The following Pop titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
Ashnikko
Demidevil (LP) [ Plguk / Warner / 12in - due 29/Jan/2021 ] "I just like being a little demon - a little devil hellraiser," Ashnikko giggles, her voice both razor-sharp and feather-light. The London-based American artist is describing the concept behind her new mixtape DEMIDEVIL, the cover art of which shows... |
Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns [ Sub Pop / Cassette - due 22/Jan/2021 ] Kiwi Jr. is a phenomenal "rock" and/or "punk" and/or "indie-rock" (whichever you like more) band from Canada, made up of Jeremy Gaudet (mic, guitar), Brohan Moore (drums), Mike Walker (bass), and Brian Murphy (guitar). Cooler Returns is their second... |
Shame
Drunk Tank Pink [ Dead Oceans / Cassette - due 5/Mar/2021 ] There are moments on Drunk Tank Pink where you almost have to reach for the sleeve to check this is the same band who made 2018's Songs Of Praise. Such is the jump Shame have made from the riotous post-punk of their debut to the sprawling adventurism... |
Sufjan Stevens
The Ascension [ Asthmatic Kitty / Cassette - due 22/Jan/2021 ] The long awaited follow-up to Carrie & Lowell, The Ascension is the eighth solo studio album from Sufjan Stevens. |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams [ Transgressive / CD - due 29/Jan/2021 ] Highly anticipated debut from 2020 breakthrough artist, musician and poet Arlo Parks. Speaking about her LP, Arlo says "My album is a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted... |
Bring Me The Horizon
Post Human: Survival Horror [ Sony / CD - due 22/Jan/2021 ] |
Estère
Archetypes [ Rough Peel Records / CD - due 22/Jan/2021 ] Ever since Estère spoke to her grandmother about Carl Jung and his concept of archetypes, the Wellington-based producer knew the direction her next album would take. Fascinated, Estère dedicated herself to creating a record based on Jungian theory,... |
Fleet Foxes
Shore [ Anti- / CD - due 5/Feb/2021 ] Shore was recorded before and during quarantine in Hudson (NY), Paris, Los Angeles, Long Island City and New York City from September 2018 until September 2020 with the help of recording and production engineer Beatriz Artola. The fifteen song,... |
Foo Fighters
Medicine At Midnight [ RCA / CD - due 5/Feb/2021 ] Foo Fighters will release their 10th studio album, Medicine at Midnight', this coming February. Produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, engineered by Darrell Thorp and mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent, Medicine at Midnight packs the following nine... |
Grant Haua
Awa Blues [ Dixefrog / CD - due 19/Feb/2021 ] "I picked up guitar when I was 13 and ended up trying to make a living out of it. Its hard to tell growing up and gigging in a small country like New Zealand but for the past 10 years that's what I've been trying to do! I've been the... |
Hans Zimmer
No Time To Die Original Soundtrack [ Decca / CD - due 2/Apr/2021 ] Hans Zimmer's first ever Bond score: the official soundtrack to the latest film in the James Bond saga, No Time To Die (2020). Joining Zimmer on scoring the soundtrack is Johnny Marr, who is also the featured guitarist on the OST, with additional... |
Jeff Tweedy
Love Is The King [ ADA / CD - due 12/Feb/2021 ] Surrounded by an assemblage of treasured instruments and loved ones in a world that felt more and more alien by the day, Love Is The King was recorded in April of 2020 at The Loft in Chicago. Love Is The King, a "beautifully honest ode to love and... |
Julia Stone
Sixty Summers (LP) [ BMG / ADA / CD - due 26/Mar/2021 ] With Julia Stone's new record comes the grit and glitter of the city, and all its attendant joys and dangers, romances and risks. No longer content to merely explore the wildernesses of folk and indie-rock, Sixty Summers, Stone's third solo outing,... |
Julia Stone
Sixty Summers [ BMG / ADA / CD - due 26/Mar/2021 ] With Julia Stone's new record comes the grit and glitter of the city, and all its attendant joys and dangers, romances and risks. No longer content to merely explore the wildernesses of folk and indie-rock, Sixty Summers, Stone's third solo outing,... |
Julien Baker
Little Oblivions [ Matador / CD - due 26/Feb/2021 ] Little Oblivions was recorded in Baker's hometown of Memphis, Tennessee between December 2019 and January 2020. It was engineered by Calvin Lauber and mixed by Craig Silvey (The National, Florence & the Machine, Arcade Fire). Baker's tactile guitar... |
Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns [ Sub Pop / CD - due 22/Jan/2021 ] Kiwi Jr. is a phenomenal "rock" and/or "punk" and/or "indie-rock" (whichever you like more) band from Canada, made up of Jeremy Gaudet (mic, guitar), Brohan Moore (drums), Mike Walker (bass), and Brian Murphy (guitar). Cooler Returns is their second... |
Lana Del Rey
Chemtrails Over The Country Club [ Interscope / CD - due 19/Mar/2021 ] |
London Grammar
Californian Soil [ Dew Process / CD - due 12/Feb/2021 ] |
Nils Frahm
Tripping With Nils Frahm [ Erased Tapes / CD - due 12/Feb/2021 ] A legendary artist at a legendary location: Tripping with Nils Frahm captures one of the world's most sought-after live acts performing at one of Berlin's most iconic buildings. When Nils Frahm kicked off his world tour at Funkhaus Berlin in... |
Orianthi
O [ The Orchard / CD - due 22/Jan/2021 ] Career-long fans are used to seeing their favourite world class guitarist playing arenas with rock royalty and global superstars like Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, Carrie Underwood, Alice Cooper and more. The juxtaposition of her newly arrived... |