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Cate Le Bon
Reward
'Dinked edition' is on red/black/white splatter coloured vinyl, exclusive die-cut packaging, hand-numbered, includes an exclusive signed print & a download code/ /800. For avoidance of doubt, the centre is a standard spindle size, and not dinked.
It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers - the first piano she had ever owned - for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date.
Mexican Summer
CD | LP
FOALS
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1
LP is on 180g black vinyl.
there's a hanful of LPs signed by Yannis (not the whole band)
The hugely anticipated new album from one of our favourite bands, Foals. Following on from 2015's What Went Down, the incredible indie-dance rockers will release two albums this year, with Part 2 following later in the year.
“They’re two halves of the same locket,” frontman Yannis Philippakis explains. “They can be listened to and appreciated individually, but fundamentally, they are companion pieces.”
Fundamentally tethered but possessing their own personalities, the two bodies capture the most compelling, ambitious and cohesive creations they’ve ever produced. Eager to break the traditional pop song structure which they felt they were becoming increasingly tapered to, the 20 tracks defy expectation. There are exploratory, progressive-tinged tracks alongside atmospheric segues which make the music an experience rather than a mere collection of songs. Yet the band’s renowned ability to wield relentless grooves with striking power and skyscraper hooks also reaches new heights.
CD | LP
Little Simz
Grey Area
One of our favourite albums of 2019!
"Gritty rap songs from a gifted UK hip hop visionary. Simz has really found her stride here on album number three. This is wholesome, deep, UK underground rap in the main" - Mike
GREY Area is the new album from Little Simz, her third to date following mixtapes/EPs and two critically acclaimed albums.
Simbi Ajikawo, crowned Little Simz, lets her work do the talking - and her prolific releases and boundary-breaking achievements clearly tell a story of a pioneering Hip Hop artist who leads the way on her own terms. Giving lauded, energetic performances, critically acclaimed albums, sold-out headline shows around the world, and international tours with the likes of Gorillaz, Anderson .Paak and Ab-Soul, this visionary 24 year old woman from North London is living out her childhood dreams to heights of excellence - and inspiring her generation to do the same.
CD | LP
The 1975
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
We've now run out of fully-signed CDs, but we have a few albums which are signed but smudged, or partially signed. The choices that remain are: 1) smudged, but signed by all 4 members of the band 2) signed by Matty (which is not smudged) but not signed by all 4 members.
"The word 'eclectic' is bandied around a lot, but this album really is a mix of styles, all of them undoubtedly The 1975. A social commentary on life in 2018, poetry, love and anger, infectious songs, the extra mile with the art, two great Kingston shows, an incredibly dedicated fanbase and the band, label and management doing everything they can to accommodate. Even having been surrounded by it for weeks, I still put it on at home. Our biggest selling album of all time." - jt
The huge third full length from the iconic The 1975. It's an eclectic mix of indie-rock, pop, social commentary, and electronica, and they're being named the band of a generation.
Clever and profound, funny and light, serious and heartbreaking, painfully modern and classic-sounding all at the same time, ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’ is a game-changing album, one that challenges The 1975’s peers – if, indeed, there are any – to raise their game.
The 1975 take on that overwhelming anxiety with nerve and aplomb, and the result combines the fist-raising inspired by anthems with the gut-punch provided by precisely described longing.
This is the band of the Decade
Dirty Hit / Polydor
CD | LP
Anna Calvi
Hunter
Indies exclusive LP on 180g red coloured vinyl. Regular LP is on 180g black vinyl. Both LPs include a download code. The third full length album from BRIT awar and double Mercury Prize-nominated artist Anna Calvi, produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Grinderman) at Konk Studios in London. Hunter is the embodiment of the feeling of truly letting go. For the songwriter and virtuosic guitarist, it was a catharsis, an opportunity to be more truthful than ever. The first new music since 2014’s collaborative release with David Byrne, Strange Weather EP, her self-titled debut album and the 2013 follow-up One Breath, Hunter is a visceral album exploring sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity. A queer and a feminist record, it is galvanising in its hunt for freedom. It was important to Calvi that it was as vulnerable as it is strong; as beautiful as it is harsh; as much about the hunted as it is about the hunter. But she’s careful not to characterise any of these traits as “masculine” or “feminine” – the whole point is that one person, of any gender, can be both. The power is in the contrast itself; in the way she oscillates between extremes, sounding freer than ever before. She wanted to express herself while being “free from the story that either gender is given, free from worrying how people would judge me on what I want to do with my body and myself. For me, that’s quite a utopian vision.”
Domino
CD | LP
