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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
So It Is [ Sony / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Preservation Hall Jazz Band their new album, So It Is, the septet's second release featuring all-new original music. So It Is finds the classic PHJB sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing... |
Purple Pilgrims
Perfumed Earth [ Flying Nun / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] New Zealand dreamscape artists Purple Pilgrims are set to release their long-awaited, sophomore record Perfumed Earth on August 9 via Flying Nun Records. This release marks their recorded debut with the iconic independent label. To create the... |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain [ Flying Nun / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Celebrated singer-songwriter Reb Fountain's forthcoming self-titled album marks a new chapter in the kiwi artist's career and her first full-length release on Flying Nun Records. |
Reb Fountain
Reb Fountain (LP) [ Flying Nun / LP - released 22/Jul/2020 ] Celebrated singer-songwriter Reb Fountain's forthcoming self-titled album marks a new chapter in the kiwi artist's career and her first full-length release on Flying Nun Records. Reb Fountain came together in the... |
The Reduction Agents
The Dance Reduction Agents [ Lil Chief Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2006 ] Originally released In 2006 on Lil Chief Records, this is The Reduction Agents' first and only album . It is special for many reasons, but mostly because it is James Milne's (aka Lawrence Arabia's) first venture as a singer songwriter. |
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
Mirror (LP) [ Occultation / LP - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Following on from the success of the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus' (RAIJ) Beauty Will Save the World - their first new album in nearly 20 years - the band's second album Mirror will appear on vinyl for the first time. Mirror is possibly... |
Richard Swift
The Hex [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 7/Dec/2018 ] Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex... |
Rival Consoles
Persona [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman's face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image... |
Sampha
Process (LP) [ Young Turks / LP - released 3/Feb/2017 ] Since the release of his debut 'Sundanza' EP in 2010 and 2013's 'Dual' EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK's most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old, he has lent his vocal, production and... |
Scott Mannion
Loving Echoes [ Lil' Chief / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] 'Loving Echoes' is the first solo album by Scott Mannion, co-founder of Lil' Chief Records (Jonathan Bree, Princess Chelsea, the Ruby Suns). A cult figure in the New Zealand alternative music canon, Loving Echoes is his first release in 15... |
Seasick Steve
Love & Peace [ Universal Music / CD - released 24/Jul/2020 ] 'Love & Peace' sees Steve mixing up all of his much-loved ingredients to deliver a fresh new record that offers the perfect antidote for the troubled times in which we live. Full of hope for the future, it's a great mix of boogie, blues, rock,... |
Shannon Lay
August [ Sub Pop / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow. Emily Dickinson's "My River Runs to Thee" compares them to the cycle of life, while Alfred Tennyson's "The Brook" deems them eternal and Kathleen Raine's... |
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Naturally [ Daptone Records CD / CD - released 18/May/2009 ] The second offering from Sharon and the boys, Naturally is a sharp contrast to the gritty debut "Dap-Dippin". With it's soulful vibe and sophisticated arrangement SJDK took their special brand of funk to the next level with this one. Dig on tracks... |
Shilpa Ray
Is Last Year's Savage [ Northern Spy Records / CD - released 15/May/2015 ] With Last Year's Savage (maybe a nod to Leonard Cohen maybe a nod to Barrence Whitfield) Shilpa Ray has taken the pain and dark funk of earlier sounds and made explicit the sublimity that was always there just below the surface. The conversation has... |
Sir Was
Digging A Tunnel [ City Slang / CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] "Blending Tame Impala-reminiscent vocals like a beam of light with playful yet melancholy electronic production" - Stereogum Sir Was' debut full length, Digging A Tunnel, is an album that constantly bucks trends and confounds expectations.... |
Sourakata Koite
En Hollande [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, "All the Koité are musicians!" He is indeed a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians... |
Stef Animal
Top Gear [ Fishrider Records / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Stef Animal (The Golden Awesome) presents her debut solo release "Top Gear" - a concept album of fifteen writing exercises, each conceived and recorded in one session. Each track was made using a different piece of obsolete or unfashionable music... |
Steve Earle And The Dukes
Terraplane (DELUXE) [ New West Records / CD - released 17/Feb/2015 ] Released on New West Records, Steve Earle's 11-track set is the follow up to the 2013 album THE LOW HIGHWAY and features Earle's longtime band The Dukes, comprised of Kelly Looney, Will Rigby, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore. The album was... |
The Strokes
The New Abnormal (Opaque Red Vinyl LP) [ Sony Music / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] The New Abnormal is the New York band's sixth studio album, recorded at Shangri-Las Studios in Malibu, CA and produced by Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Crowes, The Cult). The album's cover artwork features a painting by... |
Thundercat
Drunk [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Thundercat's most realised vision of soulful jazz-fusion and boogie yet with the absolutely stunning Drunk. Calling on an A-list of who's who within his world to stop by for a drink, guest spots come from Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, Pharrell,... |
