New This Week: The Bevis Frond, Good Kid, Deary, Arlo Parks, Bon Iver, Adele Bertei, Tom Tom Club and more…
The Bevis Frond’s Horrorful Heights is a psych lifer sharpening his edge — fuzzed-out, free-thinking and gloriously out of step with everything else. Good Kid’s Can We Hang Out Sometime? captures the rush of modern indie at its most immediate — hooks first, overthinking later.
Deary’s Birding floats somewhere beautifully untethered, all soft-focus textures and slow emotional pull, and happens to be our Album of the Month. Arlo Parks’ has been doing the rounds at several of our stores and her new album Ambiguous Desire leans deeper into vulnerability, expanding her world with richer, more cinematic soul.
Read on for the unflinching, funny and brutally honest history of Big Country’s Stuart Adamson. Plus Adele Bertei’s uncompromising testimony to the significant, international movement of women artists that shaped the No Wave era.
And then there’s Thundercat who recently shredded up Brixton O2 Academy London — the new album Distracted is virtuosity meets chaos, funk turned inside out by one of the most singular players around.
What else is out this week…
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Wesley Joseph
Forever Ends Someday
Thirteen tracks of self-examination cut with expansive escapism. The debut is unguarded, wholly realised and entirely his own.
Pre-order before 16th April for the chance to win a bonus edition with exclusive signed print, original 16mm film strip and unique box.
Natural colour LP.
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