The Fat Angel Sings

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, ‘Carnaval De 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 “With Or 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.”

released September 25, 2026

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

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 The Chameleons... 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.

released September 11th, 2025

Suede’s album “Coming Up” laughed in the faces of everyone who believed that they would be lost following the exit of guitar hero Bernard Butler

“Is it all over for ‘The Best New Band In Britain’?” This was the question that greeted everyone who picked up the July 30th, 1994 issue of UK music magazine Melody Maker. The band in question was Suede, hailed as The Best New Band In Britain on the cover of the same publication’s April 1992 issue, two weeks ahead of the release of their debut single “The Drowners”.

It’s fair to say that journalist Steve Sutherland was significantly more impressed by the London quartet – fronted by flamboyant vocalist Brett Anderson and gifted guitarist Bernard Butler “This is the premier prima donna band we’ve been praying for,” he gushed. “The sons of Bowie’s camp little brothers, Suede are already the future all the rest will be forced to reckon with. Their demo tape is better than any album likely to be released this year.”

Their self-titled debut album, released on March 29th, 1993, became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK in almost a decade, debuted at number one on the UK albums chart, and won the 1993 Mercury Music Prize. As if that were not enough, the album would, in time, be heralded as the foundation stone for a whole new scene, BritPop.

Suede’s classic 1996 album, “Coming Up”, is being reissued for its 30th anniversary across a number of formats including a 5CD set, an exclusive blu-ray audio with Dolby Atmos Mix and an exclusive vinyl featuring Steven Wilson’s new 2026 stereo mix.

The band’s first album recorded without Bernard Butler, “Coming Up” featured a new look Suede line up as Brett Anderson (singing), Mat Osman (bass) and Simon Gilbert (drums) were joined by Neil Codling (keyboards/guitar) and Richard Oakes (guitar).

The album was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and reached number one in the UK album charts and all five singles – ‘Trash’, ‘Beautiful Ones’, ‘Saturday Night’, ‘Lazy’ and ‘Filmstar’ all reached the top 10 in the singles chart in the UK.

Expectations then were sky high for the Londoners’ second album, “Dog Man Star“. But on May 25th 1994, three months into the recording of the album at Master Rock studios, Bernard Butler took a two day break to get married, without inviting any of his bandmates, which didn’t bode well. Butler returned to the Kilburn recording facility 48 hours later, packed up his guitars, and drove away, exiting the group without a word of farewell to his bandmates.

Somewhat ironically, the band’s final release with Butler in the band, was a non-album single titled “Stay Together”.

The “Coming Up” 5CD deluxe set is widely available and features the original mix on CD 1, Steven Wilson’s new mix on CD 2, non-album tracks on CDs 3 and 4 and “Coming Up at the BBC” (previously a vinyl-only RSD release) on CD 5. Exclusive to this 5CD set is new sleeve notes by music journalist Miranda Sawyer. This comes in seven-inch packaging.

Admiral Fallow are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of their new album First Of The Birds on Chemikal Underground. The second single to be taken from the album, “The Shortest Night” ,following on from first single “Avalanche“, is out now and available on all digital platforms.

The early sketches of First Of The Birds – their fifth full-length record, a rich and brooding affair – appeared in quiet mornings and spaces, before the songs burst into life with long-time collaborator and producer Paul Savage in Chem19 Studios.

Approaching their twentieth year as a band, and having recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of their much-loved debut album, Admiral Fallow have never made a record in the way they have here, and the resulting work finds a way of both defining and redefining the scope of the group in 2025 and beyond.

On previous records, the band worked and re-worked demos in rehearsals before entering the studio, but here (by both design and circumstance), they had spent less time in one room together as a five-piece and retained an open-ended sense of where the songs would lead and the space they might take up. The rehearsals that did happen prior to recording took place in Louis Abbott’s attic room, where they practised hushed and unplugged. While a number of the songs would eventually find noisier paths of their own, the heart of the album remains in the understated spaces where it began – giving the songs an earthy and organic sense of wonder which feels wholly compelling.

“It comes from us having more confidence to just play together as a group,” Sarah Hayes says of the process behind the new album. “There’s a shorthand to how we work together, and how we experiment now, that has come from being together for so long. I don’t think we could have worked in this way at any other point in the past eighteen years.”

Led by collective spirit and understanding, framing a time of significant change and upheaval, of the myriad ways those things shift the world around us, First Of The Birds” feels something like a revelation.

Admiral Fallow continue to evolve and transform, and in embracing such things, of folding their experiences into the fabric of the band, they’ve produced a record that is at once entirely personal while also feeling reassuringly universal. It thrives within those parameters; a burst of warm light on a new morning.

released October 31st, 2025

DIY indie noise rock, channeling influences from Unwound to Pavement while blending the spirit of DC’s Revolution Summer, 90s post-hardcore, post-punk and melodic indie sensibilities.

Achers themselves came together fast. In 2022, Pat and Sabrina signed up for London’s First Timers Festival before they had songs, a full band, or much of a plan. Pat hadn’t even sung lead before. They found Pavel online, pulled it together in weeks, and played their first show with low expectations. “People were kind and no eggs were thrown,” Pat recalls. That practicality still defines them.

released February 5th, 2026

Achers are:

Sabrina Amade
Pat Smiley
Pavel Borisov
Vicki Butler