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Altin Gün
Yol (LP) [ Glitterbeat / LP - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Altın Gün return with a masterful album that widens their critically acclaimed exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic stylings to include dreamy 80's synth-pop and dancefloor excursions. Yol (Road) brings together all vectors of the... |
Anthonie Tonnon
Leave Love Out Of This [ Slow Time Records / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Anthonie Tonnon produced Leave Love Out Of This with long-time collaborator, and The Beths' guitarist and producer, Jonathan Pearce. Tonnon wrote the bulk of the songs during an extensive period of touring after the release of Successor - a period... |
Anthonie Tonnon
Leave Love Out Of This (LP) [ Slow Time Records / LP - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Anthonie Tonnon produced Leave Love Out Of This with long-time collaborator, and The Beths' guitarist and producer, Jonathan Pearce. Tonnon wrote the bulk of the songs during an extensive period of touring after the release of Successor - a period... |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams [ Transgressive / CD - released 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... |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams (Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP) [ Transgressive / LP - released 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... |
Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams (LP) [ Transgressive / LP - released 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... |
Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever [ Universal / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Continuing the tradition on from her multi-GRAMMY Award, record-breaking debut album WHEN WE ALL GO TO SLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, Happier Than Ever features no outside songwriters or producers, and was written by 19-year-old Billie Eilish and her... |
Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever (Double Gatefold LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 30/Jul/2021 ] Continuing the tradition on from her multi-GRAMMY Award, record-breaking debut album WHEN WE ALL GO TO SLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, Happier Than Ever features no outside songwriters or producers, and was written by 19-year-old Billie Eilish and her... |
black midi
Cavalcade (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 28/May/2021 ] The groundwork for Cavalcade was laid in 2019 - musical sketches that had been brewing since the release of Schlagenheim began muscling their way into black midi set lists and finally became individual entities. But with this album, there was a... |
Cassandra Jenkins
An Overview On Phenomenal Nature (LP) [ Ba Da Bing! / LP - released 19/Feb/2021 ] "Nothing ever really disappears," Cassandra Jenkins says. "It just changes shape." Over the past few years, she has seen relationships altered, travelled three continents, wandered through museums and parks, and recorded free-associative guided tours... |
Chai
Wink (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 21/May/2021 ] CHAI is made up of identical twins MANA (lead vocals and keys) and KANA (guitar), drummer YUNA, and bassist-lyricist YUUKI. Following the release of 2019's PUNK, CHAI's adventures took them around the world, playing their high-energy and buoyant... |
Courtney Barnett
Things Take Time, Take Time [ Milk! / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] This album signals an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers and it sees her consolidating her place in the storied global lineage of ground-breaking and influential female singer-songwriters. Over the... |
Courtney Barnett
Things Take Time, Take Time (Limited Edition LP) [ Milk! / LP - released 12/Nov/2021 ] All Eyes on the Pavement Blue coloured vinyl. This album signals an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers and it sees her consolidating her place in the storied global lineage of ground-breaking and... |
Dry Cleaning
New Long Leg (LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 2/Apr/2021 ] New Long Leg is the debut album from Dry Cleaning, the South London group of Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals). The 10-track long-player, which includes 'Strong Feelings' and last year's... |
Fat Freddy's Drop
Wairunga (Double Gatefold LP) [ The Drop / 2 LP - released 19/Nov/2021 ] Wairunga finds the Freddy juggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience, with wild weather elements playing an important creative role. Wairunga, deep in Ngāti Kahungunu... |
Faye Webster
I Know I'm Funny haha [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] The latest full length from Faye Webster, including "Better Distractions" (which landed on Barack Obama's 2020 end of year playlist) I Know I'm Funny haha is Webster's most realized manifestation yet of this emotional and musical alchemy.... |
Faye Webster
I Know I'm Funny haha (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] The latest full length from Faye Webster, including "Better Distractions" (which landed on Barack Obama's 2020 end of year playlist) I Know I'm Funny haha is Webster's most realized manifestation yet of this emotional and musical alchemy.... |
Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Not strictly classical, jazz or ambient electronica, this one-track, nine-movement album embodies the highest, most etiolated aspects of all three disciplines. British artist Sam "Floating Points" Shepherd is the anchor here, an electronic free... |
Flock Of Dimes
Head Of Roses (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience of visceral songwriting. |
Gojira
Fortitude (LP) [ Roadrunner / Warner / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Fortitude is Gojira's first album in five years and the follow-up to 2016's Grammy nominated LP Magma. As if shedding skin and baring armour in its place, first single "Born For One Thing" represents a natural evolution for the acclaimed French... |
