, metalcore, and a savage, stomping aggression that firmly establishes them as a harbinger of a new era of heavy. From the very first notes of tracks like 'Natural Selection', and the album's lead single, 'HELLMUSTFEARME', it's clear that the Pittsburgh-based band is poised to become a global powerhouse. Their extensive tour history alongside heavyweights such as Lorna Shore, Whitechapel (with guest appearances from Will Ramos and Phil Bozeman), Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, and Fit For An Autopsy has paved the way for Signs Of The Swarm to break through and assert themselves as a rising force in the extreme metal scene.

                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                  1. To Rid Myself Of Truth
                                                                                                                                  2. HELLMUSTFEARME
                                                                                                                                  3. Natural Selection
                                                                                                                                  4. Scars Upon Scars
                                                                                                                                  5. Chariot
                                                                                                                                  6. Clouded Retinas (Ft. Will Ramos)
                                                                                                                                  7. Iron Sacrament (Ft. Phil Bozeman)
                                                                                                                                  8. Forcing To Forget
                                                                                                                                  9. Sarkazein
                                                                                                                                  10. Fear & Judgement (Ft. 156/Silence & Prison)
                                                                                                                                  11. Creator 

                                                                                                                                  Nourished By Time

                                                                                                                                  The Passionate Ones

                                                                                                                                    Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, 'The Passionate Ones' is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream.

                                                                                                                                    Initially created in Los Angeles' in late 2019, Nourished By Time emerged as Marcus Brown’s escape from the monotony of his day jobs and a continuously crushed spirit by an increasingly corrupt world. Channeling his deeply personal and sharply observational visions into songwriting, Brown has created a singular sonic world shaped by his hometown of Baltimore’s rich and eclectic musical heritage where jazz, punk, indie, hip hop, electronic and R&B collide in raw harmony. On 'The Passionate Ones', Brown tackles love, labor, existentialism, dreams, disillusionment, and hope through the lens of metamodernism, documenting an American story of an artist using their vices to keep them afloat while they follow their passions and dreams.

                                                                                                                                    'The Passionate Ones' arrives in the wake of a radiant ascent. With 'Erotic Probiotic 2' (Scenic Route), Nourished by Time cracked open 2023—earning Pitchfork’s Best New Music and topping Gorilla vs Bear’s year-end list, while drawing praise from The Guardian, The FADER, Paste, and more. 2024’s 'Catching Chickens' (XL) only deepened the allure: CRACK Magazine placed him on its cover, naming ‘Hell of a Ride’ the track of the year. The song echoed across NPR, Resident Advisor, CLASH, The FACE, Mixmag, UPROXX, and Spotify’s Best Songs of 2024 lists, and he performed a magnetic live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #LateShowMeMusic live series. Along the way, Nourished By Time’s voice threaded through collaborations with Yaeji, Kacy Hill, and evilgiane, a spectral remix of Dry Cleaning’s 'Gary Ashby', and tours with Metronomy, Panda Bear, and Toro y Moi, solidifying his position as one of contemporary music's most intriguing and vital new artists.

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    1. Automatic Love
                                                                                                                                    2. Idiot In The Park
                                                                                                                                    3. Max Potential
                                                                                                                                    4. It’s Time
                                                                                                                                    5. Cult Interlude
                                                                                                                                    6. 9 2 5
                                                                                                                                    7. Crazy People
                                                                                                                                    8. Jojo Feat. Tony Bontana
                                                                                                                                    9. BABY BABY
                                                                                                                                    10. Tossed Away
                                                                                                                                    11. When The War Is Over
                                                                                                                                    12. The Passionate Ones

                                                                                                                                    Minus The Bear

                                                                                                                                    Menos El Oso - 20h Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                      Back in 2005, Seattle quintet Minus the Bear were riding the wave of a swift upward trajectory with their blend of ‘90s mathrock fretboard savvy, early ‘00s electro-indie textural depth, and the wistful melodicism of the more mature strain of Midwest emo. So it was an interesting time for the band to undergo a stylistic sea change. Looking beyond their fellow guitar slingers, Minus the Bear instead found inspiration in the more adventurous pop producers of the era and went full steam ahead with a revamped sound of glitchy guitar loops, modern R&B rhythms, and swirling electronic tapestries on their 2005 sophomore album 'Menos el Oso'. The stylistic shift was a gamble in the waning years of indie rock orthodoxy, but the risk paid off and Minus the Bear’s popularity exploded. Twenty years later, 'Menos el Oso' still sounds fresh and vibrant while simultaneously capturing the essence of a specific era where the rules and formulas of guitar-forward music were breaking down. To celebrate the album’s anniversary, Suicide Squeeze Records and Minus the Bear are offering up 'Menos el Oso - 20th Anniversary Edition'.

                                                                                                                                      'Menos el Oso - 20th Anniversary Edition' expands the original LP into a double album featuring five demos mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering on side C and an etching by Cory Murchy on side D. These early incarnations of four 'Menos el Oso' tracks and 'I’m Totally Not Down With Rob’s Alien' from the 'They Make Beer Commercials Like This' EP showcase how razor-sharp and sonically satisfying Minus the Bear were even when their songs were still being workshopped. As companion pieces to the album, these alternate takes shine a light on the creative process of a band undergoing a sonic evolution while also just being solid standalone tracks.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1. The Game Needed Me
                                                                                                                                      2. Memphis & 53rd
                                                                                                                                      3. Drilling
                                                                                                                                      4. The Fix
                                                                                                                                      5. El Torrente
                                                                                                                                      6. Pachuca Sunrise
                                                                                                                                      7. Michio's Death Drive
                                                                                                                                      8. Hooray
                                                                                                                                      9. Fulfill The Dream
                                                                                                                                      10. The Pig War
                                                                                                                                      11. This Ain't A Surfin' Movie
                                                                                                                                      12. Hooray (Demo)
                                                                                                                                      13. Drilling (Demo)
                                                                                                                                      14. The Pig War (Demo)
                                                                                                                                      15. Michio's Death Drive (Demo)
                                                                                                                                      16. I'm Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien (Demo)

                                                                                                                                      TOPS

                                                                                                                                      Bury The Key

                                                                                                                                        TOPS — musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny,Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck — write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. 'Bury the Key', their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montréal band:ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones.The album faces feelings once locked away,engaging the give-and-take between happiness,hedonism, and self-destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing,grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside theband), toxic behavior, drug use, and apocalyptic dread. When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed "evil TOPS," says Penny. "We're always kind of seen as a soft band orlike naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us." Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into amore sinister disco realm with 'Bury the Key', giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        1. Stars Come After You
                                                                                                                                        2. Wheels At Night
                                                                                                                                        3. ICU2
                                                                                                                                        4. Outstanding In The Rain
                                                                                                                                        5. Annihilation
                                                                                                                                        6. Falling On My Sword
                                                                                                                                        7. Call You Back
                                                                                                                                        8. Chlorine
                                                                                                                                        9. Mean Streak
                                                                                                                                        10. Your Ride
                                                                                                                                        11. Standing At The Edge Of Fire
                                                                                                                                        12. Paper House

                                                                                                                                        Superchunk

                                                                                                                                        Songs In The Key Of Yikes

                                                                                                                                          “Bruised Lung.” “No Hope.” “Care Less.” “Climb the Walls.” “Everybody Dies.” Scanning the tracklist of Songs in the Key of Yikes, one is given to wonder: Is Superchunk okay? In a world that’s arguably darker than the one that greeted Wild Loneliness in 2022 or What a Time to Be Alive in 2018, are any of us okay? “It’s always been the case that everyone is going through something that you may not be aware of,” notes Mac McCaughan. “This is currently more true than ever—but also the case that we are all going through some things together. In the face of that, what good is art and where is happiness found? (Spoiler alert: I don’t know.)” In seeking an answer, Songs in the Key of Yikes unleashes a sound that is triumphant and bright in the darkness, Majesty Shredding in overdrive. Lead single “Is It Making You Feel Something” sets the tone early with the band—McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilbur, and Laura King— building an anthem out of the potential for joy, diving into slop-polluted waters (“now fakes are faking everything / that once made your poor heart sing”) and emerging with a pearl. “No Hope” is similarly resilient, McCaughan’s lyrics painting a crushing scene before entering its titular refrain. He repeats the phrase nine times, pauses a beat, and transforms its sentiment entirely, breaking the chant with the line “and here we are singing.” The lyric is sharp, at once a simple observation and a profound statement of being, the song’s crushing nights and endless days no less so on its account, but McCaughan’s voice finds a certain sweetness in having endured, and continuing to do so. Paradoxically, the energy of Songs in the Key of Yikes borders on and sometimes spills into euphoria, as in “Stuck in a Dream” which emerges like a mirage-born oasis between “Everybody Dies” and “Train on Fire,” a full-sprint crowd pleaser suitable for pogoing in the pit. “Care Less” is a dark, comic mirror to that energy, a garage-y jam in which an acid-tongued McCaughan seeks refuge from the storm by pretending it’s not raging right outside his door. This strategy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t. It’s a song on a Superchunk album, and Superchunk albums are arguments against insularity, parties large enough to host everyone. This one, in addition to welcoming Laura King into the fold after two years as their touring drummer, features contributions from Rosali Middleman (“Bruised Lung” and “Everybody Dies”), Bella Quinlan and Holly Thomas of Quivers (“Cue”), and touring bassist Betsy Wright (“Care Less”). The album was engineered by Paul Voran (The Menzingers, Hurray for the Riff Raff) and Eli Webb, and mixed by Mike Montgomery (The Breeders, Protomartyr). Together, they reach no conclusions on what good art is in the face of crisis. They also make great art. Songs in the Key of Yikes is a signature Superchunk album: visceral and timeless and catchy as hell—a cathartic balm for these oppressive times that will feel even better once we’ve figured our collective shit out.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          SIDE A
                                                                                                                                          1. Is It Making You Feel Something
                                                                                                                                          2. Bruised Lung
                                                                                                                                          3. No Hope
                                                                                                                                          4. Care Less
                                                                                                                                          5. Climb The Walls
                                                                                                                                          SIDE B
                                                                                                                                          6. Cue
                                                                                                                                          7. Everybody Dies
                                                                                                                                          8. Stuck In A Dream
                                                                                                                                          9. Train On Fire
                                                                                                                                          10. Some Green

                                                                                                                                          Hot Mulligan

                                                                                                                                          The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still

                                                                                                                                            Hot Mulligan is a ride-or-die testament to staying true to yourself. When the emo band formed in 2014 and cut their teeth playing house shows and naming songs by closing their eyes and typing into auto-correct on their phones, no one expected they'd be selling out thousand-cap venues, one of their scene's most respected bands a decade later. But as Hot Mully releases their phenomenal fourth LP, 'The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still', that's exactly where they're at. Hot Mulligan is a resounding success story, the #1 Hot New Band (11 years running, just ask them), and ready to keep fighting the good fight.

                                                                                                                                            A sense of fear lives and breathes throughout the album, in blistering choruses alongside the most vulnerable moments Hot Mulligan has ever laid to tape. That being said, this is still a Hot Mulligan record, and that means it rocks. Through it all, Hot Mulligan and longtime producer Brett Romnes laid down a masterclass. 'The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still' grabs your attention with all its fight-or-flight hooks, but it's the little nuances and connective tissue that make it Hot Mulligan's most cohesive album yet.


                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            1. Moving To Bed Bug Island
                                                                                                                                            2. And A Big Load
                                                                                                                                            3. It Smells Like Fudge Axe In Here
                                                                                                                                            4. Island In The Sun (feat. Cory Castro Of Free Throw)
                                                                                                                                            5. Bon Jonah
                                                                                                                                            6. This Makes Me Yummy
                                                                                                                                            7. Monica Lewinskibidi
                                                                                                                                            8. Milam Minute
                                                                                                                                            9. Cream Of Wheat Of Feet Naw Cream Of (feat.)
                                                                                                                                            10. Mix Master Wade On The Beat
                                                                                                                                            11. Carbon Monoxide Hotel
                                                                                                                                            12. This Makes Me Yucky
                                                                                                                                            13. Let Me See Your Mounts
                                                                                                                                            14. Monster Burger And A $5 Beer
                                                                                                                                            15. Slumdog Scungillionaire
                                                                                                                                            16. My Dad Told Me To Write A Nice One For Nana So This Is It

                                                                                                                                            The Who

                                                                                                                                            Live At The Oval 1971

                                                                                                                                              With 35,000 in attendance, on September 18, 1971 The Who headlined Goodbye Summer: A Rock Concert in aid of Famine Relief for the People of Bangladesh at The Oval cricket ground in Kennington, south London. Newly mixed from the original 8-track analog multi-track tapes, this concert shows The Who continuing their dominance as the top live rock band of the era. The outstanding performance culminates in Pete Townshend and Keith Moon destroying their equipment in a grand finale.



                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              1. So Glad To See Ya
                                                                                                                                              2. Summertime Blues
                                                                                                                                              3. My Wife
                                                                                                                                              4. Love Ain’t For Keeping
                                                                                                                                              5. I Can’t Explain
                                                                                                                                              6. Substitute
                                                                                                                                              7. Bargain
                                                                                                                                              8. Behind Blue Eyes
                                                                                                                                              9. Won’t Get Fooled Again
                                                                                                                                              10. Baby Don’t You Do It
                                                                                                                                              11. Pinball Wizard
                                                                                                                                              12. See Me, Feel Me / Listening To You
                                                                                                                                              13. My Generation
                                                                                                                                              14. Naked Eye
                                                                                                                                              15. Magic Bus 

                                                                                                                                              LSD And The Search For God

                                                                                                                                              LSD And The Search For God - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                LSD and the Search for God hit the Northern California coast in 2005 - seemingly from another place and time - dosing San Francisco with hypnotic shows built upon swirling guitars, otherworldly drones, fuzzed-out pop melodies, and dreamy vocal harmonies. With reviews of early shows and recordings drawing comparisons to My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Yo La Tengo, Spacemen 3, and Sonic Youth, the band quickly developed a must-see reputation within the underground psychedelic music scene. When LSD finally released their self-titled debut EP it earned critical acclaim and continues to frequently appear on lists of essential shoegaze releases. LSD’s time and space travels have led them all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including tours with Martin Rev (Suicide), Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), and The Telescopes, as well as appearances at Levitation–Austin Psych Fest, SoCal’s Desert Daze, Manchester’s Cosmosis Festival (with The Jesus and Mary Chain), Bathysphere (with A Place To Bury Strangers), twice at Desert Stars (first with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, then The Dandy Warhols), Calgary’s Garbage Daze, and Portugal’s Reverence Valada (with The Damned, The Oh Sees, and Silver Apples).

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                1. This Time
                                                                                                                                                2. I Don't Care
                                                                                                                                                3. Backwards
                                                                                                                                                4. Starting Over
                                                                                                                                                5. Starshine

                                                                                                                                                Ami Taf Ra

                                                                                                                                                The Prophet And The Madman

                                                                                                                                                  Ami Taf Ra is an LA-based artist of North African heritage who has a long held passion for musical and cultural fusion. Her latest work — ‘The Prophet and The Madman’ — is a musical interpretation of the timeless writings of Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Khalil Gibran. Heralded for her seamless fusion of Arabic musical traditions like Moroccan gnawa with jazz and gospel, ‘The Prophet and The Madman’ is beautifully cinematic and epic in scope. Composed, produced and arranged by Ami Taf Ra and legendary saxophonist composer and frequent collaborator Kamasi Washington, the album features contributions from a stellar cast of musicians including: Ryan Porter, Miles Mosley, Brandon Coleman, Tony Austin, Cameron Graves, Ronald Bruner Jr., Allakoi Peete, Kahlil Cummings and more. Kamasi’s musical contribution infuses a rich lineage of spiritual jazz, afrocentric philosophy, and orchestral grandiosity.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  1. Speak To Us (Intro)
                                                                                                                                                  2. How I Became A Madman (feat. Kamasi Washington)
                                                                                                                                                  3. The Prophet
                                                                                                                                                  4. God
                                                                                                                                                  5. Love (feat. Ryan Porter)
                                                                                                                                                  6. My Friend (feat. Brandon Coleman)
                                                                                                                                                  7. Children
                                                                                                                                                  8. Gnawa (feat. Kamasi Washington)
                                                                                                                                                  9. Gibran
                                                                                                                                                  10. Khalil
                                                                                                                                                  11. Speak To Us (Outro)

                                                                                                                                                  Electronic

                                                                                                                                                  Raise The Pressure - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                    Electronic were Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Johnny Marr (The Smiths), who together produced critically-acclaimed alternative dance, and gave both Bernard and Johnny the creative freedom to fully express themselves.

                                                                                                                                                    'Raise The Pressure' will be out on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1996, as a 2LP for superior sound quality. Its original release was on 1LP.

                                                                                                                                                    This album had the added touch of Karl Bartos from Kraftwerk.

                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                    1. Forbidden City
                                                                                                                                                    2. For You
                                                                                                                                                    3. Dark Angel
                                                                                                                                                    4. One Day
                                                                                                                                                    5. Until The End Of Time
                                                                                                                                                    6. Second Nature
                                                                                                                                                    7. If You've Got Love
                                                                                                                                                    8. Out Of My League
                                                                                                                                                    9. Interlude
                                                                                                                                                    10. Freefall
                                                                                                                                                    11. Visit Me
                                                                                                                                                    12. How Long
                                                                                                                                                    13. Time Can Tell

                                                                                                                                                    Dog Race

                                                                                                                                                    Return The Day

                                                                                                                                                      London’s gothic five-piece, Dog Race, unveil ‘Return The Day’ - a debut EP that drags you deep into the fog of burnout, codependency, and emotional stasis. Across five tracks, the band unspools the slow horror of fading joy and fractured identity, where insomnia bleeds into daylight and personal growth is sacrificed to keep others comfortable. Following the stark theatrics of ‘It’s The Squeeze’ and the icy operatic swell of ‘The Leader – which earned praise from BBC Radio 6, landed them in NME’s 2025 Top 100, and left Anthony Fantano in awe, placing It’s The Squeeze at #11 in his Best Singles of 2024 – the EP pushes further into the dark. Operatic vocals drift through modulated guitars and synths that crackle with unease. Produced by Ali Chant and released via Fascination Street Records, ‘Return The Day’ captures a band fully embracing psychological unrest and emotional paralysis. Dog Race may take their time, but they strike hard.

                                                                                                                                                      This EP is proof of that—cinematic, unnerving, and uncomfortably honest. "A soundscape born from sleepless nights, intrusive thoughts, and the quiet war between the mind and the world around me. Each track pulls at the threads of cultish beliefs and everyday expectations, exposing the weight they place on someone already battling inner turmoil."


                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      Side A:
                                                                                                                                                      Where The Barrel Meets The Badger
                                                                                                                                                      The Leader
                                                                                                                                                      Return The Day (Colours)

                                                                                                                                                      Side B:
                                                                                                                                                      40 Winks To Wyoming
                                                                                                                                                      It’s The Squeeze

                                                                                                                                                      Mae Powell

                                                                                                                                                      Making Room For The Light

                                                                                                                                                        'Making Room for Light', Mae Powell’s debut for Karma Chief Records, is the campfire at dawn, when the firepit is replaced with the first stirring of day. Embers, ashes, and smoke of memory give way to percolating coffee and cast-iron breakfasts. Powell’s jazz-assured vocals wrap around the headphones with a gauzy dew, as shimmering chords and keys radiate with coming warmth. Its sound is dream, fully giving way to morning, shared with friends and lovers both absent and present.

                                                                                                                                                        Writing the album over a transitional period in her life, Powell’s sophomore album presents the singer/songwriter as both healer and healed, grounded by her connection to nature and sound, ever seeking out spaces to stretch and grow as an artist.

                                                                                                                                                        Produced by Loving’s multi-instrumentalist David Parry, the album was recorded at Risque Disque studio off the coast of Vancouver Island. Making 'Room for Light' is as much an album title as it is Mae Powell’s artist manifesto. Join Mae Powell at the creekside campsite, dip your toes into the warm waters, and luxuriate in the afterglow of this summer record.

                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                        1. Tangerine
                                                                                                                                                        2. Where Will Love Go?
                                                                                                                                                        3. It Comes In Waves
                                                                                                                                                        4. Rope You In
                                                                                                                                                        5. Meet Me In A Memory
                                                                                                                                                        6. Moonlit Power
                                                                                                                                                        7. Invisibly
                                                                                                                                                        8. Contact High
                                                                                                                                                        9. Linger
                                                                                                                                                        10. Hot Headed
                                                                                                                                                        11. Again

                                                                                                                                                        The Beloved

                                                                                                                                                        Conscience - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                          Conscience was originally released in 1993, reaching No. 2 in the UK album chart hitting 100,000 selling BPI Gold status. It contains their biggest hit to date, the BPI Silver disc awarded Sweet Harmony, a top 10 in the UK and across Europe. Other singles include double A- side of Celebrate Your Life and You've Got Me Thinking, Outerspace Girl, which both hit the UK top 40 and Rock To The Rhythm Of Love, which was released in the United States only.

                                                                                                                                                          Conscience has been remastered from the original analogue studio masters (by John Davis at Metropolis Studios) boasting louder and clearer audio than the original release. It's being manufactured on 180g heavyweight black vinyl release with extra artwork + liner notes (compared to the limited white vinyl released in 2024).

                                                                                                                                                          Conscience is a timelessly classic album, still sounding fresh over 30 years after it's original release.

                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                          Spirit
                                                                                                                                                          Sweet Harmony 
                                                                                                                                                          Outerspace Girl
                                                                                                                                                          Lose Yourself In Me 
                                                                                                                                                          Paradise
                                                                                                                                                          Found 
                                                                                                                                                          You've Got Me Thinking 
                                                                                                                                                          Celebrate Your Life 
                                                                                                                                                          Rock To The Rhythm Of Love
                                                                                                                                                          Let The Music Take You
                                                                                                                                                          1000 Years From Today
                                                                                                                                                          Dream On

                                                                                                                                                          Various Artists

                                                                                                                                                          Sandworms (The Songs Of Howe Gelb And Giant Sand)

                                                                                                                                                            Delving into the Great American Songbook of Howe Gelb, 'Sandworms' is a new collection that rephrases and rephases the legacy of Giant Sand across generations. This release offers bold reinterpretations from Water From Your Eyes, Deradoorian, Jesca Hoop & John Parish, Lily Konigsberg, Holiday Ghosts, Ella Raphael, Monde UFO, The Golden Dregs, and Gently Tender.

                                                                                                                                                            The ever-present Giant Sand and their one-man cerebral traveller, Howe Gelb, are anchored by a reputation for idiosyncratic storytelling. A “natural storyteller,” Gelb’s multifarious musical delivery adds an enduring sense of wonder as he extols the virtues of happenstance. This collection celebrates the esoteric and singular journey Giant Sand have taken, through alt-country, jazz, lo-fi experiments, and beyond, while their legacy is reimagined here by a new generation of artists paying tribute to their lasting influence.

                                                                                                                                                            Brooklyn duo Water From Your Eyes, known for their stoner humour, fatalistic undercurrents, and art-pop flair, bring a delicate balance of punk riffing and dream-pop escapism to 'Warm Storm', first heard on Giant Sand’s 'Ramp' (1991). Whitney K takes on 'Happenstance' (from 1994’s 'Glum'), unravelling its existential puzzles with a whispering baritone that recalls the hushed intensity of Leonard Cohen.

                                                                                                                                                            Drifting further into orbit, Angel Deradoorian reinterprets 'Center Of The Universe', the title track from the band’s 1992 album, transforming its desert-fried rock into a spaced-out Sun Ra-paced drama. Elsewhere, 'Yer Ropes', a jaw-dropping highlight from 'Glum', is taken on by The Golden Dregs, blurring sentimentality and relationship mismanagement into something truly strange and moving.

                                                                                                                                                            A special collection for both long-time fans and the newly curious, 'Sandworms: The Songs of Howe Gelb and Giant Sand' is released via Fire Records and includes liner notes from Dave Henderson (Mojo).

                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                            1. Jesca Hoop & John Parish - But I Did Not
                                                                                                                                                            2. Lily Konigsberg - Shiver
                                                                                                                                                            3. Water From Your Eyes - Warm Storm
                                                                                                                                                            4. Whitney K - Happenstance
                                                                                                                                                            5. Deradoorian - Center Of The Universe
                                                                                                                                                            6. Gently Tender - Forever And A Day
                                                                                                                                                            7. The Golden Dregs - Yer Ropes
                                                                                                                                                            8. Holiday Ghosts - New River
                                                                                                                                                            9. Ella Raphael - A Hard Man To Get To Know
                                                                                                                                                            10. Monde UFO - Who Am I?

                                                                                                                                                            Various Artists

                                                                                                                                                            Silberland Vol 3 - The Ambient Side Of Kosmische Musik 1972-1986

                                                                                                                                                              On their last trip to Silberland, Bureau B hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to explore crystal caverns and emerald pastures, immersing listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the 60's avant-garde, these musicians utilised the sweeping scope of the synthesiser to create expansive meditations on outer-planetary escapism, human connection, and the natural world. This compilation offers a survey of this singular era, blending pioneering voices with lesser-known artists for an immersive sonic experience.

                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                              1. Cluster & Eno - Ho Renomo
                                                                                                                                                              2. Roedelius - Veilchenwurzeln
                                                                                                                                                              3. Der Plan - Die Wuste
                                                                                                                                                              4. Rolf Trostel - Hope Is The Answer
                                                                                                                                                              5. Vono - Hitze
                                                                                                                                                              6. You - E-Night (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              7. Serge Blenner - Phrase IV
                                                                                                                                                              8. Moebius - Falsche Ruhe
                                                                                                                                                              9. Harald Grosskopf - Oceanheart
                                                                                                                                                              10. Lapre - Tedan (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              11. Riechmann - Abendlicht
                                                                                                                                                              12. Adelbert Von Deyen - Per Aspera Ad Astra - Mental Voyage (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              13. Faust - Lampe An, Tur Zu, Leute Rein! (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              14. Conrad Schnitzler - Electric Garden (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              15. Moebius & Plank - Nordostliches Gefuhl (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              16. Deutsche Wertarbeit - Unter Tage (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              17. Asmus Tietchens - Rauschlinge
                                                                                                                                                              18. Pyrolator - Minimal Tape 1/8
                                                                                                                                                              19. Rudiger Lorenz - Southland (Bureau B Edit)
                                                                                                                                                              20. Thomas Dinger - Alleewalzer

                                                                                                                                                              Moodymann

                                                                                                                                                              Silence In The Secret Garden - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                'Silence In The Secret Garden' is an intensly personal and spiritual journey into the heart & soul of black music. From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track 'Silence In The Secret Garden' to the irresistible funk of 'Yesterday’s Party Watta Bout It', this classic album has continued to surprise and inspire. 

                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                1. Entrance To The Garden
                                                                                                                                                                2. People
                                                                                                                                                                3. Backagainforthefirsttime?
                                                                                                                                                                4. LiveinLA 1998
                                                                                                                                                                5. P.B.C.
                                                                                                                                                                6. Shine
                                                                                                                                                                7. Yesterdays Party Watta Bout It
                                                                                                                                                                8. Silence In The Secret Garden
                                                                                                                                                                9. On My Way Home
                                                                                                                                                                10. Sweet Yesterday 

                                                                                                                                                                Kerosene Heights

                                                                                                                                                                Blame It On The Weather

                                                                                                                                                                  Produced by Billy Mannino (Oso Oso, Prince Daddy & The Hyena, Macseal), Kerosene Heights' LP 'Blame It On The Weather' cements the band's place as one of the greatest of this current wave of punk/emo revival. BrooklynVegan writes "...it’s been a minute since I’ve heard a band do mathy Midwest emo as clear, punchy, and hook-driven as Kerosene Heights are doing it.” 

                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                  1. Sunsetting
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Forget It
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Inside Baseball
                                                                                                                                                                  4. Diego All In
                                                                                                                                                                  5. Waste My Time
                                                                                                                                                                  6. New Tattoo
                                                                                                                                                                  7. Things Like Forever
                                                                                                                                                                  8. Sink
                                                                                                                                                                  9. Die Trying
                                                                                                                                                                  10. Ghosts
                                                                                                                                                                  11. Love Spelled Backwards Is Love
                                                                                                                                                                  12. Blame It On The Weather

                                                                                                                                                                  Teethe

                                                                                                                                                                  Magic Of The Sale

                                                                                                                                                                    Teethe re-emerges with 'Magic Of The Sale', a soft but steely full-length album where the Texas band’s four distinct songwriters, singers, and artists ask a series of interlocked questions about what it means to build a life in a time of shared collapse. The result is a sad and beautiful self-built world of Southern slowcore, where four people turn toward one another and drift forward, together. 'Magic Of The Sale' follows Teethe’s 2020 self-titled debut, a loose and warm 12-track collage of exquisite existential blues and twilit harmonies from which few early cassette runs turned into several sold-out vinyl editions, unlikely name-drops from mega-stars, and several tours across the United States and Europe. 'Magic Of The Sale' represents Teethe’s natural next step: a second album, a record label, a slew of guest collaborators (Xandy Chelmis of Wednesday and MJ Lenderman, Charlie Martin of Hovvdy and several other veteran musicians) who represent their Texas roots and new friends they’ve made in recent years. Still, Teethe took special care to preserve the part of the process that made their debut so special, now with expanded toolkits. On 'Magic Of The Sale', they’ve boosted their gear and home studios and dug into the craft of composition and production. Eliding an outsider producer or engineer, the band’s Boone Patrello spent four arduous months mixing the record–taking the patchwork of tracks from each member and their collaborators and funneling several visions into one complete picture. From a long-overlooked pocket of Texas’ musical wealth, Teethe returns with a deeply layered and collaborative work that makes the weight of the world feel a little lighter to lug.

                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                    1. Tires & Bookmarks
                                                                                                                                                                    2. Magic Of The Sale
                                                                                                                                                                    3. Anywhere
                                                                                                                                                                    4. Push You Forever
                                                                                                                                                                    5. Holy Water
                                                                                                                                                                    6. Iron Wine
                                                                                                                                                                    7. China Day
                                                                                                                                                                    8. Lead Letters
                                                                                                                                                                    9. Ammo
                                                                                                                                                                    10. Funny
                                                                                                                                                                    11. Build & Crash
                                                                                                                                                                    12. Hate Goodbyes
                                                                                                                                                                    13. Make It Red
                                                                                                                                                                    14. Matching Durags

                                                                                                                                                                    Memory Of Jane

                                                                                                                                                                    Unsinking The Cypress

                                                                                                                                                                      After experimenting with fragmented melodies in his 2023 EP 'In The Double', 'Unsinking The Cypress' marks a fuller exploration of Maïlé’s somber yet dynamic soundscapes. Drawing from his roots in jazz and filmmaking, he blends influences from Aphex Twin, Radiohead, and The xx to create atmospheric, emotive tracks. 

                                                                                                                                                                      The album, co-produced with Oli Bayston and Harvey Grant, evolved from isolated demos into collaborative works, with contributions from various musicians and explores themes of identity, dislocation, and the quest for peace, balancing melancholic moments with playful, experimental textures.

                                                                                                                                                                      While the album confronts heavy emotions, it also carries an undercurrent of optimism, with tracks like ‘Praying I Don’t Fall’ and ‘Breathe’ showcasing Maïlé’s ability to find light within dark spaces. The album’s intimate yet expansive sound positions Memory Of Jane as an unpredictable artist, intent on keeping listeners intrigued and inspired by his ever-evolving creativity. Maïlé envisions 'Unsinking The Cypress' as a stepping stone to more experimental work, offering a glimpse of his evolving musical journey.


                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                      1.   Eyes Talk
                                                                                                                                                                      2.   Space Jumps
                                                                                                                                                                      3.   Night Riding
                                                                                                                                                                      4.   Loose Lines
                                                                                                                                                                      5.   Breathe
                                                                                                                                                                      6.   Praying I Don’t Fall
                                                                                                                                                                      7.   Wake The Moon
                                                                                                                                                                      8.   Unsinking The Cypress
                                                                                                                                                                      9.   Blind
                                                                                                                                                                      10. Songbird
                                                                                                                                                                      11. Souls And Seeds
                                                                                                                                                                      12. Seafloor

                                                                                                                                                                      The Black Keys

                                                                                                                                                                      No Rain, No Flowers

                                                                                                                                                                        Grammy-winning rock duo The Black Keys are back with their 13th studio album, 'No Rain, No Flowers'. 'No Rain, No Flowers' delivers an eclectic sound shaped by the energy and spirit of the band’s wildly popular Record Hangs— dance parties where Auerbach and Carney take turns spinning rare, but truly potent cuts from their impressive collection of vinyl 45s for baying crowds of longtime fans and new converts alike. More than two decades into their career, The Black Keys consistently continue to create music on their own terms, fueled by instinct, passion, and a refusal to settle. 'No Rain, No Flowers' is a testament to the band’s deep commitment to their craft and their enduring creativity.
                                                                                                                                                                        The band’s Dan Auerbach said: ““This whole album was really labored over with a lot of love. We hope you feel that.”


                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                        1. No Rain, No Flowers
                                                                                                                                                                        2. The Night Before
                                                                                                                                                                        3. Babygirl
                                                                                                                                                                        4. Down To Nothing
                                                                                                                                                                        5. On Repeat
                                                                                                                                                                        6. Make You Mine
                                                                                                                                                                        7. Man On A Mission
                                                                                                                                                                        8. Kiss It
                                                                                                                                                                        9. All My Life
                                                                                                                                                                        10. A Little Too High
                                                                                                                                                                        11. Neon Moon

                                                                                                                                                                        The Royston Club

                                                                                                                                                                        Songs For The Spine

                                                                                                                                                                          Wrexham’s The Royston Club return in Summer 2025 with Songs For The Spine — a soaring, emotionally-charged second album that captures a band stepping up and standing tall. Opening track Shivers sets the tone immediately: a dark love song that channels the spirit of The Cure at their most euphoric, and signals a bold new era for the band. Recorded at Liverpool’s Kempston Street Studios with acclaimed producer Richard Turvey (Blossoms, The Courteeners), and released via Run On / Modern Sky Records, this is the sound of a group at the peak of their powers.

                                                                                                                                                                          Following the success of their Top 20 debut Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars and a sold-out UK tour in 2024, The Royston Club have emerged tighter, louder, and more emotionally driven. Songs For The Spine builds on the band’s signature indie DNA while embracing something weightier and more expansive. The soul-baring The Patch Where Nothing Grows is already resonating as a fan anthem, while tracks like Crowbar shimmer with glad-but-sad disco nostalgia. Cariad wears its heart firmly on its sleeve, and The Ballad Of Glen Campbell brings the record to a cinematic close.

                                                                                                                                                                          At its core, this is a collection of songs about the people and places that hold you up — the emotional backbone of everyday life. There’s love, loss, guilt, longing and joy in these ten tracks, delivered with a raw honesty and a more human, less polished sound than before. The band and Turvey purposely embraced imperfection in the studio, leaning into live takes and leaving in the edges that give these songs their pulse.

                                                                                                                                                                          Songs For The Spine is the sound of The Royston Club turning a breakthrough into a mission statement — urgent, ambitious, and unafraid to evolve. If the first album was a sprinting start, this is a victory lap with the road wide open ahead.

                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                          Shivers
                                                                                                                                                                          The Patch Where Nothing Grows
                                                                                                                                                                          Crowbar
                                                                                                                                                                          Glued To The Bed
                                                                                                                                                                          Cariad
                                                                                                                                                                          30/20
                                                                                                                                                                          Spinning
                                                                                                                                                                          Through The Cracks
                                                                                                                                                                          Curses & Spit
                                                                                                                                                                          The Ballad Of Glen Campbell


                                                                                                                                                                          Majestic Arrows

                                                                                                                                                                          The Magic Of The Majestic Arrows - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                            Dreamed up in the basement of his Bronzeville harem/ headquarters, Arrow Brown’s peerless 'The Magic of The Majestic Arrows' album was the by-product of years operating at the fringe of Chicago’s storied Record Row. Issued on his own Bandit imprint, the LP is a string-laden fantasia straddling the street corner doo-wop of the ‘50s and the Me Decade’s studio excess. Backed by the Chosen Few and the Scott Brothers, arranged by Benjamin Wright, sung by Brown’s 17-year-old daughter Tridia and Moroccos falsetto Larry Brown, and drawn by The Wind’s Eugene Phillips, the album is an outsider D.I.Y. soul genie await- ing the rub of a phonographic needle to reveal its immor- tal sorcery. Be careful what you wish for.

                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            1. One More Time Around (Vocal)
                                                                                                                                                                            2. Love Is All I Need
                                                                                                                                                                            3. Doing It For Us
                                                                                                                                                                            4. Going To Make A Time Machine (Vocal)
                                                                                                                                                                            5. Going To Make A Time Machine (Instrumental)
                                                                                                                                                                            6. Ladies And Wonderful Girls (Arranged By Arrow Brown)
                                                                                                                                                                            7. I’ll Never Cry For Another Boy
                                                                                                                                                                            8. We Love Together
                                                                                                                                                                            9. Another Day
                                                                                                                                                                            10. The Magic Of Your Love
                                                                                                                                                                            11. One More Time Around (Instrumental)
                                                                                                                                                                            12. If I Had A Little Love (Rehearsal Take)

                                                                                                                                                                            Monzanto Sound are a rising South East London-based music collective fusing together different styles from the African Diaspora with a hypnotic, psychedelic edge and a passion for the alchemical practice of sonic storytelling. Traversing through jazz-inflected funk, psychedelic trip-hop and cosmic neo-soul; they connect the dots using pulsating grooves, hypnotic polyrhythms and soaring vocals. The band consists of Mimi Koku on vocals, Mali Baden-Powell on keys, Wazoo Baden Powell on drums, Anthony Boatright on bass and Rachel Asafo-Agyei on guitar and supporting vocals.

                                                                                                                                                                            Set for release in August, debut album 'The Channel' explores themes of love and conflict, justice and injustice, fantasy and mythology. Its title is a reference to many things: a journey, a portal or window to another place, a connection, a transformation. It also makes links, conceptually and sonically, between the organic and the technological, the material and immaterial.

                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            1. Pepper Dem
                                                                                                                                                                            2. Warsan
                                                                                                                                                                            3. Slick Talk
                                                                                                                                                                            4. Foxy Cotton
                                                                                                                                                                            5. Black Gold
                                                                                                                                                                            6. Midas
                                                                                                                                                                            7. Hotline
                                                                                                                                                                            8. Oracle
                                                                                                                                                                            9. Til Next Time

                                                                                                                                                                            The Funk District

                                                                                                                                                                            Across The Swamp - Incl. Gledd Remix

                                                                                                                                                                            Mexico-born and based The Funk District has been adding a contemporary spin to funk, soul, disco and Afro for a decade now. His latest takes him to Saint Wax and kicks off with 'Alligator Groove', which is a leggy, strident disco pumper with neat and funky guitar riffs. 'The Reverend' has even fatter drums pumping down and guttural gospel vocals adding emotional intensity. Gledd remixes with a more light-fingered and jazzy touch and flipside cut 'Gimme Something' offers deep disco and then acid tinged house anthem 'A Little More' rounds out the package.

                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            Side 1
                                                                                                                                                                            Alligator Groove
                                                                                                                                                                            The Reverend
                                                                                                                                                                            The Reverend (Gledd Remix)

                                                                                                                                                                            Side 2
                                                                                                                                                                            Gimme Something
                                                                                                                                                                            A Little More

                                                                                                                                                                            Dean Wareham

                                                                                                                                                                            That’s The Price Of Loving Me

                                                                                                                                                                              'That’s the Price of Loving' Me marks Dean Wareham’s (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta, ) evocative return, rekindling his partnership with producer Kramer for the first time since Galaxie 500's This Is Our Music in 1990.

                                                                                                                                                                              Recorded in six days in Los Angeles, the album is steeped in lush, haunting soundscapes, driven by Wareham's signature reverb-soaked guitars and melancholic, dreamlike vocals. Britta Phillips joins on bass and harmonies, while Gabe Noel’s cello adds depth and tension. “Two takes yield more treasure than twenty,” notes longtime friend Matt Fishbeck, as Kramer's insistence on spontaneity infuses the project with raw immediacy.

                                                                                                                                                                              Thematically, Wareham delves into the poetry of memory, set against a backdrop of wistful nostalgia and existential reflection. "Songs are in dialogue with other songs" Fishbeck writes. The lead single, 'We’re Not Finished Yet', is a playful, introspective meditation where Wareham drops his own name while relishing the tactile joy of the guitar. 'You Were the Ones I Had to Betray' unfolds like a somber narrative, underpinned by Noel’s cello and crowned with a haunting bass harmonica by Kramer, encapsulating the emotional ambivalence of friendship and loyalty.

                                                                                                                                                                              'That’s the Price of Loving Me' pulses with conga rhythms and Kramer’s vintage Moog, capturing Wareham’s musings on the life of a performer and the sacrifices it demands. Fishbeck describes 'The Mystery Guest' as "an acrostic poem" and concludes by saying "We're not finished yet." 'Loving Me' also includes two covers, Mayo Thompson's 'Dear Betty Baby' and Nico's 'Reich der Träume.' The latter highlights his love for blending history and homage, sung entirely in German for a chillingly authentic touch.


                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                              1. You Were The Ones I Had To Betray
                                                                                                                                                                              2. Dear Betty Baby
                                                                                                                                                                              3. Mystery Guest
                                                                                                                                                                              4. New World Julie
                                                                                                                                                                              5. We're Not Finished Yet
                                                                                                                                                                              6. Bourgeois Manqué
                                                                                                                                                                              7. Yesterday's Hero
                                                                                                                                                                              8. That's The Price Of Loving Me
                                                                                                                                                                              9. Reich Der Träume
                                                                                                                                                                              10. The Cloud Is Coming

                                                                                                                                                                              The Supersuckers

                                                                                                                                                                              The Sacrilicious Sounds Of The Supersuckers - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                Tucson, AZ legends The Supersuckers’ classic third album - 1995’s 'The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers' - is back in print, and on limited colored vinyl!

                                                                                                                                                                                'The Sacrilicious Sounds…' is a furious, sneering blast of punk rock that perfectly encapsulates the band’s special fusion of hard rock, punk, and low-brow country culture. The Damned meets ZZ Top? The Motörhead of the Southwest? Something like that, sure, but ultimately The Supersuckers are their own thing, and on 'The Sacrilicious Sounds…' - and especially on the single 'Born With a Tail' - singer Eddie Spaghetti’s woeful country laments begin to poke more assertively through their raw punk aggro. About that aggro: this is the band's sole album with Rick Sims, of Illinois punk legends Didjits, on guitar, and Sims dutifully cranks up The Supersuckers’ already formidable wall of overdriven guitars. As an extra treat, Sims sings lead on the blistering 'Run Like a Motherfucker'.

                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                1. Bad Bad Bad
                                                                                                                                                                                2. Born With A Tail
                                                                                                                                                                                3. The 19th Most Powerful Woman In Rock
                                                                                                                                                                                4. Doublewide
                                                                                                                                                                                5. Bad Dog
                                                                                                                                                                                6. Money Into Sin
                                                                                                                                                                                7. Marie
                                                                                                                                                                                8. The Thing About That
                                                                                                                                                                                9. Ozzy
                                                                                                                                                                                10. Run Like A Motherfucker
                                                                                                                                                                                11. Hittin’ The Gravel
                                                                                                                                                                                12. Stoned If You Want It
                                                                                                                                                                                13. My Victim
                                                                                                                                                                                14. Don’t Go Blue

                                                                                                                                                                                Daniel Blumberg

                                                                                                                                                                                The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

                                                                                                                                                                                  Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Original Score, and shot in the glorious, vintage VistaVision format, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist stands as a monumental achievement in filmmaking. Opening with a mesmerizing and continuous 10-minute overture, composer Daniel Blumberg’s music sets the stage for the film’s epic narrative, which spans multiple decades and follows fictional Hungarian architect László Toth (played by Adrien Brody) as he rebuilds his life in post-war America.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Encompassing large-scale brass orchestrations, intimately lyrical piano melodies and freewheeling, improvisational jazz, The Brutalist’s score is as ambitious and broad in scope as the film itself. Envisioning the score as slabs of sound – rich and resonating while also measured and restrained – the music developed into the sonic embodiment of the Brutalist design aesthetic, where imposing scale and raw textures meet values of simplicity and economy. To craft its singular sound, Blumberg worked with a cast of boundary-pushing musicians and improvisers, traveling across the UK and Europe with a custom-built remote recording setup to capture his players on location. Exploiting the tension between the fluidity of improvised music and the meticulous precision of film scoring, Blumberg coaxed out beautifully rich and resonant performances from his collaborators, including avant-garde innovators Axel Dörner (trumpet), Evan Parker (saxophone), Sophie Agnel (piano), and John Tilbury (piano), to name a few.

                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Overture (Ship)
                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Overture (László)
                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Overture (Bus)
                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Chair
                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Van Buren’s Estate
                                                                                                                                                                                  6. Library
                                                                                                                                                                                  7. Jazz Club
                                                                                                                                                                                  8. Porn
                                                                                                                                                                                  9. Monologue
                                                                                                                                                                                  10. Up The Hill
                                                                                                                                                                                  11. Pennsylvania
                                                                                                                                                                                  12. Bicycle
                                                                                                                                                                                  13. Steel
                                                                                                                                                                                  14. Intermission
                                                                                                                                                                                  15. Erzsébet
                                                                                                                                                                                  16. Handjob
                                                                                                                                                                                  17. Bath
                                                                                                                                                                                  18. Building Site
                                                                                                                                                                                  19. Ribbon Cutting
                                                                                                                                                                                  20. Picnic By The Lake
                                                                                                                                                                                  21. Gordon's Dinner
                                                                                                                                                                                  22. Looking At You
                                                                                                                                                                                  23. Vidui
                                                                                                                                                                                  24. New York
                                                                                                                                                                                  25. Stairs
                                                                                                                                                                                  26. Carrara
                                                                                                                                                                                  27. Marble
                                                                                                                                                                                  28. Tunnel
                                                                                                                                                                                  29. Construction
                                                                                                                                                                                  30. Heroin
                                                                                                                                                                                  31. Search Party
                                                                                                                                                                                  32. Epilogue (Venice)

                                                                                                                                                                                  Audrey Golden

                                                                                                                                                                                  Shouting Out Loud: Lives Of The Raincoats

                                                                                                                                                                                    Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva formed The Raincoats in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the 'godmothers of grunge' have been revered by punk, queer, feminist and indie pop artists alike. The Raincoats reimagined the nature of experimental music and DIY design and went on to inspire Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and an entire generation of Riot Grrrl and queercore musicians.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats tells their astonishing story in three
                                                                                                                                                                                    extraordinary lives. In The Raincoats' first life, they recorded three full-length albums now regarded as classics and were the first punk band to play behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw. Nearly a decade later in 1992, the band's second life took off when Kurt Cobain's love of the band catalysed their renaissance.

                                                                                                                                                                                    In 2001, The Raincoats emerged from their five-year hiatus into their third and ongoing iteration marked by performances in art museums such as New York's MoMA, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and London's National Portrait Gallery. The Raincoats have and continue to be a singular phenomenon and influence for so many.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-seen images from The Raincoats' archive, Shouting Out Loud is the ultimate, authorised biography of this pioneering group of women - and the must-have account of a legendary band that holds a vital place in twentieth and twenty-first century sonic history.


                                                                                                                                                                                    Debby Friday

                                                                                                                                                                                    The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life

                                                                                                                                                                                      On her kaleidoscopic second album, 'The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life', Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. “I want to be a starrr, I can't hide that desire,” she says. “But what I don't want is to live someone else’s dream or to follow a pre-set path.” For the Nigerian-Canadian polymath, to be a starrr is to live at the extremes: public versus private, hubris versus humility, flying versus falling.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Being a starrr means embracing the apocalyptic hedonism of an all-night rave—finding communion in the “dark room, girls in line for the bathroom” on the buzzing house anthem 'All I Wanna Do Is Party'. It means swapping lines about bottles on ice and getting freaky on the dance floor with Detroit techno prodigies HiTech on 'In The Club'—while admitting that she is, in fact, “barely on the dance floor these days.” It’s the sound of discovering what comes after the kind of success most artists only dream about—how to burn brightly without burning out. Across 11 songs, 'The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life' showcases Friday’s chameleonic vocals. From the sparse, gossamer beauty of the lovelorn 'Leave.' to the locomotive post-punk of 'Darker The Better'.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Winning the Polaris Prize in 2023 for her debut LP, 'GOOD LUCK', only made Debby Friday want to grind harder: “I’m tryna see more/ Man, I want the payoff” she raps over laser-like synths on the effortless copycat kiss-off 'Lipsync'. But life on the razor’s edge can only be sustainable for so long: During a nonstop tour schedule in support of the album, she fell violently ill. The diagnosis? Stress-induced shingles. That experience forced Friday to turn her focus inward. The next year saw a change in management, in her routine and priorities.

                                                                                                                                                                                      To help bring her vision of radical honesty on the dance floor to life, Friday recruited Australian producer Darcy Baylis (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal). Returning to their de-facto homebase in London in between touring, the pair traded ideas in the studio from morning until midnight. Layered with meaning, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life is brimming with coded, if-you-know-you-know references—weaving love letters and innuendos from the names of it girl perfumes, French cognac, and Hellenistic prophetesses who speak in tongues. It reads like a manifestation of Friday’s pursuit of an experimental pop sound that still feels distinctively hers.

                                                                                                                                                                                      “This album is about the idea of reaching towards something,” she says. “It’s about seeing the signs and following that impulse, always with the potential of either flying into the sun or falling back to earth.” On 'The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life', Debby Friday takes flight, fastening her wings, following the sound of her own voice.


                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                      1. 1/17
                                                                                                                                                                                      2. All I Wanna Do Is Party
                                                                                                                                                                                      3. In The Club Featuring HiTech
                                                                                                                                                                                      4. Lipsync
                                                                                                                                                                                      5. Alberta
                                                                                                                                                                                      6. Higher
                                                                                                                                                                                      7. Ppp (Interlude)
                                                                                                                                                                                      8. Arcadia
                                                                                                                                                                                      9. Leave.
                                                                                                                                                                                      10. Bet On Me
                                                                                                                                                                                      11. Darker The Better

                                                                                                                                                                                      The New Eves

                                                                                                                                                                                      The New Eve Is Rising

                                                                                                                                                                                        Nestled somewhere between primal rock'n'roll live performance and transcendent ritual, there's an unmistakable alchemy that happens when Violet Farrer (guitar, violin, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Kate Mater (bass, vocals) and Ella Oona Russell (drums, flute, vocals) step onto a stage together.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Now, they've distilled this visceral energy into their extraordinary debut album 'The New Eve Is Rising': a lighting rod of inspiration channelled by a quartet with the ability to create something greater than the sum of their parts. 'The New Eve Is Rising' was written in Brighton and at an artistic residency at The Cornish Bank, co-produced by The New Eves and Jack Osbourne (Bingo Fury) and recorded at Rockfield Studios and Bristol's Cotham Parish Church

                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                        1. The New Eve
                                                                                                                                                                                        2. Highway Man
                                                                                                                                                                                        3. Cow Song
                                                                                                                                                                                        4. Mid Air Glass
                                                                                                                                                                                        5. Astrolabe
                                                                                                                                                                                        6. Circles
                                                                                                                                                                                        7. Mary
                                                                                                                                                                                        8. Rivers Run Red
                                                                                                                                                                                        9. Volcano

                                                                                                                                                                                        Morgan Wade

                                                                                                                                                                                        The Party Is Over (Recovered)

                                                                                                                                                                                          Morgan Wade has never been one to mince words or play coy, a fact that she underscores repeatedly on her new album 'The Party Is Over (Recovered)'. The follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed Obsessed, Wade continues the intense exploration of her psyche’s recesses across 11 songs that she again wrote solo.

                                                                                                                                                                                          As ever, the results are thrilling. As the project’s title notes, a handful of the songs date back to before Wade signed her major-label deal and have been “recovered” here with all-new versions. Wade’s longtime collaborator and touring bandmate Clint Wells produced the album, finding the right shades to complement Wade’s fearless tales of dangerous attraction, unrequited love, and bad decisions. The album’s title track 'The Party Is Over' — one of Wade’s older songs — is a crashing anthem about attraction that lingers long after the intoxicants wear off, while the lead single 'East Coast' takes those fixations to an extreme in its depiction of a relationship that pushes someone to the edge. 'High in Your Apartment' offers a searing account of a loveless hookup amid a troubled sea of guitar noise, and the album-closing 'Hardwood Floor' chronicles a woman’s agonizing struggle to become a mother.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Wade does all of this while moving through musical styles with ease. She sounds perfectly at home on guitar-heavy tunes like twang-punk scorcher 'Candy from Strangers' and the stormy grunge number 'Songs I Won’t Remember', but she’s equally capable of delivering tenderness and vulnerability, as with the swirling R&B in 'Parking Garage' or acoustic strums of 'Stay'. What’s more, she does all of it while sounding like no one else and speaking her mind. 'The Party Is Over (Recovered)', which connects Wade’s past and present, shows she hasn’t lost an ounce of her dedication to shining a light into the dark places where the truth hides out.

                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                          1. The Party Is Over
                                                                                                                                                                                          2. Let Us Down
                                                                                                                                                                                          3. East Coast
                                                                                                                                                                                          4. Roses
                                                                                                                                                                                          5. Left Me Behind
                                                                                                                                                                                          6. Candy From Strangers
                                                                                                                                                                                          7. Parking Garage
                                                                                                                                                                                          8. Songs I Won’t Remember
                                                                                                                                                                                          9. High In Your Apartment
                                                                                                                                                                                          10. Stay
                                                                                                                                                                                          11. Hardwood Floor

                                                                                                                                                                                          The Sabres Of Paradise

                                                                                                                                                                                          Sabresonic - 2025 Remaster

                                                                                                                                                                                            1993 debut album by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton, contains “Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)” for the first time on the 2LP edition.

                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                            1. Still Fighting
                                                                                                                                                                                            2. Smokebelch I
                                                                                                                                                                                            3. Clock Factory
                                                                                                                                                                                            4. Ano Electro (Andante)
                                                                                                                                                                                            5. R.S.D.
                                                                                                                                                                                            6. Inter-Lergen-Ten-ko
                                                                                                                                                                                            7. Ano Electro (Allegro)
                                                                                                                                                                                            8. Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)

                                                                                                                                                                                            The Sabres Of Paradise

                                                                                                                                                                                            Haunted Dancehall - 2025 Remaster

                                                                                                                                                                                              1994 second album by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. A concept album with accompanying text for each track by James Woodbourne, it also includes additional production by Portishead and Mr Scruff. Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton, contains 'Theme' for the first time on the 2LP edition.



                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                              1. Bubble And Slide
                                                                                                                                                                                              2. Bubble And Slide II
                                                                                                                                                                                              3. Duke Of Earlsfield
                                                                                                                                                                                              4. Flight Path Estate
                                                                                                                                                                                              5. Planet D
                                                                                                                                                                                              6. Wilmot
                                                                                                                                                                                              7. Tow Truck
                                                                                                                                                                                              8. Theme
                                                                                                                                                                                              9. Theme 4
                                                                                                                                                                                              10. Return To Planet D
                                                                                                                                                                                              11. Ballad Of Nicky McGuire
                                                                                                                                                                                              12. Jacob Street 7am
                                                                                                                                                                                              13. Chapel Street Market 9am
                                                                                                                                                                                              14. Haunted Dancehall

                                                                                                                                                                                              Two of the most prolific remixers in the world of Disco, Dave Lee and John Morales have teamed up for one of their biggest projects to date - 'Mixed To The Maxxx'. After gaining access from the legendary original artists these two highly esteemed producers take the multi-track tapes of many classic Disco, Funk & Soul tracks and re-work them...to the Maxxx! Here we are treated to a 12" sampler of what is to come from the Album later this year.

                                                                                                                                                                                              First up, the Bass twanging floor filler version from Dave Lee of 'The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing' which has already been causing a stir in his DJ sets of late, featuring lots of musical parts not audible in the original. Following up is Dave's Friday Night Fever Mix of Philly legends 'Bell & James - US chart hit "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)' where he beefs up and extends the original to re-step back out on the town, a masterclass in elevating something that is already great to start with.

                                                                                                                                                                                              On the second 12" we have John Morales taking on a biggie! Inner Life's - Aint No Mountain High Enough. Here John handles the prestigious parts with the respect due, re-shaping key moments in a new light and bringing the sonics up to par for modern dancefloors, an Anthem Mix indeed. To finish proceedings Morales takes on British Jazz-Funk band 'Light Of The World' with their mum loved classic 'London Town' bumping the tempo a touch and beefing up the funk.

                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Brothers Johnson - "The Real Thing" (Dave Lee’s Thunderthumbs Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                              Bell & James - "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)" (Dave Lee's Friday Night Fever Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                              Inner Life - "Aint No Mountain High Enough" (John Morales M+M 2025 Anthem Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                              Light Of The World - "London Town" (John Morales M+M Hyde Park Stroll Mix)

                                                                                                                                                                                              Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

                                                                                                                                                                                              The Midnight Hour - 2025 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                'The Midnight Hour' is comprised of Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, alongside a tight rhythm section and a full orchestra. This album is Black excellence: an ode to the cultural sophistication that the Harlem Renaissance established for its people. Featuring: Cee Lo Green, Eryn Allen Kane, Estelle, Raphael Saadiq, Keyon Harold, Questlove and more. Recorded and mixed by Adrian Younge at Linear Labs, the preeminent analog studio of Los Angeles, CA.

                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Black Beacon
                                                                                                                                                                                                2. Mare Feat Ladybug Mecca
                                                                                                                                                                                                3. It's You Feat Raphael Saadiq
                                                                                                                                                                                                4. Questions Feat. CeeLo Green
                                                                                                                                                                                                5. So Amazing Feat Luther Vandross
                                                                                                                                                                                                6. Gate 54
                                                                                                                                                                                                7. Do It Together Feat Bilal
                                                                                                                                                                                                8. Redenph In B-Minor
                                                                                                                                                                                                9. Better Endeavor
                                                                                                                                                                                                10. Smiling For Me Feat Karolina
                                                                                                                                                                                                11. Don't Keep Me Waiting Feat Marsha Ambrosius
                                                                                                                                                                                                12. Bitches Do Voodoo Feat Angela Muñoz
                                                                                                                                                                                                13. Possibilities Feat Eryn Allen Kane
                                                                                                                                                                                                14. Mission
                                                                                                                                                                                                15. Dans Un Moment D'errance Feat Laetitia Sadier, Questlove And Keyon Harrold
                                                                                                                                                                                                16. Love Is Free Feat Eryn Allen Kane
                                                                                                                                                                                                17. Together Again Feat NO I.D. And James Poyser
                                                                                                                                                                                                18. Feel Alive Feat Karolina And Loren Oden
                                                                                                                                                                                                19. There Is No Greater Love Feat Loren Oden And Saudia Yasmein
                                                                                                                                                                                                20. Ravens

                                                                                                                                                                                                The Church

                                                                                                                                                                                                Hindsight: 1980-1987 - 2025 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Originally released in July 1988, this double album brings together select tracks from their early studio albums, along with rare B-sides and singles.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Now reissued on high-quality 180gm vinyl, featuring a unique black and silver splatter effect. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. The Unguarded Moment
                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. In A Heartbeat
                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. Too Fast For You
                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Tear It All Away
                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Sisters
                                                                                                                                                                                                  6. Is This Where You Live
                                                                                                                                                                                                  7. Almost With You
                                                                                                                                                                                                  8. Fraulein
                                                                                                                                                                                                  9. You've Got To Go
                                                                                                                                                                                                  10. The Golden Dawn
                                                                                                                                                                                                  11. Life Speeds Up
                                                                                                                                                                                                  12. When You Were Mine
                                                                                                                                                                                                  13. Electric Lash
                                                                                                                                                                                                  14. The Night Is Very Soft
                                                                                                                                                                                                  15. Autumn Soon
                                                                                                                                                                                                  16. It's No Reason
                                                                                                                                                                                                  17. Someone Special
                                                                                                                                                                                                  18. A Month Of Sundays
                                                                                                                                                                                                  19. Shadow Cabinet
                                                                                                                                                                                                  20. As You Will
                                                                                                                                                                                                  21. Myrrh
                                                                                                                                                                                                  22. The View
                                                                                                                                                                                                  23. Trance Ending
                                                                                                                                                                                                  24. Tantalized


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