Best New Reissues: Pixies, Dry Cleaning, Buzzcocks, Hakushi Hasegawa, Looper, The Rolling Stones and the Louis Wayne Moody Pictures vaults.
Prime cut Pixies BBC jams, proper Brainfeeders, Brian Jones and serious noir chic!
Betty Davis - Nasty Gal
Nasty Gal is the third studio album from Betty Davis, a rasped and yelping mid-seventies explosion of funk, soul and sex.
Records of the Week: Kim Gordon, Astrel K, Meatbodies, Charles Moothart, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and Bolis Pupul.
You got it turned up right? This week you need to really turn it all up.
Best New Reissues: Karen Dalton, Jackie Mclean, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Desire, Nick Mulvey and The Tragar & Note Labels.
One of our favourite voices, Jazz in abundance and pure red-hot Atlanta Soul.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
F# A# ∞ is the 1997 debut LP from Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a stark and all consuming record of absolute magnitude.
Records of the Week: Pissed Jeans, Sheer Mag, Squarepusher, Faye Webster, Sheherazaad, Master Peace, and Mildlife.
Special Leap Day greetings with all the week’s new offerings in one place. It sounds great!
Best New Reissues: Neil Young, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Can, Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals, Bill Fay, Gabor Zabo and more…
We tell yer what, this week’s (new) not-new sounds are both ample and absolutely fantastic.
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Released in September 1970, Curtis is the eponymous solo debut from Curtis Mayfield, an album soothing soul and biting social commentary.
Records of the Week: Ghost Funk Orchestra, Lætitia Sadier, Toadliquor, Real Estate, Nadine Shah, Revival Season, Children’s hour, Liam Bailey and Yard Act.
Lots and lots of newness with pretty much all bases covered. Great stuff.
Best New Reissues: Mystic Tide, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Kate Bush and We've Got A Funky Beat.
Turntable essentials, it’s your weekly new-not-new sounds.
Fridge - Happiness
A sprawling and intricate album that wasn’t just well ahead of its time, it was entirely different to pretty much everything else.
Records of the Week: Omni, IDLES, Royel Otis, Grandaddy, Les Amazones d'Afrique, HEALTH, William Doyle and Levitation Room.
Okay, so this week really is salad days at the record shop; a good dozen or so really great new albums to check out.
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.