Coming February 11th: Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is alive, vital and inarguably the band’s heaviest work to date. The first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown, Austin, in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two years – both in and out…
Coming February 7th: Spoon’s debut LP Telephono is back in print for the first time since its initial release nearly 25 years ago. Newly recut from the original masters, the 14 tracks are available as a single LP or as a CD that includes the five song 1997 EP Soft Effects.
While their debut grappled with the mundanity of middle England, Gulp! Comes at you from a different angle entirely. The band aren t in their hometowns anymore and now spend a lot of time on the road and living the band life. We were writing about our experience growing up, commuter towns in your early…
Bright Green Field is an album of towering scope and ambition, it is deeply considered, paced and intricately constructed. With all band members playing such a vital and equal role, this album is very much the product of five heads operating as one. Some bands might be tempted to include previous singles on their debut…
Bright Green Field is an album of towering scope and ambition, it is deeply considered, paced and intricately constructed. With all band members playing such a vital and equal role, this album is very much the product of five heads operating as one. Some bands might be tempted to include previous singles on their debut…
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. A sense of…
Silver (Color Vinyl). This full length is a dazzling poetic journey of spoken words, dynamic instrumentals, drone riffs and distorted effects. It features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika and Marc Ribot on some of the tracks. This is their first studio album not associated to a film or character tribute.
Led by husband-and-wife duo South Africa-born Jean-Philip Grobler and Germany-born Patti Beranek, the group retreat from a fractured world on fire and into the glow of a rapturous synth-spiked electro-pop catharsis-akin to a dance party at the edge of existence. On the aptly titled Utopia album, St. Lucia beams out a light of their own…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 debut from the highly touted Birmingham, Alabama based Soul sextet. St. Paul & the Broken Bones have already created a maelstrom of interest with their roof raising live shows and self released four song 2012 EP. Produced by Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, and recorded and mixed in the storied R&B…
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – The Alien Coast – A fever dream in sonic form, The Alien Coast is the first album St. Paul & The Broken Bones recorded in their hometown of Birmingham. Produced by Matt Ross-Spang, the bands 4th full-length is a dizzying convergence of rock n roll, R&B, psychedelia, stoner…
The follow-up to St. Vincent s (Annie Clark s) first album Marry Me (2007) features eleven new songs, all written and arranged by Clark. The arrangements are more masterful, the songwriting grander, the performances ever more confident and inspired. Clark toured extensively in support of Marry Me with artists like The National, Death Cab For…
Jack Antonoff-Produced Follow-Up to 2017 s Grammy-Nominated Masseduction Inspired by 70s Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone! 2022 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Alternative Music Album! Daddy s Home, the sixth album from St. Vincent, is the latest facet of an ever-evolving artist regarded by many as the most consistently innovative and intriguing presence in…
St. Vincent is the moniker of singer multi-instrumentalist composer Annie Clark and this is her debut full-length. On this record, she writes cinematic pop epics that feel at times like Paris in the 20s before all the fun ended. Or, conversely, an orchestra of pure modernity – a new American music, informed by jazz, gospel…
St. Vincent, the nom-de-stage of playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder (NY Times) Annie Clark, releases her second album for 4AD, Strange Mercy . The record s 11 tracks showcase Clark s gift for fusing the cerebral and the visceral, her melodically elegant arrangements packing hefty emotional punches. Clark reunited with producer John Congleton and recorded…
Confessions Of The Fallen is the brand new album from radio rock titans Staind. It marks their return as a band after hiatus and is their first studio album in 12 years. The record features 10 pummeling rock anthems, including radio smash “Lowest In Me” and brand new single “Here And Now”.
Vinyl LP pressing. This 1970 album sees master saxophonist Stan Getz cover hits of the day, with Beatles producer George Martin at the controls. Getz tries his hand at songs by Paul Simon, Bacharach-David, a heartfelt take on Joni Mitchell s Both Sides Now and Graham s Nash title track. The Verve By Request Series…