With their debut album, ‘Gone’ ready for release on the 25th June via Downtown Records, Vacationer continues to share a number of remixes that they’ve been keeping under wraps, including a reworking from MMOTHS, and their own remixes of Tennis and Deleted Scenes tracks. “I was really excited to hear MMOTHS take on our track […]
Sheffield’s premiere Eccentronic Popgroup THE CHANTEUSE & THE CRIPPLED CLAW have reworked M83’s track ‘REUNION’ features Philly Chanteuse on lead vocals. TCCC say “Was going for a Janet Kay(Silly Games) via Althea & Donna Sheffield Dub Eccentronic Lovers Rock sound.”
Following on from the release of his universally acclaimed debut EP ‘With U’ in 2011, Holy Other is now ready to unveil his debut album ‘Held’. Working with the same blend of R&B, UK garage and house sounds that influenced the funereal pop sounds of ‘With U’, Holy Other found another significant influence during the […]
David Byrne & St. Vincent have confirmed the September 10 release of their album, ‘Love This Giant’, to be released worldwide by 4AD under exclusive license from Byrne’s label Todo Mundo. Recorded over two years largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ, the album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with […]
Bella Union records are thrilled to announce the signing of Wild Nothing who returns this summer with second album ‘Nocturne’, the follow-up release to his acclaimed debut ‘Gemini’. Ask Jack Tatum what ‘Wild Nothing’ means and he’ll answer: ‘a contradiction’. In 2010, 21 year old Tatum released one of the finest cult pop records of […]
Bella Union are truly thrilled to announce the signing of one of our all-time favourite bands The Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips’ first release for the label will be a project that’s shaping up to be one of the most talked-about releases of the year: THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS. In between one-off shows […]
The reviews are in. The second album by silver-plated songstress Cate Le Bon, CYRK, is a bona fide critical hit. The cavalcade of comparisons that crop up in every review – John Cale, Nico, Malkmus et al – give you an idea of the regard in which Le Bon is currently held. So it’s with […]
Transgressive are thrilled to announce the release of The Antlers four song record Undersea. In January the celebrated Brooklyn band returned from a year of touring and entered their studio. The despair of “Hospice” and the subsequent recovery of “Burst Apart” felt like a closed chapter and there was a newfound freedom to change the […]
One Of These Days will capture the essence of Field Day, Oya Festival, Melt!, Kendal Calling, Glastonbury Dance Village, Electric Elephant, End of The Road, DFA Records, SWN Festival, The Warehouse Project, Now Wave, Free Rotation, Eden Sessions, Fiber Festival, and Shambala to create a truly unique experience in the suitably elaborate and legendary Blackpool […]
It’s been two years since THE HICKEY UNDERWORLD released their eponymous debut album, featuring the radio-friendly hit singles ‘Future Words’ and… Actually, that’s it. So what have the boys from Antwerp been up to in the mean time? Younes Faltakh (vocals, guitars, keys) is about to launch his own line of perfume, enticingly labelled ‘Vagrance’. […]
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ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 JULY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!
ALBUM REVIEW - WET LEG: MOISTURIZER
ALBUM REVIEW - BARRY CAN'T SWIM: LONER
ALBUM REVIEW - CORY HANSON: I LOVE PEOPLE
INTERVIEW - CORY HANSON
EP REVIEW - LEI HOPE: INERTIA
ALBUM REVIEW: MADE KUTI - CHAPTER 1: WHERE DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM?
SINGLE REVIEW - ALKALINE TRIO: OBLIVION
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 18 JULY 2025
