The following Pop & Rock titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
Balu Brigada
Portal [ Warner Music Australia / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Portal is the debut full-length album from Balu Brigada, the genre-blurring groove-pop duo made up of New Zealand brothers Henry and Pierre Beasely. Written, produced, and recorded entirely by the pair over three years in cities across the globe -... |
Beck
Mellow Gold (LP) [ Ume / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Beck's major label debut album, Mellow Gold, was originally released in 1994 and features his breakthrough Top 10 hit, "Loser." |
The Beths
Straight Line Was A Lie [ Anti- / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Straight Line Was A Lie is the first new music the New Zealand indie rockers have released since their 2022 album, Expert In A Dying Field, and their first release on their new label ANTI-. Following the success of Expert In A Dying Field, The... |
The Beths
Straight Line Was A Lie (Clean Slate Clear LP) [ Anti- / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Straight Line Was A Lie is the first new music the New Zealand indie rockers have released since their 2022 album, Expert In A Dying Field, and their first release on their new label ANTI-. Following the success of Expert In A Dying Field, The... |
Blood Orange
Essex Honey [ RCA / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Blood Orange - aka Dev Hynes - will release his first album in six years entitled Essex Honey. Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes, Essex Honey is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an... |
Blood Orange
Essex Honey (LP) [ RCA / 2 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Blood Orange - aka Dev Hynes - will release his first album in six years entitled Essex Honey. Written, produced, and recorded by Hynes, Essex Honey is a soundtrack created from a dreamscape of his journey working through grief. It is also an... |
Brad Mehldau
Ride Into The Sun [ Nonesuch Records / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun, a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Ride into the Sun's 10 Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau... |
Brad Mehldau
Ride Into The Sun (LP) [ Nonesuch Records / 2 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun, a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Ride into the Sun's 10 Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau... |
The Clash
Hits Back (LP) [ Legacy / 3 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] The definitive best of collection from "the only band that matters", 'Hits Back' was originally released in September 2013 and sequenced to replicate the set played by The Clash band at the Brixton Fair Deal (now the Academy) on 10 July 1982, with... |
David Bowie & Mick Jagger
Dancing In The Street E.P. (2025 Remaster) (Limted White Vinyl 12") [ PLG UK / 12in - due 29/Aug/2025 ] 40 years ago, Live Aid, the benefit concert organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the famine in Ethiopia, was announced with a press conference on the pitch at Wembley Stadium. The show was held simultaneously on... |
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke
Pareidolia (LP) [ Drag City / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] For this collaborative release, Eiko & Jim edited and remixed material captured at shows they played during a lovely two week tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in April 2023. Pareidolia shapes an ideal collage from the best... |
Florence + The Machine
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 10th Anniversary (LP) [ EMI / UMC / 2 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] 2025 celebrates the 10th anniversary of 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful', Florence + The Machine's third studio album, originally released in 2015. The album entered the UK Official Charts at No.1 and become their third consecutive No.1 album. It... |
Foals
Total Life Forever (Limited Eco Blue Vinyl LP) [ East West Records / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Sophomore album from Foals, originally released in 2012. Recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden with Clor's Luke Smith producing and mixed by Alan Moulder. 2008 saw the Oxford quintet rise to prominence - from the early days playing house parties, to... |
Gastr Del Sol
Camoufleur (LP) [ Drag City / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Released on LP and CD, Camoufleur had a prescient quality: like something that existed beyond such simple formats as LP and CD, or even the designations of 'record' and 'album'. It was the nascence era of the burnt CD, unmarked or attributed in any... |
Gastr Del Sol
Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly (LP) [ Drag City / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Gastr del Sol's second album Crookt, Crackt, or Fly returns to vinyl for the first time in over a decade, retaining its strange, singular force more than 30 years after its original release. A significant evolution from The Serpentine Similar, this... |
Gastr Del Sol
The Serpentine Similar (Reissue LP) [ Drag City / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Signing to Teen Beat, Gastr del Sol completed 'The Serpentine Similar' in late 1992 for release the following year (the Drag City reissue came in 1997). In the final rendering, 'The Serpentine Similar's roof-rent, white-sky execution was attenuated... |
Gastr Del Sol
Upgrade And Afterlife (Reissue LP) [ Drag City / 2 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] Way back when, 'Upgrade & Afterlife' was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and JimO'Rourke, whose further history has since numbered at... |
Groove Armada
Black Light (LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] It's been ten years since Groove Armada released their landmark album 'Black Light'. They've been active in recent years - DJ sets, select live shows and the 'Twenty One Years' compilation - yet the prospect of a new album seemed unlikely. That all... |
Jim O'Rourke
Bad Timing [ Drag City / CD - due 29/Aug/2025 ] A musing on popular standards and an all-instrumental down mainstreet, USA. Come for the history lesson, stay for the coming-of-age statement! Jim's pop epic is a personal message, personally from Jim to you. |
Jim O'Rourke
Insignificance (LP) [ Drag City / LP - due 29/Aug/2025 ] And we thought our man in Manhattan was keepin' it real before. When the Big O pulls no punches, you know you were punched with a punch un-pulled. |