Records of the Week: Georgia, Cosmic Neighbourhood, Dot Allison, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Daniel Rossen, Jessy Lanza and Aphex Twin.
Loads of this week weaves between dreamy and pounding. We’re feeling the trip.
Best New Reissues: Nina Simone, Ornette Coleman, Mort Garson, Lonnie Smith, Ike Quebec and Lounge Exotica!
Lots of Jazz modes, synthesiser bleeps and some highly intoxicating Exotica…
Records of the Week: blur, Cut Worms, Miss Tiny, The Holy Family and Molly Tuttle.
A short collection of new musical directions, spearheaded by an epic return.
Best New Reissues: Codeine, Idris Muhammad, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Ramona Lisa and Studio One 007; Licensed to Ska!
Kiss Kiss, bang bang; we’re talking slowcore through spiritual jazz.
blur: Listening Party
On Wednesday 19th July, we'll be exclusively playing the new blur album for the very first time. Come join us. The Ballad of Darren is the band's first album in...
Records of the Week: Snõõper, Sam Burton, Current Affairs, Being Dead and Ubiquitous Meh!
Quite a few guitars this week and they all get cranked.
Best New Reissues: Gal Costa, The Endless Coloured Ways, Gwenno, Beverly Glenn Copeland, Sonny Clark, Hank Mobley and Karen Dalton.
More compelling voices and Kevin Gray-mastered must-haves.
Record of the Month: Georgia -Euphoric
Our seventh Record of the Month for 2023 is Euphoric, a proper joyous set of bangers from Georgia.
Records of the Week: ANOHNI and the Johnsons, PJ Harvey, Julie Byrne, King Gizzard, Lifeguard, Hawksmoor and Gabriels.
It’s July’s first new release offering and we’re an embarrassment of riches.
Best New Reissues: Lewis Taylor, Fairpoint Convention, King Geedorah, Six Finger Satellite, Ayako Shinozaki and Serge Gainsbourg.
The lost, re-found, early Fairport and Serge’s other masterpiece.
Half Way Point 2023
Welcome to July, we’ve hit the halfway point so we’re taking a look backwards at the last few months and how 2023 has sounded thus far.
Records of the Week: Bdrmm, Grian Chatten, Angelo De Augustine, Boom Pam, Phi-Psonics, Brigid Mae Power and Joanna Sternberg.
Some astonishing vocals this week, plus the odd bit of rattling distortion too!
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.