Staff Picks 2024

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Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - Dancing On Th...

Released 14th June 2024. At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north o...

Released 14th June 2024. At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of Louisville, Kentucky – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter Ryan Davis’ Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms. As driving force for the lauded State Champion, long-running member of Tropical Trash, administrator of the esoteric and excellent Cropped Out festival, and lone proprietor of the Sophomore Lounge label, Davis lays down his first proper ‘so...

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

Released 30th August 2024 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with new album, ‘Wild God’. “I hop...

Released 30th August 2024 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with new album, ‘Wild God’. “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave says. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’r...

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The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World

Released 1st November 2024 ’SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ is the long-awaited new album from The Cure, t...

Released 1st November 2024 ’SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ is the long-awaited new album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years. 'SONGS OF A LOST WORLD' was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett and performed by The Cure - Robert Smith: Voice / guitar / 6string bass / keyboard, Simon Gallup: Bass, Jason Cooper: Drums / percussion, Roger O'Donnell: Keyboard, Reeves Gabrels: Guitar. The album was recorded at Rockfield S...

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Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino

Released 5th April 2024 SK says: "The long-gestating debut from the Welsh singer/multi-instrument...

Released 5th April 2024 SK says: "The long-gestating debut from the Welsh singer/multi-instrumentalist/producer features the kind immaculate production that blessed plenty of the records her dad Pino featured on as he held down the low end on so many classics of the 80s and beyond. His unmistakable fretless tones grace this album, along with Fabiana's brother Rocco (a frequent sparring partner of Yussef Dayes). But it's not solely a family affair as they're joined by fellow session king Steve...

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Jack White - No Name

Released 13th September 2024  

Released 13th September 2024  

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Emily Barker - Fragile As Humans

Released 3rd May 2024 On her new album, Fragile as Humans - written and recorded as her time livi...

Released 3rd May 2024 On her new album, Fragile as Humans - written and recorded as her time living in the UK was coming to a close - Emily Barker turns her lyrical gaze inwards. The expansive themes of her previous album A Dark Murmuration of Words are replaced by an empathetic concern for matters more personal, familial, closer to home. The ten songs take us on a deep dive into the human condition, an unflinching self-examination of grief, pain, loneliness and loss, at the same time sparkli...

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W. H. Lung - Every Inch of Earth Pulsates

Released 18th October “A huge thing for this record was to make it feel as close to our live show...

Released 18th October “A huge thing for this record was to make it feel as close to our live show as possible,” says Tom Sharkett of W.H. Lung’s latest album. “We didn’t want it to sound live but we wanted to capture the excitement of the live performances.”  This is something that has become paramount to the group in recent years as they have undeniably blossomed into one of the most joyous and arresting live bands in the country. “The reason I’m in a band is to play live music,” says singer...

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Nubya Garcia - Odyssey

Released 13th September 2024 SK says: "The British saxophonist widens the lens on her sophomore a...

Released 13th September 2024 SK says: "The British saxophonist widens the lens on her sophomore album as leader, with lush string arrangements offering a distinct, London-flavoured take on the kind of expansive cosmic jazz that Kamasi Washington has embodied on the other side of the pond." Nubya Garcia isn’t an artist you can easily classify. Is it jazz? Sure, the London-born saxophonist, composer and bandleader grew up studying the genre under the noted pianist Nikki Yeoh at Camden Music. Bu...

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Mercury Rev - Born Horses

Released 6th September 2024 In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskill Mountains ...

Released 6th September 2024 In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums - and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly ed...

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Robert Vincent - Barriers

Released 21st June 2024 Barriers is the 4th studio album for award-winning Liverpool-based artist...

Released 21st June 2024 Barriers is the 4th studio album for award-winning Liverpool-based artist Robert Vincent, set for release on summer solstice (June 21, 2024), a time that reminds us to look inwards to find what we need to love and evolve.  Maintaining his status as one of the most acclaimed voices in the UK Americana rock scene, Robert’s new songs represent a real left turn for an artist who is ready for something more. The new album “has more of an intimate sound,” Robert says. “The s...

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BODEGA - Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

Released 12th April 2024 Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards. Just ask punk cul...

Released 12th April 2024 Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards. Just ask punk cultural commentators BODEGA, whose new album sees them carve a new future from fuzz-soaked, consumerism-skewering shards of their past.  ‘Our Brand Could Be YR Life’ is BODEGA's first album release through Chrysalis Records. “It’s something we’ve been wanting to do for years,” guitarist and vocalist Ben Hozie explains of ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’ – a collection of catchy indie-rock ruminations on...

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Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da

Released 12th January 2024 SK says: ''Iechyd Da' is the excellent new album from Wirral singer-so...

Released 12th January 2024 SK says: ''Iechyd Da' is the excellent new album from Wirral singer-songwriter/producer Bill Ryder-Jones. It marries the slowcore feel of his more recent albums with the aching balladry of sophomore record 'A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart' and the compositional depth and invention of his debut, the Italo Calvino-inspired 'If...' recorded with the Liverpool Phil. It's the former Coral guitarist's widest in scope yet, with a playfulness redolent of the Super Furries, Mer...

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