Records of the Month

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

Released 8th September 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes is set to rel...

Released 8th September 2023 Multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes is set to release his highly anticipated debut solo studio album ‘Black Classical Music’, on the 8th September 2023. Available on Double 12” LP Vinyl with special limited edition white vinyl exclusive to indie stories, as well as digital and CD via Brownswood Recordings, Warner Music and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings.  ‘Black Classical Music’ is a 19-track record taking listeners through a looking glass into t...

Willie J Healey - Bunny

Released 25th August 2023 SK says: "Healey's previous record Twin Heavy won fans including Jamie ...

Released 25th August 2023 SK says: "Healey's previous record Twin Heavy won fans including Jamie T (who appears on the new album), IDLES frontman Joe Talbot and Alex Turner for its fresh take on 70s reference points from George Harrison to Neil Young to Elvis Costello. Bunny adds a dash of the breathy funk of Prince, the exuberant soul of Stevie Wonder and, on its slower numbers, hints of Gene Clark's No Other for a highly accomplished and downright fun throwback to a musical golden age." Is ...

Sam Burton - Dear Departed

Released 14th July 2023 SK says: 'Where Burton's Tompkins Square debut I Can Go With You had the ...

Released 14th July 2023 SK says: 'Where Burton's Tompkins Square debut I Can Go With You had the starkly beautiful quality of a lost Gene Clark record, Jonathan Wilson's lush production gives his sophomore record the epic sweep of Jimmy Webb's work with Glen Campbell.' 'Dear Departed’, the second album from Sam Burton, arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, Burton basically started over. There’s a freedom in leaving everything behind, and Burton embarked on a wandering phase. He...

Jenny Lewis - Joy'All

Released 9th June 2023 Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s cri...

Released 9th June 2023 Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed On The Line (Warner Records) finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era in a new town—and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic... and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting ...

The National - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein

Released 28th April 2023 Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, Fir...

Released 28th April 2023 Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, First Two Pages of Frankenstein signals a thrilling new chapter in the band’s beloved discography. The 11-song album was produced by The National at Long Pond Studios in upstate New York and features guest appearances by Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers and Sufjan Stevens. The follow-up to 2019’s top five hit album I Am Easy To Find, First Two Pages of Frankenstein was initially stalled while lead singe...

Everything But The Girl - Fuse

Released 21st April 2023 Everything But The Girl - aka EBTG - was formed in 1982 by singer-songwr...

Released 21st April 2023 Everything But The Girl - aka EBTG - was formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Their debut single was a stark jazz-folk cover of Cole Porter's Night and Day.Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn’s unique voice and Watt’s arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul. After Temperamental (1999), the duo chose to q...

Billie Marten - Drop Cherries

Released 7th April 2023 Billie Marten has announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release o...

Released 7th April 2023 Billie Marten has announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release on 7 April via Fiction Records. Recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales late last summer, Drop Cherries marks the very first time that Billie Marten has both written and co-produced (with Dom Monks) one of her records; following critically-lauded 2021 album Flora Fauna, Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019) and Writing of Blues and Yellows (2016). Flora Fauna was lavished with praise by the like...

boygenius - the record

Released 31st March 2023 The debut full-length from indie supergroup boygenius (Lucy Dacus, Julie...

Released 31st March 2023 The debut full-length from indie supergroup boygenius (Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers).