The Doves – The Universal Want (Imperial) LP
Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Doves break their silence on new music rumors by announcing fifth album, The Universal Want. Buoyed by refreshed chemistry, restless studio creativity and public reaction to their return, Doves set free the album’s first single, ‘Prisoners’. Turning the page onto the next chapter of a three-decade career, The Universal Want follows Mercury-nominated albums, Lost Souls, and The Last Broadcast.

Julien Baker – Turn Out The Lights [Reissue/2017] LP+MP3 (Matador)
Repressed on cloud-in-clear vinyl. Included on Best of 2017 lists from The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR, Stereogum, Billboard and many more, Julien Baker’s sophomore LP Turn Out The Lights proves “A powerful new voice has arrived in music” (The Ringer).

Touché Amoré – Lament CD/LP+MP3 (Epitaph)
Since their formation in 2007, Los Angeles post hardcore band Touché Amoré has been burrowing through angst, alienation, cancer, and death throughout four adored studio albums. After over a decade of working through darkness, fifth offering, Lament, finds the light at the end of the tunnel. The album arrives as the follow-up to the band’s critically acclaimed 2016 release, Stage Four, which found vocalist Jeremy Bolm mourning and paying tribute to his late mother. Lament shines a light on what life for the band has been like since then, tackling themes of fragility, empathy, politics, and love while pushing forward a newfound sense of hope. [A limited edition indie store exclusive aqua blue vinyl pressing is also available.]

Travis – 10 Songs CD/LP (BMG)
At various points along the trajectory between then and now, Travis has sold millions of albums (just under three million of The Man Who in the UK alone); they’ve been the subject of an award-winning feature length documentary (Almost Fashionable) and frontman Fran Healy has elicited acclaim from Paul McCartney, Elton John and Graham Nash – all songwriters whose ability to divine a timeless melody out of thin air has sustained them through the decades. 10 Songs is an album that holds you in its own emotional microclimate at the outset and keeps you there. It’s also a grown-up record. 10 Songs is a record about the way life comes at love and what love does to weather those challenges. “This is no rehearsal/This is the take,” sings Fran at the beginning of “Waving At The Window”, over an insistent piano hook, “Promises you once kept/Are going to break.” Every track on this album carries an even load. No passengers here. Nowhere to hide. [Deluxe double-CD and double colored vinyl editions – both expanded with album demos – are also available.]

Cut Worms – Nobody Lives Here Anymore CD/2xLP (Jagjaguwar)
Nobody Lives Here Anymore is the haunted reverie of an American landscape in-and-out of Max Clarke’s mind. Recorded between May and November 2019 in Memphis, Tennessee, the album is a snow globe of the mid-twentieth-century’s popular music filled with jangling guitars, honkey tonk pianos, and Telstar organs. [Limited Coke bottle clear vinyl pressing also available.]

Machinedrum – A View Of U CD/LP (Ninja Tune)
A View Of U is L.A.-based producer Machinedrum’s (aka Travis Stewart) ninth solo album in a glittering career that has cemented his reputation as “one of electronic music’s biggest and brightest stars” (DJ Mag). It features an incredible cast of collaborators including Sub Focus, Chrome Sparks, Father (Awful Records), Freddie Gibbs, Mono/Poly (Brainfeeder), Tigran Hamasyan, Jesse Boykins III, Rochelle Jordan and Tanerélle. A truly career defining record for the North Carolina born producer, A View Of U distills his signature fusion of IDM, UK rave, jungle and bass culture blended with myriad US regional hip-hop and club music styles. [Limited silver, white, and black marbled vinyl pressing also available.]

Slow Pulp – Moveys CD/LP (Winspear) 
Slow Pulp’s remarkable full-length debut Moveys is a testament to hard-fought personal growth. In the process of making their new record, the Chicago-based indie rock band powered through health challenges, personal upheaval, and a pandemic, all while breaking old habits and learning how to be better songwriters and friends. Full of blistering energy and emotional catharsis, this compelling 10-track collection highlights the band’s resourcefulness and resilience to come together even when they were states away. Slow Pulp’s tough adaptability is something that has formed over time thanks to the unbreakable bond of lifelong friendship. Their roots can be traced back to elementary school, with Alexander Leeds (bass), Theodore Mathews (drums), and Henry Stoehr (guitar) performing in bands together since the sixth grade while growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. Emily Massey (vocals/guitar) was later invited to join their new project, Slow Pulp, in 2017. “I can’t describe a level of closeness with other people like we have. Having lived together, toured together, worked together, and written together, we learned so much about each other so quickly,” says Massey. [Limited neon green colored vinyl pressing also available.]

North Americans – Roped In LP (Third Man)
Los Angeles-based musician collective with a rotating cast featuring Mary Lattimore and William Tyler, playing instrumental, psychedelic folk music. Pedal steel and nylon string guitar intertwine to create ethereal crystalline drones and twinkling hypnotic moods in the American Primitive style.

Foals – Collected Reworks 3×12” (WB)
Foals present Collected Reworks, a compilation of the most essential remixes from throughout their career. The collection features Hot Since 82’s brand new remix of “Into The Surf” and highlights an eclectic range of artists, including the 10-minute take on “The Runner” from the Grammy-nominated Rüfüs Du Sol, Solumun’s huge version of “Late Night”, Hot Chip’s inventive interpretation of “My Number”, and the recent Purple Disco Machine remix of “In Degrees”. Highlights from the three volumes are compiled here in the colored triple-vinyl Collected Reworks set.

Tricky – Fall To Pieces LP (!K7)
Recently released on CD – now available on vinyl. “Tricky has always worn his bruised heart on his sleeve. His brilliantly desolate debut album, Maxinquaye, was inspired by his mother, who died when he was four years old, and a song like ‘Strugglin’’ laid bare in excruciating detail his experiences of pain, darkness, and toil. Fall To Pieces, which contains some of the most darkly moving music that Tricky has produced since that debut album, was produced in the shadow of tragedy. Tricky’s daughter Mazy died in 2019 as he was beginning work on a new record. Here, on his 14th studio album, he translates that unimaginable loss into moments of nauseatingly raw emotion. However personal the burden of Tricky’s grief, his collaborators have played a significant role in shaping the sound and feel of the album. Marta Złakowska, who Tricky discovered in a Krakow bar after a singer dropped out of his Polish tour, has the perfect voice for a Tricky vocal foil, her spectral tones the wisp of smoke to his cigarette-end mutter, while Marie-Claire Schlameus’s cello and Kristof Hahn’s slide guitar creep around the arrangements with the finesse of art thieves.” – Pitchfork