Staff Picks 2022

Bonny Light Horseman - Rolling Golden Holy

Released 7th October 2022. SK says: "Having brought their considerable chemistry to bear on a set...

Released 7th October 2022. SK says: "Having brought their considerable chemistry to bear on a set of traditional song on their self-titled debut, the trio of Anaïs Mitchell, Josh Kaufman, and Eric D. Johnson instead embark on an album of originals that could be unearthed folk artefacts. All three individuals have kept busy- Mitchell with her own brilliant eponymous album, Johnson with a retrospective of his Fruit Bats and Kaufman as a sought-after producer for everyone from Craig Finn to Tayl...

Rachael Dadd - Kaleidoscope

Released 14th October 2022. On 14 October 2022, wildly creative free-form songwriter Rachael Dadd...

Released 14th October 2022. On 14 October 2022, wildly creative free-form songwriter Rachael Dadd is to release her brand new studio album ‘Kaleidoscope’ via Memphis Industries and follows 2019’s 'Flux' which was released to much acclaim and which she was touring when the pandemic struck.  Like so many people disconnected from their communities and struggling through the lockdowns, Rachael Dadd turned inwards, seeking escape through music and connection through song writing, and her hope is t...

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Released 4th February 2022. Black Country, New Road return today with the news that their second ...

Released 4th February 2022. Black Country, New Road return today with the news that their second album, “Ants From Up There”, will land on February 4th on Ninja Tune. Following on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut “For the first time”, the band have harnessed the momentum from that record and run full pelt into their second, with “Ants From Up There” managing to strike a skilful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before...

Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord

Released 18th November 2022. Pop in your earpiece, close your eyes and embrace the wonders (and h...

Released 18th November 2022. Pop in your earpiece, close your eyes and embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as Richard Dawson returns with…The Ruby Cord. These seven tracks plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated; a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. It’s a leap int...

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...

Angel Olsen - Big Time

Released 3rd June 2022. SK says: "After the striking, cavernous 'All Mirrors', the singer-songwri...

Released 3rd June 2022. SK says: "After the striking, cavernous 'All Mirrors', the singer-songwriter delivers a song-focused, country-inflected set that, despite the grief which inspires it, is fiercely resilient and optimistic. Immaculately produced by the great Jonathan Wilson and Olsen herself." Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and transformation the...

Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity

Released 25th March 2022. Even in trying times, “there is no love without electricity.” Electrici...

Released 25th March 2022. Even in trying times, “there is no love without electricity.” Electricity is the fourth and most progressive album from Ibibio Sound Machine, and like all good Afrofuturist stories, it begins with an existential crisis. “It’s darker than anything we’ve done previously,” says Eno Williams, the group’s singer. “That’s because it grew out of the turbulence of the past year. It inhabits an edgier world.” Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award and Mercury Prize nomi...

Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker

Released 8th April 2022 10 brand new recordings from the legendary Jamaican singer and long-time ...

Released 8th April 2022 10 brand new recordings from the legendary Jamaican singer and long-time Massive Attack collaborator Horace Andy, produced by Adrian Sherwood. ‘Midnight Rocker’ has been approached in a similar fashion to the late-career quality that Sherwood coaxed out of Lee “Scratch” Perry with the ‘Rainford’ and ‘Heavy Rain’ albums, assembling a crack team of players and spending many months perfecting performance, arrangements and mixing. The result is a remarkable suite of tracks...