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This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze

Record of the Week is the marvellous new Moonshine Freeze from This Is The Kit. Recorded with John Parish, Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables and her band (Rozi Plain, Jamie Whitby-Coles, Neil Smith and...

Floating Points - Mojave Desert

Record of the Week is Mojave Desert by Floating Points and it is exceptional. He is one of the most subtle and skillful producers around. It is, in fact, less 'him'...

Laurel Halo - Dust

Record of the week is Dust, the third LP from Laurel Halo. It was recorded over two years at the EMPAC performing arts center in upstate New York and features...

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

Hugely anticipated third Fleet Foxes studio LP lands today. Crack-Up ends a six-year hiatus and you'd well believe it has taken them the entire break to construct this. It is honestly...

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister - Planetarium

Record of the Week is a really striking collaborative concept record. Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner (of The National), contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly, percussionist...

Ulrika Spacek - Modern English Decoration

Our record of the week is Modern English Decoration, the hazy second LP from Ulrika Spacek. We have been all week streaming it in full on our blog and it's an...

Crescent - Resin Pockets

Honestly now, this knocked us sideways when we first heard it. Matt Jones returns as Crescent on The Pastels' Geographic Music imprint. Resin Pockets is his first album in ten...

Aldous Harding - Party

Record of the Week is a stunner from Aldous Harding. Party is the second studio album (first with 4AD) from New Zealander and Sea Change 2017 performer. Produced by John Parish (PJ...

Will Stratton - Rosewood Almanac

Record of the Week is Rosewood Almanac, the beautifully intricate new LP from Will Stratton.It's his sixth studio LP (he's a good ten years into record making), but his first...

Slowdive - Slowdive

It could have been one of any of a dozen candidates, but we have chosen this week's Record of the Week to be the new, self-titled album from Slowdive. It's...

Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle

Record of the week is Gargoyle, the new LP from Mark Lanegan. Man! He's been doing some amazing work recently with long drawn out subtlety, but Gargoyle is like a thump... it's euphoric...

GAS - Narkopop

Nearly two decades after the last official GAS album release, Wolfgang Voigt returns to his iconic Ambient project with a brand new full-length.  Narkopop is an album of gloriously unsettling...