Following the release of “Acknowledge Kindness”, The Reds, Pinks and Purples announce a companion record, “True Love Daydream“, arriving on September 25th.
Ever prolific, most of the music on “True Love Daydream” was created by Donaldson at the same time as “Acknowledge Kindness”. Donaldson eloquently describes the EP as “a little boat set adrift off the shore of the main album.” Here, separated from the album, the music has space to ebb and flow, lingering in shimmering ambience. Three of the songs on the EP are atmospheric instrumentals, a slight departure from Donaldson’s classic songwriting, yet retain the emotional depth that makes the music so captivating.
One of the most anticipated debut records of the year lands from Londoners KEO.
Raw, bruised, and unflinchingly self-aware, their first full-length release captures the emotional fallout of love, guilt, shame, and self-destruction with a clarity that feels almost confrontational. The record captures a band documenting themselves in real time, preserving every fracture, ugly thought and moment of collapse without compromise.
Blending grunge intensity, shoegaze textures and confessional songwriting, the record draws on the charged candour of artists including Led Zeppelin, Sun Kil Moon and Smashing Pumpkins, while carrying the lyrical directness and storytelling instinct of artists like Radiohead.
Across its 11 tracks, Keo move between moments of towering vulnerability and total collapse, pairing brooding atmospheres with melodies that feel built to be screamed back in over-spilling rooms.
The physical design of the LP mirrors the record’s bruised and confrontational atmosphere, blending distressed textures with Keo’s stark visual world.
“Put A Smile On For Me” captures Keo at the exact moment underground obsession turns into something much bigger.
Here presented for your enjoyment a phenomenal live show from This Is The Kit, captured at the iconic Minack open-air amphitheatre on the coast in Cornwall and released by Rough Trade for RSD. Featuring tracks from the acclaimed albums “Careful Of Your Keepers”, “Off Off On” and “MoonshineFreeze”, this record captures the essence of these songs, presenting them in a new light, at least partially informed by the incredible architecture of Minack Theatre itself.
And to celebrate, we’ll be releasing a video a day of different songs that we played at the afore mentioned minack theatre gig. Today’s one is ‘hotter colder’
Oh look! Our ‘live at the minack theatre’ live album is out now in it’s entirety, available on all the usual streaming places.
On 19th May 2023 This Is The Kit played a double header at the stunning Minack Theatre in Cornwall, comprising of an afternoon matinee and a night time show. Now for Record Store Day, a live recording of the evening show will be made available, marking the first live album released by This the album sees the band (including three-piece horn section) on top form, responding to the resplendent surroundings in front of a hugely appreciative audience. About the show, Kate said “Our friend Will who books shows at the excellent Cornish bank in Falmouth had the slightly ambitious idea of booking us at the Minack theatre in Cornwall.
It’s an amazing open air amphitheatre on the edge of a Cornish cliff face overlooking the sea and so it seemed like a pretty fun idea to do a gig there. And it all resulted in quite an epic day of music in a very epic setting, which we somehow had the foresight to record. And so then we decided that it might be nice to release the recording for record store day!”
The album is available on Limited Edition Seagrass Citrus vinyl, from all participating stores on 20th April (Record Store Day).
An air of subtle melancholy graces Kate Stables’ gorgeous 7th studio album. She’s grappling with loneliness, isolation, and solitude but, through it all, she fights the good fight, adding hopeful inflections to her ever-beautiful vocals.
The concept of home haunts This Is the Kit’s tender, thoughtful seventh studio album, “Ghost Coat“. “I was interested in exploring our relationship with home,” says frontwoman Kate Stables. “Where home is, or was, where we come from, where we’re going. Sometimes it’s just where you put your bag down, especially for someone who travels a lot. Maybe it’s less to do with a place, and more who you’re with – people that make you feel like you’re at home.” “Ghost Coat” captures the feeling that, no matter where we are in the world, homesickness can strike at any moment. “Quite often, if I find myself in a new place,” says Stables, “I’ll be really happy to be there, but then I always miss somewhere else which is tugging me away.” On “Lamp Post”, she sings: “I miss the city but I also miss the mountains and I also miss the sea.” This sense of yearning for someplace just out of reach infuses the album, which grapples with themes of human connection and the complex intertwining of loneliness, solitude and isolation.
Amongst the forlorn fingerpicking and homesick sighs rises an uplifting sense of community and human connection. And this is reflected in the crew she’s brought together for “Ghost Coat”. Bolstering her enrapturing folk pop are Dinked alumni Richard Dawson and Rozi Plain, alongside Sam Amidon,Ben Howard, Emma Broughton, and the Portron brothers – Valentin & Marceau.
Like the apparitional garment of the album’s title, This Is The Kit manages to successfully deliver something both spectral and warming, ghostly yet reassuring.
It’s a haunting, powerful record of a place, a time, and a talented group of people.
Ghost Coat”, the new album, is out on the 15th of January 2027.
As expected, U2 is marking 50 years as a band with its first album of new material in nine years. The group announced “Carnaval De Luz”, a 12-track set due November. 13th via Interscope, alongside the arrival of the new single “Silencio” and its Mexico City-shot video. It was directed by Cliqua, the Mexican-American duo of Pasqual Gutiérrez and Raúl “RJ” Sanchez.
As previously reported, U2 signaled a new creative chapter this year with the surprise releases of the six-track EPs “Days of Ash” and “Easter Lily”. Those projects were recorded during the same period as “Carnaval De Luz“, which completes what the band describes as a sequence tied to the liturgical calendar: Lent, Easter and now Carnaval.
“Silencio,” is a brisk 2:35 blast of early surf/punk attitude, with additional production from OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. The Edge describes the album as “a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs,” while noting that it marks U2’s first recorded use of flat-wound strings.
Produced by Jacknife Lee, “Carnaval De Luz” finds Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. continuing to explore themes of spirituality, friendship, freedom and perseverance against “dark, encroaching forces.” The album combines some of U2’s more experimental impulses with comparatively direct songwriting on tracks including “The Greatest Show on Earth,” “Glorify” and “Midnight Sunshine.”
‘Carnaval De Luz’ is the exhilarating 16th studio album from U2, 12 melodically rich new songs from one of the most celebrated & enduring bands of all time. Acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world, U2 has sales of over 175m & won numerous awards, incl. 22 Grammys. Set for release in the year Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr. will mark 50 years together in U2, ‘CarnavalDe Luz’ includes lead tracks ‘Street of Dreams’, ‘Silencio’ and the extraordinary ‘Torn (ft. Dolly Parton)’.
Spec: 3 x 12” 180g Heavyweight Vinyl – Featuring the New 12-track studio album, plus the ‘Days Of Ash” EP’ and ‘Easter Lily” EP’ – for the first time physically Premium Deluxe Packaging: 1 x Gatefold sleeve housing the standard album, with printed inner sleeves and full-colour printed vinyl labels 2 x Single outer sleeves for the EPs, each featuring printed inner sleeves and QR codes linking to accompanying ‘Propaganda’ zines 12” Lift-off lid box with Full-Colour Artwork and Gloss Lamination Finish 16-Page booklet featuring Lyrics, Photography and Exclusive album imagery Bespoke Vinyl slip-mat
Today, U2 made a surprise return to Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, the school where the band originally formed 50 years ago. Performing for around 1,000 students and staff, U2 played classics including “Out Of Control”, “I Will Follow”,” Vertigo”, “Beautiful Day”, “One” and “WithOr Without You”. They also gave the first live performance of their new song “Silencio” and reflected on their beginnings in Dublin. The event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation and served as an emotional homecoming for U2.
The album arrives exactly 50 years after Mullen posted a handwritten notice at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School seeking musicians to form a band. U2 is widely expected to tour in 2027 but no dates have yet been announced.
London-based Swedish singer-songwriter Josefin Öhrn (previously of Grammy nominated Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation) is set to release her debut album “Cherry” on 25th September featuring vocals from Bobby Gllespie (Primal Scream) and Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), with guitar from Andy Bell (Ride).
Josefin’s most intimate and self-defined album yet, “Cherry” explores themes of fresh starts, desire, love and grief. It taps into a new and very interesting phase of music, seen on recent releases from Robyn (Sexistential) and Lykke Li (The Afterparty), where the experiences of women are put out there without shame in colourful candidness, such records tap into a fascinating period of raw, intense and highly transformative self-actualization.
Josefin wrote the songs on “Cherry” during a new phase of her life, it captures the sense of liberty, excitement and vulnerability that comes with such a re-birth. Explored with an intensity that’s sensual, vulnerable and unguarded. At its core lies the female gaze – not as a concept, but a lived experience with a sense of longing running through the album like a pulse: a longing for connection, for freedom.
Musically, “Cherry” has echoes of the hypnotic psych-rock of Josefin’s previous band Josefin Ohrn +The Liberation (Rocket Recordings) but the arrangements, structures and mixing on “Cherry” are less avant-garde and closer to the laid-back atmospheres of Kurt Vile, Lana Del Rey or Natalie Bergman with clear hooks and with Josefin’s voice standing front and centre – intimate, magnetic, unwavering – which allows for the album’s stark emotional immediacy.
Josefin personally asked Kalle Jerneholm Gustavsson (Soundtrack Of Our Lives), who she had worked with previously, to produce the album. “We recorded it in his studio, Svenska Grammofonstudion, Gothenburg. It’s an amazing studio where artists can stay, so I was totally living the album, breathing music every waking and sleeping hour as I was far away from my everyday life in London” explains Josefin. “It was a beautiful experience.”
We’re very pleased to announce “In The Shadow Of The Sun, Paul Weller & Band Live & Very Direct” – a new 31-track live album captured straight from the sound desk across this summer’s incredible run of UK shows.
Spanning The Jam, The Style Council and Paul’s solo catalogue, the record captures Paul and the band doing what they do best — live, direct and right in the moment. It was a memorable summer for Weller, who performed a huge number of outdoor shows, including at Exhibition Park in Newcastle, Fairview Park in Dublin, Pier Head in Liverpool, the Piece Hall in Halifax, and the Open Air Theatre in Scarborough.
Weller said of the upcoming release, “We hope this live recording gives justice to the experience that we and the audience felt on these tour dates. We all felt they were very special shows — all of ’em! This recording is straight off the sound board. All real, all true, more power, more love.”– Paul Weller, September 2026
The shows drew an amazing response throughout the summer:
“A compelling career-spanning set… what an outstanding show” – Uncut,“A smasher of a set” — The Arts Desk ★★★★★, “Weller still moves forward, politically engaged, musically restless, uninterested in the comfortable option” — Louder Than War
“In The Shadow Of The Sun” is available digitally Friday 2nd October
The first official and emotional trailer for the late Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s forthcoming concert film, Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning, has been released.
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning captures the Prince of Darkness’ final solo gig as well as Black Sabbath’s final performance with the band’s original lineup, which took place in Osbourne’s hometown of Birmingham, England, at Villa Park Stadium last July. Less than three weeks after the gigantic day fest, Ozzy passed away at the age of 76.
The opening shot of the trailer sees the massive crowd at the Back to the Beginning show—which featured sets from the likes of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slayer, Pantera, Tool, Gojira, Lamb of God,Halestorm, Anthrax, Mastodon, and more— while Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello (who served as the music director and curator of the gig) says: “There’s never been a precedent for a show like this. Millions of people around the world got to say, ‘Thank you, Black Sabbath. Thank you, Ozzy.‘”
It then shows footage of Osbourne and Black Sabbath onstage, with clips capturing the scale and emotion of the Villa Park crowd. The video also shares behind-the-scenes footage of the event. Ozzy’s wife and manager, Sharon, opened up in the voiceover, sharing: “[Ozzy] was told he probably wouldn’t make it through the show. He said, ‘No, I’m doing it. Whatever happens happens,’” in reference to his ailing health, which had been declining for years. During the show, Ozzy performed while seated on a throne. One clip shows the godfather of heavy metal sitting on his throne, teary-eyed, telling the crowd, “You have no idea how I feel,” before interweaving a clip of the crowd singing “Mama, I’m coming home” back to him while he points his microphone at them. The trailer ends on an image of Osbourne smiling out at the audience before telling them: “God bless each and every one of you. I love you all.”
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning is set for release on October 28th and was directed by Ben Wainwright-Pearce, who previously edited Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour for Disney+. Tickets for the film are on sale now.
Speaking about the legendary gig, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne’s wife and manager, shared in a statement: “Back to the Beginning came about because I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy, and he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans. That’s all he wanted to do. He wanted to say goodbye and thank you.”
Speaking about the gig in a statement, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi shared: “It was a closure for the band, and it was a good way to go out, I think,” while bassist Geezer Butler added: “To me it was like pure love. It was just a wave of love. It’s the only way I can describe it really. I mean, I could feel it as if it is like tangible.”
Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward also opened up about the show, saying: “[I] felt completely at home in a place where I belong. It almost felt like I was in a dream.”
Since its release, I’ve probably listenend to Wednesday’s bittersweet and punch-drunk ode to a love that exists perpetually between ripeness and rot over a hundred times, and not once have I thought, “You know what would somehow make this already-perfect song even more perfect? A DJ Sabrina remix!” Not because it sounded like a bad idea, but because this isn’t a crossover that ever could’ve crossed my mind.
This standout from the collection of “Bleeds” B-sides brings together two indie icons from seemingly disparate worlds. In DJ Sabrina’s sun-drenched production, Karly Hartzman’s musings seem even further in the distance, even more primed for nostalgia, and don’t even get me started on how dreamy that lap steel sounds among synth washes and pulses of bass. Two great tastes that unexpectedly taste great together.
It seems incredible, but here we are, in the middle of 2025 tasting a new studio album by TheChameleons... or well, Chameleons nothing more, as they now call themselves. “Arctic Moon” was released this weekend, with seven songs that Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies created from a fresher and brighter worldview of the sound that characterized the band in the eighties.
In addition, we must say that their instrumentation is much more organic as well, seeming that now post-punk is mixed with alt-rock and an indie vein of jangly guitars. And that is one of the greatest attributes of this work: its guitars, bright and ethereal when the occasion warrants it. As for the lyrics, the English band launches itself with political manifestos and scattered social criticisms, remaining current in that sense as well, after 24 years of absence.
Chameleons are a post-punk band hailing from Manchester, England, known for their atmospheric soundscapes and introspective lyrics. Formed in the early 1980s, they craft a unique blend of melancholic melodies and haunting vocals, distinguishing them in the alternative music scene.
With albums like “Script of the Bridge” and “What Does Anything Mean?” Basically, they garnered a cult following for their introspective, introspective sound. Their music often explored themes of alienation, identity, and societal disillusionment, resonating deeply with listeners. Their influence on generations of musicians remains profound, cementing their legacy in alternative music history.
Since its release, I’ve probably listenend to Wednesday’s bittersweet and punch-drunk ode to a love that exists perpetually between ripeness and rot over a hundred times, and not once have I thought, “You know what would somehow make this already-perfect song even more perfect? A DJ Sabrina remix!” Not because it sounded like a bad idea, but because this isn’t a crossover that ever could’ve crossed my mind. 
