Records of the Month

SPRINTS - Letter To Self

Released 5th January 2024 SPRINTS' debut album ‘Letter to Self' embodies their substantial evolut...

Released 5th January 2024 SPRINTS' debut album ‘Letter to Self' embodies their substantial evolution over the past 3 years. Transforming pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength, the Dublin four-piece have steadily grown in stature, releasing two acclaimed EPs and building a fearsome live reputation.  'Letter to Self' is the sound of  SPRINTS  consolidating and levelling up. Exhibiting their most vulnerable moments and imbuing their visceral garage-punk with a pal...

Harp (Tim Smith, formerly of Midlake) - Albion

Released 1st December 2023 SK says: 'Coming some eleven years after he departed Midlake (who them...

Released 1st December 2023 SK says: 'Coming some eleven years after he departed Midlake (who themselves have released two albums, almost ten years apart in the meantime) and recorded with his wife Kathi Zung, Albion blends Smith's familiar fascination with anglophile folk and pastoral prog with a distinctly shoegazey wall of reverb, pointing to exciting new possibilities in a timeless idiom.' Bella Union are thrilled to release the long-awaited debut solo album Albion by Harp, the adopted nam...

Mayer Hawthorne - For All Time

Released 27th October 2023 Mayer Hawthorne cut his teeth in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, ...

Released 27th October 2023 Mayer Hawthorne cut his teeth in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he started making beats and DJing at the height of Detroit hip-hop. Since his debut heart-shaped seven-inch, Just Ain't Gonna Work Out, dropped via Stones Throw in 2008, Hawthorne has released four LPs, raking in accolades from esteemed publications like GQ, New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Rolling Stone. From NPR's proclamation of his imminent stardom to BBC Music's endorsement of his ...

Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

Released 20th October 2023 SK says: "Having treated us to a magical stripped-back set in St. Pete...

Released 20th October 2023 SK says: "Having treated us to a magical stripped-back set in St. Peter's Church to celebrate the release of the album, the record itself is a richly textured work showcasing the band's ear for melody, Jack Steadman's inventive production and immaculately chosen guest spots from the likes of Damon Albarn, Holly Humberstone and Chaka Khan."  Heading back to the band’s studio in London, Bombay Bicycle Club have lovingly crafted album six – My Big Day. It’s a powerful,...

Molly Burch - Daydreamer

Released 29th September 2023 SK says: "After featuring on the Tennis-produced previous album Roma...

Released 29th September 2023 SK says: "After featuring on the Tennis-produced previous album Romantic Images, Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum takes up production duties, imbuing Burch's searching songwriting and keening vocals with a danceable 80s pop sheen. RIYL Angel Olsen, Natalie Prass, TOPS." For Molly Burch, the age 13 was a seminal moment in life that has shaped the path that she is on now. Burch's fourth album, Daydreamer, explores the feelings and insecurities of this critical stage. Burch...

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 ...

Mega Bog - End of Everything

Released 19th May 2023 SK says: 'After an impressive run on Paradise of Bachelors, 'End of Everyt...

Released 19th May 2023 SK says: 'After an impressive run on Paradise of Bachelors, 'End of Everything' is a first Mega Bog album for Mexican Summer which finds bandleader Erin Birgy trading the jazzy metaphysics of previous album 'Life, and Another' for a blend of the oddball art pop of new labelmate Cate Le Bon and the dark dancefloor sonics and vocal drama of Future Islands. Again working with Big Thief's James Krivchenia and joined by Aaron Otheim, Hand Habits and TOPS bassist Jackson Maci...