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Album of the Week
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a bewitching & jaw-dropping album from the nordic sisters, every arresting melody inhabited with a huge, wise spirit.
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new releases w/c 23rd january
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a bewitching & jaw-dropping album from the nordic sisters, every arresting melody inhabited with a huge, wise spirit.
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sparse, spectral songs & crisp haunting vocals, which seep into the imagination & gently lead it through the twisted woods.
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radiohead’s thoroughly impressive album ‘the king of limbs’ is aired in its entirety in this live studio performance by the band.
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a deep, dark mood haunts the margins of the hold steady frontman’s solo debut, surpassing expectation with a brooding cinematic americana.
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crisp, emotive songwriting, produced by justin ‘bon iver’ vernon, somewhere between alela diane & laura veirs.
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born of a ny basement, this deliriously dreamy synth pop finds a narcotic outcrop somewhere between m83 & beach house.
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french chanson & traditional indie pop dance to african rhythms & middle eastern sounds.
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the mystic desert-dwelling yoga instructor returns with a mini-album of heartbreaking soul, reanimated hip-hop & crackling haunting vocal stylings.
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outstandingly jam-packed edition of the all new yeti (now a bound book with a free 7”), interviews, drawings & more.
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reissue of one of britain’s finest folk-rock songwriter debuts, holding a middle line between john martyn & bert jansch.
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the ninja tune legend returns to the fold with a beat-heavy opus mixing up sci-fi-psych, off-kilter jazz & spoken-word samples to impressive effect.
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80’s loving poptimists follow the day-glo bop of their debut with a bold, contemplative set of infectious synth hooks.
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a wide-ranging debut where gang gang dance rhythms & kraut-reaching breakdowns adorn the fringes of their indie-rock abandon.
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the sonic sorceress is back with a fine amalgamation of upfront, edgy technoid-pop & widescreen electronica, with mt.
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reworking their beloved songs with a 13-piece cuban band composed of some of havana's finest young players.
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1 part war, 2 parts santana & a dash of motown, the nombres were the undisputed kings of northern ohio's rust-belt barrios.
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a little harder, a little faster - soaring guitars & a crackerjack rhythm section dream up soulful indie rock with album 6.
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lyrics chock-full of twisted poetry & cryptic slogans & guitars loaded with white-hot rock’n’roll brimstone.
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the godfather of grime lives up to his rep with a tough album of rudimentary production backing his on-point raps & humorous tales.
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abrasive explorations & dirge digging skronk that references bands like cabaret voltaire, chrome, & early sonic youth.
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intense reworkings of the darker material found in the oram archives, fearsome, haunting & downright scary at times.
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the powerful & energetic trio collaborate with a string section, with the former brand new heavies man on the keys.
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the sheffield-based power-pop trio take the lovelorn, the lovely & the listless on a brisk whirl through melodic indie.
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leo recommends: "this second outing of the alchemist's raw flows paired with oh no's huge psych & soul inflected loops is just as scuzzy & ...
Best Sellers
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an epic & beguiling slice of distorted pop, psychedelia & soulful guitar wig outs - their most adventurous work yet.
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with danger mouse back on board, Patrick carney & dan auerbach’s punchy blues-rock goes & gets all funky.
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rapid-fire, bite-sized indie rock gems from robert pollard & co - the classic line-up’s 1st album of new material in 15 years.
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‘diamond mine’ is a unique & heartrending collaboration between scottish fence collective boss & singer king creosote & electronic talen...
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it’s been 8 long years since gillian welch’s last album if you don’t count the dave rawlings “solo” album or collaborations with t...
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a resplendent & sleek, electronica/funk/pop/soul hybrid; sounds delicious - as if metronomy produced janelle monae.
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on their epic sophomore, robbie & milo form song skeletons with loops & sampled beats before adding layers of textured vocals & huge guitars & s...
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clean, minimal & stylistically varied electronic music in your earphones, providing the perfect soundtrack for the new year.
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absorbing lou reed, the cramps & the replacements, the minneapolis quintet’s debut fizzes with energetic, strokes-like scuzzy guitar rock.
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so, their debut may have been style over substance but their follow up was one of the most impressive & loved albums of 2009.
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perhaps one of the most unlikely collaborations of recent times, however this hook-up initially came about as apparently the production on the original version ...
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a blend of driving, sub-fuelled techno & melodic mood pieces from artists like joy orbison, roska & addison groove.
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this 5-piece are purveyors of lush orchestral epic & widescreen baroque indie rock – the middle east meet grizzly bear via oklahoma.
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now onto their 7th album, mogwai show no signs of slowing down or any shortage of new ideas to plough.
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austin’s white denim have been much-loved round these parts for their wonderful unpredictability & incredible live shows & now, with their 3rd alb...
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the tynesiders’ exploration of music from these 2 adventurous songbooks is an intimate & irreverent joy.
Coming Soon / preorders
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pre-orders come with a free ticket to their instore appearance, on Weds 15th February @ 6:30pm.
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natasha recommends: "about flippin’ time! i’ve been waiting for a follow-up to 2004’s awesome ‘bubblegum’ for way too long.
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The eagerly awaited album from one of 2012's brightest lights.
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'Toward The Low Sun' is the product of the most ceaselessly creative period in the band's career, in which Jim White, Mick Turner and Warren Ellis h...
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The Something Rain is tindersticks ninth studio album and like its predecessors The Hungry Saw and Falling Down A Mountain it projects a bold spirit, something ...
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"Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose" introduces one of the most self-assured new artists of the year, a pop polymath whose blend of psychedelia, glam rock a...
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an epic project comprising strings, guitar & lashings of heartbreak - Cohen’s folk-infused songs & striking looks soon caught the attention of Ant...
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natasha recommends: "yay! the first record this year to make me feel uncontrollably bouncy & smiley.
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Grimes is the inventive work of Claire Boucher, a project that has gained notoriety since its inception back in early-2010.
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Having written some of the most critically-acclaimed songs of the last several years as part of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles, multi-instrumentalist and...
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Brand new 10 track recording from the legendary singer/poet Leonard Cohen.
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Poor Moon is Christian Wargo (Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls), Casey Wescott (Fleet Foxes) and brothers Ian and Peter Murray (The Christmas Cards).
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The Twilight Sad are back with their third full length release, heading in a brave new industrial, militant, Krautrock direction, and produced by Andrew Weather...
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ami recommends: "i’ve literally had this on repeat since i first heard it.
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james recommends: "over the course of 3 albums, portico quartet have made a gradual & subtle transition from former street buskers peddling their own t...
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Bonobo has become one of the premier, most listened to artists on Ninja Tune.
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New studio album from Errors on Mogwai’s Rock
Action Records label.
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London-born and Irish-bred, Maverick Sabre aka Michael Stafford is the new voice in UK urban soul music.
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Recorded in the same two week session as AODDOL I by Stuart 
Hallerman at Avast and mastered by Mell Detmer, Earths 
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II ...
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ami recommends: "i’ve been following elliot’s solo work (also releasing music under the third eye foundation moniker) since 2005’s &lsquo...
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Hailing from Sweden, the man behind this record alone needs no introduction, as he is already well known in the electronic music scene for his project The Field...
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Although now firmly settled in New York City, Young Magic’s three members came together through equal helpings of openness and fortuity.
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‘Paralytic Stalks’ musical and lyrical directions are infinitely more personal than anything of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes has written since 2007’s â€...
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After the success of their first album and touring for the better part of a year that included shows as far away as Moscow, riley and moore returned home and re...
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‘Ternion’, from the Latin for a group of three, sees We Have Band make a stylistic leap on from their debut ‘WHB’, which despite its cri...
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A London record through and through, 'be strong' it ducks and weaves to the myriad sounds of the city, as The 2 Bears Raf Daddy and Joe Goddard pursue t...
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At long last the rarest and most peculiar of all Radiophonic Workshop albums is available.
Just Arrived
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daniel recommends: "utterly essential early home recordings from the enigmatic & elusive dalton, engrossing & heartbreaking.
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Every single sleeve hand drawn! During January 2011 Darren Hayman, ex wrote a song for every day of the month.
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In 1969, Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the chart-topping Box Tops entered Ardent Studios in Memphis to make an album.
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On Audience of One, Oren Ambarchi, presents a four-part suite which moves from throbbing minimalism to expansive song-craft to ecstatic free-rock.
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18 years after the release of their landmark self-titled debut, Cardinal – the recording collaboration between Richard Davies and Eric Matthews – ar...
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the 3rd instalment of the GPS / Bo Weavil series of C Joynes 45s, featuring collaborative pieces with a disparate group of fellow travellers.
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A debut on wax from Matthew Hainsby of Fujiya & Miyagi’s solo venture, AMPERSAND.
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Welcome CD re-issue for the second official live album by Americas leading Punk band The Ramones, originally released back in 1991.
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Originally released in 2005 to coincide with the release of Ghana Soundz vol 2: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in 70s Ghana, this 12” vinyl sees two tracks fr...
sale! sale! sale!
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9 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with an exclusive free 6 track bonus disc : 1 - angelo (new b-side of 'marked' 7", 2 - take one two (bonus...
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it’s been 8 long years since gillian welch’s last album if you don’t count the dave rawlings “solo” album or collaborations with t...
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‘diamond mine’ is a unique & heartrending collaboration between scottish fence collective boss & singer king creosote & electronic talen...
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hugely impressive debut album from the much-talked about london-based singer/guitarist anna calvi.
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surely one of the most anticipated follow ups in recent times? amazingly, 3 years after their debut, seattle’s baroque-folk-pop outfit have pulled another...
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10 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with a free bonus signed 7" of the incredible single "this is what i said"
the perfectly titled...
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chronicling an emotionally fraught love affair with a snowman, ’50 words’ challenges us to admit the profound sentiment despite the seemingly outlan...
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the wild beasts have always managed to mix a poetic lyricism with a really rather carnal glint in the eye & with ‘smother’, much like 2008&rsquo...
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the strange & wonderful forces of nature harnessed by her savagely sensual voice create an intimate, soul-firing tribute.
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5 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with exclusive free 4 tracks bonus disc!
newcastle based sextet fuse fragile & graceful folk to the most lum...
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comes with a free bonus remix disc.
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warm, supple melodies etched in layers of stringed instruments & willowy organ motifs accompany wilson’s earnest, north carolinan drawl.
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6 - resident top picks of 2011
also available as an exclusive japanese import with the vinyl only 'nothing' ep + 2 bonus tracks
a h...
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following their rapturously praised 2009 debut ‘hospice’, the band’s sophomore effort is an epic collection of songs which are lush, nuanced &...
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a resplendent & sleek, electronica/funk/pop/soul hybrid; sounds delicious - as if metronomy produced janelle monae.
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despite the cold, hard name, flo returns to prove that her machine conjures emotional, organic epics that are warm-blooded & human.
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an exquisitely beautiful light vs dark balancing act that goes way beyond the shoegaze fare they are (openly) influenced by.
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cults are young connoisseurs of nostalgic indie pop based out of new york.
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the sparkling debut full-length from the indie electronic outfit fits nicely next to such contemporaries as mgmt, passion pit & phoenix.
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the unmistakable voice of nika roza danilova returns on this darkly industrial electronic pop opus.
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their first new album in more than 3 years, ‘hysterical’ marks a major milestone in the continuing evolution of clap your hands say yeah.
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the duo take the early-sunrise evocations of their debut & push them to an even more grandiose expanse.
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the bonkers icelandic sonic-explorer’s 7th studio album is unique multi-media exploration moves from the atomic to the cosmic - oh yes! as is always the c...
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the youthful innocence in veirs’ voice lends itself well to an album of songs for children that retells traditional american folk tales & ballads.
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sbtrkt (aka aaron jerome)’s debut album pulls off a series of impressive feats - bursting with fresh ideas & yet sounding immediately familiar, its so...
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the illusive dayve hawk returns after the success of 2010’s ‘seek magic’ & once again there are lots of catchy tunes, sing-along choruses ...
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vibrantly realised story-song-cycle ruminates on a short life with balmy gospel, sunday boom-bap & colliding keys.
Our top picks of 2011
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1 - our album of the year! comes with an awesome free live bonus disc (The Bowlegs sessions), exclusively available from us.
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2 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with an exclusive free amazing bonus remix disc featuring remixes by maria minerva, damu, d'eon & more!
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3 - resident top picks of 2011
let’s not faff around - this album is the dog’s.
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4 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with an indies on only free bonus dvd!
so, if ever there was an album that we residents could deem to be highly ...
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5 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with exclusive free 4 tracks bonus disc!
newcastle based sextet fuse fragile & graceful folk to the most lum...
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6 - resident top picks of 2011
also available as an exclusive japanese import with the vinyl only 'nothing' ep + 2 bonus tracks
a h...
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7 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with a bonus disc of 5 stunning live 'c'mon' tracks
since the experimentation & rocking out on &...
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8 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with a completely excluisve, free 1 hour bonus mix disc & it's awesome!
daniel lopatin’s 6th album...
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9 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with an exclusive free 6 track bonus disc : 1 - angelo (new b-side of 'marked' 7", 2 - take one two (bonus...
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10 - resident top picks of 2011
comes with a free bonus signed 7" of the incredible single "this is what i said"
the perfectly titled...
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to say josh t pearson has had a career of ups & downs would be the understatement of the year.
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now onto album number 8, radiohead still manage to innovate & progress – no mean feat for a band who count the likes of ‘ok computer’ &...
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following up 2008’s ‘nights out’, ‘the english riviera’ is a sonic progression of epic proportions & affirms metronomy front m...
reissues & compilations of 2011
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‘delta swamp rock’ is an interstate southern road-trip through the usa where country, rock & soul meet at the crossroads.
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mojo's reissue of the year! as the ultimate songwriter’s songwriter & the unsung hero of american popular music, mickey newbury’s influence ...
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mowest was detroit-native & motown founder berry gordy’s venture into the west coast scene.
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a treasure trove of kitchen-sink eccentric soul, fuzzbox funk, shoestring doo-wop & haunted, hook-laden spirituals.
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the 20th anniversary of nevermind sees a re-release worthy of such a pivotal classic.
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primal scream’s landmark album celebrates its 20th birthday in style, with the entire record getting the remaster treatment from the band along with kevin...
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sanctified soul, heavy pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons & righteous a cappella hymns!.
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wowza! this is a terrific compilation of tunes from the splendid excello records label.
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once again, finders keepers records are given unparalleled access to the emi pakistan vaults to assure us ‘life is dance’.
Change From A Fiver
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their debut brings a dose of the west coast to the hard streets of philadelphia.
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19-years after her debut ‘dry’ polly jean shows no sign of reigning in any of her uncompromising vision & thank god, that’s why we love he...
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elbow’s tale of a band who toiled & struggled for years, finally getting the breakthrough they deserved, is one of the most heart-warming stories in b...
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rising from the ashes of past indie hopefuls cajun dance party, yuck aspire to the heights scaled by former indie veterans such as teenage fanclub, pavement, sw...
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you’ve probably heard all the hype & all the strokes comparisons already but you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover - you really have to get in...
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a bold & euphoric album that sounds definitively & distinctly like the rapture & no one else – fully re-engaged & revitalized.
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uptempo, sunshine-hazy songs that ring with clarity & inventiveness, produced by the other indie-rock demi-god, beck.
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a beautiful affair awash with harmonies & atmospheric textures - this year's answer to beach house.
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comes with a free bonus disc of remixes / edits from mogwai, drmcnt, trophy wife, oulgbenga, breton & snorkel while stocks last!
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who knew everyone’s favourite welshman had an extensive collection of hotel shampoo bottles so big that it warranted naming his 3rd solo album after it? r...
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interesting move here from noah & the whale, as charlie fink & co trade in their folk leanings for a more grown-up pop sound that owes much to the late ...
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baxter’s 3rd album of “seaside psychedelia” is worlds away from his previous lps of darkness & romantic disappointments.
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since 2005’s debut ‘cruel sister’ the unthanks have been shaking up the folk world with their uncompromising take on traditional, non-traditio...
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the st albans trio release their highly anticipated 2nd album, written mainly by frontman ed macfarlane in a remote french cottage & produced by paul epwort...
