…This deluxe reissue returns Paulusma’s celebrated debut to the spotlight, pairing the original 11-track album with five bonus recordings from the same prolific writing period. Three of these – ‘Orion’s Belt’, ‘Two Stars’, and ‘Leave Your Keys’ – originally appeared as sought-after B-sides during the album’s 2004 single campaign, while ‘My Errant Knight’ and ‘Pentecostosis’, written and recorded alongside the album itself, are released here for the very first time.
Nearly 35 years on, and the folk and twining soft rock of the early ’70s is being birthed again in a stylized new version. Suddenly young women with unruly mops of dark hair and a flair for dusky vocal phrasing are handily making their way in pop music. They’re clad in comfy…
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Both solo and with The Monkees – and various permutations thereof – Davy Jones spent decades on the road sharing the music he loved all over the world. While a Monkees setlist would be painstakingly constructed, the solo Jones was far more freewheeling, incorporating new and old songs and crossing genre lines with abandon. Now 7A Records celebrates the late singer’s legacy with a new live compendium.
Let Me Entertain You: On the Road with Davy boasts two dozen concert recordings spanning 1979- 2003 from venues in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. Entertainment was in David’s bones: the Manchester native had been entertaining audiences since his youth. As a teenager in Great Britain, he’d appeared on…
Even at her most austere and experimental, Susanne Sundfør has a way of creating amenable and approachable music that is infused with her own brand of idiosyncratic enchantment, and so it is with Revelations of Divine Love. The singer-songwriter’s seventh album is inspired by recent motherhood and a profound connection with the texts of the fourteenth-century English mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich. Sundfør recorded this album live in an empty but acoustically conducive Norwegian church with just her voice and the accompaniment of a pipe organ. If that configuration sounds like it might be sparse, her voice is a rich and powerful instrument in itself, and more than a match for the room-shaking timbre of a finely tuned and pristine organ.
The line the Beatles drew to mark a turning point in late 1965 was both bold and significant. With the release of Rubber Soul, their sixth album, in December, the mop-tops took their first big step toward becoming artists. Its influence and history-making chain of events (from Pet Sounds to Revolver to almost every aspiring musical work released in the past six decades) have been well documented for decades. Then and now, it deserves all the attention. Things were happening fast for the Beatles in their fifth year together. Since the release of their debut album, Please Please Me, in March 1963, the quartet was on a nonstop rotation of live performances and studio dates. In the 13 months between their second LP and December 1964’s rushed Beatles for Sale…
The idea that an album could be made piecemeal, in different countries, via the internet, would have been inconceivable forty years ago. Such technology would have seemed strange; stranger still might have been the idea that the traditional method – that is, recording a series of songs in one place during a set period of time – is far less viable these days. The logistical demands of creative practice in 2026 mean a piecemeal approach is an all-too necessary solution for many artists. Studios and practice spaces are expensive to rent. It’s difficult to organise a group of busy people (who may not have made music their full-time profession) into one place to record. Vanishing Twin’s excellent new album, Archives, was created in a so-called “virtual studio space”,…
…features 104 tracks, demos, outtakes, live performances, interviews, and other rare recordings half of which are previously unreleased.
Year Zero, 1976. While his punk contemporaries were at least pretending to hate old music, D.P. Costello had fewer qualms about negotiating with the past. He unpicked the mysteries of Mississippi John Hurt; channelled Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison; was “completely unnerved” rather than contemptuous when he spotted Bert Jansch in the audience at one of his early gigs. Taking The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo as a gateway drug, he studied the heartbreak and nuance of country and dreamed of becoming a Nashville songwriter. He even tried his hand at Vaudeville whimsy. A fleet-footed 1976 demo called…
Following the pop-dance showcase ‘EFM’, Jack Latham returns to his Jam City project with stripped down funk, chewed-up Prince-style R&B, vintage electro and simmering disco house.
We’ll tell you now, My World isn’t a follow-up to 2012’s landmark ‘Classical Curves’, but it’s an enjoyable enough listen – even if you weren’t convinced by its predecessor. Latham’s kept himself busy since 2023 jobbing as a producer, working with Kali Uchis and Olivia Rodrigo after architecting Yachty’s move towards psychedelia on ‘Let’s Start Here’. So his world in 2026 is very different from ours – and certainly different from the landscape that inspired ‘The Courts’. Latham’s current reality is best summed up by the brief instrumental ‘Cash Fast Interlude’…
…features early recordings, demos and previously unheard material from the original album era, alongside the new “Let Me Heal You (demo)” and alternate versions of songs including “Running with the Wolves” and “Runaway.”
There’s a strand of magic realism that’s typically European, focusing on the metaphysical and a sort of estrangement from the world. You’ll find it in the novels of Franz Kafka and Angela Carter – approached from entirely different worldviews, of course – an irreducible quality which can’t be explained by the general laws of nature, redefining the everyday via the fantastical.
Nineteen year old Norwegian and native of Bergen Aurora Aksnes, AURORA to the pop music world, lives in this world. In portraits and…
Countless young men in the 1980s and ’90s doubtless dreamed of what it would be like to go out with Susanna Hoffs, the lead singer with paisley underground charmers turned multi-platinum hitmakers The Bangles. Since Hoffs has been happily married for over three decades, the window of opportunity to make that happen has passed, but Hoffs gives us a faint insight into what it could have been like on her 2026 album The List. The LP’s inspiration came when Hoffs was looking through an old notebook and happened upon a list she’d made of all the men she’d dated since her first high school boyfriend. Most of the songs on The List are memories of moments in relationships, some happy, some wistful, some bittersweet. Anyone hoping Hoffs will offer…
Affection, issued in 2024, trailed the first proper Bullion LP by eight years, making the 2026 follow-up Nearly rather unexpected. Its arrival was likely closer to a shock for those who track Nathan Jenkins’ behind-the-scenes activities. During the two-year interim, Katy J Pearson, Meg Mac, and Avalon Emerson released albums co-written and/or produced by Jenkins, who concurrently had a hand in songs by Oliver Sim and “Rare” duet partner Carly Rae Jepsen, and also mixed an album by Orlando Weeks. All of this outside work perhaps inspired Jenkins’ more openly collaborative approach – akin to that of a production job – yet Nearly comes out sounding just like a Bullion project. While bearing some strong resemblances to Jenkins’ most commercially successful productions…
With the passing of Dave Ball last autumn, one of the 1980s’ great synth-pop outfits came to an end. He and Soft Cell partner Marc Almond completed the final mix of Danceteria two days before Ball died. It’s the full stop on the band and, fittingly, a concept album about early 1980s New York, where the duo indulged in hedonistic 24-hour nightclubbing which they filtered into darkly peerless electronic music, giving Britain a glimpse of what lay in its 1990s future.
Danceteria is, then, a celebration of long-ago dissolution, the glamour and sleaze of a city that no longer exists. Tonally, it’s similar to Madonna’s most recent album; indeed, she receives a mention on the moodily pulsing title track, an inventory of the 21st Street clubbing mecca.
Since the early 2010s Lorely Rodriguez has cut a restless, inventive figure. She’s slipped from raucous pop to silkier sounds, explored her Honduran-American heritage and, on her last album, flipped the staple awards season phrase “for your consideration” into a full-frontal club-pop meditation on uneven relationships.
Her gorgeous fifth album makes a feature of this searching nature. Written after her family home burned down in the 2025 California wildfires, Dream House is about the rebuilding of that home – birdsong-dappled field recordings of its construction keep popping up – but also contemplates what it means to feel at home in yourself and with others.
For all the violent loss behind the record, it…
For music that is so unashamedly beautiful, there is something distinctly unnerving about The Meaning of Flowers, the fifth studio album from Danish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer Agnes Obel. The record, Obel’s first since 2020’s Myopia, reflects her experience of pregnancy and motherhood, with influences including Hannah Arendt, Danish pop music from the 1980s, and the soundtrack to Don’t Look Down.
So far, so human. But The Meaning of Flowers wraps a deep humanity in feelings that are simultaneously otherworldly and profoundly earthy. Like the work of Enya, Clannad, or even Deep Forest, The Meaning of Flowers feels older than time, like music that has been excavated from a cave, or perhaps beamed from the stars.
Get Mean is the third official studio album from cult darkwave duo Boy Harsher, marking their debut for major-label Atlantic. Active for over a decade, the pair have largely stuck to their signature sound of danceable gloom, with minimal beats and shadowy vocals dramatically expressing themes of pain and lust (to name two of their most popular songs). They haven’t drastically altered their style with the switch to a major label, as they’ve been gradually incorporating more ’80s pop influences into their music, making it no surprise that Get Mean sounds a bit brighter and more accessible than their past work.
A more significant change is the fact that members Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller split up as a romantic couple in 2024, leaving them…
Following the release of her fifth studio album, Italian Ice, which featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the Dap-Kings, among others, Nicole Atkins put out a live-tracked acoustic version of the album called Memphis Ice, then unintentionally entered into her longest gap between albums yet. Admitting that she struggled with some self-doubt as time went on, she eventually called on Wilco’s Pat Sansone to help her resurrect the lush, retro-minded Baroque pop that she’d become best known for.
Arriving six years after Italian Ice, Drama does exactly that. John Paul Keith (guitar) and Danny Banks (drums) from her touring band, along with guests like Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick (drums) and the Texas Gentlemen’s Dan Creamer (piano,…
With her 2023 album Love as Projection, Frankie Rose pushed the electronic elements that had been hanging out quietly in the background of her songs all the way into the spotlight. Rose’s music already had a dense and evolving history by then, with time spent laying the foundation for a certain era of indie rock with her work in Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, and her own reverb-heavy guitar pop in the late aughts and 2010s, and solo work that grew increasingly more synthetic with each new album. Hila continues the complete dive into electronic pop that manifested on Love as Projection, but takes Rose’s digital sound to places that are darker and more abstract. The gorgeous “Can’t Be Wrong” layers synth melodies over a steady pulse, with thick, strutting bass and Rose’s…
Music fans worldwide know Roger Joseph Manning Jr. as co-founder or member of the bands Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, The Moog Cookbook, TV Eyes, Beatnik Beatch, and The Lickerish Quartet, in addition to being a member of Beck’s band and an in-demand session player. Over the years, he’s contributed to albums by Beck, Morrissey, Lana Del Rey, Blink 182, Johnny Cash, and Adele, among many others.
Omnivore Recordings is thrilled to continue their long association with Manning in releasing his new split EP/live EP which together form the album Hopium. Side one features five new songs, some of which have been in the works for over 15 years. Across the ensuing years, Manning worked with musician friends…
The CD features the full concert remixed and remastered from the original multi-track master tapes and restored to its original running order and released for the very first time.
Includes live versions of the hit singles ‘New Song’, ‘What Is Love?’, ‘Hide And Seek’, ‘Pearl In The Shell’ and ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’ plus Howard’s previously unreleased version of the Xmas favourite ‘Ding Dong Merrily On High’, sung to the backbeat of his hit single ‘New Song’.
This ‘restored’ live in concert performance by Howard Jones is being released on DVD for the first time.
Also includes a version of the track ‘Human’s Lib’ featuring Howard’s full spoken introduction entitled ‘The Story Of Ruth, David and Dennis’.
