2CD + Blu-ray Audio: Limited 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition featuring the original album alongside B-sides, classic and brand-new remixes, unreleased live radio session recordings and a Blu-ray Audio 5.1 surround mix.The release is presented across 3 discs (2CD/Blu-Ray Audio) in 7 -inch gatefold packaging with slipcase. Originally released in 2005, Supernature was Goldfrapp’s era-defining masterpiece, […]
Album of the Week: Brian – Understood (Understand: Expanded Reissue) Staff Review Once upon a time… before almost all recorded music sat at our fingertips, I went down a rabbit hole collecting early indie from the mid-to-late ’80s. Some of it came via bands featured of the NME C-86 cassette, some from Creation Records’ early roster, and some from […]
On her debut album, Lucy Gooch stays true to her electronic foundations, while incorporating more acoustic instrumentation and digging deeper into her folk roots through songwriting. But at the heart of Lucy’s music is her rapturous vocal, with which she has experimented more than ever over the course of her first full-length. Many of the […]
Formed in mid-1980s Portsmouth by the brother-and-sister duo of Jim Shaw (drummer, keyboardist, guitarist, programmer) and Alison Shaw (vocalist, guitarist, bassist), Cranes first emerged in 1986 with Fuse, a self-released and now highly sought-after cassette of demos.Their debut album, Self-Non-Self, followed in 1989 and caught the attention of legendary DJ John Peel, who invited them […]
3 LP Commemorating their ‘4AD years’ (1983-1984) forty years on, the mysteriously enchanting group returns now with a brand-new release entitled Gift: The 4AD Years, out 9 May. The extraordinary impact Xmal Deutschland had upon British audiences in the early Eighties is difficult to convey forty years on. A spell was cast by the staccato […]
Florida-born multimedia artist Ethel Cain returns with her sophomore album ‘Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You’. A prequel to the critically acclaimed ‘Preacher’s Daughter’, the new album recounts the story of Ethel’s first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Hayden Anhedonia, the creative force behind the entire Ethel Cain project, has spent the past several […]
Album of the Week: Maria Somerville – Luster Staff Review: Luster is the beautifully dreamy new album from Irish musician Maria Somerville. Released this week, it follows her quietly unveiled 2019 debut All My People, a record that, despite its understated release, earned deep acclaim from all who discovered it. Luster marks Somerville’s debut on […]
HAROLD BUDD ? ELIZABETH FRASER ? ROBIN GUTHRIE ? SIMON RAYMONDE Announce The Moon and the Melodies Repressing Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since 1986 On 23 August, almost forty years after it was initially released, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for […]
Victorialand, Cocteau Twins’ fourth album, was released in spring 1986. The largely acoustic, non-percussive album was made with Elizabeth and Robin, while Simon was working on This Mortal Coils second album. Dif Juz label mate Richard Thomas guested on tabla and saxophone. The Guardian said “It’s not quite ambient, but it’s definitely not rock’n’roll even […]
This re-issue of the Cocteau Twins 1996 album faithfully replicates the original 1996 Fontana Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl. Cocteau Twins – vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde – formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s. The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will […]
