Records of the Month

Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

Released 4th February 2022. Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow ...

Released 4th February 2022. Pompeii, Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album and the follow up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Not to downplay her nod to disorientation induced by double catastrophe — global pandemic plus climate emergency’s colliding eco-traumas resonate all too eerily. “What would be your last gesture?” she asks. But just as Vesuvius remains active, Pom...

Jake Xerxes Fussell - Good and Green Again

Released 21st January 2022. SK says: "Across three brilliant albums Georiga-born, Carolina-based ...

Released 21st January 2022. SK says: "Across three brilliant albums Georiga-born, Carolina-based Fussell has established himself as perhaps the greatest contemporary embodiment of the twin scholarly and artistic roles of the folksinger. For his fourth, 'Good and Green Again', he enlists multi-instrumentalist James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn) to produce and calls back regulars Casey Toll, Libby Rodenbough and Nathan Golub, while Joe Westerlund takes over from Nathan Bowles on the drumk...

Elvis Costello - The Boy Named If

Released 14th January 2022. On January 14th, 2022, Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, ‘The...

Released 14th January 2022. On January 14th, 2022, Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, ‘The Boy Named If,’ a new album of urgent, immediate songs with bright melodies, guitar solos that sting and a quick step to the rhythm. Costello tells us, ”The full title of this record is 'The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories).’  ‘IF,’ is a nickname for your imaginary friend; your secret self, the one who knows everything you deny, the one you blame for the shattered crockery and the heart...

Voka Gentle - WRITHING!

Released 26th November 2021. We have a handful of copies signed by the band, while stocks last. ...

Released 26th November 2021. We have a handful of copies signed by the band, while stocks last. Operating on a plane between avant-garde indie, bubbling electronica and cosmic psychedelia, London group Voka Gentle have an addictive, amorphous sound. A three limbed beast made up of twins Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William J. Stokes, each is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer with an imperious understanding of three dimensional sound.  The newest single ‘Necrofauna / The Garden ...

Snail Mail - Valentine

Released 5th November 2021. On her 2018 debut album Lush, seventeen-year-old Lindsey Jordan sang ...

Released 5th November 2021. On her 2018 debut album Lush, seventeen-year-old Lindsey Jordan sang “I’min full control / I’m not lost / Even when it’s love / Even when it’s not”. Her naturalability to be many things at once resonated with a lot of people. The contradiction ofconfidence and vulnerability, power and delicacy, had the impact of a wrecking ballwhen put to tape. It was an impressive and unequivocal career-making moment forJordan.  On Valentine, her sophomore album out November 5th o...

The War On Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

Released 29th October 2021.  SK says: "If their breakthrough 'Lost In The Dream' was a driving h...

Released 29th October 2021.  SK says: "If their breakthrough 'Lost In The Dream' was a driving heartland rock epic powered by Motorik rhythms and its follow-up 'A Deeper Understanding' a complex, ruminative beast, produced in the kind of hermetic studio conditions favoured variously by My Bloody Valentine and Steely Dan, then last year's tour-documenting 'Live Drugs' hinted at an earthier, more languid direction, in between stretched out versions of their hits. It's this territory which 'I D...

My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket

Release 22nd October 2021. The band’s first new music since 2015’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated THE WA...

Release 22nd October 2021. The band’s first new music since 2015’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated THE WATERFALL, MY MORNING JACKET reaffirms the rarefied magic that’s made My Morning Jacket so beloved, embedding every groove with moments of discovery, revelation, and ecstatic catharsis. Produced and engineered by James over two multi-week sessions at Los Angeles, CA’s 64 Sound, the album came to life after what looked like a permanent hiatus for the band. But after performing four shows in summer 20...

BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album....

Released 8th October 2021. Memory Catalogue issues 1-3 to give away with purchases of the album. SK says: 'A first album from BBNG without founder member Matthew Tavares finds them moving away from the instrumental hip-hop sound of their earlier work to a European-flavoured jazz, blending ECM saxes and Portico Quartet textures. Closing track 'Talk Meaning' is a spiritual jazz epic propelled by string charts from the great Arthur Verocai.' BADBADNOTGOOD return with their highly anticipated ne...