Here is our roundup of this week’s new releases.
Poppycock Magic Mothers
Founding member of both The Fall and Blue Orchids. The album has the emotional fierceness set against pop arrangements from acts like Look Blue Go Purple and Dead Famous People, or the spare pop jazziness found in songs by Marine Girls, Tracey Thorn’s pre-fame combo.
Richard Hawley In This City They Call You Love
12 tracks of vintage Hawley, including plenty of ballads that find him in splendid voice.
Niamh Regan Come As For Are
Irish alt-folk artist with an album whose themes are the issues that many of us find loom large in the small hours: questions of self-doubt, uncertainty about your life’s direction, whether relationships are flourishing in the way you’d hoped and determining priorities.
Ora Cogan Formless
Her smoky, psychedelic approach to gothic country and hazy folk merges with post-punk, groove, psych rock, and traditional balladry.
Martha Rose Close to Close
An album that uses sampled voices, water, flutes, and breathy synth sounds alongside drum machines and a collection of vintage Yamaha keyboards.
Becky Hill Believe Me Now?
Three-time Best Dance Act nominee at the Brits whose latest sees her digging even deeper into her life-long passion for underground dance music and club culture.
Idaho Lapse
IDAHO’s 10th studio album and first all-new collection in more than 13 years. US indie rock.
Wormwood The Star
The concluding part of Swedish metal band’s Trilogy of Death takes listeners on a journey through a dying universe.
Gaffa Tape Sandy Hold My Hand, God Damn It
Punk trio with a frustrated-yet-compassionate, cathartic celebration of friendship and reconciliation in difficult times.
Peter Bibby Drama King
Australian wordsmith celebrated as inherently working-class and wholeheartedly independent.
Imogen Clark The Art of Getting Through
Combining surging alt-pop foundations with the impossible-to-ignore drama and infectiousness of classic ‘80s pop with the empowerment and vulnerabilities of the strident female singer-songwriters who made such an inspiring impact in the ‘90s.
Willie Nelson The Border
Ten newly recorded studio performances including four new Nelson/Buddy Cannon compositions.
The Telescopes Radio Sessions 2016-2019
Three live sessions recorded in three countries over three years.
Ben Platt Honeymind
Singer-songwriter confronts difficult truths and wrestles with addiction, failures, regrets and love, bringing some of the artist’s darkest moments into light.
Upchuck Sense Yourself (Segall Mix)
Atlanta punk band’s debut album remixed by Ty Segall.
Eat Your Own Head The Trawler EP
One of the bands spearheading a new wave of heavy music, redefining the UK rock scene. Known for their unpredictable twists and turns, the band veer from floor stomping riffs to tender moments of dark tranquillity.
The Hope Conspiracy Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception
The album is true sonic violence aimed at political division, economic manipulation, war profiteering, media propaganda and other vile forms of global oppression.
Ezra Feinberg Soft Power
New York guitarist and composer is joined by Mary Lattimore, David Moore (Bing & Ruth) and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma on a record defined by its abundance of melodies, repeating figures and ecstatic improvisations,
Scott Guild Plastic: The Album
Immersive world which tells the story of the novel through a cycle of dynamic baroque-pop songs.
The Pull of Autumn I Was Just Dreaming
US art-pop band with an album described as “a melancholy remembrance of moments in time and life”.
Various No Songs Tomorrow: Dark Wave, Ethereal Rock & Coldwave 1981 – 1990
4CD set including The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Alien Sex Fiend and the Cranes.
ellescriv Wandering the Pine
Artist whose sound is reflective of artists like Bonnie Payne and Feist – and her influences include Gillian Welch, William Prince, and Frazey Ford.
Hellbutcher Hellbutcher
From the Swedish black metal underground and channelling the spirit of Venom, Bathory, Iron Maiden, Exciter, Motörhead, Mercyful Fate, and the aggressive spirit of true heavy metal.
Harleymoon Kemp Lone Ranger EP
Inspired by the likes of LeAnn Rimes, John Mayer, Maren Morris and Alanis Morrisette, Harleymoon’s songs are often similarly narrative: stories which focus on everyday incidents and emotions, but moments which also shape who we became and how we feel about things.
Terry Jones Bebop Summer EP
A rapper who draws inspiration from Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods to infuse his music with real emotion and honesty. Themes of struggle, resiliency, and victory are touched upon in his songs.
Kurupi No Esperes
Artist known for his diverse and eclectic live shows that find the middle-point between rap, hip-hop, and punk; taking inspiration from the likes of Paris Texas, JPEGMAFIA, Death Grips and System of a Down,
Gnod Spot Land
The five songs are tender and detailed, unfolding slowly with wistful guitar textures, brushed drums and interjections of lap steel, piano and kalimba.
Thou Umbilical
Taking inspiration from a diverse array of influences spanning from ’90s proto-grunge icons like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden to the raw intensity of obscure ’90s DIY hardcore punk found on labels like Ebullition, Vermiform, and Crimethinc.
HHY and the Macumbas Bom Sangue Mau
Venturing into unique soundtracks and boundary-pushing dub experiments, they immersed the stage in a deep red glow, using crumpled rhythms, eerie synthesisers, wild-eyed horn sounds and serious bass pressure to build a place of dread and ascension.
Half Waif Ephemeral Being EP
A 5 track EP that looks at the transience of life while celebrating the continuation of nature and its cycles.
Mike Cooper & Jason Kolar Mauve/Pink
Cooper’s post-everything sensibilities and Kolàr’s miniamlist electronics intertwine on a pastel-hued tribal-ambient-adjacent tape of imagined islands and ethereal sounds
Olatuja Olatuja
An album blending Afrobeats, jazzy soul and gospel.
Nestor Teenage Rebel
A band that takes you straight back to the golden age of rock music, wearing influences ranging from Bon Jovi and Aerosmith to Journey and Foreigner
Our Noise Our Noise
Band who blend influences from heavy rock, punk, hardcore, old-funk grooves, post-grunge, and indie-rock progressions
Only The Poets One More Night
EP that sees the band consolidating their synth-pop sound and illuminating the heartfelt emotion in their lyrics.
Hollow Ship Animated Music
Instrumental album from Swedish psych rock band.
