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Win a rare Jack White seven inch, plus thirteen albums we're high on.
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Thirteen albums (yep, 13) that we're really into plus a chance to win a super rare Jack White seven inch. 

 

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Hello friends

We'll keep the chit-chat brief as there is ever such a lot to get through. Record of the week is full of chugging riffs and screaming vocals. Jack White's second solo album 'Lazaretto' is a dense piece of work, slowly cooked by the Third Man maestro over the last 18 months (most White Stripe LP's took a mere few days). He has been speaking very frankly about the back story and the intentions these last few weeks, but tone is so instant. It's a super listen.

Now this bit is super important. Buy that new album on CD or LP Today (Monday 9th June) and we'll put your name in a hat to win a very rare promo seven inch single of the first single 'High Ball Stepper'. We'll do the draw tomorrow and let the winners know. It has previously been selling on eBay for stupid money... so we'll have a handful of very happy shoppers.

** If you already have bought it, we'll enter your name...

Now the other album that has just sold and sold on pre-order is the newest LP 'Stay Gold' from siblings First Aid Kit. Their vocals are insanely sweet on this and the production (Bright Eyes producer Mike Mogis) elsewhere is bang on. This will sell a million copies by Christmas folks, and rightfully so!

Another band we're glad to see back are The Fresh & Onlys on Mexican Summer. 'House of Spirits' is an instant summer buzz, rich guitars and arrangements akin to Grizzly Bear. Damn nice guys too, they curated some releases for us here.

Whilst stocks last, initial orders will receive a bonus 7" single.


 
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Bob Mould's 'Beauty & Ruin' packs a staggering lifetime’s worth of emotion and experience into a 36-minute package sure to be hailed as a landmark addition to Bob’s formidable body of work. 

Drawing on the modern anxiety of finding your place in a world saturated by information, Tom Vek's new studio album ‘Luck’ plunges the personal to deliver tracks that are sincere, angry and poignant. It took us an hour to get past the first three tracks as they are so good... rewind!!

Johnny Lynch, aka The Pictish Trail, is something of a conundrum. On first impressions, he’s a self-deprecating hairy hobo, but once he begins to sing, his extraordinary vocals reveal hidden depths that can subdue the most rowdy of audiences into a blissfully hypnotised silence. A brilliantly rounded album from the former lynchpin (sic) of the Fence Collective.

Soul legend Lee Fields has re-teamed with The Expressions for new album Emma JeanComing at a time when many new artists are trying to emulate the soul and swagger of the 1960s, Mr. Fields showers us with authenticity on this 11-track set. 

“It’s not by chance that Dust is being released on Gold Panda’s label,” says Till Rohmann, aka Glitterbug. His fourth record, and first on Chelmsford-based producer’s NOTOWN Recordings, Dust is, he explains, a record in-part inspired by Derwin’s brilliant metropolis-evoking, travelling-influenced second LP, Half Of Where You Live. Minimal but organic. More top electronic melancholia from Notown.

‘Nausea’ could easily have been a record rife with indecision and anxiety but, like the song for which the album is named, Craft Spells was able to turn the chaos and disillusionment into a work that provides ammo against that very thing, with beauty, vision and melody. Pop hooks with some real darkness, we like this a lot.

 

 

 

Head to the checkout this week with the code 'STEPPER' to get a high balling ten percent off.
 


“Most everyone who’s in a group who’s our age lives on the Internet,” says Dub Thompson guitarist Matt Pulos. “The kinds of things that have shaped our band aren’t anchored to any one time or place.” Pulos and his bandmate, drummer Evan Laffer, are currently both 19 years old and are putting that line of thought to the test; their musical influences travel from the Midwestern malaise of Big Black and Pere Ubu, to Kraut pioneers Can and Kraftwerk, while bowing to the British belligerence of The Fall and This Heat. 9 Songs really is that good, produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado... precocious damn kids...

CLPPNG’ is an album that demonstrates the variety of sounds available when the ‘rules’ of a genre are wilfully questioned, Some amazing experimental hip-hop courtesy of the LA trio Clipping.

Tomas Barfod’s second album, ‘Love Me’ features guest vocals from Luke Temple, Sleep Party People, Night Beds and a stunning collaboration on a number of songs with Swedish singer Nina K, the album is gaining plaudits internationally for all the right reasons following up his hugely praised debut.

when you hear The Proper Ornaments you’ll see why it’s been worth all their hardship to get here. Mining the rich territories of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, their debut album proper "Wooden Head" features fourteen thrillingly taut and melodic pop songs with a deep, dark undercurrent. Comprised of Argentinian Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) – who both sing and write the songs.


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So come see us at the shop or online and get a good listen to all of this then.

Later!

Drift

 

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