2 LP The High Llamas discover America – yes, it had been done before, but not via their envisaged pilgrims’ passage. Energized by the breakthroughs of Gideon Gaye, they went all-in, producing a wide-screen epic further exploring their unique agenda. The reference points multiplied, stretching through realms of classic pop and jazz, soundtrack music, exotica […]
2 LP Having passed – at least figuratively – through hundreds of years over the course of their previous two albums, the good ship High Llamas docked, fully loaded, into a congenial present moment for once in its life. O’Hagan’s continued work with Tim Gane and Stereolab caused a healthy dose of electronica to spike […]
Following the news that all three Lush albums are going to be reissued, Emma Anderson, the band’s co-founder, has announced her debut solo album, Pearlies, which will be released by Sonic Cathedral on October 20, 2023.One of the most underrated British songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze and Britpop, she has teamed […]
improvisational jazz, classical music, and Stereolab… his songwriting owes more to loop-based composition than garage-bound woodshedding.” – Pitchfork Inspired by a love of artists such as Bill Evans, Lester Young, Chet Baker and Vince Guaraldi, Dustin Payseur reimagines some of his greatest hits from the Beach Fossils catalog alongside a group of formally trained jazz […]
Astrel Ks debut single ‘You Could If You Can’ was released via Duophonic Super 45s – a label which has a history of releasing limited edition abstract releases from Stereolab, Broadcast & Yo La Tengo. 500 copies of the 7” were made, hand stamped and numbered, quickly selling out in selected record shops. Following the […]
Update to format. This will now be blue vinyl in a gatefold sleeve 20th Anniversary reissue of this unique blend of electronica and stadium rock from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson and his cohorts. First time on vinyl The legendary, highly acclaimed first album from Apparat Organ Quartet will be released on vinyl for the first […]
Rambling on about the brilliance of Deb Googe and Cara Tivey is no difficult task – spot either of their names on a record’s sleeve credits and you’re guaranteed listening worthy of your time . . . and hard-earned cash! Deb joined My Bloody Valentine during its ascent to legend, filled a temporary void in […]
Following the widely-acclaimed 2021 double album, Coral Island, The Coral announce ‘surreal Italian spaghetti western soundtrack’, Sea Of Mirrors. Bridging their UK Chart No.2 success and the sun-bleached sets of imagined films, the physical formats-only release of Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine show makes it two albums in one year Singular psych-folk-pop-rock wanderers, The Coral […]
