Staff Picks 2024

Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called

Released 12th July 2024 Celebrated for his mastery of folk songs, Jake Xerxes Fussell's 5th album...

Released 12th July 2024 Celebrated for his mastery of folk songs, Jake Xerxes Fussell's 5th album sees him exploring new musical realms. 'When I'm Called' is his most richly conceptual and finely crafted work to date. Produced by James Elkington and featuring performances by Blake Mills, Joan Shelley, Robin Holcomb and others. US/UK/EU tours confirmed. Previously heralded by NPR, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, MOJO, and more.

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Loophole

Released 17th May 2024 62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer, darker nigh...

Released 17th May 2024 62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer, darker nights are vividly recalled by ‘our greatest living songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album, ‘Loophole’.  12 evocative and autobiographical songs to be accompanied by the written word as Michael Head prepares his memoirs for release with an autobiography with Nine Eight Books. Dinked Edition 279● Duck Egg green vinyl● Transparent ...

Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

Released 26th January 2024 SK says: 'A masterfully crafted record which pulls together musical ...

Released 26th January 2024 SK says: 'A masterfully crafted record which pulls together musical strands from his recent albums along with elements of Leonard Cohen, Brian Wilson and fellow countryman Carwyn Ellis's Rio 18 on personal and subtly political outing.' Incredibly, this  will be the 25th album Gruff Rhys  has released in his 35 year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. “Sadness Sets Me Free” is also the follow up to 2021’s “Seeking new Gods”, hi...

Common Saints - Cinema 3000

Released 1st November 2024 SK says: 'After a couple of cult EPs, multi-hyphenate Charlie J Perry ...

Released 1st November 2024 SK says: 'After a couple of cult EPs, multi-hyphenate Charlie J Perry issues his first full-length as Common Saints. Akin to the work of Michael Kiwanuka, Lewis Taylor and Jonathan Wilson in the way it fuses 70s rock influences with contemporary production and hints of neo-soul, Cinema 3000 is a lush, widescreen epic from a serious young talent.' Following the cult success of the first 2 EPs, Common Saints presents the debut album Cinema 3000, the theme continues, b...

Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me on Your Mind/See...

Released 7th June 2024 Over the years, Bonny Light Horseman have accumulated many miles on the co...

Released 7th June 2024 Over the years, Bonny Light Horseman have accumulated many miles on the collective odometer of life. The band’s core trio - Eric D. Johnson, Anaïs Mitchell and Joshua Kaufman (The National, Bob Weir, Hiss Golden Messenger) - have amassed an incomparable collected resume. Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway musical ‘Hadestown’, which notched eight Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Jo...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title As of 13...

Released 4th October 2024 THE PLAIN TRUTH== we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war c...

Released 4th October 2024 THE PLAIN TRUTH== we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall?  what context?  what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile. the sun setting above beds of ash while we sat together, arguing. the old world...

Danny & The Champions Of The World - You Are No...

Released 18th October 2024 ‘You Are Not A Stranger Here,’ the long-awaited new album by Danny &am...

Released 18th October 2024 ‘You Are Not A Stranger Here,’ the long-awaited new album by Danny & the Champions of the World, is the sound of a band exploring new and surprising musical terrain. Their seventh studio release and first since 2017’s ‘Brilliant Light,’ it’s produced by Champs keyboard player Thomas Collison and features frontman Danny George Wilson’s most compelling songs to date.

Field Music - Limits of Language

Released 11th October 2024 Field Music announce ‘Limits of Language’, their first album of new mu...

Released 11th October 2024 Field Music announce ‘Limits of Language’, their first album of new music for almost four years. Back in 2022, the touring cycle for the ‘Flat White Moon’ album ended with a sense of finality. For the first time since the Mercury-nominated ‘Plumb’ ten years earlier, Peter and David had no plan for what, if anything, would come next. However, after six years of continuation, they were clear that if Field Music was to carry on then it would have to be different, in bo...