• Album of the Week

  • 18 June

    Kings of Convenience
    1. Kings of Convenience Peace Or Love

      2. We've been waiting twelve years for this album, and it's worth every minute. A quiet serenity trickles through the duo's easy listening soft folk and quiet pop sensibilities, for fans of the usual - Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake. Not adhering to the usual verse-chorus-verse blueprints (or anything, really), with collaborations from Leslie Feist, jams extended from their time at People Festival with The Staves. It's a real treat on 180gm Gatefold Vinyl LP - no frills, just great music.

    2. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage
    3. Cory Hanson Pale Horse Rider
    4. Helloween Helloween
    5. Joan Armatrading Consequences

  • 11 June

    White Flowers
    White FlowersDay By Day

    For fans of Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Cigarettes After Sex, Slowdive. White Flowers are one of the most exciting young bands in the UK right now, and it was only upon leaving London to return to their native Preston that the dark-hued dreampop of their debut began to crystalize. Leaning into the North's post-punk past, the duo of Joey Cobb and Katie Drew have created an opus informed by their own post-industrial experience; a real rough diamond.

    4 June

    Wolf Alice
    Wolf AliceBlue Weekend

    How do you follow up a Mercury Prize-winning underdog album like Visions of a Life? Well, with their third, Wolf Alice cement themselves as a legacy force in British music, unlocking an exciting new door for guitar music. Blue Weekend is a stone-cold masterpiece, says NME in its five-star review, full of confidence and magic. Its songs showcase Ellie Rowsell's best, most spectacular lyrics to date, analysing human compulsions with an opportunity to indulge on their technicolour exposé of reality. It's without a doubt our pick of the week's new music.

    28 May

    Easy Life
    Easy LifeLife's a Beach

    The biggest debut album of the year so far. It's hard to avoid this band at the moment, even if you really wanted to. But that's no bad thing - this hugely-anticipated debut has been our fastest seller of the year, bursting with introspective, escapist outsider-anthems. life's a beach is an observational, universal and deeply personal study of forgotten Britain, and comes with every possibility of re-shaping the mainstream.