• Album of the Week

  • 7 May

    Squid
    1. Squid Bright Green Field

      2. Produced by the inimitable force that is Speedy Wunderground's Dan Carey, the hugely-anticipated debut album from Brighton-formed quintet Squid is a masterpiece . Calamitous rock'n'roll, free jazz, soul harmony and experimental post-punk that challenges you to say "I've heard it all before". You haven't. Bright Green Field is a boundary-pushing exploration by masters of a bizarre craft and eccentric impulse. It's our Album of the Week, our Album of the Month, and who knows what else.

    2. Fruit Bats The Pet Parade
    3. Tony Allen There Is No End
    4. McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her
    5. Sasha LUZoSCURA

  • 30 April

    Girl In Red
    Girl In RedIf I Could Make It Go Quiet

    A voice of a generation is a phrase we see kicking about a lot, but 21 year-old Marie Ulven has the songs to back it up. Drawing from her experiences growing up as a queer woman in a small Norwegian town, If I Could Make It Go Quiet is a collision of rabble-rousing indie-rock and slow-burning yearning . Lo-fi heartache and widescreen ambition - a debut album that lives up to all the hype.

    23 April

    Gia Margaret
    Gia MargaretMia Gargaret

    This was not the sophomore album Gia Margaret wanted to make. Having lost her voice and primary instrument, Mia Gargaret is a gorgeous experiment - mostly instrumental - that shines a light on her skill as a musician, composer and producer. Spare but immersive arrangements simultaneously ache and soothe, building emotional landscapes that rise and recede like scenery through a train window.

    16 April

    Total Wkts
    Total WktsNo Holiday

    The sophomore solo project from vocalist/drummer of Crystal Palace two-piece JOHN, No Holiday is a heavy collage of sounds, echoes and anxiety from South London lockdown. Praised by Loud and Quiet for its acute Shame-esque kitchen sink punk, Fall-esque conceptualism and 'War Pigs'-era brutality, its restless portrait of the capital is visceral, "with the intensity of someone driving nail into a wall."