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New albums: Bob Dylan, Jehnny Beth, Wesley Gonzalez, White Denim, Drab City, Larkin Poe, Orlando Weeks, GoGo Penguin, Blanco White

June 17, 2020 Peter Kimpton
This week’s album picks, beginnig with GoGo Penguin (top right)

This week’s album picks, beginnig with GoGo Penguin (top right)

One of the best from Bob in years leads out this week’s team of releases, alongside some outstanding work from former lead singers from other bands, including from Savages, The Macabees and Let’s Wrestle, among others

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In albums, ambient, blues, classical, dance music, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, soundtracks Tags albums, new releases, Bob Dylan, Jehnny Beth, Wesley Gonzalez, White Denim, Drab City, Larkin Poe, Orlando Weeks, GoGo Penguin, Blanco White, Columbia Records, 20L07 Music, Moshi Moshi, Radio Milk Records, Bella Union, Tricki-Woo Records, PIAS, Blue Note, Yucatan Records
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New albums: Run The Jewels, The Nightingales, Sports Team, Rolling Blackouts CF, Brigid Dawson, Brigid Mae Power, LA Priest, The Stroppies, Westerman

June 9, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Nine more delights to peruse

Nine more delights to peruse

As well as a powerful Run The Jewels release raising funds for protester legal rights, this week’s selection is packed with excellent independent bands’ work, especially The Nightingales, plus Brigid Dawson, Sports Team, The Stroppies and more

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In albums, ambient, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, punk, rock, soul, traditional Tags albums, new releases, Run The Jewels, The Nightingales, Sports Team, Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network, Brigid Mae Power, Rolling BlackOuts Coastal Fever, LA Priest, The Stroppies, Westerman, RBC, BMG, Bandcamp, Island Records, Sub Pop, Castle Face, Fire Records, Domino Records, PIAS, Partisan Records
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New albums: Lady Gaga, Deerhoof, The Cool Greenhouse, Nicole Atkins, Coriky, Blake Mills, Caleb Landry Jones, PINS, Choir Boy, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

June 3, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Match the covers to the artists …

Match the covers to the artists …

This week’s selection includes Lady Gaga throwing in the full pop kitchen sink, an apocalyptic concept from Deerfhoof, a witty debut by The Cool Greenhouse, plus Nicole Atkins, Blake Mills, PINS and more

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In albums, ambient, blues, classical, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional, soundtracks Tags new releases, albums, Lady Gaga, Deerhoof, The Cool Greenhouse, Nicole Atkins, Coriky, Blake Mills, Caleb Landry Jones, PINS, Choir Boy, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Streamline, Interscope, Joyful Noise Recordings, Bandcamp, Melodic Records, Single Lock Records, Dischord, New Deal, Sacred Bones Records, Dais Records, Flightless Records
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New albums: Tim Burgess, The 1975, Badly Drawn Boy, Nnamdï, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Woods, Eve Owen, Nídia, Jessica Winter

May 27, 2020 Peter Kimpton
This week’s selection in celebrity squares

This week’s selection in celebrity squares

A gentle and melancholy trend infuses this week’s selection, including Tim Burgess and Badly Drawn Boy, Woods, Eve Owen, Steve Earle’s memorial to coalminers, plus an eclectic The 1975, and pop electronica by Jessica Winter

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In African, albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, soul Tags new releases, albums, Tim Burgess, The 1975, Badly Drawn Boy, Nnamdï, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Woods, Eve Owen, Nídia, Jessica Winter, Bella Union, Dirty Hit, Polydor, Last Fruit Records, Sooper Records, New West Country Records, Woodsist Records, 37d03d, Príncipe, Roya, Warp Records
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New albums: Sparks, Perfume Genius, Nick Hakim, Charli XCX, The Magnetic Fields, Jason Isbell, Frazey Ford, Sleaford Mods, Hanni el Khatib, Witch 'n' Monk

May 19, 2020 Peter Kimpton
This week’s shiny new album selection collection

This week’s shiny new album selection collection

This week’s roundup has a wealth of genre-spanning artists from the wit and wisdom of Sparks and Magnetic Fields to the low-key funk of Nick Hakim, the gender-redefining pop of Perfume genius to the fusions of Witch ‘n’ Monk

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In albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, dub, experimental, folk, funk, grime, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional Tags albums, new releases, Sparks, Perfume Genius, Nick Hakim, Charli XCX, The Magnetic Fields, Jason Isabell and the 400 Unit, Frazey Ford, Sleaford Mods, Hanni El Khatib, Witch 'n' Monk, BMG, Matador Records, ATO Records, Nonesuch Records, Arts and Crafts, Innovative Leisure, Tzadik Records, Southeastern Records, Rough Trade
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New albums: Mark Lanegan, Moses Sumney, Hayley Williams, Blake Mills, I Break Horses, Watkins Family Hour, Modern Studies, Kavus Torabi, Ecuador various

May 12, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan

This week’s roundup includes a gritty but musical journey to accompany Mark Lanegan’s memoirs, a solo album the the Paramore singer, and Part Two of Moses Sumney’s extraordinary funk/jazz falsetto album

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In albums, ambient, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, soul Tags albums, new releases, Mark Lanegan, Moses Sumney, Hayley Williams, Paramore, Blake Mills, I Break Horses, Watkins Family Hour, Modern Studies, Kavus Torabi, Various, Heavenly Recordings, Jagjaguwar, Atlantic Records, New Deal, PIAS, Bella Union, Family Hour, Thirty Tigers, Fire Records, Bandcamp, Air Texture
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New albums: Car Seat Headrest, Damien Jurado, Ghostpoet, Happyness, Michael J Sheehy, Lavinia Blackwall, The Soft Pink Truth, Rose McGowan, Ben Lukas Boysen, Various for NHS

May 6, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Lavinia Blackwall, formerly of Trembling Bells, releases her debut LP Muggington Lane End

Lavinia Blackwall, formerly of Trembling Bells, releases her debut LP Muggington Lane End

This week’s roundup includes some new music self-definition from Car Seat Headrest and Happyness, an eclectic mix from Ghostpoet, and two wonderful solo albums by Michael J Sheehy and Lavinia Blackwall

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In albums, ambient, blues, electronica, experimental, folk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, soul, traditional Tags albums, new releases, Car Seat Headrest, Will Toledo, Damien Jurado, Ghostpoet, Happyness, Michael J Sheehy, Miraculous Mule, Lavinia Blackwall, Trembling Bells, The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel, Matmos, Rose McGowan, Ben Lukas Boysen, Various, NHS, Foals, The Vaccines, The Big Moon, Sports Team, Wolf Alice, Baxter Dury, The Wombats, The Magic Gang, Nilüfer Yanya, Spector, Swim Deep, The Orielles, Pixx, Jessica Winter, Oscar Lang, Alfie Templeton, Matador Records, Loose Music, PIAS, Infinit Suds, Bandcamp, Thrill Jockey, Erased Tapes
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New albums: BC Camplight, Ezra Furman, Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes, Hazel English, Lucinda Williams, Santrofi, Lennon Stella, Kirsty Merryn, Sneakbo, Joe Hisaishi, Pole

April 30, 2020 Peter Kimpton
BC Camplight

BC Camplight

This week’s roundup includes the finest yet from humorously dark BC Camplight, the Sex Education soudntrack by Ezra Furman, transcendant pop from Hazel English and a gorgeous compilation by the Studio Ghibili composer Joe Hisaishi

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In African, albums, ambient, blues, classical, country, dance music, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, grime, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, punk, rock, soul, soundtracks, traditional, trip-hop Tags albums, new releases, BC Camplight, Ezra Furman, Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes, Hazel English, Lucinda Williams, Santrofi, Lennon Stella, Kirsty Merryn, Sneakbo, Joe Hisaishi, Pole, Bella Union, Beyond The Groove, Marathon Artists, Highway 20 Records, Outhere, Insanity Records, Island Records, Warp Records, Decca Gold, Decca, UMG Japan, Mute Records
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New albums: Fiona Apple, EOB Ed O'Brien (Radiohead), Rina Sawayama, Gerry Cinnamon, Sonikku, Plone, Shabazz Palaces, Holly Penfield

April 22, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Fiona Apple. Her new album is finally cut free after eight years since the last

Fiona Apple. Her new album is finally cut free after eight years since the last

This week’s roundup includes an extraordinary, viscerally non-digital return by Fiona Apple, Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Cinnamon, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, and Japanese pop star Rina Sawayama

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In albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, jazz, metal, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, soul, traditional, trip-hop Tags albums, new releases, Fiona Apple, Ed O'Brien, EOB, Radiohead, Rina Sawayama, Gerry Cinnamon, Sonikku, Plone, Shabazz Palaces, Holly Penfield, Epic, Capitol Records, Dirty Hit, Little Runaway, Bella Union, Ghost Box, Sub Pop
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New albums: The Strokes, Laura Marling, Jackie Lynn, Pokey LaFarge, Flat Worms, Margaret Glaspy, Irma Vep, Hailu Mergia, Denzel Curry + Kenny Beats, DJ Python

April 15, 2020 Peter Kimpton
The Strokes

The Strokes

Strong new LPs from The Strokes and Laura Marling reflect signs of the times, while eclectic records from Jackie Lynn and Pokey LaFarge, and excellent postpunk from Flat Worms and Irma Vep are also among this week’s 10 picks

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In African, albums, ambient, blues, classical, country, dance music, dub, electronica, folk, experimental, funk, grime, garage, hip hop, hip-hop, indie, jazz, metal, musical theatre, pop, post-punk, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional Tags albums, new releases, The Strokes, Laura Marling, Jackie Lynn, Haley Fohr, Pokey LaFarge, Flat Worms, Margaret Glaspy, Irma Vep, Hailu Mergia, Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats, DJ Python, Cult Records, Columbia Records, Partisan Records, Chrysalis, Drag City, New West Records, God? Records, PIAS, ATO Records, Gringo Records, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Loma Vista, Incensio
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New albums: Yves Tumor, Thundercat, Pigs x 7, Everything Is Recorded, Yaeji, Minor Science, Anna Burch, Ren Harvieu, Tops, M Ward

April 8, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Yves Tumor: mysterious, inventive androgyny

Yves Tumor: mysterious, inventive androgyny

An opulent selection of funk and electronica innovation comes from Yves Tumor and Thundercat, along with Korean artist Yaeji and Berlin’s Minor Science, plus massive metal of Pigs x 7 and beautiful indie and pop by Anna Burch and Ren Harvieu

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In albums, ambient, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, hip-hop, indie, jazz, metal, pop, prog-rock, psychedelia, rock, soul, trip-hop Tags Yves Tumor, new releases, albums, Thundercat, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Everything Is Recorded, Richard Russell, Yaeji, Minor Science, Anna Burch, Ren Harvieu, Tops, M Ward, Warp Records, Brainfeeder, Rocket Recordings, XL Recordings, Whities, Heavenly Recordings, Bella Union, Musique Tops, ANTI Records
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New albums: Dana Gavanski, Waxahatchee, Sorry, Dua Lipa, Sufjan Stevens, Pearl Jam, Stephen Malkmus, Wu Fei, Abigail Washburn, The Chats, Shabaka Hutchings, Daniel Avery, Brian Fallon

March 31, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Dana Gavanski, from the video for Yesterday is Gone

Dana Gavanski, from the video for Yesterday is Gone

This week’s huge roundup includes a wide range of the soft and loud, the traditional and the experimental, from beautiful songwriting by Dana Gavanski and Waxahatchee, Aussie punks The Chats, and ambient music from Sufjan Stevens

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In albums, ambient, country, classical, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, indie, jazz, metal, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional, grunge Tags albums, new releases, Dana Gavanski, Waxahatchee, Sorry, Dua Lipa, Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams, Pearl Jam, Stephen Malkmus, Wu Fei, Abigail Washburn, The Chats, Shabaka Hutchings, Shabaka and the Ancestors, The Comet Is Coming, Sons of Kemet, Daniel Avery, Alessandro Cortini, Brian Fallon, Mike Lindsay, Nine Inch Nails, Full Time Hobby, Merge Records, Domino Records, Warner Bros, Asthmatic Kitty, Smithsonian Folkways, Bargain Bin, Republic, Impulse Records, Phantasy Sound, PIAS, Lesser Known Records
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New albums: Childish Gambino, Låpsley, Roger and Brian Eno, Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, Morrissey, Baxter Dury, Jessie Reyez, J Balvin, Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty, Xoros

March 25, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover

Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover

Among this week’s selection is new experimental hip hop by the artist also known as Donald Glover, singer-songwriter Lapsley, Brian Eno collaborating with brother Roger and another duo of two African jazz greats

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In African, albums, ambient, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip-hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, trip-hop Tags albums, new releases, Childish Gambino, Donald Glover, Låpsley, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela, Baxter Dury, Morrissey, Jessie Reyez, J Balvin, Matthew Tavares, Leland Whitty, Badbadnotgood, XOROS, XL Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, World Circuit, Heavenly Recordings, BMG, Island Records, FMLY, Universal Music Latino, Mr Bongo, Truant Recordings
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New albums: Porridge Radio, CocoRosie, Ultraísta, Nadia Reid, JFDR, Maria McKee, Yumi Zouma, Honey Cutt, The Wants, The Boomtown Rats

March 18, 2020 Peter Kimpton
CocoRosie aka sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady

CocoRosie aka sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady

A big, broad week of releases includes a mix of new and old artists, from the passionate female artists Porridge Radio, Nadia Reid and JFDR, the return of Nigel Godrich’s electronica project, to veterans Maria McKee and the Boomtown Rats

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In albums, ambient, dance music, electronica, dub, experimental, folk, funk, garage, indie, hip hop, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul Tags albums, new releases, Porridge Radio, CocoRosie, Ultraísta, Nigel Godrich, JFDR, Maria McKee, Yumi Zouma, Honey Cutt, The Wants, The Boomtown Rats, Secretly Canadian, Marathon Artists, Partisan Records, Spacebomb Records, Krunk, AFAR, Polyvinyl, Nonesuch Records, Council Records, Kanine, BMG
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New albums: Cornershop, Riz Ahmed, Caroline Rose, U.S. Girls, Honey Harper, Disq, Paul Heaton, Jackie Abbott, Georgia Ruth, Brielle Ansems

March 10, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Cornershop’s new album, England Is A Garden

Cornershop’s new album, England Is A Garden

The latest roundup includes A sian perspectives on Britain in different forms by Cornershop and Riz Ahmed, plus clever collage pop from U.S. Girls, Caroline Rose and punchy indie from Disq

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In albums, ambient, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, punk, rock, reggae, soul, traditional, trip-hop Tags new releases, albums, Cornershop, Tjinder Singh, Riz Ahmed, Caroline Rose, U.S. Girls, Honey Harper, Disq, Paul Heaton, Jackie Abbott, The Beautiful South, Georgia Ruth, Brielle Ansems, Ample Play, Mongrel, New West Records, 4AD, ATO Records, Saddle Creek Records, EMI, Bubblewrap Collective, Mosaic Music
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New albums: Moses Sumney, Caribou, The Orielles, Soccer Mommy, The Lost Brothers, Myrkur, Vladislav Delay, The Heliocentrics, Alabaster DePlume, Cold Beat, Kevin Krauter

March 3, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Moses Sumney

Moses Sumney

The latest roundup includes a multi-genre double by Moses Sumney, melancholy electronica from Caribou, funk-indie-pop from the Orielles as well as Scandinavian selections from Denmark’s black metal queen doing folk

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In albums, ambient, dance music, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, grime, hip hop, indie, jazz, metal, pop, post-punk, prog-rock, psychedelia, punk, rock, soul, traditional, trip-hop Tags albums, new releases, Moses Sumney, Caribou, Dan Snaith, The Orielles, Soccer Mommy, Sophie Allison, The Lost Brothers, Oisin Leech, Mark McCausland, Myrkur, Amalie Bruun, Vladislav Delay, Sasu Ripatti, The Heliocentrics, Cold Beat, Kevin Krauter, Jagjaguwar, City Slang, Heavenly Recordings, Concord Records, Bird Dog, Relapse, Cosmo Rhythmatic, Madlib Invazion, DFA, Bayonet, Alabaster DePlume, Lost Map Records, Total Refreshment Centre
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New albums: Grimes, Agnes Obel, King Krule, Pictish Trail, Lanterns on the Lake, Douglas Dare, Peggy Sue, Best Coast

February 24, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Grimes

Grimes

A truly eclectic lineup characterises this week’s roundup with a concept album from Grimes, a work of ethereal beauty from Agnes Obel, space electronic-folk from The Pictish Trail, and much more …

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In albums, ambient, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, rock, soul Tags albums, new releases, Grimes, Agnes Obel, King Krule, The Pictish Trail, Lanterns of the Lake, Douglas Dare, Peggy Sue, Best Coast, Deutsche Grammophon, 4AD, Fire Records, XL Recordings, Matador Records, Bella Union, PIAS, Erased Tapes, Concord Records
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New albums: Tame Impala, Moses Boyd, Katie Gatley, Seth Lakeman, Nathaniel Rateliff, Mush, Eyelids, Boniface, Beach Bunny

February 18, 2020 Peter Kimpton
From the cover artwork for Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush

From the cover artwork for Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush

This week’s selection includes some smooth funk pop from Slow Impala, pioneering jazz from Moses Boyd, extraordinary electronica from Katie Gatley, and refreshing indie from Mush and Beach Bunny

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In albums, ambient, blues, dance music, country, electronica, experimental, folk, indie, jazz, pop, psychedelia, prog-rock, rock, soul Tags Songs, albums, new releases, Tame Impala, Moses Boyd, Katie Gatley, Seth Lakeman, Nathaniel Rateliff, Mush, Eyelids, Boniface, Beach Bunny, Fiction Records, Exodus, Houndstooth, BMG, Stax Records, Memphis Industries, Decor Records, Transgressive, Mom + Pop Records
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New albums: Destroyer, Squarepusher, Drive-By Truckers, Sam Lee, Ben Watt, Smoke Fairies, J Hus, Frances Quinian

February 5, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Old folk made new: Sam Lee

Old folk made new: Sam Lee

Emotional intensity mostly in solo form, is the overriding theme of this week’s album roundup across a range of styles – folk, indie, alt-country and hip hop as well frenetic drum-n’bass and jazz

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In albums, ambient, country, dance music, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, grime, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, rock, soul, psychedelia Tags Destroyer, Dan Bejar, Squarepusher, Drive-By Truckers, Sam Lee, Elizabeth Fraser, Bernard Butler, Ben Watt, Everything But The Girl, Smoke Fairies, J Hus, Frances Quinian, Dead Oceans, Warp Records, ATO Records, Cooking Vinyl, Unmade Road, Year Seven, Black Butter, Saddle Creek Records
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New albums: Pet Shop Boys, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Okay Kaya, Jim Noir, Nicolas Godin, Twin Atlantic, Poliça, Basic Plumbing

January 29, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

The second of this week’s roundups includes the return of the Pet Shop Boys, raw emotion from Sarah Mary Chadwick, eccentric pop from OKay Kaya and laid back electronica from Jim Noir

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In albums, ambient, blues, country, dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, garage, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, post-punk, psychedelia, rock, soul, trip-hop Tags new releases, albums, Pet Shop Boys, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Okay Kaya, Jim Noir, Nicolas Godin, Air, Twin Atlantic, Poliça, Basic Plumbing, Kobalt, X2, Sinderlyn, Jagjaguwar, Dook Recordings, Because Records, EMI, Memphis Industries
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Nov 27, 2024
Kendrick Lamar: GNX
Nov 27, 2024

New album: Braggadocio, flamboyant personas and diss rap is nothing new in hip hop, but the genre’s current chief innovator and Pulitzer Prize winner presents an artfully inventive form filled with eye-poppingly agile, madcap, mischievous wordsmithery, in this surprise new release filled with playful stylistic switches and some surprise targets

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 27, 2024
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens: American Railroad
Nov 27, 2024

New album: The latest in the Nashville singer’s projects with an international collective of musicians interprets traditional creates new folk songs, themed the tough history of the US rail frontier that was mostly built by Irish, African American, Chinese and Japanese immigrants

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
Poppy Ajudha: Poppy
Nov 25, 2024

New album: The south London singer-songwriter’s sophomore LP takes different direction to her 2022’s more social and political issue-based debut The Power In Us, with a more mainstream route of stylish, smart, soaring pop, soul and R&B centred on fraught, divided, candid emotions

Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
Jack Cheshire: Interloper
Nov 25, 2024

New album: Following 2020’s acclaimed Fractal Future Plays, the British experimental musician returns with his sixth LP, an excellent exploration across pastoral psychedelia, lysergic polyrhythms and beautiful field recordings on tricky themes of belonging in age of post-Brexit and gentrification

Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More
Nov 23, 2024

New album: After various singles over the years, the former Pixies member, and Breeders musician finally releases her first full solo album, a truly fabulous execution of superb songwriting, sharp, heartbreak lyrics, diverse musical styles and instruments across indie, rock and pop, all performed with beautiful tenderness, grit and gusto

Nov 23, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes
Nov 23, 2024

New album: A fourth album by the Mercury prize-winner, another gorgeously crafted and performed set of songs drawing on 70s soul and slowly simmering psychedelic rock, and the third produced by Danger Mouse and Inflo

Nov 23, 2024
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Nov 22, 2024
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana
Nov 22, 2024

New album: The king of killer opening lines Josh Tillman returns with another majestic, beautifully melodic, grandiose, playfully clever, darkly humorous and philosophical set of eight epic songs fuelled by a sense of mortality and enduring irony

Nov 22, 2024
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Nov 19, 2024
Fazerdaze: Soft Power
Nov 19, 2024

New album: This sophomore album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Amelia Rahayu Murray is dreamy, soft-sheen, shoegazey “bedroom stadium” electro-pop and indie on themes of womanhood, devotion and compassion

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 19, 2024
She Drew The Gun: Howl
Nov 19, 2024

New album: Powerful, passionate highly accomplished fourth indie-rock album by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach and band from Wirral in Merseyside, one broadening her musical scope and perspective, not just socio-political and soul-searching personal, but also spanning eons, fuelled by some personal heartbreak

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre Unique
Nov 18, 2024

New album: Wonderfully energetic, rhythmic stylish, inventive and witty sixth album by the 12-piece experimental Geneva collective who sing politically in French and English, their music decorated with oodles of of clever brass, violins, double-bass, marimbas, percussion and more

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Sofie Royer: Young-Girl Forever
Nov 18, 2024

New album: The California-born, Vienna-based Iranian-Austrian multidisciplinary artist’s newest LP is a very catchy mix of eclectic, political and mainstream, electro-pop, disco and new wave, centred on the contradictions of being a female artist today with all of its freedoms and capitalist trappings

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 17, 2024
Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty
Nov 17, 2024

New album: With a startling new look, the multi-talented British singer-songwriter and video artist Beth Jeans Houghton returns with her powerfully anthemic glam rock, grunge pop and fuzz guitar indie in this follow-up to 2021’s Homecoming

Nov 17, 2024
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Nov 16, 2024
Warmduscher: Too Cold To Hold
Nov 16, 2024

New album: The mischievous mayhem post-punk band of Clams Baker Jr.), Mr. Salt Fingers Lovecraft, Quicksand, The Witherer, Three Piece aka the Worm and Bleucifer return with more songs on the seedier side of life, but also one of their most musically adventurous LPs of their five, with guest vocalists including Lianne La Havas, Janet Planet and Coucou Chlo

Nov 16, 2024
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Nov 14, 2024
Fie Eike: Water
Nov 14, 2024

New album: A delicately beautiful distillation through fluid subject in different contexts by the Copenhagen-based artist composer and singer, Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, with Norwegian roots, creating a soundscape from piano, electronic elements and natural field recordings

Nov 14, 2024

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Nov 27, 2024
Song of the Day: Les Amazones d’Afrique - Wa Jo (featuring Jemiriye and Mamani Ke​ï​ta)
Nov 27, 2024

Song of the Day: A fabulous, feisty, Afro-electro dance track by the female collective, calling for women of all sizes to unite on the dancefloor ‘without fear or worry’ and featuring newest member Nigerian singer Jemiriye on lead vocals alongside founding member Mamani Keïta

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 26, 2024
Song of the Day: Sophie Jamieson - How Do You Want To Be loved?
Nov 26, 2024

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, gut-wrenching, intimate folk and electronica single by the London-based singer-songwriter about trying to find forgiveness when faced with pain, from the upcoming album, I Still Want To Share, out on 17 January 2025 on Bella Union

Nov 26, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
Song of the Day: SASAMI - Just Be Friends
Nov 25, 2024

Song of the Day: Superbly soaring, stirring, classy melodic rock-pop by the Los Angeles singer-songwriter and classically trained French horn player Sasami Ashworth, with a new single about that sense of dizzying longing in that in-between state of an ambiguous relationship, and heralding her next album, Blood On The Silver Screen

Nov 25, 2024
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Nov 24, 2024
Song of the Day: Kelora - Something Else
Nov 24, 2024

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, shimmering, haunting psychedelic dream pop and cyber folk by the Glasgow-formed, London-based duo of Kitty Hall and Benedict Salter, heralding their new album, Sleepers, out on 10 February via True Panther Records

Nov 24, 2024
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Nov 23, 2024
Song of the Day: Marie Davidson - Sexy Clown
Nov 23, 2024

Song of the Day: The Canadian DJ-producer, electronic musician and vocalist returns with a sassy, talky, catchy, witty electro-pop dance number heralding her new album, City of Clowns, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau out 28 February 2025, via Soulwax’s own DEEWEE label

Nov 23, 2024
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Nov 22, 2024
Song of the Day: Franz Ferdinand - Night or Day
Nov 22, 2024

Song of the Day: Glasgow’s favourite art-pop-rockers, fronted by the articulate Alex Kapranos, return with another catchy, jaunty new love song heralding their forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out 10 January 2025 on Domino Records

Nov 22, 2024
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Nov 21, 2024
Song of the Day: Sunny War - Walking Contradiction
Nov 21, 2024

Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress

Nov 21, 2024
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Nov 20, 2024
Song of the Day: Echolalia - Odd Energy
Nov 20, 2024

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby

Nov 20, 2024
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Nov 19, 2024
Song of the Day: Getdown Services - Dog Dribble
Nov 19, 2024

Song of the Day: Droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves by the enterainingly downbeat Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler taken from their new EP, Your Medal’s In The Post, out on Breakfast Records

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Song of the Day: FEET - Number One
Nov 18, 2024

Song of the Day: Following the excellent Make It Up album in the summer, a strutting, catchy new indie single by the London five-piece band, out on Submarine Cat Records

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 17, 2024
Song of the Day: Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Nov 17, 2024

Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe

Nov 17, 2024
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Nov 16, 2024
Song of the Day: Decius - Birth Of A Smirk / Walking In The Heat
Nov 16, 2024

Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher

Nov 16, 2024

Word of the week

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Nov 27, 2024
Word of the week: broticolous
Nov 27, 2024

Word of the week: Mice, rats, spiders, foxes to raccoons, this obscure adjective, connected to the French noun broticole, this relates to any animal and insect species with a tendency to live around and alongside humans and their dwellings perhaps as scavengers, but also showing adaptability

Nov 27, 2024
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Nov 15, 2024
Word of the week: circumbendibus
Nov 15, 2024

Word of the week: Not a snaking elongated piece of public transport but still a very evocative 17th-century word for a circuitous, long-winded route or way of doing something or telling a story …

Nov 15, 2024
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Oct 16, 2024
Word of the week: doch-an-dorris
Oct 16, 2024

Word of the week: From the17th-century Scottish Gaelic phrase, deoch an doruis (and also with the form deochandorus), this literally means “door-drink” – a toast made with, or to honour, someone about to depart

Oct 16, 2024
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Oct 4, 2024
Word of the week: eel-skins / excruciators
Oct 4, 2024

Word of the week: Aside from the literal outer layer of the ray-finned slippery fish, this evocative, slightly suggestive 19th-century slang means very tight trousers, while this week’s bonus word, excruciators, points to the experience of wearing very tight shoes

Oct 4, 2024
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Sep 19, 2024
Word of the week: flittermouse
Sep 19, 2024

Word of the week: With other variants such as flickermouse and flinder-mouse, this rather charming Tudor-period English noun is a rather evocative and onomatopoeically descriptive one for that quietly sonic-guided night creature – the bat

Sep 19, 2024
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