• Album of the Week

  • 24 September

    Meadow Meadow
    1. Meadow Meadow Silhouettes

      2. Meadow Meadow delve into a broad palette of textures with their almost child-like, experimental approach to instrumentation, bringing in sections of shamisen anchored by weighted piano keys and a percussive pulse. It’s a masterwork in tension and release: a mosaic of sounds and influences that invite you to stand back and take it all in. Produced by Mike Lindsay of LUMP and Tunng, the former Spring King bandmates reach new sonic heights with ease and experimentation, featuring William Doyle and Anna B Savage among others in absolutely mesmerising harmony.

    2. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin Before I Die
    3. Eleni Drake Can't Stop The Dawn
    4. The Lathums How Beautiful Life Can Be
    5. Public Service Broadcasting Bright Magic

  • 17 September

    José González
    José GonzálezLocal Valley

    Few people have managed to become quite so celebrated worldwide, quite as quietly as José González has. Local Valley, his long awaited fourth album and first on new label City Slang, serves as a relieving reminder that you don’t have to be loud to be heard. The record, full of his trademark bittersweet pastoralism, includes what González considers his most accomplished songs to date. It engages his signature melodic and metrical hypnotism, remarkable fingerpicked guitar and his love for music around the world. In a quiet week for new music, now's a beautiful chance to get to know something in the shadows of celebrity, intimately.

    10 September

    Amyl & The Sniffers
    Amyl & The SniffersComfort To Me

    Amy Taylor has already laced a couple of highlights from 2021 with her sarcastic punk snarl, covering the seedy side of John Prine with Viagra Boys and guesting with Sleaford Mods on that contentious diss track, Nudge It. But the band's tricky second album doesn't just elevate them from underdogs to modern DIY torchbearers, it curates a beautifully trod line between a battering in-your-face resistance and melodic introspection. An absolute triumph.

    3 September

    Little Simz
    Little SimzSometimes I Might Be Introvert

    Over the course of her lush, expansive, defiantly sprawling new album, Ivor Novello award-winning, Mercury-nominated Little Simz delivers an undeniable modern classic, effortlessly condensing genres into music which thrillingly broaches the gap between urgent modern treatise and hip hop. A bold, quantum leap forward from the critically beloved “Grey Area”, it's turbo charged with the kind of fury and potency, confusion and anxiety that make up the modern experience of being Black, British and female. This is no mere philosophical exercise: the result is her most ambitious and soaring body of work to date, which operates at the very heights of what rap can be.