Orquesta Akokán - Caracoles
This summer, if you are interested in the big band sounds of Havana’s dancehalls, my word, do we ever have a fresh slice for you…
Laraaji, The Cuca Label, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Cannonball Adderley, Lee Morgan and I Saw The TV Glow.
Full of sweet soul and jazz colossuses, with transcendental floats and soundtrack woozes inbetween.
Purple Mountains
Still brilliantly droll, still wryly insightful and still absolutely heartbreaking. Happy birthday to the eponymous Purple Mountains.
Cassandra Jenkins, Jake Xerxes Fussell, HighSchool, Joe Goddard, Cigarettes After Sex, ODESZA and Thom Yorke.
Some really lush vocals, a couple of big moods, big pop bounce and some cinematics too.
Shin Joong Hyun, Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound, J Dilla, Mike Nyoni & Born Free, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter and Soul Jazz RASTAFARI.
A right little tour of wide world sounds. Toots, beats and clatter. Great stuff!
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
An absolute titan of pastoral folk rock lushness and a set of songs we have listened to more times than we could even fathom.
Kiasmos, KOKOKO!, Fink and Wild Billy Childish.
Minimal electronics that sweep, pounding electronics that thrill and nearly fifty years worth of lo-fi rock ‘n’ roll.
Lee Underwood, Sharon Van Etten, Plush, Shanghai’d Soul and Neil Young with Crazy Horse.
Guitars like divine sunrise, the sound of heartbreak, funk and soul essentials and Neil with The Horse.
The 2024 Midpoint...
Whooah... We’re halfway there! We have hit the exact halfway point in 2024 so we are checking in to see how it’s all been sounding so far. As 2024 is...
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Originally released at the start of 2009, Merriweather Post Pavilion was the ninth studio album from experimental pop adventurists Animal Collective. Man alive does it ever still ooze and wooze!
Mabe Fratti, Aaron Frazer, Causa Sui, Loma, Previous Industries, Hiatus Kaiyote, Dirty Three, SML and Pigbaby.
You absolutely can’t snooze on any of this week’s releases because we have some absolute belters for you. Great stuff.
Spiritualized®, Aphex Twin, Unwound, The Shacks, Queens Of The Stone Age and Grateful Dead.
Upbeat, downbeat, heavy, mellow, sad and joyous. A full and varied offering of new-not-new.
Discover slightly longer reads with an anthology of our favourite ‘Sunday Classic’ albums.
NOVEMBER
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Our November Record of the Month is Nobody Loves You More, the first full-length album from cult musician and legit cultural icon, Kim Deal.
FEATURE
The La’s - The La’s
One of the best eponymous albums ever. One of the finest debut albums ever. One of the most genuinely timeless albums ever.
SEPTEMBER
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale
The sound of early Autumn 2024 is very much the swirling and evocative combination of Anatolian rock and vintage global grooves…
FEATURE
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The iconic second LP from A Tribe Called Quest. An absolute classic of murky beats, hazy samples and bubbling lyrical flows.