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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 (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - 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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Thom Yorke
ANIMA [ XL Recordings / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Thom Yorke's third solo album ANIMA, described by him in an interview as "dystopian", was written and produced in collaboration with Nigel Godrich and will be accompanied by a short film of the same name: a "one-reeler" directed by Yorke and Paul... |
Tom Lark
Brave Star [ Winegum Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Brave Star is the debut full-length album from Tom Lark, marking his return after a seven year hiatus. Shaped in equal parts by the confronting vulnerability of John Lennon, and the troubled braggadocio of spaghetti westerns, the songs on Brave Star... |
Tom Waits
Bad as Me (LP) [ Epitaph Records / 2 LP - released 24/Oct/2011 ] Waits' first studio album of all new music in seven years, which finds him in possibly the finest voice of his career and at the height of his songwriting powers. |
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service [ Sony / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] A Tribe Called Quest - Q-Tip, Phife Dawg (who died on March 22nd, 2016), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White - the groundbreaking '90s group that forever transformed the urban music landscape, detonates new shock waves on their first - and last -... |
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service (Double LP) [ Sony / 2 LP - released 20/Jan/2016 ] A Tribe Called Quest - Q-Tip, Phife Dawg (who died on March 22nd, 2016), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White - the groundbreaking '90s group that forever transformed the urban music landscape, detonates new shock waves on their first - and last -... |
Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
U.S. Girls
Half Free (LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 25/Sep/2015 ] U.S. Girls is Illinois-born, Toronto-based artist Meghan Remy. Half Free is Remy's first album for 4AD and is her most realised yet, focusing on characters in everyday struggles, with narratives inspired by the work of director John Cassavetes and... |
Various Artists
Mr Bongo Record Club Vol 3 [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Volume Three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began... |
Various Artists
The Original Sound Of Mali [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Compiled by Vik Sohonie & Dave 'Mr Bongo' Buttle, the story of this release began in 2015 when Dave happened upon the Soul Bonanza blog. One mix in particular stood out and totally enthralled Dave - le monde à change: a tribute to mali 1970 -... |
Vera Ellen
Ideal Home Noise [ Flying Nun / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] Ideal Home Noise is a record unearthed from much introspection and an attempt to find some comedy and lightness in an otherwise dark period for Vera Ellen. With two "voices" battling throughout the album, the instrumentation is sometimes light -... |
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Ali [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed "the African John Lee Hooker," one could hear strong connections between the two; both employed a bluesy style of play with gritty textures that elicit calm... |
Wajatta
Don't Let Get You Down [ Brainfeeder / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Wajatta (pronounced wa-HA-ta) - the musical duo of Reggie Watts and John Tejada - return with their second album, Don't Let Get You Down, on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder. Coming from different worlds, but sharing a passion for the rich history of... |
