Staff Picks 2021

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William The Conqueror - Maverick Thinker

Released 5th March 2021. William The Conqueror have paid their damn dues. Like the sportsman cutt...

Released 5th March 2021. William The Conqueror have paid their damn dues. Like the sportsman cutting chipped teeth in the lower leagues before shooting to the very top, this band have lugged all the amps, placated the in-house sound guy for an easier life, their nails dirty, their hair unkempt. Enough. Except it’s never enough, because despite their slinky, swampy, razor-sharp, blues-drenched, guitar thrashed alt. rock songs that form new album, Maverick Thinker and suggest that the door is o...

£9.99 £19.99

Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Released 19th March 2021 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' is another beguiling missive from Lan...

Released 19th March 2021 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' is another beguiling missive from Lana Del Rey. Arriving on the heels of her debut collection of spoken word poetry, 'Chemtrails' finds the pop chanteuse mostly in the breathy high end of her register on eleven compositions crafted from the wreckage of the American Dream and the musical mythology of Tammy Wynette and Joni Mitchell. Produced by Jack Antonoff and featuring appearances from Zella Day and Weyes Blood, it's available on C...

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Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure

Released 22nd October 2021. Rebecca Lucy Taylor's (Slow Club) smart pop alias returns this Octobe...

Released 22nd October 2021. Rebecca Lucy Taylor's (Slow Club) smart pop alias returns this October, presaged by the release of the stunning single "I Do This All The Time". The follow up to Self Esteem’s acclaimed 2019 debut album Compliments Please, Prioritise Pleasure is a record that reminds us all of the importance of being our unapologetic selves, putting your insecurities out there in the hope that it can be the first step towards healing them. Honest disclosure has always been Self Est...

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Lyla Foy - Fornever

Released 2nd April 2021. Fornever is the brand new album from singer-songwriter Lyla Foy.  Colour...

Released 2nd April 2021. Fornever is the brand new album from singer-songwriter Lyla Foy.  Colours are random on the eco-mix vinyl.

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LICE - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear

  Released 22nd January 2021. A ‘satire about satire’, WASTELAND is a wild Burroughsian adventure...

  Released 22nd January 2021. A ‘satire about satire’, WASTELAND is a wild Burroughsian adventure melding science-fiction, absurdism and magical realism, calling fora revolution against the reductive ‘good versus evil’ narratives of popular satirical music. Arguing that through experimenting with the form of the song lyric (our most widely disseminated form of creative writing) we can build more nuanced popular discourse around the implicit forms of bias that ail us, WASTELAND presents comple...

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Liz Phair - Soberish

Released 4th June 2021. Almost thirty years since her peerless debut album, Exile In Guyville, wa...

Released 4th June 2021. Almost thirty years since her peerless debut album, Exile In Guyville, was released (voted #56 on Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest albums of All Time), Phair returns with a new record that will both intrigue and satisfy her long-standing fans, and introduce her to a smart young audience whose contemporary heroes have been reading from Phair’s playbook since they first picked up a guitar. Liz Phair has achieved the kind of status in her industry rarely best...

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Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

Released 5th March. “It's about hopelessness and darkness,” says Aidan Moffat. “But in a fun way....

Released 5th March. “It's about hopelessness and darkness,” says Aidan Moffat. “But in a fun way.” The Arab Strap frontman is speaking about the band’s 7th studio album and their first since 2005’s The Last Romance. The band's exciting return saw the much lauded "The Turning of Our Bones"  single achieve Record of the Week on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 2 show and hit the B-list at BBC 6 Music. The new album will appeal to longtime fans and pick up new ones who weren't ready for Arab Strap first ti...

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Fly Pan Am - Frontera

Released 28th May. Fly Pan Am have composed some of their most direct, visceral and immediately s...

Released 28th May. Fly Pan Am have composed some of their most direct, visceral and immediately satisfying music for the acclaimed modern dance piece FRONTERA, by Montréal-based troupe Animals Of Distinction. Juxtaposing stern foreboding electronics and minimalist motoric avant-rock, the Frontera studio album superbly captures the bristling, sculpted, intensely evocative instrumental pieces the band developed in close conception and collaboration with the dancers. As the Frontera recordings d...

£11.99

Lou Hayter - Private Sunshine

Released 24th September 2021. SK says: "An irresistible love letter to 80s and 90s electropop fro...

Released 24th September 2021. SK says: "An irresistible love letter to 80s and 90s electropop from the former New Young Pony Club vocalist/keyboardist, featuring two extraordinary covers: a cool, synth-led reading of Steely Dan's classic "Time Out of Mind" and a radical recasting of actor Brian Protheroe's '70s cult hit "Pinball"." Effortlessly hopscotching between vintage acid and 80s R'n’B, insouciant Francophone pop and twinkling electro house, Lou Hayter has delivered something at once ut...

£19.99

David Crosby - For Free

Released 23rd July 2021. Vinyl Released 18th February 2022. The great David Crosby celebrates hi...

Released 23rd July 2021. Vinyl Released 18th February 2022. The great David Crosby celebrates his 80th birthday with a brand new album featuring contributions from Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen.

£11.99

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - Notes With Attac...

CD Released 12th March 2021. Vinyl Released 11th February 2022. This is Pino Palladino’s first re...

CD Released 12th March 2021. Vinyl Released 11th February 2022. This is Pino Palladino’s first record of original music. All album material co-written and produced by Blake Mills. The album has no single sound – showcases various styles of playing with a strong emphasis on ambitious composition and listeners can trace homages to J Dilla, Fela Kuti, Roy Hargrove throughout. Other musicians include Chris Dave, Larry Goldings, Andrew Bird, Ted Poor, and more. This record is being released as par...

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The Body & BIG|BRAVE - Leaving None But Small B...

Released 1st October 2021. The Body and BIG|BRAVE are both bands possessed with an unequalled abi...

Released 1st October 2021. The Body and BIG|BRAVE are both bands possessed with an unequalled ability to convey overwhelming weight with simplicity, repetition and detailed sonic atmospheres; artists who continue to alter the definition of what it means to be a heavy band. The Body are consistently prolific while increasingly ambitious as untethered producers and collaborators. BIG|BRAVE shape sound with dense waves of guitar and feedback, minimalist and hypnotic crashes and emotionally exact...

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