New 10th anniversary fully remastered new edition of Soul Jazz Records' ground-breaking Venezuela 70 featuring Vytas Brenner, Pablo Schneider, Angel Rada, Miguel Angel Fuster and many more. // Venezuela 70 was the first ever compilation of it's kind to take a look at the fascinating music scene created in Venezuela in the 1970s, a stunning blend of Funk, Latin Rock, European electronic experimentalism, Jazz and more! // Venezuela during the 1970s was both a modern cultural and economic powerhouse in Latin America, rich from vast oil supplies. Situated at the northern part of South America, with neighbouring Colombia to it's west, Brazil to it's south and a north coast bordering the Caribbean. The country's position and wealth led to an explosion in cultural activity during this time. // Taking musical influences from all these surroundings as well as healthy doses of American musical sounds, the 1970s saw the evolution of a new generation of creative Venezuelan artists such as Vytas Brenner, Angel Rada, Pablo Schneider and Miguel Angel Fuster, who all explored the possibilities of creating a stunning 'melting pot' mix of underground rock, synthetic electronics, funk, jazz and Latin American while simultaneously exploring their links with Venezuelan roots music, creating a new sound. // CD comes in new card-edition complete with extended text and artists biographies. // REVIEWS: "A Fantastic Release" Latino Life // "Groundbreaking" Vinyl Factory // "Venezuela 70 offers a whole host of influences - progressive and psychedelic music, Afro-rock, Krautrock, Salsa & Tropicalia, jazz fusion, experimental synthesizer sounds. As Soul Jazz's excellent compilations usually are, this is researched and compiled to a very high standard" RYM
Tracklist:
Vytas Brenner - Araguaney (2.36)
Pablo Schneider - Amor En Llamas (3.44)
Un Dos Tres y Fuera - Machu Picchu (3.29)
Miguel Angel Fuster - Polvo Lunar (8.49)
Angel Rada - Basheeba (4.25)
Fernando Yvosky - Barcos De Papel (3.36)
Un Dos Tres y Fuera - Son De Tambor y San Juan (2.02)
Vytas Brenner - Bang-Going-Gone (2.41)
Aldemaro Romero y Su Onda Nueva - Irene (2.10)
Miguel Angel Fuster - Dame De Comer (2.16)
Un Dos Tres y Fuera - San Juan, Tambor Y Fuera (5.09)
Ofrenda Vytas Brenner - Caracas Para Locos (5.03)
Grupo C.I.M. - Joropo No. 1 (3.20)
Angel Rada - Panico a Las 5am (5.32)
Apocalipsis - Ayudame a Encontrar Mi Camino (3.16)
Miguel Angel Fuster - La Quema De Judas (3.21)
UPC: 5026328105994Label: Soul JazzRelease Date: 8.7.26Format: CD
First full concert album from Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, recorded in 2025. Following last year's world tour, Sparks were invited to perform a one-off show on the Moon - the first band in history to do so! Includes an introduction and outro from Cate Blanchett, who accompanied the band on their lunar trip. Sparks Live On The Moon comprises a full live set of twenty songs spanning the band's 54 year career, including 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us', 'The Number One Song In Heaven', 'When Do I Get To Sing "My Way"', 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' and songs from their most recent album MAD! Pressed on limited edition double CD. Sparks Live On The Moon follows MAD!, their acclaimed 28th studio album which reached #2 in the UK charts last year - their highest chart position to date! Since the release of MAD! Sparks have toured the globe, including their first ever shows in Hong Kong and the Moon's Taruntius Crater. 2026 has seen the band continue to play live including dates in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Holland, France and Belgium. Sparks features on the lead single from the most recent chart-topping Gorillaz album and are supporting them at their Tottenham Hotspur Stadium show later this month. In August they will be headlining the second stage at Green Man Festival and performing at Rock en Seine in Paris.
Tracklist:
So May We Start (Live on the Moon)
Do Things My Own Way (Live on the Moon)
Reinforcements (Live on the Moon)
Academy Award Performance (Live on the Moon)
Goofing Off (Live on the Moon)
Beat the Clock (Live on the Moon)
Please Don't Fuck Up My World (Live on the Moon)
Running Up a Tab at the Hotel for the Fab (Live on the Moon)
Suburban Homeboy ("Ron Speaks" Version) (Live on the Moon)
1
All You Ever Think About Is Sex (Live on the Moon)
1
Drowned in a Sea of Tears (Live on the Moon)
1
Jansport Backpack (Live on the Moon)
1
Music That You Can Dance to (Live on the Moon)
1
When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" (Live on the Moon)
1
the Number One Song in Heaven (Live on the Moon)
1
This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us (Live on the Moon)
1
Whippings and Apologies (Live on the Moon)
1
Lord Have Mercy (Live on the Moon)
1
the Girl Is Crying in Her Latte (Live on the Moon)
2
All That (Live on the Moon)
UPC: 5063176116222Label: TransgressiveRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
Mr. Blues Explosion is still lighting the torches and ringing the bells, singing and preaching from the rooftops, live on the world stage, on the airwaves, via satellite, and right here, right now, on a brand new record: SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTESTSONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST was recorded with Jon's unstoppable touring  band, and if you've been lucky enough to see them in the past few years destroying audiences from Akron to Osaka, from San Joes to Santiago  - then you know that Jon is still fronting the world's greatest rock'n'roll live show: rama-la soul-shaking, set-for-stun, sweat-soaked, and ultimately, beautifully, uplifting.Picking up where 2024's mini LP SICK OF BEING SICK! left off, Jon tears it up with SPIDER BOWMAN on drums and KENDALL WIND on bass (also famously the rhythm section of Woodstock's punk powerhouse The Bobby Lees). They deliver twelve brand-new all-original songs of hyper-driven soul and powerhouse groove, beats hard like diamonds and slick like ice, fuzz bass in your face, and an avalanche of uncontrollable urges, pushing Jon's latest outburst of garage punk explosionism - hollering, drooling, sexified crooning, and vociferously lamenting these difficult times - to new levels of rock'n'roll expressionism.    SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST is the New New Super Heavy Rock for Hard Times.CD Contains 10 additional tracks from 2024; Come On! From the 7" and the entire 12" EP Sick Of Being Sick!
Tracklist:
Fanfare (Another Point of View)
Vermin Attack!
Hangover
Knock 'Em Out
Give It Up 4 the Devil
Mr. Lion
Orange Slice Blues
Slip Away
Step on the Gas
I'm Taking Off
Wet ; Wild
No More
Wrong
Get Away
Come Along
Out of Place
Coulda Been
Fancy Pants
Guitar Champ
Disconnected
Come on!
UPC: 881626818725Label: ShoveRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
On Squirrel Flower's new album, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Ella Williams, delivers her most transcendent and instantly classic record to date. It's an album full of hope and beauty, with themes of staying in constant motion, electric love, and knowing when to leave, but also when to stick around.After touring in support of 2023's Tomorrow's Fire, Williams remained on the road, following instinct over itinerary-passing through Gary, Indiana; Los Angeles; Putney, Vermont; Silver City, New Mexico; and Hudson, New York. Each stop became a site of creative renewal. She ended up recording the album at two locations: a makeshift studio in rural Wisconsin, and at Drop of Sun in Asheville, NC, featuring friends and collaborators such as Dimitri Giannpolous (Horse Jumper of Love), Sofia Jensen (Free Range), Clay Frankel (Twin Peaks, Hazel City), and many others along the way.Standouts like "Reelin" and "Highway Woman" showcase the push and pull of life as a musician; the constant need for embarking on a hero's journey in search of reflection and freedom. Others like "Not Me" and "Cleveland" are classic Squirrel Flower, but with a sharper and more concentrated writing style paired with some of Williams' strongest vocal delivery of her career. Mixed and co-produced by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday), Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going is the sound of cosmic rebirth, looking behind to illuminate what's ahead. "Pack your life and your guitar," Williams sings on "Highway Woman." "You can change it as you go. You do not plan on dying." In addition to her seemingly nonstop touring across North America and Europe, Squirrel Flower has been featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The NY Times, Paste, and many others, as well as performances at NPR's Tiny Desk & KEXP. Williams' music has been streamed millions of times around the globe, proving her to be an undeniable force as a songwriter
Tracklist:
Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going
Cleveland
Not Me
Helicopters
Highway Woman
Reelin
Foot Thick
Ice
Sick Tooth
Fought a Hornet
Surfing USA
Weightless, Untethered
UPC: 644110052629Label: Polyvinyl RecordsRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: CD
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Staind’s classic album, Break The Cycle, the band presents the complete album performed in full, live! Featuring every song, including the classic singles, “It’s Been A While,” “Outside,” and “Fade.”
Tracklist:
Open Your Eyes [Live]
Pressure [Live]
Fade [Live]
It's Been Awhile [Live]
Change [Live]
Can't Believe [Live]
Epiphany [Live]
Suffer [Live]
Warm Safe Place [Live]
For You [Live]
Outside [Live]
Waste [Live]
Take It [Live]
UPC: 4099964252545Label: Bmg Rights ManagemenRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: CD
Seelie Court - the world's premier label for rare and previously unreleased archive recordings of underground folk, rock, proto-metal, and psychedelic music presents The Steve Brown Band. Formed in Newcastle, England, the band built a strong regional reputation through extensive live performances. Emerging from a progressive rock background, the group incorporated jazz rock elements, favoring extended compositions, complex rhythms, and poetic lyricism. Early line-ups evolved through the 1970s, with the band signing to Transatlantic Records in 1973, though a planned album was never released at the time. From 1973 to 1977, the group refined a sophisticated sound featuring saxophone and keyboards alongside guitar-led arrangements. Touring setbacks and management pressures later steered them briefly toward a more commercial direction. The band disbanded in 1977. In later years, original studio tapes were restored, resulting in the posthumous release Soul Full of Sin, documenting their intended 1973 album.
Tracklist:
Hitman
Night Flight
Shine a Light
Marija
City (The Lights of Love)
Soul Full of Sin
UPC: 741869416877Label: Good TimeRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: CD
2020 two disc set with Alive on Arrival and Jackrabbit Slim, plus bonus tracks on each disc. "Released in 1979, Jackrabbit Slim, Forbert's follow-up to his 1978 debut Alive On Arrival, was the album that introduced the Mississippi-born performer to a wide audience. "Romeo's Tune," provided the impetus for that. In an era which tended to favor New Wave sounds, Forbert's eloquently romantic song managed to break through for a #11 spot on the pop charts. That brought people to the rest of Jackrabbit Slim, earning Forbert a loyal following among fans of intelligent, heartfelt singer-songwriter output." - American Songwriter "Listening to the earnest folksiness of his debut, it's hard to imagine Forbert tramping about the mean streets of New York City and dropping in to play at CBGB. Steve Burgh's production adds welcome punch to the recordings, but Forbert's guitar, harmonica and vocals retain a folk-singer's intimacy in front of the guitar, bass, drums, piano and organ. Incredibly, both albums were recorded live-in-the-studio with no overdubs, an impressive feat for a road-seasoned band, but even more so for a young artist's initial studio work. The recording method pays additional dividends in the completeness of the bonus tracks; as complete as the original albums have always felt, the bonus tracks assimilate easily and must have been tough to omit at the time." - No Depression
Tracklist:
Disc 1 Goin' Down to Laurel
Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast
Thinkin'
What Kinda Guy?
It Isn't Gonna Be That Way
Big City Cat
Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977
Tonight, I Feel So Far Away from Home
Settle Down
You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play
It's Been a Long Time
House of Cards
Song for the South (Time's Gonna Take Me Back)
Steve Forbert's Moon River
Lonesome Cowboy Bill's Song
Disc 2 Romeo's Tune
The Sweet Love That You Give
I'm in Love with You
Say Goodbye to Little Jo
Wait
Make It All So Real
Baby
Complications
Sadly Sorta Like a Soap Opera
January 23-30, 1978
The Oil Song
Witch Blues
Oh Camile
Smoky Windows
Poor Boy
Romeo's Tune (Recorded Live at the Palladium, NYC, November 1979)
UPC: 840526512393Label: Rolling Tide RecordsRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
Recorded at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, The Night Watch (Live at the Rijksmuseum) captures Sting in one of the most intimate and visually striking performances of his career, surrounded by works by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and Judith Leyster. Joined by longtime guitarist Dominic Miller and playing a 17th-century guitar crafted for Louis XIV, he performs songs from The Last Ship alongside classics by The Police and his solo catalog.
Tracklist:
Message In A Bottle
The Last Ship
The Night The Pugilist Learned How To Dance
Island Of Souls
All This Time
What Say You Meg?
Roxanne
Shape Of My Heart
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Fields Of Gold
Fragile
Every Breath You Take
UPC: 199957546478Label: A&mRelease Date: 6.26.26Format: CD
Stone Temple Pilots Return to Their HardRock Roots on the Heavy No. 4: Brendan O'Brien-Produced Album Explores Dark Themes, Includes the Hit Single "Sour Girl"Hear the 1999 Record in Audiophile Sound for the First Time on Disc: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Stellar Dynamics, Presence, and FullnessDismissed as down-and-out by naysayers due to vocalist Scott Weiland's legal issues, Stone Temple Pilots fired a loud shot across the bow in 1999 in the form of No. 4. Blending the strengths of the quartet's three prior LPs while marking a return to it's hardrock roots, the platinum-certified record stands as the heaviest of the California ensemble's career. That it succeeded while flying in the face of trends underlines it's significance and appeal. Massive riffs drive tracks such as the grinding "Down," stormy "Heaven & Hot Rods," and vitriolic "Sex & Violence." These and other songs bulldoze and plow, their muscular arrangements caked with thick sludge and aluminum tones, their sinister moods draped in distortion.Sourced from the original analog tapes and housed in mini-LPstyle gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's hybrid SACD presents No. 4. in audiophile quality for the first time on disc. It plays with a combination of enhanced liveliness, fullness, and solidity that raises the profile of an album that contains a wealth of colors, dynamics, and subtle accents that demand transparent resolution. Rest assured you'll get that here - as well as previously obscured imaging and separation. All the better for an edgy, personal set that remains the group's most uncompromising effort.
Tracklist:
Down
Heaven ; Hot Rods
Pruno
Church on Tuesday
Sour Girl
No Way Out
Sex ; Violence
Glide
I Got You
1
MC5
1
Atlanta
UPC: 821797229869Label: Mobile FidelityRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: CD
The Stooges Make the Ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Statement on Fun House: Primal Punk-Jazz Landmark Is Ranked the 94th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling StoneExperience the Band's 1970 Effort in Definitive Sound on Disc: Strictly Limited to 2,500 Numbered Copies, Mobile Fidelity's Hybrid SACD Pulses with Energy and Immediacy"Do you feel it?" Iggy Pop asks on "Dirt." The answer is patently obvious for anyone who encounters the Stooges' Fun House. This is a record where unabandoned feeling takes precedence, primal energy surges to the fore, outsider attitude snarls with destructive force, electrifying chaos assumes the form of wild joyousness - all of which might very well be impossible to put into words. Legendary Village Voice journalist Robert Christgau even admitted "language wasn't designed for the job" of conveying what many critics and artists believe to be the ultimate rock 'n' roll statement. Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LPstyle gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's hybrid SACD plays with enhanced definition, stellar clarity, and realistic ambience. The livein-the-room characteristics and sudden mayhem closely identified with Fun House and Don Gallucci's esteemed production emerge with gripping presence, body, and power. Witness the unrelenting sense of groove; the sheer impact of the rhythms; the ferocity of Pop's heat-seeking vocals; the bruising churn of the low end; the grit, grime, and grind of four dudes and auxiliary saxophonist Steven Mackay bent on breaking into another dimension. The Stooges' most controlled and hot-wired creation, Fun House now adopts the sonic vigor of the atom bomb to which Christgau thought of comparing it. Feel alright, indeed. Numbered Hybrid Stereo SACDLIMITED EDITION OF 2,500
Tracklist:
Down on the Street
Loose
T.V. Eye
Dirt
1970
Fun House
L.A. Blues
UPC: 821797230568Label: Mobile FidelityRelease Date: 9.18.26Format: CD
Fresh from selling out London's Royal Albert Hall, Stornoway return with Beyonder - their most ambitious album to date. Out 25 September via Cooking Vinyl, the record expands the band's sound while holding onto the melodic warmth and sense of wonder that has long defined their music.The album began in one of the most remote corners of the UK. While volunteering as a National Trust ranger on St Kilda, 100 kilometres west of the Outer Hebrides, frontman Brian Briggs spent weeks living among the island's towering sea cliffs, seabird colonies and abandoned settlements. The experience - standing on the edge of the Atlantic with nothing between the island and Canada - sparked the first songs that would become Beyonder. A photograph taken there now forms the album cover."Never have I been anywhere so wild and exposed, and never have I felt more alive," Briggs says of the experience. The stark landscape and the island's layered history - where centuries-old blackhouses stand not far from a modern military base - shaped a record that quietly reflects on connection, fragility and the changing world around us.Beyonder is an album for a changing world. It confronts the biodiversity and climate crises, the rise of divisive politics, and the toll these pressures take on our minds and communities. These are songs about journeys and destinations, discovery and choice, and taken together they cultivate a hopeful state of mind in unsettled times. Musically, Beyonder sees Stornoway stepping beyond the folk label often attached to their early work. The songs feel broader in scale, with expansive arrangements that still centre on the band's distinctive harmonies and clear melodic writing. The album was mixed by multi-Grammy-winning engineer Oli Jacobs (Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, The 1975).
Tracklist:
River Of Voices
Marco Polo
Fire And Water
Skydiver
Hummingbird Feathers
The Honeyeater's Song
The Book Of Time
Mariana
Spirit Walker
Wild Geese
Leave Your Light On
UPC: 711297927627Label: Cooking VinylRelease Date: 9.25.26Format: CD
John Strang's sonic journey into psychiatric rehabilitation has been painstakingly reconstructed from cassette tapes and deteriorating studio reels. Composed as a concept album in early 70s, it might have been released on Transatlantic, but the deal fell apart, leaving the recordings buried for 50 years. Charting the experience of mental disintegration and recovery, the album offers an abstract glimpse into the genesis of Strang's later career in psychiatry. The cover, chosen by Strang, is the work of a patient, adding a deeply personal and evocative visual dimension to this long-lost masterpiece.
Tracklist:
Fox On The Run
It's Been One Hell Of A Long Year
Now That You've Been Gone A Week
I Saw You
Meteor In The Sky
Walking On The Moon (Illusion Or Delusion_)
Doctor, Come Quickly
I Am The Doctor
Yesterday, They Took Me To The Doctor (Psychiatry Soliloquy)
So They Took Her Away To The Hospital
Maybe The Doctor Was Right
In The Morning
I Know You've Got Troubles Of Your Own (But That's OK)
Family Feud
Like A Fish Left Dry (Marriage On The Rocks)
Can You See Yourself On The Other Side_
Help Me Make It Through Another Day
All Things That Have Been
My Little Revolution
And Just Because
My Cottage By The Sea
The Crab
Moving On (Instrumental)
UPC: 741869416631Label: Good TimeRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: CD
Psychedelic rock legends Strawberry Alarm Clock return with a new album, their first in decades, with a lineup featuring five original members and their original sound and creative drive fully intact. Gorgeous harmonies, supernatural instrumental chemistry, and new songs that live up to their legacy: it's all here. The '60s spirit is alive, but "Where's One?" is much, much more than a nostalgic trip.
Tracklist:
(No Track / Blank Side)
Feel The Love
Monsters
Day Tripper
White Light
Blow Your Mind
I'm Not The One
Within You Without You
Since You Have Gone Away
Live Water
Primordial Soup
The Sky Isn't Falling
Tahitian Gardens
Galactic Symphony - Persian Skies
UPC: 697566065316Label: Big Stir Records LlcRelease Date: 8.7.26Format: CD
Rockabilly legends Stray Cats recorded live from the Brixton Academy in 2004. The set includes rollicking versions of over 22 songs including their hits; "Rock This Town", "Stray Cat Strut", "(She's) Sexy + 17" and more.
Tracklist:
0
Intro
0
Rumble In Brighton
0
Double Talkin' Baby
0
Something's Wrong With My Radio
0
Ubangi Stomp
0
Stray Cat Strut
0
Gene ; Eddie
0
Too Hip Gotta Go
0
Sleepwalk
1
I Won't Stand In Your Way
1
My Baby Left Me
1
Blast Off
1
Intro II
1
18 Miles To Memphis
1
Bring It Back Again
1
Fishnet Stockings
1
Runaway Boys
1
Rock This Town
1
That's All Right
2
Good Rockin' Tonight
2
Twenty Flight Rock
2
(She's) Sexy + 17
2
Please Don't Touch
2
Mystery Train Kept A Rollin'
UPC: 792755882320Label: SurfdogRelease Date: 7.24.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Traitor
Motorcrash
Birthday
Delicious Demon
Mama
Cold Sweat
Blue Eyed Pop
Deus
Sick for Toys
F***ing In Rhythm & Sorrow
Take Some Petrol Darling
UPC: 5016958000721Label: One Little IndependeRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: CD
Suki Waterhouse, the indie pop storyteller behind the critically acclaimed Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, is back with her third album, Loveland. Featuring 14 new songs and co-written with some of music's brightest luminaries, including Amy Allen, Aaron Dessner, Joel Little, Dan Wilson, Jules Apollinaire, and Natalie Findlay. Loveland charts the tender distance between who we were and who we are becoming – a meditation on identity, motherhood, and the quiet pull toward something truer. It is Suki's most intimate and fully realized work yet. UPC: 199957742771Label: Interscope RecordsRelease Date: 7.10.26Format: CD
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sum 41's smash, breakthrough album! Includes the pop punk classics, "In Too Deep," "Motivation," and their #1 single, "Fat Lip." This limited-edition release now includes 5 unreleased live tracks and a new alternate cover!
Tracklist:
Introduction To Destruction
Nothing On My Back
Never Wake Up
Fat Lip
Rhythms
Motivation
In Too Deep
Summer
Handle This
Crazy Amanda Bunkface
All She's Got
Heart Attack
Pain For Pleasure
Fat Lip
All She's Got
What We're All About
Machine Gun
Crazy Amanda Bunkface
UPC: 199957399791Label: IslandRelease Date: 7.24.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Enthusiastica
Wolf
Swimming Pools
Meaningless
California I Guess
God Save the Billionaires
Inhaling Confetti
Evergreen
Unhurried Leisure
Sporting Life
UPC: 760137187745Label: Punkerton RecordsRelease Date: 7.24.26Format: CD
A sweeping, guitar-driven road trip that recalls and reinvigorates the slowcore and alt rock of the 90s and earlyaughts, Mount Zero, the debut LP from Swapmeet, marks the moment the Australian four-piece come into their own. Following their dreamy 2024 debut EP Oxalis, Mount Zero arrives on the heels of the band's signing to LA-based label Winspear, after stirring up buzz throughout Australia, taking home awards for Best Release and Best Song ("Ceiling Fan") at the South Australian Music Awards and earning the title of 'Best Emerging Artist' at SXSW Sydney. Mingling airy sweetness with jagged surrealism, Mount Zero transmutes so many of the regrets and uncertainties of young adulthood into a burgeoning, newfound confidence. Though the members of Swapmeet often begin their songs by writing individually, the tracks on Mount Zero ended up circling common themes: first loves, first heartbreaks, first embarrassments, first disasters. As they've done since their earliest days as a band, Swapmeet traded instruments throughout Mount Zero and shared production duties as a foursome, developing their sound by layering dozens (sometimes hundreds) of tracks within each song, then carefully removing elements until the production took a clear shape. The result is a record where Swapmeet bottle up the tooth-gritting intensity of feeling yourself change at the cellular level under reality's unyielding pressures. It's a tribute to all the lives that can never be lived, all the paths that will never be followed-and an ode to the one that lies just ahead, too.
Tracklist:
I Know!
Mount Zero
Bonny
Halfway
2 C U
Seeds
Sand
Personal (Don't Take It)
My Heart Breaks II
UPC: 606638765405Label: WinspearRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
Sweeping Promises' introduction to the global punk underground was their debut album, Hunger for a Way Out, which ended up being one of the breakout successes in music during pandemic lockdown. In 2023, they followed up with Good Living is Coming for You, a satirical, hyper-critical rebuke of capitalism that made Album of the Year lists for Pitchfork, NPR, Paste, and BBC, just to name a few. Bassist/vocalist Lira Mondal and guitarist Caufield Schnug decided to tilt their approach a few degrees forward on their third LP. The big theme of You Say I Romanticize is hinted at in it's title. Coming from a lyric sung on album closer "Write Lightly"-a narrative about the importance of self-expression in writing being scrubbed away by "professional" concerns-many of the characters singer/bassist Mondal fleshed out here are outcasts, marginalized by society and turned into fanatics for a cornucopia of specific causes.The visceral songwriting on You Say I Romanticize features an equally visceral musical approach. Sweeping Promises brought live drummer Spenser Gralla into the recording sessions to give the songs a similar urgency to their live show. The frenzy of it's execution also materializes in Mondal's vocal performances.A shadow side exists along with Sweeping Promises' love of their artistic community-borne of weirdos channeling their "outcast" status into vibrant art and punk rock music. You Say I Romanticize takes the ethos Mondal and Schnug have developed and explores the obsessive, fanatical aspects of being ostracized and isolated by mainstream society.
Tracklist:
Shooting Shadows
My Friend's An Entomologist
Last Man
Rapture, Or...
Abduction On Camera
My Anchoress
Cocoon
Accent
Does He Want To Be The Weatherman?
Write Lightly
UPC: 098787147728Label: Sub PopRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
Eddy Undertow, as he is called, could be The Most Interesting Man In Music. We would assume that he'd bristle at the idea being, if not humble, then properly reserved, but the truth is in the story and, to a large extent, in the songs contained in Days Without Names, Sweet Undertow's sophomore album set for release in on July 17, 2026. The album is a cinematic document of a wide-eyed quest for something universal yet tantalizingly undefined, channeled through authentic, bluesy Americana. Recorded at the all-analog studio of producer John Vanderslice (Death Cab for Cutie, Deerhoof, Spoon etc.), it was wrapped up literally the day before the 2020 lockdown shuttered the world. The idea that Days Without Names poses, in it's roundabout way, is that in this meaningless void in which we float- it matters. It matters how you treat people. It matters to be kind. It matters that you try and love. Each layer from the unfathomably vast to the unfathomably tiny is real and matters to itself. People exist; joy and despair are real; you have the power to increase or decrease these in others and yourself. It matters to try and live, to be kind, to temper suffering and to love."When asked what feeling he'd like the listener to be left with after the stylus comes up, Eddy simply says, "That there is hope, even for people."
Tracklist:
Hit Me Like a Memory
Jessie Lee
Dropping Helicopters
Step Lightly
Country Blues
My Hands They Hunger
Free Whiskey
Little Great Depression
Oh! My Only Enemy
Lose a Fight
Wicked Heart
UPC: 614022026049Label: Mother WestRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
Birmingham hailing quintet Swim Deep announces their fifth studio album 'Hum', out via Submarine Cat Records. They also share first single 'Pieces Of You' - a defiant cut of alternative rock: roaring with clouds of distortion that bring a bite and rawness to it's chiming melodies. Fresh and inspired from a sold-out tour across Thailand and China in December, and with an unexpected line-up change: 'Hum' is the work of a group rejuvenated, driven by their innate passion for music - even when the going gets tough - and sounding more confident than ever, whilst juggling the challenges of maintaining a grassroots indie band on their fifth album. Speaking on the track, lead singer Austin "Ozzy" Williams adds: "I had found a new writing partner at the full-time bar job: there stood J.J. Buchanan by the barrels of beer kegs we were hauling. A sharp songwriter and a soaring guitarist, who brought something fresh to this song and the whole sonic landscape that would shape 'Hum'. Thematically, 'Hum' continues the life journey of 'There's A Big Star Outside', which captured a transformational period for Williams - preparing for the arrival of his first child, but also the departure of his wife's father. The songs on 'Hum' detail the aftermath of that spell, exploring loss, family and our responsibilities to those we build a life with. "I've now got someone to inspire," he explains. "It's like, 'Yeah, your dad works at a bar to make rent, but this is what he actually does, this is what the dream is, and we'll all live on it together. That's the ethos on this album." With 'Hum', Swim Deep turn struggle into momentum and personal upheaval into collective uplift. It's the band's heaviest, most adventurous, and most uplifting album in years - and the sound of a band still chasing the dream with conviction, but now with something deeper at stake.
Tracklist:
Pieces of You
You Me and Mary
I Keep Her Photograph with Me
Broken
The Throw
Such a Fool
Mud
Is There Something Going on
In Dreams Alive
Lift Me Up
UPC: 5060951632960Label: Submarine CatRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: CD
Alt-rock legends Switchfoot are back with the new album Forever Now, an epic return to the band’s guitar-driven roots. The project feels less like a collection of songs and more like a defibrillator to the zeitgeist of our times. It’s a return to form that shows why they’ve always mattered and why they absolutely still do. UPC: 4099964243710Label: Bmg Rights ManagemenRelease Date: 6.26.26Format: CD
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