Anyone who has paid attention to Icelandic music this century knows how Ólöf Arnalds can mesmerise a room with nothing but a small guitar and her distinctive soprano voice.Across five albums in nearly twenty years, her gently plucked guitar, charango, violin and koto have provided the bedrock for vivid narrations straddling the mundane and mythological, […]
This product is an RSD Black Friday 2025 title, which is available to buy in-store from 8am on Friday 28/11/2025, and online from 8am on Saturday 29/11/2025. Warren Zevon’s final concert, recorded August 9, 2002 at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, available for the first time. One of my favourite repeatable moments in our sets […]
LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl. Remixes and reworks of the Mercury Prize winning album ‘This Could Be Texas’. Introducing This Could Be A Remix Album – a body of work comprising 13 remixes and reworks of the 2024 Mercury Prize-winning album ‘This Could Be Texas’, featuring Fontaines D.C. DJs (as FDC DJs debut dance alias release), SHERELLE, Daniel Avery, Water From Your Eyes, Baxter Dury, Working […]
Album of The week – Staff Review This week sees the reissue of Boat Songs, MJ Lenderman’s third studio album, originally released in 2022. Its reissue arrives on the back of Lenderman’s speedy ascent as one of indie-rock’s most celebrated and talked-about songwriters. Though Boat Songs earned widespread critical acclaim on release, its home on the small Dear […]
Able Noise are a cross-continent duo based between The Hague (NL) and Athens (GR), built around the experimental baritone guitar and drum playing of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos. After a few formative attempts at collaboration, they officially came together as the Able Noise we see now in 2017, uniting over shared thoughts on art […]
MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy; the keen observations and reflections of a front stoop philosopher. Songs snake their way from […]
Two Door Cinema Club announce the release of Tourist History (15th Anniversary) formats, with tracks pressed on vinyl for the first time via [PIAS] Recordings. The announcement comes on the back of three massive live dates in Ireland and London next year (London is nearly sold out).Two Door Cinema Club celebrate their 15th anniversary of […]
LP – Limited Edition ‘Lava’ Colour Vinyl. *This variant was originally only available as a ‘Direct to Customer’ release but now available to retailers. The story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family […]
“We are proud to present Poxtail Soup – the culmination of a four-year musical journey through the wilds of Ireland, the UK, and the USA, and back again. On big stages, small stages, bar stools, backrooms, festivals, and long van rides, we grew, changed, came full circle, and tried our best to create an album worthy of […]
This next volume in the award-winning Bootleg Series tells the story of Bob Dylan’s emergence and maturation as a songwriter and performer, from Minnesota to the Greenwich Village bohemia in the early 1960s. It includes rare Columbia Records outtakes, recordings made at club dates, in tiny informal gatherings, in friends’ apartments, and at jam sessions in long-gone musicians’ hangouts
