American Football - American Football LP 4

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'The godfathers of Midwest emo return with a third full-length sin...

Released 1st May 2026 SK says: 'The godfathers of Midwest emo return with a third full-length since they reformed back in 2016. Having iterated and refined their trademark blend of cascading guitar arpeggios and dark lyrics burnished occasionally by vibraphones and trumpet across three albums in twenty-five years, LP4 sees them probe new ground with tasteful contributions from members of Turnstile and Rainer Maria. At times recalling the interlocking experimentation of fellow Chicagoans Torto...

Hiss Golden Messenger - I'm People

Released 1st May 2026 The brand-new album from Hiss Golden Messenger and the first release with C...

Released 1st May 2026 The brand-new album from Hiss Golden Messenger and the first release with Chrysalis Records. I'm People is a vivid, deeply human album born from a period of rupture, renewal, and vast American wandering. Written across Bolinas, the North Carolina Piedmont, and a Santa Fe motel room, the record traces the artist's search for clarity through landscapes both external and internal. These songs move through heartbreak, aging, fatherhood, desire, disillusionment, and the hard-...

Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere

Released 1st May 2026 Middle of Nowhere is the sixth studio album from eight-time Grammy Award wi...

Released 1st May 2026 Middle of Nowhere is the sixth studio album from eight-time Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves, and is made for two-stepping. The collection draws from a love of Texas dancehall classics, humorous takes on the human condition, and the space where traditional Country borders many sounds including Norteño and even Zydeco. Fresh yet familiar, and classically Kacey: honest, fearless, immersive, and always ready to wink at life’s twists and turns.

The Black Keys - Peaches!

Released 1st May 2026 The Black Keys Peaches! is the Akron duo’s fourteenth studio album (their s...

Released 1st May 2026 The Black Keys Peaches! is the Akron duo’s fourteenth studio album (their sixth since 2019), a visceral and raw 10-song collection described by singer Dan Auerbach as the band’s “most natural record” since their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up. In similar DIY spirit, the album was recorded with all musicians playing in the same room with few overdubs, and is the first record mixed entirely by the band themselves since 2006’s Magic Potion. The songs chosen reflect Auerbach an...

KNEECAP - FENIAN

Released 1st May 2026 KNEECAP return to bend genre, language, and rules. The most talked about ar...

Released 1st May 2026 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. Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest, Wet Leg), FENIAN upends expectations with an expansive sonic palate, traversing acid house, trip-hop, dubstep, and more - Masters of rave and rap the...

White Flowers - Dreams For Somebody Else

Released 1st May 2026 White Flowers, the long-running collaboration between Joey Cobb and Katie D...

Released 1st May 2026 White Flowers, the long-running collaboration between Joey Cobb and Katie Drew, exists within what they call “the realm” – a shared creative space, wherein time, rather than being a restrictive force, is fluid and boundless, and music exists as an endless conversation with their past and present selves. Adopting what the band describe as a “sketchbook” approach to writing, White Flowers is the product of a decade’s worth of recordings - snippets nestled away on hard driv...

Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL

Released 1st May 2026 Cosmic exploration. Spiritual transformation. Unbridled spontaneity. These ...

Released 1st May 2026 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. Their debut...

Tori Amos - In Times of Dragons

Released 1st May 2026 In Time of Dragons is the 18th album in Amos’ illustrious 36-year career, w...

Released 1st May 2026 In Time of Dragons is the 18th album in Amos’ illustrious 36-year career, which has celebrated over 12 million records sold, thousands of concerts, eight Grammy nominations, and numerous awards.  “In Times of Dragons is a metaphorical story about the fight for Democracy over Tyranny, reflecting the current abhorrent non accidental burning down of democracy in real time by the ‘Dictator believing Lizard Demons’ in their usurpation of America.” – TORI AMOS

Thundercat - Distracted

Released 3rd April 2026 SK says: "A kaleidoscopic meditation on relationships, grief and neurodiv...

Released 3rd April 2026 SK says: "A kaleidoscopic meditation on relationships, grief and neurodiversity, helmed by three exec producers who bring their own flavours and collaborators: hitmaker Greg Kurstin, Kenneth 'Kenny Beats' Blume (fresh from Geese's mega 'Getting Killed') and longtime mentor Flying Lotus. 'cat's acolytes DOMi and JD Beck join him on the jazz fusion workout "Candlelight", The Lemon Twigs lend Brian Wilson/Todd Rundgren power pop harmonies to a couple of songs, Tame Impala...

Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Written into Changes

Released 20th March 2026 Change, they say, is the only constant in life. Fittingly, multi‑hyphena...

Released 20th March 2026 Change, they say, is the only constant in life. Fittingly, multi‑hyphenate musician Avalon Emerson sounds at home harnessing the steady flux of her existence on Written into Changes, the memoiristic second album released under her Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker. A work of rigorous invention and revision, the album’s themes of personal and relationship evolution “came into clarity after they were all done,” according to Emerson. The making of Changes was, appro...

Voka Gentle - Domestic Bliss

Released 6th February 2026 Absolutely delighted to welcome back the brilliant Voka Gentle to the ...

Released 6th February 2026 Absolutely delighted to welcome back the brilliant Voka Gentle to the shop on Wednesday 4th March. The experimental trio made up of Marlborough's own William J Stokes and twins Imogen and Ellie Mason will be playing a short set from 6.30pm in-store to celebrate the release of their brand new album 'Domestic Bliss'. If you'd like to come along, you can RSVP to sales@sound-knowledge.co.uk or order a copy of the album from us below to guarantee your spot. Vintage recor...

Gorillaz - The Mountain

Released 27th February 2026 SK says: "A sprawling, technicolour meditation on mortality- particul...

Released 27th February 2026 SK says: "A sprawling, technicolour meditation on mortality- particularly the Eastern approach- with an impressive cast of guests including Indian musicians Anoushka Shankar, Ajay Prasanna and Asha Bhosle, Syrian great Omar Souleyman, rappers Black Thought and yasiin bey, bands Sparks and IDLES, and indie royalty in Johnny Marr and the late Mark E. Smith (one of a number of posthumous vocal appearances that appropriately grace the album, alongside Dennis Hopper, To...

Tyler Ballgame - For The First Time, Again

Released 30th January 2026 SK says: "An accomplished debut from the Los Angeles-based vocalist wh...

Released 30th January 2026 SK says: "An accomplished debut from the Los Angeles-based vocalist whose keening croon and throaty roar variously recalls Roy Orbison, John Lennon and Harry Nilsson. Lending the album further throwback heft is the presence of 70s-analogue-loving producer Jonathan Rado (Foxygen) making this a must for fans of The Lemon Twigs and Weyes Blood." Tyler Ballgame’s stunning debut, For the First Time, Again, is a bracing reminder of how great songs delivered by a gifted vo...

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer...

Released 17th October 2025 SK says: "TWIABP follow 2021's sprawling, proggy Illusory Walls with a...

Released 17th October 2025 SK says: "TWIABP follow 2021's sprawling, proggy Illusory Walls with a complete volte face- a streamlined, punishing metalcore album with screamed vocals courtesy of guests from the likes of Full Of Hell and END (even chief vocalist David Bello, one of the scene's mellower singers, has a noticeably angrier delivery!) Still full of the strong imagery and thoughtful political critique that has always elevated the Connecticut band's work but foregrounding guitarist Chr...

Baxter Dury - Allbarone

Released 12th September 2025 SK says: 'Beats courtesy of star producer Paul Epworth give Baxter D...

Released 12th September 2025 SK says: 'Beats courtesy of star producer Paul Epworth give Baxter Dury fresh impetus and as close to a pop album as the London wordsmith can muster. The album's title-track spins a tale of being stood up in a bleak chain pub, cleverly contracted into more salubrious sounding environs, especially cooed in the Estuary accent of frequent collaborator JGrrey. "Return of the Sharp Heads" boasts a nightmarishly woozy bassline that his old man's sparring partner Norman ...

The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie

Released 29th August 2025 SK says: 'Another corker from the peppy Kiwi indie quartet led by Liz S...

Released 29th August 2025 SK says: 'Another corker from the peppy Kiwi indie quartet led by Liz Stokes. 2022's Expert in a Dying Field pitched Stokes' witty, vulnerable songwriting against power pop guitar rhythms and irresistible vocal harmonies to stunning effect. Tackling similar themes here, there's a layer of subtle experimentation and a strong jangle influence that makes this one a different but just as sweet pleasure.' Written in Los Angeles and self- recorded in the band's hometown of...