As Autumn develops its tentacles and the nights grow ever longer, there are plenty of new releases to keep us company on those lengthy evenings.
Nice Biscuit SOS
The nine-track album embodies the fuzzy groove-laden psych that Nice Biscuit is renowned for, while introducing new danceable feels influenced by their love of disco, jazz fusion and world music.
Abstract Crimewave The Longest Night
A duo consisting of Joakim Åhlund and Björn Yttling. Joakim was in Teddybears, Caesars and Les Big Byrd. And has written for and produced the likes of Robyn, Charli XCX and Giorgio Moroder. Björn is from the band, Peter Bjorn and John, and has produced and written for Lykke Li, Primal Scream and Neko Case. Lykke Li, Chrissie Hynde and Dungen all guest on the album. Unsurprisingly, it is full of well-crafted pop.
Caribou Honey
Huge dancefloor tracks twinkle, shimmer and surprise in a way only Snaith’s productions can but with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound.
Thee Sacred Souls Got A Story To Tell
A sound that shows an appreciation of decades of soul music, and beyond – a sound and feel that is timeless, lived in, and very much in the now. Songs that take their time and relish in the moment.
Joyer I See Forward and Back
The new three track collection is a lo-fi, insular listen, stripping back some of the blowtorched guitars and jangly guitars demonstrated on Night Songs and replacing them with something solemn and hushed.
Whitey Mental Radio
The latest release from an artist who has been described as “Syd Barrett fronting Queens of the Stone Age”.
Half Waif See You At The Maypole
An album that is both a recognition of personal sadness and a call to ecstatic togetherness.
Pharmakon Maggot Mass
Marking a notable pivot in sonic, vocal, and lyrical styles for the 17-year project, hearkening to Industrial and Punk while still maintaining its’ vitriolic and experimental roots in Power Electronics and Noise.
The BARD Band Angels Got His Back
Their music is as much inspired by soulful singers like Marvin Gaye and Van Morrison, the funky sounds of the Doobie Brothers and Grover Washington’s jazz as they are by classic rock influences like Neil Young and The Band.
Geordie Greep The New Sound
Debut solo album from Black Midi guitarist and vocalist displaying new styles including bravura Latin big band arrangements.
The Hard Quartet The Hard Quartet
New band formed by Stephen Malkmus of Pavement with drummer Jim White.
James Bay Changes All The Time
An album that spotlights Bay’s elevated songcraft and dynamic vocals as well as his fret-burning guitar playing.
Kay Greyson Chekhov’s Gun
Music full of heart and soul, with ambitious production and scale. These mini epics are born in Newcastle but with a global agenda.
Desire Games People Play
Italo Disco noire pulsating with a cinematic sheen.
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A mixtape that melds live acoustic instruments with captivating soundscapes, an approach that evades easy characterization.
Baby Schillaci The Soundtrack
Rooted in post-punk and noise, the band’s aggressive yet intricately layered compositions evoke comparisons to seminal acts like Mclusky, At the Drive-In, and Fugazi.
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
20th anniversary vinyl reissue of their fifth album including additional 2018 concert recording Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel.
Fervent Plastic Snake Factory
EP by Belgian punks from Liege.
Alison Moyet Key
A collection of reworked singles, fan favourites, deep cuts and two new songs.
Devarrow Heart Shaped Rock
A Canadian musician and producer celebrated for his songs reflecting on small-town joys, personal introspection, environmental and social concerns, and (on this new album) the unique love affair with his converted school bus turned music studio.
One Da Formula One Da
Rapper and poet whose music transcends genres, blending hip-hop, drum and bass, afro-trap, and Afrobeats, reflecting her Nigerian heritage and Manchester roots.
Human Impact Gone Dark
An alliance of Unsane frontman Chris Spencer and CopShootCop’s Jim Coleman. Their second album is a fiercer, tighter upgrade of their taut grooves, brittle guitar shards, impassioned shouts and clouds of dystopian noise.
Bones Shake Purge
A scuzzy, fuzz enthused garage rock trio formed in Manchester in 2011. They play everything to the extreme; violent bottle-neck blues riffs, drums kicked, pounded and exploited and squeals of reverb drenched vocals.
Tom The Lion Former Lives EP
The EP will be released in tandem with a short film. Telling a timeless, coming of age story of friendship and exploration, as two girls discover a strange and mysterious house, Tom The Lion and director Filippo Locatelli have made their own mini-movie, and given it the perfect soundtrack.
Emily Millard Hazy Blue
A tapestry of love ballads that reflect both the softness and melancholy of life’s romantic nuances.
Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn Quiet in a World Full of Noise
A collaboration between a New Orleans R&B singer and a New York ambient composer which blends atmospheric and orchestral soundscapes with mellifluous soul, jazz, and journalistic vocalizing, expanding the definitions of what constitutes progressive, avant-garde R&B.
Rat Boy Suburbia Calling
Sonically pulling on the sounds of Britpop, 90s indie and classic melodicism, with a little scattering of 2-Tone’s propulsive grooves.
Wild Pink Dulling The Horns
The record recalls an earlier iteration of Wild Pink’s sound while carrying with it the lessons of their more recent output. Bigger and fuzzier than Yolk In The Fur, more direct and driving than ILYSM.
Kidnap Something Lost, Something Gained
Warm, organic electronics sit alongside acoustic elements and yearning vocals befitting a mood of reflection and introspection, but the album is still firmly rooted to the dance floor.
Joe Geni City Where The Sky Subsides
Artist influenced by Peter Gabriel, Claude Debussy, Elbow and Talking Heads with an album that traces the transformation of Long Island City.
Heff Vansaint Best Days Gone EP
An artist who combines elements of pop, electronic, and indie with 80s influences and names Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young as her main influences.
Yune Pinku Scarlet Lamb
An atmospheric but ultimately pop-centric project that sees pinku consciously challenging her audience’s preconceptions.
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A handful of musical references the band turned to during their writing sessions include Miss Kittin, Delta 5, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Throbbing Gristle, ESG, Desire, Ladytron, Deli Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Peaches, Björk, LustsickPuppy, Nite Fleit, White Town (specifically ‘Your Woman’), and Girl Pusher.
Cousin Simple Part Time Job EP
Alt-rock band who bring their high energy and infectious spirit to a five track EP.
The Hard-Ons I Like You A Lot Getting Older
A band weaned on high energy rock’n’roll (Kiss!) and then the early punk and post-punk eras (with a focus on local Australian sounds, in particular the ’76/’77 punk of The Saints, Radio Birdman, Victims, Psycho-Surgeons and News, and the anarchic noise of The Birthday Party).
Harriet Trying To Get The Feeling Again
A celebration of 70s nostalgia full of elegant and exquisitely performed interpretations of classic songs from the likes of The Carpenters, Carole King and Barry Manilow.
Transport League We Are Satan’s Children
Swedish groove metal band.
Blood Incantation Absolute Everywhere
A death metal-meets-synth prog epic.
The Bug Machine
A record that detonates apocalyptic dread-tech mutations of crushing intensity, fusing a unique new strain of futuristic dub with deadly deep electronics and killer bass riffs worthy of the heaviest metal.
George Steel Desire on the Range
Rooted Steel’s avant-pop sound in traditional folk and Americana storytelling, inspired by the singing style of Scott Walker and the theatrics of Orville Peck.
Lex Amor Forward Ever
The North London rapper, singer, producer, and engineer has forged a deeply resonant opus, drawing richly from the wellspring of her urban upbringing and Nigerian heritage.
Marx Green Ginger Jive
Founding member of Sisters of Mercy, Gary Marx, with a glam jamboree celebrating growing up in Hull and dressing up as Mick Ronson.
Mouth Culture Whatever The Weather EP
Their admiration of British rock is pinned proudly to their sleeves, with the cheekiness of Lower Than Atlantis and arena-ready acclaim of You Me At Six thriving within the folds of these songs, together with nu-metal aggression, bubblegum pop glitter and indie rock earnestness.
Temples Other Structures EP
The neo-psychedelic rockers with a collection of B-Sides to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album.
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Towering sonic soundscapes
Why The Eye Inspirex
Masked quartet from Brussels who describe their music as ‘Prehistoric Techno’.
The New Roses Attracted to Danger
A hard rock album providing everything the band is loved and appreciated for: catchy sounds, true rock anthems, authentic emotions and an incredible rock’n’roll energy.
Wind Rose Trollslayer
Italian power metal band with a blend of signature party anthems alongside select deeper, more serious tracks.
Night Demon Darkness Remains
A deluxe edition of 2017 from Californian act inspired by NWOBHM.
