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Kevin Morby
This Is A Photograph [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] This Is A Photograph, Morby's 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to align his finest songs, his best vocal performances, his... |
Khruangbin
The Universe Smiles Upon You [ Late Night Tales / CD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] Khruangbin are a largely instrumental Houston trio that take elements of '60s and '70s Thai funk, soul, psych, R&B, surf, and jazz and pull it all into the same spacious but distinct sonic universe. |
Kit Sebastian
Mantra Moderne [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] 'Mantra Moderne' is a stunning, contemporary masterpiece that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60's European pop and American jazz. A must for fans of Khruangbin, Portishead, Arthur Verocai, Goat, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os... |
Kondi Band
Salone [ Strut CD / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Debut album from Kondi Band, the inspired Afro-electronic collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. Salone follows the release of 2016's... |
Kurt Vile
b'lieve i'm goin down… [ Matador / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] Purchase a copy of this album and go into our draw to win the Limited Edition Deluxe Triple LP of b'lieve i'm goin (deep) down that has six extra tracks not on the Standard LP or CD! "b'lieve i'm goin down…" is Kurt Vile's sixth album, and shows... |
Lana Del Rey
NFR aka Norman Fucking Rockwell [ Polydor / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] NFR was mainly produced and co-written with Jack Antonoff and includes 'Venice Bitch,' 'Mariners Apartment Complex,' 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it,' and a cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time'. |
Lana Del Rey
Norman Fucking Rockwell (Double Gatefold LP) [ Polydor / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] NFR was mainly produced and co-written with Jack Antonoff and includes 'Venice Bitch,' 'Mariners Apartment Complex,' 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it,' and the current release, a cover of Sublime's 'Doin' Time'. |
Lee Scratch Perry
Rainford [ On U Sound / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] The Mighty Upsetter returns to On-U Sound with nine brand new tracks recorded in Brazil, Jamaica and London with long-time friend and collaborator Adrian Sherwood at the controls. Lee Perry's friendship with Adrian Sherwood stretches back to the... |
Lee Scratch Perry
Rainford (LP) [ On U Sound / LP - released 31/May/2019 ] The Mighty Upsetter returns to On-U Sound with nine brand new tracks recorded in Brazil, Jamaica and London with long-time friend and collaborator Adrian Sherwood at the controls. Lee Perry's friendship with Adrian Sherwood stretches back to the... |
Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas (LP) [ Warner UK / LP - released 17/Jul/2020 ] Lianne's third album and her first in five years is an album of startling beauty and insight. Working on writing and exploring her own identity, La Havas spent a lot of time moving back and forth between the UK and the States. As a result, 'Lianne... |
Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia [ Anti / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Miss Colombia is Lido Pimienta's follow-up to 'La Papessa', which was awarded the Polaris Music Prize in 2017. The Colombian-born, Toronto-based global beats trailblazer recorded the album in her home studio, with some additional recording done in... |
The Liminanas
(I've Got) Trouble In Mind Volume 2 [ Because Music France / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Following the release of their critically acclaimed album Shadow People (produced by Anton Newcombe) (BEC 5543242/BEC 5543243, 2018), French psych rock band The Limiñanas come back with I've Got Trouble In Mind Vol. 2: 7" And Rare Stuff 2015/2018,... |
Little Simz
NO THANK YOU [ Forever Living Originals / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] If 2021's "Sometimes I Might Be Introvert" catapulted Simz into the big leagues, crashing into the top 5 of the albums charts, collecting Mercury Music Prize, Mobo, Ivor Novello and Brit Award wins and earning her the biggest live audiences yet in... |
Low
Double Negative [ Sub Pop / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] In 2018, Low will turn twenty-five. But Low will not commemorate its first quarter-century with mawkish nostalgia or safe runs through songbook favourites. Instead, in faithfully defiant fashion, Low will release its most brazen, abrasive (and,... |
L'Épée
Diabolique [ A Recordings / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] This is the debut album release from L'ÉPÉE , the band are Emmanuelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle), Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) & Lionel & Marie Liminana (The Liminanas) . |
Mala
Mirrors [ Brownswood Recordings CD / CD - released 8/Jul/2016 ] Mirrors is the second album by endlessly influential South London producer Mala. It follows his 2012 Brownswood release where Gilles Peterson invited the producer to soak up Cuba's music and culture to turn the results into Mala In Cuba. But Mirrors... |
Marissa Nadler
For My Crimes (LP) [ Bella Union / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] The eighth album from Marissa Nadler, For My Crimes, is the sound of turmoil giving way to truth. The songs stare down the dark realization that love may not be enough to keep two people together through distance and differing needs. By asking these... |
Mary Lattimore
Hundreds of Days [ Ghostly / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] "It was the most beautiful summer of my life." Memories - places, vacancies, allusions - are fundamental characters in Mary Lattimore's evocative craft. Inside her music, wordless narratives, indefinite travelogues, and braided events skew into... |
Mick Harvey
Waves Of Anzac / The Journey [ Inertia / CD - released 29/May/2020 ] 'Waves of Anzac/The Journey' is Mick Harvey's first soundtrack release in over 10 years. The album features two recent soundtracks to powerful subject matters recorded by Mick Harvey. The first, 'Waves of Anzac', looks at Sam Neill's personal... |
Mitski
Laurel Hell (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 4/Feb/2022 ] We don't typically look to pop albums to answer our cultural moment, let alone to meet the soul hunger left in the wake of global catastrophe. But occasionally, an artist proves the form more malleable and capacious than we knew. With Laurel Hell,... |
