I wouldn't necessarily have said that this, the second week of February is where I would find my ambient listening for the next couple months, but I can see the rippling ambient folk of Asger's beautiful 'Julia' and the stunning environmental drift of Aus & The Humble (out of Japan's legendary Flau records) both proving enduring listens.

Now I'm not the biggest Beck fan around, I don't dislike him I just don't know that much (I did like that song with the Microphone and all of Sea Change, the only album I've really heard in it's entirety) BUT I do remember watching Little Miss Sunshine and thinking how perfect his rendition of The Korgi's 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' was. Well, it still is and it's here with a host of other unheard gems, and it's all gold.

The new Charli XCX LP has been produced for the soundtrack to Emerald Fennell's adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic, Wuthering Heights. What we get is a mix of Charli's forward-facing electronic music, triumphant builds and jagged glitched vocal elements. On the other side of the coin, the music here is grandly orchestral and soaringly evocative, adding a further emotional layer to her already expansive sound palette.

Howling bells are back after 10 LONG years and sees the band perfectly toeing the line of melodic jangle (which they do very well indeed) and heft, with grungy sections raising the bar into head-nodding pit tackle. Hopefully they'll find the inspiration hits a little quicker next time, because this definitely feels like a band with a renewed vigour.

Momoko Gill's eponymous new LP is the ideal tonic for a busied mind, with slowly shifting jazzy progressions and languid vocals coming together into a perfectly paced mix of soul and groove. There are moments of more hurried expression, but it never feels unbalanced and absolutely shines with Gill's mastery of conception and execution.

That's not it either, we've got the brand new one from Chris Massey's Thief Of Time project and sees Chris, Mike and Lady Lady (off of that ace Joey T record from a few years ago) perform Ms. Lady's superb opus, 'Cosmic'. It's a treat to hear it on vinyl too after their great performance at Factory in December. Great release, great folk. You should if you get chance pop along to the release party at The Carlton Club in Whalley Range this very weekend. It's going to be a lovely evening, and it's a great spot there too. Extra points if you spot a wild Kickin Pigeon when you're out and about. More details / Tix here.

Later on this month, Wigan-based radio station and Greater Manchester event promoter Alltrax throws its first day party at renowned grassroots music pub The Snug in Atherton. the above-mentioned KP is going to be spinning some tunes with Tom2Trax & Prof, and you should definitely check out their shows for the station too. Get involved here

That's it for this week. See you soon everyone!

Barry x

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime Coloured LP - £26.99 See all: Indie . Shoegaze . Post-rock . Punk	Jeff Buckley - The Complete Live At Sin-é - Expanded Edition 4xLP - £65.99 2xCD - £14.99 See all: Psych . Kosmische . Rock . Prog	Ásgeir - Julia LP - £23.99 CD - £10.99 Coloured LP - £25.99 See all: Folk . Americana . Blues . Rock&roll	Nonna Fab - Deeper Dance Archives Ltd LP - £17.99 See all: House . Techno . Electronica . Ambient . Neo-classical	Various Artists - Il Bosco Presents: New Wave Bangers From The Italo Discotheque 2xLP - £28.99 See all: Synth . Wave . Industrial . Hyperpop . Pop

Various Artists - 15 Years Of Leng Records (2010-2025) 2xLP - £37.99 See all: Balearic . New Age . Esoteric . Downbeat	The Thief Of Time - We Are Cosmic Ltd 12" - £15.99 See all: Disco . Italo . Cosmic . Disco-not-disco . Boogie	Momoko Gill - Momoko LP - £22.99 CD - £10.99 Signed LP - £22.99 See all: Funk . Soul . Jazz . Free Jazz . Broken Beat	Intertoto - Siccar Point Ltd LP - £25.99 See all: Reggae . Dub . Roots . Dancehall . Ska	Jorja Smith - Blue Lights (10 Years On) Coloured 12" EP - £19.99 See all: Hip Hop . Rap . R'n'b

BLACK FONDU. - BLACKFONDUISM Ltd LP - £28.99 See all: Bass . Uk Garage . Hardcore . Jungle . Dnb	Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights CD - £12.99 Coloured LP - £29.99 See all: Soundtracks . Library Music . Exotica . Easy	Banda Black Rio - Saci Pererê - 2026 Reissue Coloured LP - £26.99 See all: World . African . Latin	Richard Norris - Strange Things Are Happening Hardback Book - £25.00 Paperback Book - £12.99 See all: Magazines . Books	Piccadilly Records - Bottle Green Beanie Misc - £12.00 See all: Piccadilly Merchandise

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime Coloured LP - £26.99 Barry says: A selection of superb Beck outtakes / b-sides and covers from the early 00's to 2017. Includes the superb cover of 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' From Little Miss Sunshine. A beautifully varied, evocative selection of lesser heard gems from one of the greatest songwriters in the alt-indie sphere.	Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights CD - £12.99 Coloured LP - £29.99 Barry says: A wonderfully rich, sleekly produced slice of modern synth-pop and crackling avant-indie which breaks into triumphant streaks of orchestration and airy pizzicatio plucks, all topped with Charli's wonderfully athletic, soaring vox. Ace.	Howling Bells - Strange Life CD - £11.99 Due: 20th Feb Coloured LP - £21.99 Dinked Edition LP - u/avbl Barry says: A brand new album from Howling Bells after 10 long years is more than welcome, and hits all the notes you'd expect despite the long break. Evocative lyrics ride atop jangling guitars, rolling bass and that super laid-back aussie vocal style, pushing into fuzzy grunge territory on a good number of occasions. Top stuff.	Momoko Gill - Momoko LP - £22.99 CD - £10.99 Signed LP - £22.99 Barry says: Super smooth, beautifully languid jazz-tronica that could just as easily be played at a dinner party as a smokey, packed lounge club. There are touchstones all over the musical spectrum, but it's really hard to pin down anything as a definite influence. Wonderfully heartfelt, evocative jazzy songwriting. A startlingly lovely outing.	Ásgeir - Julia LP - £23.99 CD - £10.99 Coloured LP - £25.99 Barry says: Tender falsetto vocals and shimmering acoustic guitar, rolling basslines and snappy percussion all come together into a hazy breeze of an album, illustrating Ásgeir's impeccable skills as a songwriter and vocalist, and now showing his evolving technique and renewed lyrical role in the project. A bold and beautiful thing.

Danny L Harle - Cerulean LP - £22.99 CD - £10.99 Indies Exclusive LP - £23.99 Barry says: There's a lot to love here, especially for fans of the pop end of early 00's dance music, with Harle's vision sitting at the sidechain-littered intersection of synth-pop and rave, with a whole host of well respected modern pop behemoths along for the ride.	Grace & Raffaella - Grace & Raffaella Ltd LP - £28.99 Matt says: Discombobulated, otherworldly and, at times, quite tense. Grace & Raffaella present an entirely unique species of sound that'll reward deep listening and altered states.	Intertoto - Siccar Point Ltd LP - £25.99 Matt says: A delightful companion to the deep aquatic dub-techno of Basic Channel & Deepchord and the dub reductions & static hiss of SKRS INTL & Dub Surgeon.	Aus & The Humble Bee - Chalybeate LP - £21.99 Barry says: I've been enamoured with Flau since 2008's run of Geskia's 'Silent 77' and The Boats' 'Faulty Toned Radio', both of which I was OBSESSED with, and still am. This is a beautifully languid, environmental ambient beauty that is rich in the airy, tape-glitchy otherworldliness that Flau specialise in. Stunning.	BLACK FONDU. - BLACKFONDUISM Ltd LP - £28.99 Matt says: If you want the future then the future is this! Like a nasty bunch of cyborgs beating up Kendrick Lamar for outstanding benzo drug debts using an array of destroyed mainframes. Sound wild? It is.

Kannaste4 - Out Of Self And Into Others LP - £21.99 Helsinki tenor saxophonist Jussi Kannaste's debut album as a band leader has been a long time coming. A top musician in the local scene revered by his contemporaries and sought after as a band member, Kannaste now presents his new work Out Of Self and Into Others on We Jazz Records. At times quiet as a whisper, at times fiery and swinging, Out Of Self and Into Others is a product of a deep marinade, a debut album that feels like much more than "just" that.	Tilaye Gebre - Tilaye's Saxophone With The Dahlak Band 2xLtd LP - £30.99 Tilaye Gebre is one of Ethiopia’s most soulful saxophone giants, with a musical legacy that’s hard to surpass. A founding member of the Equators, later renamed the Dahlak Band, he was a key figure in Ethiopia’s vibrant hotel music scene and a sought-after musician and arranger for artists like Aster Aweke, Mahmoud Ahmed, Tilahun Gessesse, and Muluken Melesse.	Gogol Bordello - We Mean It, Man! LP - £22.99 Indies Exclusive LP - £22.99 For this new Gogol Bordello album, songwriter Eugene Hutz set out to blend post-punk textures and aggro to Gogol Bordello's free-wheeling gypsy-pun	Stuart Moxham - Winter Sun LP - £20.99 CD - £12.99 There are few artists operating today like Stuart Moxham, a composer of the upper echelon of innate talent who combines avant-garde ideas with deceptively forthright personal lyrics, solid hooks, ambience and vaguely off-centre instrumentation which defies the casual marketplace as confoundingly as it ever did to the underground, whatever that is these days.	The Would-Be-Goods - Tears Before Bedtime LP - £22.99 CD - £11.99 The songs on 'Tears Before Bedtime' balance delicacy and power. Perfect pop melodies are delivered in Jessica’s gorgeous and idiosyncratic voice. Her lyrics are intelligent and wry, wistful and witty. Every song tells a story, taking us on a journey through space and time.

Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx IV CD - £11.99 Coloured LP - £23.99 After a 10 year hiatus, Mariachi El Bronx have dusted off their charro suits again for their fourth album. The band’s unexpected story originally began as the alter ego of punk rock heroes The Bronx. Mariachi El Bronx sought ways to grow creatively while celebrating the Latino culture in their hometown.	Helicon - Arise Coloured LP - £20.99 Produced by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, The Jesus & Mary Chain) at Castle Of Doom Studios in Glasgow, Arise is a dense, hypnotic, and fiercely rhythmic record that layers trip-hop breaks, deep low-end and dub textures into "a visceral wake-up call to rise above the bullshit and reclaim meaning from the madness	Congratulations - Join Hands CD - £11.99 Coloured LP - £25.99 Through its laser- focused 10- track runtime, the record treats rock music with irreverence and complete non- seriousness. Combining works in progress from the band's primary songwriters bassist Greg Burns and guitarist Jamie Chellar, with some scraps dating back several years prior to the band's inception, all members of congratulations have combined to to hone and flesh out these songs with vigourous performances and arrangements brimming with ideas and colour.	Cardinals - Masquerade LP - £20.99 CD - £10.99 Indies Exclusive LP - £22.99 Cork's acclaimed Cardinals much-anticipated debut album 'Masquerade'. Relesed on So Young Records, the ten song album was recorded with producer Shrink at RAK Studios, London across the summer. It's a record that is at once grand and intimate, awash with romance and flickers of holy imagery, and most of all, it's an undeniable fulfilment of the innate promise the band have shown since their earliest beginnings.	Earth Tongue - Dungeon Vision LP - £25.99 CD - £12.99 Indies Exclusive LP - £25.99 Guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons spent the Berlin winter of 2025 refining the album’s twelve tracks in their self-described “windowless cave” rehearsal space, crafting a record that channels both isolation and the duo’s live intensity. With the songs finally taking shape and a studio deadline looming, they flew to Los Angeles to turn their hard-won ideas into the real thing. Once there, the band and Ty captured lightning in a bottle, recording and mixing 'Dungeon Vision' in just ten days at Altamira Sound.

Jorja Smith - Blue Lights (10 Years On) Coloured 12" EP - £19.99 To celebrate the 10-year milestone of her breakthrough track 'Blue Lights', Jorja Smith will release a special 12” vinyl edition entitled 'Blue Lights (10 Years On)'. This anniversary release brings fans a curated collection of versions that highlight the enduring impact of 'Blue Lights'. Alongside the original track, the vinyl will feature the Instrumental, the intimate NPR Session, and the atmospheric Machiavelli Sessions renditions.	The Thief Of Time - We Are Cosmic Ltd 12" - £15.99 Matt says: Manchester's no.1 synth-wave stars The Thief Of Time return with a fully loaded roster. With Lady Lady and Mike Grubert now fully enlisted, Chris Massey's project has found a natural purple patch following sold out performances at Factory International. This new EP is a great snapshot of the band at the zenith of their powers.	Another Taste - Into The Night Ltd 12" - £16.99 Matt says: Boosted maxi-single, taken from the forthcoming album, gifted the 12" treatment with dub, acapella and alternative versions. As expected, it's all killer, as the contemporary disco legends march forth and conquer all.	Daniel Wang - Aphroasia Technubian Ltd 12" - £16.99 Matt says: Daniel Wang's an honorary Mancunian doncha know!? From breath-taking appearances at Naïve Melody and Electric Chair, not to mention THAT interview at La Discotheque when he referred to Andi Hanley as 'the chicken' (!!). These early joints from the Balihu catalogue are house music gold dust. Don't miss this limited repress.	The Morning Kids - In A Golden Haze 12" - £16.99 Matt says: More from Balihu's early catalogue sees this oft-overlooked masterpiece from Wang repressed again for the next generation of house music lovers to marvel at.

Mermaid Chunky - Remixes 12" - £14.99 After a banner year playing shows with LCD Soundsystem in the US and a string of wigged-out festivals through the UK and Europe, Mermaid Chunky close things out with a proper double A-side remix 12” for DJs who still believe in records. Up first, New York legend Justin Strauss and W. Andrew Raposo of Midnight Magic drag 'céilí' indoors, trading barefoot fields for Big Apple sweatboxes, major chords ringing, everyone slightly feral. Flip it and there’s Peach’s version of 'chaperone', a burst of rhythm that turns the original’s messy euphoria into house music manna: cold machinery, warm hearts, no sleep	Mr. Thelonious - Don't It Drive You Crazy 7" - £12.99 A no-nonsense 7" from Galaxy Sound Co that strips classic disco-funk down to its most useful parts. The A-side edit of locks onto the Pointer Sisters' rolling rhythm section, tightening the drums into a punchy tool primed for blends and quick drops. On the flip, Gene Chandler's 'In My Body's House' is reduced to its skeletal break, sitting comfortably across disco, boogie and hip hop-adjacent territory. A second, even leaner Pointer Sisters edit follows and is aimed squarely at loops, intros and sampling.	Jackie Mittoo - Get Up And Get It / Keep On Dancing Ltd 7" - £12.99 Jackie Mittoo makes it clear why he’s the funkiest reggae musician ever. ‘Get Up And Get It’ is simply one of the toughest reggae / funk tunes ever committed to vinyl. Similarly, ‘Keep On Dancing’ shows why Jackie Mittoo was the ‘Keyboard King’ at Studio One.	Osman.fcy, Belia Winnewisse - Vertex Ltd 12" - £12.99 Matt says: Perfectly formed, future-facing dream-pop on the resurrected cult label. Massive YES!	Ryota OPP - Bop EP Ltd 12" - £13.99 Matt says: Another thoughtful and sublime take on electronica from this Japanese modernist which possesses a strong Reichian element, paired nicely with the producer's delicate touch.

Alistair Colling Vs. Tortured Soul Featuring Sabina - When You Find Your Love…Hold On 25th Anniversary Mixes 12" - £15.99 Millie says: Reissue of this deep house drenched in soulful, now with remixes from Razor-N-Tape crew, this is a mega rendition of When You Find Your Love! Not to be missed.	Dam Swindle - Backyard Galaxy EP Ltd 12" - £15.99 Matt says: It's Dam Swindle on their own label? You know what that means? Bona fide fist pumpers, tops off energy and fun by the bucket load. But don't let that detract from the production chops on show here - the pair have still got studio style in abundance; rolling out the terrace ticklers till your mid-paced canter builds into full grand national mode! Giddyeup!	DJ Esprit - Esprit A / Esprit B 12" - £15.99 Matt says: Cheeky little double header from an anonymous source dropping two slices of radiant deep house sensuality. If ya liked Ross From Friends, Barry Can't Swim and DJ Seinfeld this may well be up your strasse!	Kavari - Plague Music EP Ltd 12" - £17.99 Matt says: A thoroughly unnerving and abrasive listen here from Kavari who channels abstract noise, foundation shaking bass and evil spoken word snippets into a destructive and highly noxious creation that'll scare the pants off your grand parents. The sound clips don't do it justice (mainly cos our humble desktop PC soundcard can't handle the pressure!). Caution advised!	Kerri Chandler - Downtown EP Pt.2 12" - £16.99 Millie says: The second install of Kerri Chandlers' Downtown is a key to reliving the original sound that took house music lovers hearts all that time ago. Always soulful, always on point.

Kanyon / DJ John Brooklyn - Duplex EP 12" - £16.99 Matt says: Block party techno flavoured cuts that packs bare punch. Have 'em pogo'ing for a good thirty mins+ with the five tracks here that's got that New York spirit running wild.	D.Howard - Intergrate EP 12" - £13.99 Matt says: Super strong electro / techno EP that brings to mind RX-101, John Shima, B12, Carl Craig etc. Worth checking.	Chris Doria - MP07 Ltd 12" - £20.99 Matt says: A new one on me, and given my absolute love of this period of techno; imagine my demonic glee at hearing these tribal techno rollers for the first time. AAA grade tackle - do not sleep techno heads!!	Ron Carroll / Stacy Kidd / Eric Kupper / Marc Cotterell - Category 1 Music Sampler - Vol. 4 12" - £13.99 Millie says: More deep house music for you lucky lot, Category 1 Music Sampler drop another 4 delicious tracks, these are some feel good naughty numbers you'd want to hear out!	DJ Minx - Energy Feat. Kendra Foster 12" - £12.99 Matt says: Tasty 12" that delivers a peakin' 3AM ripper and a post-peak 4AM face melter. Versatile club disc for when that baggage allowance really counts.

Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie - KVK1200 Ltd 12" - £17.99 Matt says: The mighty Swedish house duo return! All rejoice! Back with more of their iconic, patient deep house formula. Smouldering with their own unique identity, after-party badness that's have you spinning in circles.	Body Edits - Vol 2 12" - £13.99 Millie says: More body edits!! From the label shrouded in mystery, these four tracks ranging from a huge spectrum of genres but all encompassing the funkkk! Something for the whole family here.	Various Artists - 15 Years Of Butter Sessions - Disc One 12" - £15.99 A new chapter in Butter Sessions' ongoing Japanese exchange sees Sapporo sound sculptor Kuniyukire-opening a 2015 tour collaboration with label heads Sleep D- a deep, spatial beatdown powered by dub pressure and percussive hypnosis.	Various Artists - 15 Years Of Butter Sessions - Disc Two 12" - £15.99 Disc Two lifts off with recurring contributor Rory McPike's first label outing as Rings Around Saturn, a blissed-out cosmic floater skimming the periphery.	Various Artists - 15 Years Of Butter Sessions - Disc Three 12" - £15.99 Disc Three entrant RBI serves up a tweaked-out psy-not-psy cut with a built-in spin-back upending the room, before Unsolicited Joints- siblings Cousin and Ben Fester- slide in with a deep dub techno shuffler.

Various Artists - Il Bosco Presents: New Wave Bangers From The Italo Discotheque 2xLP - £28.99 Matt says: Red Laser head honcho Il Bosco delves into the new wave section of his enviable record collection. Treating us to 8 hardly-heard-before hits from a halcyon period of the genre. One of the best RL comps to date; just don't mention the artwork!	Jeff Buckley - The Complete Live At Sin-é - Expanded Edition 4xLP - £65.99 2xCD - £14.99 Barry says: A lovely expanded version of Buckley's spellbinding Sin-e performance, huge vocals and unbelievable range. The full Buckley experience. Seriously, this remains a legendary performance for good reason.	Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold - 2026 Remaster LP - £27.99 2xDeluxe CD - £15.99 Bat For Lashes’ mesmerising debut 'Fur and Gold' returns in 2026, newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios. First released in 2006, the album introduced Natasha Khan’s visionary blend of myth, emotion and cinematic pop, earning widespread acclaim	Various Artists - 15 Years Of Leng Records (2010-2025) 2xLP - £37.99 Matt says: Sure to get your wiggling round the living room quicker than you can say 'I took a selfie with Harvey'. Leng celebrate 15 years in the game with a bonza bumper pack of new disco Balearic boogaloo.	The Byrds - Greatest Hits - 2026 Reissue LP - £21.99 The Byrds' "Greatest Hits" is the first greatest hits album by the American band and was released in August 1967. It is the top-selling album in The Byrds' catalogue as it provides a summary of their history during Gene Clark and David Crosby's tenure with the band and also functions as a survey of the group's hit singles from 1965 to 1967.

Banda Black Rio - Saci Pererê - 2026 Reissue Coloured LP - £26.99 Saci Pererê is an album by Banda Black Rio, a Brazilian music group from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 1976. The group pioneered the soul-funk movement in Brazil led by renowned saxophonist Oberdan Magalhães and is known for its danceable blend of samba, jazz, and Brazilian rhythms.	Tangerine Dream - 50 Years Of Phaedra : At The Barbican 3xLP - £47.99 2xCD - £13.99 What began as an experimental session at Richard Branson's Manor Studios in Oxfordshire became a seismic event in modern sound. Using the Moog sequencer for the first time, Tangerine Dream - then comprised of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke & Peter Baumann - crafted 'Phaedra', an album that shimmered with innovation, mystery & a palpable sense of discovery.	Nina Simone - Sings The Blues - 2026 Reissue LP - £21.99 "Nina Simone Sings The Blues" from 1967 can rightfully be called a true classic in both Soul and Blues genres. The album is a showcase for the intensity of Nina’s soulful croon and demanding piano skills, accompanied by a marvelous backing band.	NoMeansNo - Sex Mad - 2026 Reissue LP - £26.99 Indies Exclusive LP - £28.99 In the annals of punk, few albums hit with the seismic force of NOMEANSNO’s 'Sex Mad'. Released in 1986, this was more than a record, it was a detonation. Amid the Cold War and the Reagan era’s cultural tension, 'Sex Mad' erupted as a raw, furious, and utterly fearless statement that redefined what punk could be.	Comet Gain - City Fallen Leaves - 2026 Reissue LP - £27.99 CD - £16.99 Comet Gain are all things post-punk, DIY, Indie POP, international pop underground, lo fi, garagebeat and folk & rock. Boy/Girl vocals, scratchy guitars, sweet noise and rough melodies, enthusiasm and pain. It's all right here. Put it on, turn it up and feel alive again.

Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical - Galaxia Tropical LP - £27.99 Five years after the first volume, Analog Africa returns with a second compilation highlighting Ranil y Su Conjunto Tropical, one of the greatest practitioners of Peruvian Cumbia Amazonica - 'Galaxia Tropical' features 14 songs with a guitar groove you won't forget	The Highwaymen - Highwayman - 2026 Reissue LP - £21.99 The Highwaymen were a country music super-group composed of four of the biggest outlaw country artists: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. The band was active as a group between 1985 and 1995 and "Highwayman" was their debut album.	Velocity Girl - ¡Simpatico! (Remastered And Expanded) CD - £11.99 2xColoured LP - £26.99 '¡Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)' gives Velocity Girl’s long out-of-print 1994 sophomore album, '¡Simpatico!', an overdue refresh with a sparkling-fresh mastering job and a treasure trove of bonus tracks from the '¡Simpatico!' era. The original album sounds better than ever, and it’s complemented by a full album of B-sides and rarities.	Should - Feed Like Fishes - 2026 Reissue CD - £11.99 2xColoured LP - £35.99 You like your lo-fi dreamgaze like you like your men: born in the ’90s and shacked up with their college girlfriend in a suburban bedroom. Compiled here for the first time is Should’s 1998 debut 'Feed Like Fishes' plus 10 period bonus tracks, on vinyl for the first time ever.	Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan - 2026 Repress 2xLP - £32.99 'Windswept Adan', Aoba’s seventh studio album, was originally released in 2020. Marking a significant departure from her earlier, more solitary works, Aoba collaborated with composer Taro Umebayashi to craft a mesmerising and richly imaginative concept album that moves fluidly between ambient psych-folk, chamber classical, and jazz-inflected composition.

Here's this week's 'staff picked' selection of forthcoming releases including oodles of limited editions, indie shops exclusives and coloured vinyl!!

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Various Artists - HELP(2) 2xLP - £31.99 Due: 6th Mar 2xCD - £15.99 Due: 6th Mar Under the stewardship of acclaimed producer James Ford, 'HELP(2)' features an incredible line-up of contributors including Anna Calvi, Arctic Monkeys, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C., Graham Coxon, Greentea Peng, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg and Young Fathers…	Courtney Barnett - Creature Of Habit LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £12.99 Due: 27th Mar Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 27th Mar Creature of Habit, Courtney Barnett’s fourth studio album, marks a decisive new chapter in her musical evolution. It’s a bold, emotionally resonant record that explores the central question: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life. Written in the wake of a relocation from Australia to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running label Milk! Records, Barnett was grappling with changes that put the future of both her life and career in question. Rather than internalizing those feelings, she decided to bring all this swirling confusion directly into the recording process.	Kim Gordon - PLAY ME LP - £22.99 Due: 13th Mar CD - £10.99 Due: 13th Mar Coloured LP - £23.99 Due: 13th Mar 'PLAY ME' is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says of her continued collaboration with LA producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor). “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident. I always kind of work off of rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beat-oriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics and he understands how I work—that came forth even more on this record.”	Various Artists - Luke Una Presents É Soul Cultura Volume 3 2xLP - £25.99 Due: 20th Mar CD - £11.99 Due: 20th Mar 2xIndies Exclusive LP - £25.99 Due: 20th Mar 2xPiccadilly Exclusive LP - £25.99 Due: 20th Mar With two deeply cherished compilations already in the bag, Luke Una steps up for the third volume in his É Soul Cultura series on Mr Bongo. A love letter to the dancefloor and its power to unite people from all corners of society amid growing division and extremist politics. Once again there's a limited edition Piccadilly Records exclusive and to celebrate the launch Luke will be DJing in the shop on Saturday 21st March!	The Charlatans - Some Friendly - 35th Anniversary Edition 2xCD - £12.99 Due: 27th Mar 2xColoured LP - £34.99 Due: 27th Mar This expanded edition of 'Some Friendly' celebrates their landmark 1990 debut album. The 20 songs on this release include the original album plus a selection of bonus tracks curated especially for this release by Tim Burgess. The album has been newly remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road and will be pressed on double white vinyl with a printed inner gatefold sleeve.

James Blake - Trying Times 2xLP - £29.99 Due: 13th Mar CD - £12.99 Due: 13th Mar 2xColoured LP - £32.99 Due: 13th Mar 2xDinked Edition LP - £38.99 Due: 13th Mar 'Trying Times' is James Blake’s seventh studio album and features British rapper Dave, and singer-songwriter Monica Martin. Written between Los Angeles and London, it’s a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. He explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious.	Ladylike - It's A Pleasure Of Mine, To Know You're Fine - Early Doors Dinked Edition Dinked Edition LP - £19.99 Due: 24th Apr Brighton quartet ladylike sign to cult label Heist or Hit (Her’s, Westside Cowboy) and announce their debut EP 'It’s A Pleasure Of Mine, to Know You’re Fine'. The EP delicately treads the tightrope between folk and post-rock - evidence of the particular kind of quiet the four-piece inhabit: Natural, controlled, and brimming with a subtle euphoria, it speaks to renewal, growth and repair.	The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish - 35th Anniversary Edition LP - £26.99 Due: 29th May Coloured LP - £26.99 Due: 29th May The Smashing Pumpkins’ spiritual debut and one of the best rock albums of the 1990s. Featuring the singles 'Siva', 'I Am One' and 'Rhinoceros', on 180-gram vinyl, with original 1991 packaging in celebration of its 35th anniversary.	Gorillaz - The Mountain 2xLP - £25.99 Due: 27th Feb CD - £11.99 Due: 27th Feb 2xIndies Exclusive LP - £29.99 Due: 27th Feb 2xDeluxe CD - £19.99 Due: 27th Feb 'The Mountain' is Gorillaz 9th studio album. The album is a collection of 15 new tracks featuring artists and collaborators including: Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, Idles, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, Paul Simonon, Sparks, Trueno and Yasiin Bey; as well as the voices of Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Dennis Hopper, Mark E. Smith, Proof and Tony Allen.	House Of All - Inklings LP - £20.99 Due: 20th Mar CD - £12.99 Due: 20th Mar Four albums in, the HOUSE Of ALL is getting ambitious, with each album a subtle improvement on the last, forging a path away from their pasts without denying a thing. Inklings differs from the first three for not having being largely improvised at first, with sounds, rhythm, groove and melody later forged into songs. They rehearsed! They had fun doing it! They’re going on an extended tour! There were even extra tracks!

Deathcrash - Somersaults LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Feb CD - £10.99 Due: 27th Feb Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 27th Feb deathcrash’s third album, Somersaults, glimmers with an everyday euphoria. The London-based slowcore/ post-rock quartet has always had an affinity for building worlds only to crush them. Its ten tracks are more vocal heavy than any of the band’s catalogue – think Mark Linkous via The Kinks – but lyrically, Somersaults resists revelation.	Fcukers - Ö LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £10.99 Due: 27th Mar Indies Exclusive LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar Signed Indies Exclusive LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar Fcukers’ debut album Ö finds the band in full-throttle mode, encapsulating the unruly, kinetic energy that has earned them status as party starters. Sharp, muscular and oozing with the kind of peak-time party energy that the duo have honed throughout their short existence, Ö demonstrates a band firmly in command of their sound, working at the top of their game, and ready to set the pace for 2026.	Jesca Hoop - Long Wave Home CD - £10.99 Due: 1st May Coloured LP - £24.99 Due: 1st May Signed Coloured LP - £25.99 Due: 1st May Staying true to her folk roots, though never purely, Jesca Hoop delivers strikingly original songwriting showcasing her innovative vocals augmented by imaginative arrangements. 'Long Wave Home' is energized and rings with the promise of a fresh new chapter for the artist.	KNEECAP - FENIAN LP - £16.99 Due: 24th Apr CD - £10.99 Due: 24th Apr Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 24th Apr KNEECAP return to bend genre, language, and rules. The most talked about artists in the world are turning the page. A new chapter, new sounds, new manifestos. A blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void with illuminated revery. This is 'FENIAN'.	Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Feb CD - £11.99 Due: 27th Feb Cassette - £11.99 Due: 27th Feb Indies Exclusive LP - £23.99 Due: 27th Feb Selected Indies Exclusive LP - £25.99 Due: 27th Feb 'Nothing’s About to Happen to Me' is the eighth studio album by Mitski. All songs and vocals are by Mitski. Continuing the musical through line established with 'The Land Is Inhospitable' and 'So Are We', the album features live instrumentation by The Land touring band and ensemble arrangements.

The Sophs - GOLDSTAR LP - £22.99 Due: 13th Mar CD - £10.99 Due: 13th Mar Coloured LP - £23.99 Due: 13th Mar Los Angeles six-piece The Sophs have ridden a wave of notoriety ever since signing to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their demos - which they cold-emailed to labelheads Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee before they ever even played a show. Following last year’s releases of stand-alone singles ‘I’M YOUR FIEND’, ‘SWEAT’, and ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’ and worldwide touring, the band are ready to unleash their debut album GOLDSTAR, out March 13, 2026.	The Reds, Pinks And Purples - Acknowledge Kindness CD - £12.99 Due: 24th Apr Indies Exclusive LP - £22.99 Due: 24th Apr Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 24th Apr 'Acknowledge Kindness' expands The Reds, Pinks And Purples’ distinctive brand of emotional pop, music built for the quiet hours and the restless mind. Evolving naturally from the heavier, melancholic indie rock of previous releases, the mood here feels more exposed and reflective, blossoming into lush dreamscapes that recall the bittersweet sorrow of The Cure or the tenderly gloomy transcendence of California by American Music Club.	PUNCHBAG - I Am Obsessed And I Am Not Your Punchbag - Dinked Early Doors Edition Dinked Edition LP - £19.99 Due: 10th Apr South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) pair their new EP 'I Am Obsessed' with their debut EP 'I'm Not Your Punchbag' in one combined record, marking their first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors Edition.	DJ Absolutely Shit - Synthetic Stupidity 3xLtd LP - £26.99 Due: 20th Feb 'Synthetic Stupidity' is a more expansive, deeper and unhurried project from DJ Absolutely Shit; allowing Bosco and Metrodome the space and time to truly deliver the zenith of their sound on their Red Laser stable.	Various Artists - Late Night Tales: Barry Can't Swim 2xLP - £24.99 Due: 6th Mar CD - £11.99 Due: 6th Mar 2xColoured LP - £26.99 Due: 6th Mar Barry’s 'Late Night Tales' mix brings together disparate styles and forms them into a coherent narrative. The powerful house tracks, like Lance DeSardi’s ‘Power of Suggestion’ and Daniel Avery’s remix of Factory Floor, intertwine with the abstract grooves of Freddie Da Stupid or Ronald Langestraat’s leftfield reading of Boz Scaggs’ ’70s smash ‘Lowdown’. There are exclusive tracks from Barry Can’t Swim himself (in the form of new single ‘Chala’ and an exclusive edit of Superpitcher’s ‘Yves’) and from friends and contemporaries, like Ninja Tune labelmate O’Flynn.

Jessie Ware - Superbloom LP - £30.99 Due: 10th Apr CD - £12.99 Due: 10th Apr Coloured LP - £30.99 Due: 10th Apr Jessie Ware returns with her new album ‘Superbloom’ – the crescendo of her latest era – out via Island EMI Records. Superbloom’ erupts into a glittering rush of Studio 54-inflected groove-pop. Expanding Ware’s increasingly euphoric body of work as she explores our shared craving for touch, pleasure, intimacy and connection.	Tom Misch - Full Circle LP - £25.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £11.99 Due: 27th Mar Indies Exclusive LP - £29.99 Due: 27th Mar Tom Misch’s long-awaited sophomore album 'Full Circle' finds the London-based artist, songwriter, and producer at his most personal and honest. Exploring the moments that have shaped him over the last eight years: family, friendships, nature, and celebrates the work of finding his way back to himself. Made during his time spent between London, Suffolk, Portugal, and Nashville with a focus on classic songwriting, honing a collection of eleven timeless songs including the previously released singles ‘Old Man’ and ‘Red Moon’.	Metric - Romanticize The Dive LP - £20.99 Due: 24th Apr CD - £11.99 Due: 24th Apr Indies Exclusive LP - £20.99 Due: 24th Apr Metric’s relentless pursuit of timeless songwriting and fiercely independent ethos have cemented their place as one of the most essential and ahead-of-the-curve bands of the last two decades. The trailblazing Toronto outfit was founded by songwriting and production partners Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, along with bandmates Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott Key.	Thrillhouse - Smile CD - £10.99 Due: 3rd Apr Coloured LP - £21.99 Due: 3rd Apr Thrillhouse have previously earned support from BBC Introducing, Radio X and KEXP along with comparisons to The National and Arcade Fire. Yet leaning into a more intimate sound charged with pure emotion has introduced them to a new audience, with the recent track ‘Wanna See You Smile’ amassing 25 million views across Instagram. Now the Brighton (UK) duo are poised to capitalise upon that interest when they release their second album, ‘Smile’.	TVAM - Ruins Coloured LP - £24.99 Due: 27th Feb We're excited about the return of TVAM, with 'Ruins': an album shaped by grief, reflection, and transformation; a record that captures both the weight of loss and the strange beauty that comes with it. Written after a self-imposed break from songwriting, it represents a shift in focus and perspective for Joseph Oxley. “I wanted to step away from what I thought I was supposed to make,” he explains. “The worst advice anyone can give you is, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ It’s always broken. It always needs fixing.”

RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. CD - £11.99 Due: 27th Mar 2xColoured LP - £29.99 Due: 27th Mar Four-time GRAMMY Award-nominated global superstar RAYE, is releasing her highly anticipated sophomore album 'THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE'. The album, set in 4 “seasons” with each side of the vinyl being a different season, takes listeners on a sonic journey that begins with darkness and ends with light.	White Denim - 13 CD - £10.99 Due: 24th Apr Coloured LP - £25.99 Due: 24th Apr Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 24th Apr ‘13’ is an incandescent, groove-heavy alchemy of rock, funk, dub, soul and down-dirty blues – and plenty more besides – it’s imbued with the same questing spirit that’s been the band’s trademark since first starting in Austin, Texas, some 20 years ago. The sounds and textures of ‘13’ are informed by everyone from Scritti Politti to The Gap Band, Terry Reid to King Tubby, Caetano Veloso to John Cale, Stevie Wonder to ‘80s-era Steve Winwood.	Danny Brown - Stardust CD - £12.99 Due: 20th Feb 2xColoured LP - £30.99 Due: 20th Feb 'Stardust' is Danny Brown at his most free – stepping outside the frame to make something raw, melodic, and a little unhinged. The production comes from a crazy cast of outsiders including Frost Children, Underscores, Femtanyl and more. Pulling from experimental pop and underground electronics the final product is messy, emotional, and held together with a strange kind of clarity.	Jim Noir - Programmes For Cools Ltd LP - £22.99 Due: 20th Feb Piccadilly favourite Jim Noir returns with 'Programmes for Cools' which draws from the best cuts from the 18 Patreon only EP's, he's released over the past few months, bookended with instrumental intermissions which evoke Noir's excursions into computer game music (Little Big Planet), with an orchestrated focus, as if scored by John Barry with Mort Garson waving the conductor's baton at a vintage synth ensemble.	Sault - Chapter 1 LP - £26.99 Due: 24th Apr CD - £15.99 Due: 24th Apr Sault return and in fine form with 'chapter 1' - their 13th album. The elusive collective led by producer inflo unleash another masterpiece that features contributions from r&b singer cleo sol, singer-songwriter jack peñate, and legendary hitmakers jimmy jam and terry lewis.

Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire LP - £22.99 Due: 3rd Apr CD - £11.99 Due: 3rd Apr Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 3rd Apr Ambiguous Desire is Parks at her most confident and experimental, supplanting live band sessions for modular synths, ableton plugins and samplers that channel the frenetic, vibrant spaces she was immersed in, all while spotlighting the acclaimed poetry and lyricism she’s beloved for.	Sunn O))) - Sunn O))) CD - £11.99 Due: 3rd Apr Coloured LP - £30.99 Due: 3rd Apr For nearly 30 years, SUNN O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson – have pushed the boundaries of heavy music, straddling the worlds of the avant-garde and rock to forge a style instantly recognisable as their own. Now, SUNN O))) return with their first album of new material since 2019’s acclaimed Pyroclasts. Their tenth album – their debut for Sub Pop – demonstrates the duo’s mastery of time and space, light and dark, and their willingness to evolve their unmistakable sound into bold new forms.	José González - Against The Dying Of Light LP - £27.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £12.99 Due: 27th Mar Coloured LP - £28.99 Due: 27th Mar Signed Coloured LP - £28.99 Due: 27th Mar José González has delivered a new album, Against the Dying of the Light, a companion and further meditation on the themes of his critically acclaimed album, Local Valley. Where Local Valley turned inward toward place, language, and personal reflection, this new record widens its gaze, becoming an urgent call to preserve the light of humanity with all its flaws, at a moment when, technology increasingly shapes how we think, feel, and relate to one another.	Pictish Trail - Life Slime CD - £12.99 Due: 10th Apr Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 10th Apr Life Slime is the sixth full-length album by Pictish Trail (AKA Johnny Lynch) — a strange, tender, psychedelic electro-pop record shaped by transformation, exhaustion, hope, guilt, and renewal. Written at home on the Isle of Eigg and recorded at Mike Lindsay’s studio down in Margate (Tunng / LUMP), the album follows 2022’s critically acclaimed Island Family, further refining Lynch’s world of lo-fi electronics, warped pop melodies, baggy psych rhythms and emotionally direct songwriting.	Morrissey - Make-Up Is A Lie CD - £12.99 Due: 6th Mar Indies Exclusive LP - £31.99 Due: 6th Mar Coloured LP - £31.99 Due: 6th Mar The legendary singer/songwriter Morrissey returns with his much anticipated 14th solo album, his first in over 5 years. The album also marks his return to Sire Records, the home of the early Morrissey solo albums, and of course, The Smiths catalog.

Overpass - Elsewhere, Always CD - £10.99 Due: 5th Jun Coloured LP - £20.99 Due: 5th Jun Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 5th Jun Hotly anticipated debut album from the fast-rising Birmingham four-piece whose heart-on-sleeve, emotional indie rock and powerful live shows have earned them a devoted young following across the UK and Europe.	Slag - Losing Coloured LP - £21.99 Due: 6th Mar Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 6th Mar SLAG joined hands on the Brighton seafront in September 2023 and brought their music to the people 2 months later. The music they make is a glorious Frankenstein of influences that looks a little bit like prog rock in the right lighting. When they perform it’s like watching the Winx Club reach their full potential through the irrefutable power of friendship.	Chalk - Crystalpunk CD - £11.99 Due: 13th Mar Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 13th Mar Dinked Edition LP - £24.99 Due: 13th Mar Irish duo Chalk’s full-length debut LP, Crystalpunk, speaks directly to the upbringing and roots of the band members—award-winning musicians and filmmakers Ross Cullen [vocalist + producer] and Benedict Goddard [multi-instrumentalist + director]. The beauty, confusion, complexity, and intensity of their youth – lived under the shadow and around the scars of conflict – are entangled in the industrial dance-punk hybrid encoded in the record’s DNA, aptly entitled Crystalpunk.	Pigeon - Outtanational LP - £22.99 Due: 1st May CD - £10.99 Due: 1st May Coloured LP - £23.99 Due: 1st May Dinked Edition LP - £29.99 Due: 1st May Cosmic exploration. Spiritual transformation. Unbridled spontaneity. These are the guiding principles of Pigeon, a psychedelic five-piece rooted in the English seaside town of Margate, yet making music that transcends borders. Pigeon are Falle Nioke (vocals, percussion), Graham Godfrey (drums), Josh Ludow (bass), Steve Pringle (keys, synths) and Tom Dream (guitar), musicians whose combined credits include Little Simz, Michael Kiwanuka, SAULT and Saul Williams.	Wing! - MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE Dinked Edition LP - £19.99 Due: 27th Feb wing!’s debut EP MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE is a ghostly instrumental hip hop project shaped by instinct, collaboration, and the constraints of a work lunch break - combining sample-based beat-making with live instrumentation. Emerging from a period of creative exploration and personal transformation, MISSED IT JUST THE ONCE marks a pivotal moment for wing!, the moniker of Bexleyheath born-and-raised producer Adam Swan.

Deary - Birding CD - £11.99 Due: 3rd Apr Coloured LP - £25.99 Due: 3rd Apr With 'Birding', deary have purposely evolved their sound, opting for starker lyrics and heavier instrumentation than on their previous releases. A perfect example of this is 'Smile', the album's opener: amid buzzsaw guitars and airy windchimes, Dottie sings of the announcement of a national epidemic of violence against women. It's a haunting track, and the first time the band have tackled such an intense subject matter.	Robyn - Sexistential LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £10.99 Due: 27th Mar Cassette - £10.99 Due: 27th Mar Indies Exclusive LP - £23.99 Due: 27th Mar 'Sexistential' is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s 'Honey', the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining 'Body Talk' trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing”, she says. “That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”	The Twilight Sad - It's The Long Goodbye LP - £23.99 Due: 27th Mar CD - £10.99 Due: 27th Mar Coloured LP - £25.99 Due: 27th Mar Signed Coloured LP - £25.99 Due: 27th Mar Beloved Scottish band The Twilight Sad make their long-awaited return with 'IT’S THE LONG GOODBYE', their sixth studio album released via Rock Action Records. 'IT’S THE LONG GOODBYE' is a cogent story of loss and personal crisis, rooted in specific experience. Set to urgent and guitar-rich arrangements from Andy MacFarlane, with James Graham’s distinct, raw and impassioned vocals, the result is a pinnacle for THE TWILIGHT SAD in a career of tremendous integrity and artistry, and a record that honours the band’s ability to turn lived experience into fully felt music.	DEADLETTER - Existence Is Bliss CD - £16.99 Due: 27th Feb Coloured LP - £33.99 Due: 27th Feb Signed Coloured LP - £33.99 Due: 27th Feb 'Existence is Bliss' is the sophomore album from London-based post-punk six-piece Deadletter. This album follows their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, 'Hysterical Strength'.	Ora Cogan - Hard Hearted Woman CD - £10.99 Due: 13th Mar Coloured LP - £21.99 Due: 13th Mar 'Hard Hearted Woman' is Ora Cogan’s debut on Sacred Bones, blending haunted folk, psych rock, and shadowy country into an intimate, cathartic sound. Written in Nanaimo, B.C., and recorded with collaborators from country and experimental scenes, the album reflects resilience and tenderness amid a hardening world. Inspired by nature, community, and late-night reflections, it explores themes of survival, mystery, and connection.

Shabaka - Of The Earth LP - £26.99 Due: 6th Mar CD - £12.99 Due: 6th Mar Coloured LP - £27.99 Due: 6th Mar 'Of The Earth' sees Shabaka return to his signature saxophone sound, alongside accomplished electronics and production, as well as traditional woodwind and percussion instruments from around the world, a combination indicative of Hutchings’ diverse talents and the overall sound on 'Of The Earth'.	Bonnie Prince Billy - We Are Together Again LP - £22.99 Due: 6th Mar CD - £11.99 Due: 6th Mar Coloured LP - £23.99 Due: 6th Mar However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. Will Oldham’s new album, 'We Are Together Again', feels like an answer. In Oldham’s songs - and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy - friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence.	Andrew Wasylyk - Irreparable Parables CD - £12.99 Due: 6th Mar Coloured LP - £26.99 Due: 6th Mar Dinked Edition LP - £29.99 Due: 6th Mar For his new album, Irreparable Parables, Andrew Wasylyk felt a strong desire to write a set of songs featuring an element hitherto rare in his work: the human voice. Equally strong was the conviction that he did not want to sing them himself. The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer set about assembling a group of guest singers, sending out the songs to wherever they were in the world. The vocals were recorded remotely and then, like migrating birds, winged their way back to Scotland. The result is an album of great beauty which, perhaps preeminently in Wasylyk’s work, expresses the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit.	Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth CD - £11.99 Due: 27th Feb Coloured LP - £22.99 Due: 27th Feb 'Hen’s Teeth' and his previous album, 'Light Verse', are siblings of a sort. They were recorded during the same sessions after a year-long dry spell, with the same band, at Waystation studio in Laurel Canyon. “When I’ve been on a writing kick, and the band can meet me where I’m at, they push me into something I hadn’t imagined. I’m at a point in my life where spontaneity is a lot more important to me. I don’t have as much to prove as I used to. I’m a lot freer and I love making music more than ever. There are no right or wrong answers. You just pray for your luck and try your best.”	Buck Meek - The Mirror CD - £10.99 Due: 27th Feb Coloured LP - £23.99 Due: 27th Feb As Pitchfork praises, Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting,” which is evident across 'The Mirror'. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. 'The Mirror' searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice.