The Lemonheads' 'Love Chant', Tropical Fuck Storm's 'Fairyland Codex' and Throwing Muses' 'Moonlight Concessions' have landed on Rough Trade's selection of Best Albums Of The Year
The Lemonheads' new album Love Chant is officially out today via Fire Records — the first studio album in nearly two decades. Long in the works and shaped by shifting geographies and a cast of trusted collaborators, it’s a bold, melodic reaffirmation of one of alternative rock’s most distinctive voices
An eight-minute journey of transformation and release building to a motorik krautrock inspired crescendo, ‘Another Way’ is the brand-new single by isle of Eigg-based Scottish psychedelic electronic-pop ogre Johnny Lynch, AKA Pictish Trail
A B-movie sequel to the original platter, the EP spirals further into parallel town, beginning and ending with two takes on ‘Nobody Cares,’ a leftfield piece of Morricone-pop grandeur, punctuated by strings, sound effects, and plenty of tongue-biting drama.
‘Red Balloon’ was the first lucky break song ever recorded. A tender and melodic track that perfectly captures the 23 year old’s knack for homegrown radio hooks, blending modern indie pop and classic alt rock. It’s release comes ahead of her debut album out early next year
This deluxe Medicine Show reissue arrives as an expansive 4xCD box set, collecting 42 Dream Syndicate tracks that span rare live recordings, radio sessions, rehearsals, demos, and previously unreleased material from 1983 to 1984
'Diary of a Candle' is a consoling, melodic suite – with tender woodwinds and richly-layered strings touched by the hazy atmospheres of 1970s/1980s films. Its understated heart-on sleeve romanticism follows the rhythm of nature: it bends in the breeze, drifts through the air, and settles on the ground. The ambiance is not an escapism, but the re-focusing of a lens through which humans are no longer the protagonists. Instead, a landscape's intimate details become the central figures
'Torch Song' dwells in the uneasy space where love becomes a burden and silence feels easier than truth. A confessional ballad lit by the glow of a screen, it’s built on a lo-fi slacker bassline, sweeping piano chords and acoustic strums. Both intimate & expansive, it carries the melancholy pull of Radiohead, Sparklehorse and Grandaddy, while finding its own torchlit path through secrecy, doubt and renewal
Italian singer-songwriter Marta Del Grandi releases her new album 'Dream Life' on 30th January 2026 via Fire Records, her first new music since the effortlessly refined devotional pop of her 'Selva' album in 2023