Staff Picks 2022

Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden - I get along witho...

Released 23rd September 2022 Following their collaboration on the acclaimed ‘For Organ and Brass’...

Released 23rd September 2022 Following their collaboration on the acclaimed ‘For Organ and Brass’, released on Subtext, new album ‘I get along without you very well’ expands on the duo’s intoxicating exploration of meditative, spiritual sonics in unexpected ways. It is a beautiful meeting of two friends and inventive musical minds, resulting in the most affecting and surprising of pop albums. From its opening notes, ‘I get along without you very well’ delights in subtle tensions and contradic...

Szun Waves - Earth Patterns

Released 19th August 2022. The members of Szun Waves may not have been collectively in the same c...

Released 19th August 2022. The members of Szun Waves may not have been collectively in the same country, let alone room, for over two years, but that hasn’t prevented them from realising their third album, Earth Patterns.   The trio – comprised of producer Luke Abbott, saxophonist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet) and drummer Laurence Pike (Triosk/PVT/Liars) – recorded the album sessions together at the tail end of their 2019 European tour, locking themselves away in the studio for three days of ...

Warpaint - Radiate Like This

Released 6th May 2022. Warpaint's upcoming album 'Radiate Like This' launching alongside new sing...

Released 6th May 2022. Warpaint's upcoming album 'Radiate Like This' launching alongside new single ‘Champion’.“Radiate Like This” - Warpaint’s much anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost 6 years - arrives with its own very modern mythology intact, continuing the strange, brilliant, beautiful story of the band and quite neatly picking up where “Heads Up” left off. If the previous album was the coming of age, “Radiate Like This” presents Warpaint mk II in all their glory,...

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms

Released 20th May 2022. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with Endless Rooms, the Me...

Released 20th May 2022. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with Endless Rooms, the Melbourne quintet's third album proper. Described by the band – comprised of Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo – as them "Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together", Endless Rooms stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, ...

Modern Nature - Island Of Noise

Released 4th March 2022. Since the demise of his previous band Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper – u...

Released 4th March 2022. Since the demise of his previous band Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper – under his Modern Nature guise – has never stopped looking ahead, exploring, and reaching for something further. Since 2019, he’s released an EP, mini album Annual, one full length LP, one 7” and three live cassettes – in the process mapping out astonishing new terrain. Island Of Noise presents an obvious new peak in his discography. “Mesmerising... A treasure trove of interesting musical ideas, as ...