A week of massive returns and some killer exclusive editions.
Hello, Friends.
Released tomorrow morning is The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, the new studio album from Damon Albarn.
Originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland, it was worked on and developed further in the early part of the year, into a really stirring set. Damon is in fine voice, enthralling and charismatic but also stretching and pushing his vocals into new spaces. The arrangements are inventive and full of madcap surprises, it's quite the joy and proudly our November Record of the Month.
+ Limited edition white vinyl in a casebound book with additional photography, original scanned lyrics and artwork from Damon. Also includes a bonus 7" featuring an exclusive song from the recording sessions.
+ If you are coming to our outstore gig next week (Wednesday 17th), full information will be sent out to you shortly with how it all works on the night.
Our Record of the Week is Things Take Time, Take Time, the glorious third LP from Courtney Barnett. The Australian singer-songwriter is in such breezy form, although the album was written almost entirely in isolation and lyrically the sense of grief and anxiety is palpable... You really just have to listen to what she's saying. Produced with Stella Mozgawa (of Warpaint), it just rolls along brilliantly and her equable delivery is both hypnotic and alluring.
+ Available on a limited Indie exclusive Blue vinyl pressing.
CRAWLER is the fourth album - and massive return - from Bristol punks IDLES. Retains all the brutal energy but introduces bold and really ambitious new directions. Who knew they could croon? The confidence to just go off in any direction they choose is hugely impressive. An album as complex as it is thrilling, loads to catch on repeat listens.
+ Available on Deluxe 2LP edition. Mastered at half-speed 45rpm.
+ Available on limited Eco-Mix* coloured vinyl.
+ Buy the album this week (this already includes all of you folks who preordered) and we'll enter you into the hat to win a signed test pressing. The band are signing it shortly, so we'll pick a name at the end of the month.
After much faffing, we're absolutely pumped to bring you the new W. H. Lung album, Vanities. The much-anticipated follow-up to the band's acclaimed debut is a scorcher. Inspired by new wave and synth-pop, it's a different type of euphoria with the band sonically extending their palletes. Great stuff.
+ Available on a limited Indie Exclusive Translucent Yellow vinyl pressing that includes a double-sided poster and a bonus mix CD.
Music Is Dead is the brilliantly self-crafted, new, psychedelic long-player from Nolan Potter. Castle Face Records founder (and OH SEE) John Dwyer explains that Nolan has, "quietly painted us a beatific masterpiece that veers from the whimsical to the wigged-out". DIY at its core, it's a maximal composition and really is special stuff!
Available now, our last few Dinked Edition copies.
+ Dinked Edition Number 133
+ Mustard Yellow vinyl with 4 colour splatter *
+ “cover explanation” insert
+ Folded 22” x 22” album artwork poster
+ Bonus 1 song red Flexi-Disc *
+ Limited, numbered pressing of 500 *
Admonitions is the fifth studio LP from Paul Major as Endless Boogie. An absolute monster of a double record, introduced perfectly with the 22-minute opening scuzz-out 'The Offender'. Lush guitar tones and the courage to just let it all roll on as long as it needs, it's a belter!
Pedal steel savant Spencer Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection plays homage to his London roots with pastoral folk and winding country tones. Really lush.
+ Limited Indie LP is pressed on Green coloured vinyl.
Monument is the seventh studio album by Portico Quartet and finds them in a new, more electronic-driven mode.
+ Limited Indie LP is pressed on Clear coloured vinyl.
Cuba's Orquesta Akokan return on Daptone with 16 Rayos. 21st century mambo shapes in the glorious lineage of the Buena Vista Social Club. All good vibes.
+ Limited Indie LP is pressed on Crimson Canary Swirl vinyl.
Also this week; The Berlin-based duo hackedepicciotto return with The Silver Threshold, their fourth, full-length album on Mute. Pause is the new LP from contemporary composer Poppy Ackroyd. Count the Stairs is the debut EP from Charlie Hickey on Phoebe Bridgers' Saddest Factory label. The absolutely brilliant Pozi return with the Typing EP, great stuff and available on Transparent sea-green vinyl.
We're also expecting new albums from Constant Smiles, Irreversible Entanglements, Aesop Rock and a remix LP from Delmer Darion to all land any minute. Keep your peepers peeled for them.
Jarvis Cocker's CHANSONS d’ENNUI TIP–TOP has arrived on vinyl and we put our last copies online now. It's très bon, as I am sure we said!
Lastly this week, we finally have our hands on the new Breathe Panel album, Lets It In. My word, we LOVE this record. It has such a breezy vibe, a distinctly British take on that free-rolling early Real Estate sound. We invited the band to join us back in August for Sea Change and they really knocked us for six, smart and tightly wound songs that they make sound super easy. Great stuff.
- Drift
