LP – Limited Edition Picture Disc Vinyl released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Peanuts and features a classic image of Linus and Lucy on one side and the album cover image on the other (2025 Reissue).While the Peanuts comic strip appeared daily in newspapers across the world, Vince Guaraldi’s music helped bring the gang […]
First released on August 18, 2023, “Outline of Nature” started as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and ended up as a voltage controlled outpouring of love for the natural world.Sylvan-born and pastoral-powered, sap-blooded and lightning-charged, this album grew out of the damp florescent corners of the woods, each note and sound, a […]
Legendary postmodern, post punk, post human, past caring collective Mekons return with a brand-new album for 2025. Their first release on Fire Records, ‘Horror’ a collection of songs written in late 2022 but providing a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here. ‘Horror’ looks at history and […]
Classically trained, with a background in jazz, soul and gospel, Laura Mvula emerged from Kings Heath, Birmingham in 2012 with her first EP, ‘She’. The following year her debut album, ‘Sing To The Moon’, dropped to enthusiastic reviews; earning two MOBO awards (plus nominations for both the Mercury Prize and two Brits) and going gold. Preceded […]
Cutthroat is shame at their blistering best. An unapologetic new album with Grammy winning producer John Congleton at the helm; it’s souped up and supercharged. It’s exactly where you want shame to be. Still in their twenties, the five childhood friends – Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer […]
LP – Limited Edition Half Green and Half Blue Colour Split Vinyl with Poly-lined Printer Inner + Download Card(2025 Reissue). The skies have opened and dropped a trio of kids from Geelong, Australia, packing some seriously futuristic sludge: ORB. A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty synthesizer […]
LP – Limited 10th Anniversary Edition Coke Bottle Green Colour Vinyl.Only 1,000 copies pressed in this edition. 10th anniversary edition.Originally issued as a Rough Trade Shops and tour exclusive The Delines album – Scenic Sessions sold out in a period of weeks with their End of the Road Festival appearance that Sept.Copies of this have […]
Yellowman & Fathead – a duo that would release a string of albums – team up with three cuts, “Mash It Up Now” probably being the most recognizable as it’s cut over the Zungguzeng Riddim. Three cuts come courtesy of Sister Nancy, as well.Her classic “Dance Pon The Corner” is here along with “Bang Belly” […]
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 […]
LP – Limited 20th Anniversary Edition Clear with Red, Pink, Yellow and Green Splatter Vinyl matching the iconic cover. The members of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin couldn’t list a single music blog until their lo-fi MP3s and low-res JPEGs made them worldwide icons of Blogdom in 2005.Even Spin read an SSLYBY blog, downloaded […]
