Triple Dinked Edition goodness, our main man Mulatu and some essential comps too.

London three-piece Our Girl make their Bella union debut with The Good Kind and it really is a stunner. It is such a balance to make slow and pensive music and not end up on a total downer. The trio have really made a beauty here, controlled and thoughtful but also with plenty of euphoric lifts and rich harmonies. It was recorded at Rockfield Studios with alt-rock legend John Parish and has a glorious power, especially when it’s quieter. Record of the Week.

+ Available as a limited Dinked Edition.
+ Please note, all Dinked Editions (including pre orders) will be shipping early next week.
Why is the Colour of the Sky? Is the technicolour return of Melbourne/Naarm’s Bananagun. The album sounds absolutely fantastic, analogue-pop and freak-beat experimentalism with so much texture and a proper arsenal of instruments and tones. Much like their excellent debut LP, there is still a lo-fi sunnyness to this new set, but with much darker flashes of the avant-garde too. A grooving trip.

+ Available as a limited Dinked Edition.

Bristol 4-piece LICE return with their second LP Third Time At The Beach and it really is quite the marvel; a three-part epic exploring their struggle to better understand the world around them. The changes of pace and frenetic arrangements should be discombobulating, but they totally manage to create a vast and coherent swirl. A really exciting listen.

+ Available as a limited Dinked Edition. Includes Sea Monkeys!

Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke has collaborated with the Hoodna Orchestra - Tel Aviv’s number one Afro funk collective - on the Tension album and it really is urgent stuff. Produced by and featuring Dap-King Neal Sugarman, there is a dark and hypnotic drive, with Mulatu floating in and out of the waves. We’re pretty taken with this one, it has to be said.

+ Available on limited Red vinyl.

We normally talk about compilations on our Best New Reissues mailers, but seeing as we have a spare five minutes and two absolute corkers in the racks, we’ll tell you more...
Sub Pop have curated a really lovely set, with Clairo, Empress Of, TOPS, Frankie Cosmos, Kate Bollinger, Margo Price and more honouring the wonderful Margo Guryan on Like Someone I Know: A Celebration Of Margo Guryan. They all reimagine the icon’s 1968 album Take A Picture (a previous Sunday Classic if you care to read more) and there is plenty of gorgeous wooze on offer.

+ Available on limited CD and Red Vinyl.

Lastly then today, the simple task of compiling A Brief History Of Indie Pop 1985-2023… Oh man, they aced it! Come To My World is a proper baller from the team over at Two Piers Records; forty years of DIY esthetics, huge reverbs, killer choruses, twee heartbreakers and so much more. This really is essential listening.

+ Available on exclusive Sunburst Marvel & Crystal Green coloured vinyl.

It’s an excellent week for reissues, with; Hawkwind, Buffalo Tom, Aphrodite’s Child, Cass McCombs, Dusty Springfield, Talking Heads and more. We’ll be sure to tell ya’ll about it!