The Climate Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Idea, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and extra characteristic on our newest free CD.
The 15-track compilation, Take A Load Off, showcases the month’s greatest new music, and comes with our subject dated February 2025.
See under for extra on the complete tracklisting…
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1 Chris Eckman
Buttercup
The Land We Knew The Finest is our Album Of The Month, and finds the previous Walkabouts guitarist and singer making among the greatest music of his life in his adopted residence of Slovenia.
2 Jim Ghedi
Sheaf & Feld
The English singer and guitarist tackles the degradation of his hometown Sheffield on his new album, Wasteland – right here’s one of many report’s highlights, a raging and heavy amalgamation of elemental rock and people.
3 The Climate Station
Humanhood
Tamara Linderman’s newest, Humanhood, is one in every of her most interesting but, a mixture of stellar songs and fluid instrumental improv. The rhythmic, kinetic title monitor is a triumph too, which isn’t any imply feat contemplating the gems in her catalogue.
4 Yazz Ahmed
Ready For The Daybreak
A Paradise In The Maintain is the long-awaited newest from the jazz composer and trumpeter, impressed by her British-Bahraini heritage and the Persian Gulf island’s historical past of music and pearl diving.
5 Richard Dawson
Boxing Day Gross sales
Regardless of Dawson’s joke that that is his try at a festive hit, “Boxing Day Gross sales” is a intelligent, compact have a look at consumerism from his upcoming album Finish Of The Center: “You may’t afford to not personal this/Go on, you owe it to your self…”
6 Jail
Eyes For Keys
Downstate is the newest LP from the Countless Boogie universe, with Sarim Al-Rawi, Matt Lilly and Paul Main teaming up with myriad visitors for a set of feral, pounding and exploratory rock grooves.
7 Luther Russell
Happiness For Novices
When he’s not taking part in with These Fairly Wrongs or SBT, Russell makes his personal albums; his new LP Happiness For Novices mines the propulsive, melodic gold of early REM and The Replacements, and this, the title monitor, is an ideal demonstration of the jewels discovered inside.
8 The Delines
Nancy & The Pensacola Pimp
Mr Luck & Ms Doom could be the best report The Delines have produced to this point, with Willy Vlautin on high type as a songwriter. “Nancy…” is carefully linked to his 2024 novel The Horse, and a spotlight of the LP.
9 Echolalia
Blood Moon
Right here’s a beautiful reduce from the self-titled debut by this Nashville supergroup, that includes Spencer Cullum and Andrew Combs, incongruously recorded on the Isle Of Wight. Dominic Billett took the songwriting lead for this, a sleepily attractive ballad that includes pedal metal and drum machine.
10 Jean Claude Vannier
La 2CV Rouillée (The Rusty 2CV)
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre De Mandolines is the newest report from this most mercurial of French composers and arrangers. Strings are out, changed by massed mandolins and accordion, however Vannier’s genius nonetheless shines by means of on cuts like this.
11 Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Idea
Southern Life (What It Should Be Like)
Van Etten’s band now get equal billing, and their self-titled album finds the quartet exploring airless electro-rock of an infectiously goth-y selection. Try this spotlight.
12 Bonnie “Prince” Billy
London Might
The Purple Chook is a uncommon Will Oldham report made with a producer, David Ferguson, and a workforce of crack Nashville session gamers. Such is Oldham’s expressive voice, and the depth of his songwriting, although, that it’s by no means slick or compromised: his distinctive vibe is entrance and centre.
13 Sunny Battle
Cry Child
Sunny Battle’s new album, Armageddon In A Summer season Costume, follows sizzling on the heels of 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, and finds the LA-based singer-songwriter as soon as once more working with producer Andrija Tokic. Valerie June and Crass’ Steve Ignorant visitor on a stunning and multi-layered report.
14 Squid
Crispy Pores and skin
Bristol post-punks Squid return with a brand new album, Cowards, that issues itself with the character of evil. On “Crispy Pores and skin”, they try this over a background of Terry Riley synths, krautrock rhythms and fidgety guitars, to nice impact.
15 Nadia Reid
Child Brilliant
Now primarily based in Manchester, the New Zealand singer-songwriter has branched out to supple soul on her fourth report, Enter Now Brightness. “Child Brilliant” is a lilting, attractive factor, pointing to Bon Iver or the Spacebomb household as a lot because it does Reid’s personal earlier work.
