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Ultrasonic Grand Prix (Little Barrie & Shawn Le...

Released 19th January 2024 The story of Ultrasonic Grand Prix is one of two vintage 60s guitars a...

Released 19th January 2024 The story of Ultrasonic Grand Prix is one of two vintage 60s guitars and their owners - multi-instrumentalist/producer Shawn Lee and guitar maestro Barrie Cadogan - of Nottingham freakbeaters Little Barrie.  “We’d been talking for years about making some kind of record. Cadogan explains, “but we were always being pulled in different directions with other commitments. Shawn got the ball rolling for real when lockdown happened, called me up and said, “You know we keep...

Marika Hackman - Big Sigh

Released 12th January 2024 Big Sigh brings together the best of Marika’s previous works as an ind...

Released 12th January 2024 Big Sigh brings together the best of Marika’s previous works as an indie musician and adds a new layer of epic sounds and full-bodied production. Big Sigh is the “hardest record” Marika has ever made. As the title suggest, it is a relief of sorts – of sadness, of stress and lust, but mostly relief. Co-produced with Sam Petts Davies (Frank Ocean, Radiohead, Red Hot Chilli Peppers) & Charlie Andrew (Alt J, Wolf Alice, London Grammar). Lyrically there’s always roma...

The Vaccines - Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations

Released 12th January 2024 Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines - Justin Young (le...

Released 12th January 2024 Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines - Justin Young (lead vocals, guitars), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and Yoann Intonti (drums) - are back with their sixth studio album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations. The title comes from a misheard lyric from Don McClean's "American Pie," a song that for Young fittingly evokes the death of innocence and the American Dream. After he moved to Los Angeles - a city the band has ...

Shed Seven - A Matter of Time

Released 5th January 2024 We've got a test pressing of the album signed by the band to give away ...

Released 5th January 2024 We've got a test pressing of the album signed by the band to give away to one lucky winner. If you pre-order the new album from us, you'll automatically be entered into the draw, or you can simply email us at sales@sound-knowledge.co.uk with the subject line 'Shed Seven Comp' to get your name in the hat with no purchase necessary. Winner will be drawn after the release date and notified directly via email. 'A Matter of Time’ sees Shed Seven look back to their roots,...

Jack Savoretti - Miss Italia

Released 17th May 2024 First Ever Italian-Speaking Album Includes Collaborations with Natalie Imb...

Released 17th May 2024 First Ever Italian-Speaking Album Includes Collaborations with Natalie Imbruglia, Zucchero, Miles Kane, Carla Morrison, Delilah Montagu & moreJack Savoretti has reconnected with his roots and produced the simply stunning, new, first-ever-all-Italian-speaking album Miss Italia.The album came at an important moment in Jack’s life, as his Italian father had recently passed away. Jack explains; “My father was the anchor that tied me to Italy, the connection to my roots ...

José James - 1978

Released 5th April 2024 Jose James - the forward-looking, genre-defying Jazz singer for the hip-h...

Released 5th April 2024 Jose James - the forward-looking, genre-defying Jazz singer for the hip-hop generation - has done it again. 1978 (his 12th studio album since 2008's The Dreamer'') announces an instant classic, combining James' deep love of jazz and hip-hop with songwriting and production nods to R&B heroes Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson and Leon Ware. Produced by James and featuring an all-star ensemble, 1978 pulsates with the socially conscious feel-good vibes of Marvin Gaye, Prin...

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (20th Anniversary ...

Released 21st June 2024 The follow-up to 2003’s ‘Michigan’, Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Seven Swans’ was rel...

Released 21st June 2024 The follow-up to 2003’s ‘Michigan’, Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Seven Swans’ was released originally in 2004. The Guardian dubbed it “a record of remarkable delicacy,” and Billboard called it a “consistently moving, subtly beautiful experience.” The folk songs of Sufjan’s ‘Seven Swans’ occupy a singular space in his catalogue. The quiet, psalm-like music arrived less than a year after his 2003 breakthrough album, ‘Michigan’ and his much-publicized announcement to write an album f...

Van Houten - The Tallest Room

Released 29th March 2024 Leeds shoegaze outfit Van Houten release their debut album. After the hu...

Released 29th March 2024 Leeds shoegaze outfit Van Houten release their debut album. After the huge success of the lead single, ‘Coming of Age’, the band have been branded as a BBC 6Music’s artist tip of the year 2024 on Tom Robinson’s New Year’s Day show.  Reminiscent of artists like Deerhunter, DIIV or Yuck with an unmistakable Yorkshire edge, Van Houten open up a unique sonic world. A cavernous shoegaze affair, filled with woozy psych, sincere storytelling and a bag full of earworms. Van H...