FEATURE:
One for the Record Collection!
IN THIS PHOTO: Róisín Murphy/PHOTO CREDIT: Nik Pate
Essential September Releases
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THERE are some great albums….
IN THIS PHOTO: Olivia Rodrigo/PHOTO CREDIT: Splash News
due next month that you will want to pre-order. I am going to highlight them here. First, and starting with 1st September, and there are a couple of albums worth investigating. Slowdive’s Everything Is Alive an album I would recommend you pre-order. For most of these albums, I am going to link to Rough Trade’s website, as they have a great reputation and know their music! These albums will be available on other websites too.
“Everything Is Alive, Slowdive’s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995’s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break down the boundaries of what’s come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for 2023 and beyond.
For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here Slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is hopeful”.
I would say that you should also check out The Pretenders’ Relentless. This is an iconic band that keep on releasing sensational music. I am looking forward to their new album, and I would say that you should go and pre-order it if you are a fan. Led by the amazing Chrissie Hynde, the band have lost none of their gold touch and quality! It does seem like Relentless is going to rank alongside their very best! There is not a lot of information available when it comes to the album, its themes and anything like that, but Rough Trade do offer some basics. In any case, if you are a fan of The Pretenders, it will come as no surprise that this is business as usual for the amazing band:
“The Pretenders release their 14th studio album. Produced by David Wrench and recorded at Battery Studios in West London, Relentless is released via Parlophone. It features 12 new songs co-written by the iconic Chrissie Hynde and Pretenders' guitarist James Walbourne”.
I am going to jump to the next week. There are seven albums from that week that you should think about purchasing. I better get down to things! One that should be on your radar is Coach Party’s KILLJOY. The Isle of Wight band are among my favourite around. They have such a promising future. This album is one that I think will firmly put them on the map. They have honed their craft by playing live. Not that they were not brilliant at the start, but you can feel and hear this new quality and sense of purpose from their songs. It is a trajectory that is going to continue strong. Go and pre-order the fantastic KILLJOY:
“After three striking 10" EP's - Isle of Wight's Coach Party unleash their debut album. It's everything we hoped for and more. The production is crisp and clear whilst the playing is of a band that have spent the last few years playing hundreds of gigs / festivals and learning their craft. The 10 tracks are upbeat and noisy guitar pop that hints at the debut Elastica album, The Breeders, The Big Moon and Nirvana. It really is that good”.
The next album that I want to suggest you keep an eye out for is Courtney Barnett’s End of the Day (Music from the Film Anonymous Club). The Australian artist keeps on delivering some of the most instantly recognisable and sensational albums. I am excited to see what End of the Day (Music from the Film Anonymous Club) offers up. Rather than it being a traditional studio album, Rough Trade explain what we can expect on 8th September:
“End of the Day is a collection of original music created by Courtney Barnett and Stella Mozgawa for Courtney's 2022 award-winning documentary, Anonymous Club (premiered in the U.S. at SXSW 2022). The soundtrack album features 17 ambient tracks, reworked and perfected in the studio. It feels like a new chapter, but also unmistakably like Courtney Barnett”.
Apologies that there is not a great deal of information for some of the albums I have recommended so far. It can be a bit tricky finding out too much if the press team or label does not offer too much. I guess we will find out more on each of the albums closer to their release dates. I am going to move to James Blake’s Playing Robots Into Heaven. Again, there is scant information available at this stage. You will be familiar with James Blake and his music. Playing Robots Into Heaven follows on from 2021’s Friends That Break Your Heart. One of the U.K.’s best artists, Blake always delivers something very special. It may not convert non-fans of James Blake but, if you do like his stuff, it is well worth checking out his upcoming album. This is what we know about Playing Robots Into Heaven so far:
“Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James return to the electronic roots of his Hessle, Hemlock and R&S Records days”.
Four more albums from 8th September I want to bring in. The first is Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS. I think that this could rank alongside the best of the year. Following 2021’s acclaimed SOUR, GUTS is going to be another huge release from the Californian-born superstar. I would recommend that everyone pre-orders this album. Again, there is not a lot available regarding details and insights, but we do get a bit of personal insight from Rodrigo:
“Grammy-winning recording artist Olivia Rodrigo releases her new album, GUTS via Geffen Records. She recorded the album with producer Daniel Nigro, who also collaborated with her on SOUR, her chart-topping, 4x Platinum debut album.
“For me, this album is about growing pains and trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life,” says Olivia Rodrigo. “I feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20—it was such an intense period of awkwardness and change. I think that’s all just a natural part of growth, and hopefully the album reflects that.” On “vampire,” the album’s first single, Rodrigo’s increased maturity and bold confidence are apparent”.
One of my favourite artists is Róisín Murphy. She is releasing Hit Parade on 8th September. The Disco and Dance queen has offered some cuts from her forthcoming album. It is going to be another gem. I have so much love and respect for what she does. I would encourage you all to pre-order the mighty Hit Parade. It is definitely not going to disappoint in any way:
“One of music’s most innovative artists, Queen of Electronic Music and the Avant-Garde, Róisín Murphy is back with a much anticipated new album - her sixth - in collaboration with the legendary producer DJ Koze. Hit Parade, on Ninja Tune, sees the idiosyncratic trailblazer masterfully spanning genres such as disco, soul, pop and house. The album features 13 indelible tracks and is one of the albums of 2023.
Bonus CD features a selection of tracks live from the recent Royal Albert Hall gig”.
I might include an eighth album from 8th September, as I forgot that Romy Mid Air is out that week. The debut album from one third of the xx, happily there is a bit more detail about this much-anticipated album from a tremendous talent:
“Romy releases her highly-anticipated debut solo album. The UK singer, songwriter and DJ, who previously released three acclaimed albums with her band The xx, releases Mid Air via Young.
Mid Air is an album about celebration, sanctuary and salvation on the dance floor. It's an album that deals with love, grief, relationships, identity and sexuality and is a love letter to the queer clubs where Romy found community and connection. It’s a coming-out album in a way, although she came out in her personal life a long time ago, but it’s also a coming-through album – through grief and heartache, towards euphoria.
Mid Air sees Romy working alongside producers Fred again.. and Stuart Price, as well as her bandmate Jamie xx on recent single “Enjoy Your Life”. Also featuring the previous single (and crossover anthem) “Strong”, Mid Air is the perfect encapsulation of a sound Romy describes as “emotional music to dance to”. It’s a sound that’s set to unify dancefloors, distilling Romy’s love of club classics and classic song writing and finding the sweet spot – like much of Romy’s favourite music – between euphoria, escapism, sadness and melancholy.
The Fred again..-produced “Loveher” is a pivotal track for Romy and acts as both the album opener and the first song to be written for the record. Romy and Fred were first paired together to write songs for other people, but their fast friendship and musical connection proved to be a spark for something new. After writing “Loveher”, a declarative pop song about the intimacy of falling in love with a woman, “Fred asked me, who could this be for?” explains Romy “and I tentatively said… ‘maybe me?’”. A proud and positive queer love story, this was the beginning of Mid Air”.
Another corker due on a very busy week is The Chemical Brothers’ For That Beautiful Feeling. It is a pretty intriguing title from the legendary duo. I hope that people do go and pre-order this magnificent album from Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons:
“The Chemical Brothers - one of the most acclaimed and innovative electronic duo in the world - release their tenth studio album For That Beautiful Feeling.
Recorded in the band’s own studio just near the south coast, this is a record that hunts for and captures that that wild moment when sound overwhelms you and almost pulls you under yet ultimately lets you ride its wave, to destinations unknown. It’s a record that pinpoints the exact moment you lose all control, where you surrender and let the music move you as if pulled by an invisible thread”.
I am going to move on after this suggestion. The Coral’s Sea of Mirrors is one you’ll need to pre-order. This band are among my favourite, so I am interesting to hear what their latest album sounds like. It looks like it is shaping up to be among the very best of this year:
“Following the widely-acclaimed 2021 double album, Coral Island, The Coral announce ‘surreal Italian spaghetti western soundtrack’, Sea Of Mirrors.
Bridging their UK Chart No.2 success and the sun-bleached sets of imagined films, the physical formats-only release of Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine show makes it two albums in one year Singular psych-folk-pop-rock wanderers, The Coral revel in a resurgent phase of artistic enquiry and release two albums at the same time. Imagining the scorched sand, cardboard cowboys and flooded sets of a never-made Italian spaghetti western, the single 'Wild Bird' snaps the clapperboard on a new story playing out all the way to the release of Sea Of Mirrors, the band’s eleventh studio album ‘proper’.
After 2021’s expansive Coral Island album landed the Number 2 spot on the UK’s Official Album Chart and won unanimous critical praise, material for two, further albums occurred to the band. Amidst that songwriting scirroco, it was a script was written by keyboard player, Nick Power, and vintage cinema foyer poster artwork was created by drummer, Ian Skelly that confirmed Sea Of Mirrors’ vivid concept and the blueprint for The Coral to move beyond all expectations once again. The film’s envisaged opening theme, Wild Bird’s evocative sunlit shadows come laced with deft string arrangements courtesy of the album’s co-producer, Sean O’Hagan (The High Llamas, Stereolab) who was welcomed into The Coral fold as one of a number of guests and collaborators featured across Sea Of Mirrors’ 13-tracks.
Between the two albums, the band additionally count actors Cillian Murphy and John Simm, plus Love guitarist, Johnny Echols, as contributors. Former band member, Bill Ryder-Jones joins the songwriting credits for Sea Of Mirrors. The Sundowners are also amongst guests adding their voices to the album. James Skelly says of Wild Bird: “Like most of The Coral’s best known songs you could pick out, it was written in about five minutes. Once the album concept was clear, this was us imagining the theme tune for an Italian western directed by Fellini with a Richard Yates-written script. It’s us asking ourselves: what would have happened if Lee Hazlewood had produced a Gene Pitney song written by Townes Van Zandt?” Sea Of Mirrors and Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show became the last albums to be recorded at Liverpool’s legendary Parr Street Studios, a long-term home to The Coral and numerous other bands from inside and outside the city prior to its closure last year. Opening sessions with O’Hagan in London, returning to Parr Street and, eventually, completing in final sessions at Skelly and producer, Chris Taylor’s new recording facility, Kempston Street Studios, the album finds itself a part of music history for reasons beyond it’s place in The Coral’s extensive catalogue”.
There are many albums due out on 15th September that you might be interested in. Rather than discuss them all, I feel there are five that you need to get. I will start with Corinne Bailey Rae’s Black Rainbows. It seems that her new album is a change in sonic direction. You will want to pre-order it:
“Black Rainbows is a musical project inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stoney Island Arts Bank in Chicago. Situated at the Great Grand Crossing neighbourhoods of Chicago's South Side, Stoney Island Arts Bank is a cathedral to Black Art, a curated collection of Black archives comprising books, sculpture, records, furniture and problematic objects from America's past. As well as being a site for archive, the Arts bank is also a place for convening. Bailey Rae attended The Black Artists Retreat there in 2017 and performed in the space.
Wide ranging in it's themes, Black Rainbows' subjects are drawn from encounters with objects in the Arts Bank. Taking us from the rock hewn churces of Ethiopia, to the journeys of Black Pioneers Westward, from Miss New York Transit Queen 1957, to how the sunset appears from Harriet Jacobs' loophole.Black Rainbows explores Black femininity, Spell Work, Inner Space/Outer Space, time collapse and ancestors, the erasure Black childhood and music as a vessel for transcendence.
The project is released in various iterations - live performances, books, visuals, lectures, exhibitions, and more.Sonically, the album is a multi-genre mix of the progressive R&B, neo soul sound that will be familiar to fans but it also contains rock, jazz and electronic elements. The album was produced by S.J. Brown and Corinne Bailey Rae”.
The magnificent Demi Lovato is releasing REVAMPED on 15th September. If you are a fan of their music or not, then I would suggest that this is an album that you need in your collection. Here is what you need to know:
“Grammy-nominated global superstar Demi Lovato releases REVAMPED featuring rock versions of her hit songs. “Sorry Not Sorry (Rock Version)” features energetic new vocals and updated production from Warren ‘Oak’ Felder, Keith "Ten4" Sorrells, and Alex Nice, turning the iconic hit into an electrifying new smash. Legendary guitarist Slash of Guns N’ Roses, often heralded as the greatest guitarist of all time, provides razor sharp guitar riffs and a high-intensity solo fit for the revamped version of the song. “Sorry Not Sorry” was originally released six years ago as the lead single from Demi’s sixth studio album, Tell Me You Love Me. “Sorry Not Sorry (Rock Version)” follows the release of “Heart Attack (Rock Version)” and “Cool for the Summer (Rock Version),” with much more to come on REVAMPED. With all new vocals and production, the 10-track album REVAMPED sees Demi reimagine her career-defining songs with a fresh perspective that reflects her current artistic vision. The re-recorded music showcases Demi’s artistic growth and versatility, as she seamlessly evolves her songs from pop to rock while maintaining her signature powerhouse vocals”.
Let’s focus on Madison Beer’s Silence Between Songs. An incredible artist that some might not know about, I would still recommend you pre-order it. If you need some background and advice, then this website fills in the gaps. Madison Beer is truly a sensational artist who is going to be in the industry for many years to come:
“Madison Beer's highly anticipated second album has experienced a tumultuous journey since its conception. Initially, Beer had planned to release both her debut album, "Life Support," and her sophomore album in 2021. However, unforeseen circumstances led to multiple delays.
After a Dropbox hack, there was a significant leak of several songs from the second album. In addition to the leak, Beer faced challenges in collaborating with her writing team due to scheduling conflicts during her Life Support tour. As a result, the album's release was pushed back to 2022. Further complications arose, leading to the album's release being delayed once more to 2023.
On May 31, Beer finally announced the album on social media with the release date of September 15, 2023. after the announcement of her sophomore album, Madison's webstore updated with a countdown to June 2 for the album preorder.
Beer described the sound as being very different from Life support. There will be no "bops" on the album and is aimed to mostly consist of ballads.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Beer stated that Lana Del Rey had listened to her album and particularly enjoyed the opening track”.
I will round off this week with Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We. If you are not sure who Mitski is or why this album is worth getting then here is some more information that may sway your decision:
“Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after she’s gone. Listening to it, that’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.
Love is always radical, which means that it always disrupts, which means that it always takes work to receive it. This land, which already feels inhospitable to so many of its inhabitants, is about to feel hopelessly torn and tossed again – at times, devoid of love. This album offers the anodyne. “This is my most American album,” Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. But “maybe it’s beyond witnessing,” she says. At times, it feels like the album is an exercise in negative capability – a fearless embodiment and absorption of the pain of other bodies. When I ask her what the album would look like, if it were a person, she says it would be someone middle-aged and exhausted, perhaps someone having a midlife crisis. But through the daily indignity and exhaustion, something enormous and ecstatic is calling out. In this album, which is sonically Mitski’s most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star.
Mitski wrote these songs in little bursts over the past few years, and they feel informed by moments of noticing – noticing a sound that’s out of place, a building that groans in decay, an opinion that splits a room, a feeling that can’t be contained in a body. It was recorded at both the Bomb Shelter in East Nashville and the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The album incorporates an orchestra arranged and conducted by Drew Erickson, as well as a full choir of 17 people - 12 in LA and 5 in Nashville - arranged by Mitski. And for the first time, it felt important to Mitski to have a band recording live together in the studio, to create this new sublime sound. Working with her longtime producer Patrick Hyland, the album has a wide-range of references, from Ennio Morricone’s bombastic Spaghetti Western scores to Carter Burwell’s tundra-filling Fargo soundtrack, from the breathy intimacy of Arthur Russell to the strident aliveness of Scott Walker or Igor Stravinsky, from the jubilation of Caetano Veloso to the twangy longing of Faron Young”.
I am going to jump to 22nd September and round off soon. Again, there are plenty of options regarding great and interesting albums. I will choose three that you should own. I think there are two from 29th that are worth getting, so let’s say five, maybe six more, to go. One of the most anticipated albums of this year is going to be Kylie Minogue’s TENSION. After the success of the Padam Padam single, so many people are keen to snap up this album. Go and pre-order your copy:
“Kylie’s brand new studio album, Tension, a record of euphoric, empowered dance floor bangers and sultry pop cuts. Tension is eleven tracks of unabashed pleasure-seeking, seize-the-moment, joyful pop tunes with the hypnotic electro of ‘Padam Padam’ opening the album.
Discussing ‘Tension’, Kylie says, “I started this album with an open mind and a blank page. Unlike my last two albums there wasn’t a ‘theme’, it was about finding the heart or the fun or the fantasy of that moment and always trying to service the song. I wanted to celebrate each song’s individuality and to dive into that freedom. I would say it’s a blend of personal reflection, club abandon and melancholic high”.
I am interested in Loraine James’ Gentle Confrontation. Out on 22nd September, it features one of the most striking album covers of the year! If you are intrigued at all, then go and pre-order a copy of James’ upcoming album. I think you will fall in love with the music pretty quickly:
“Gentle Confrontation, Loraine James's third Hyperdub album, opens a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. It's a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favourites; math rock and emo-electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine and Telefon Tel Aviv.
The album also features an ever more diverse set of peers, placing them in her unusual musical settings and drawing out sensitive and reflexive performances. At other times the album stretches out into a drifting ambience as if seeking a sense of bliss in the everyday. Gentle Confrontation is about relationships (especially familial), understanding, and giving back a little grace and care, while the tone of the record criss-crosses watery ambience with denatured rhythm and asmr beats.
These 16 tracks are Loraine's best work yet, and a personal and musical leap forward, delivering a totally unique vision of electronic pop music”.
The last album from 22nd September you need to own is Laurel Halo’s Atlas. Before getting to albums due on 29th September, here is some detail about Laurel Halo’s forthcoming jewel of an album:
“Currently based in Los Angeles, Laurel Halo has spent over a decade stepping into different towns and cities for a moment or more, to the point where everywhere almost became nowhere. Atlas, the debut release on her new imprint Awe, is an attempt to put that feeling to music. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a potent set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and detuned, hallucinatory textures. The music functions as a series of maps, for places real and imaginary, and for expressing the unsaid.
The process of writing Atlas began back in 2020 when she reacquainted herself with the piano. She relished the piano's physical feedback, as well as its capacity to express emotion and lightness. And when the legendary Ina-CRM Studios in Paris invited her to take up a residency the following year in 2021, she spared no time to dub, stretch and manipulate some of the simple piano sketches she'd recorded over the prior months; these subtle piano recordings and electronic manipulations would go on to become the heart of Atlas. In the remainder of 2021 and 2022, with time spent between Berlin and London, Halo recorded additional guitar, violin and vibraphone, as well as acoustic instrumentation from friends and collaborators including saxophonist Bendik Giske, violinist James Underwood, cellist Lucy Railton and vocalist Coby Sey. All of these sounds were shaped, melted, and re-composed into the arrangements, their acoustic origins rendered uncanny.
In short, Atlas is road trip music for the subconscious. With repeated listens, it is a record that can leave a deep sensorial impression on the listener, akin to walking at dusk in a dark forest. Its humor and sharp focus would dispel any notions of sentimentality. Completely distinct from the rest of Halo's catalog, Atlas is an album that thrives in the quietest places, rejecting bombast and embracing awe.
Fitting that it's the debut release on her new recording label, whose slogan parallels the mood and atmosphere of the album: Awe is something you feel when confronted with forces beyond your control: nature, the cosmos, chaos, human error, hallucinations”.
Finishing with two from 29th September, and another contender for the best and most anticipated albums of the year comes in the form of Jorja Smith’s falling or flying. Walsall-born Smith’s second studio album is going to be even stronger than her debut, Lost & Found, in my view. Here is where you can pre-order it:
“Double Brits Awards Winner and Grammy / Mercury Prize nominee Jorja Smith returns with her second album. On the album Smith embarks on an adventure of sounds and thrills. It's smooth, it's pop and soulful and sure to be one of the albums of this year.
Sonically, this album, a no-skips body of work, isn’t like anything you’ve heard before. It sits masterfully in this same space of excitement, self-exploration and self-assertion that Jorja does. Compromised of deep, thumping drums, racing basslines, irresistible hooks and distinctive beats, ‘falling or flying’ runs at the same pace that Jorja’s mind does. ‘I don't slow down enough’ she says. ‘This album is like my brain. There’s always so much going on but each song is definitely a standstill moment.’
Of the many British voices in music today, Jorja is among the most commanding, writing at a pitch of intensity and urgency that few can match”.
Quite an important album in my view, people should go and pre-order Molly Burch’s Daydreamer. Out on 29th September, below is some background about a very special artist and album. I have been a fan of hers for a while, but I am aware that some people might not be overly-familiar:
“For Molly Burch, the age 13 was a seminal moment in life that has shaped the path that she is on now. Burch's fourth album, Daydreamer, explores the feelings and insecurities of this critical stage. Burch has recently relocated to her hometown of Los Angeles, but while she was still residing in Austin, she visited home and did that thing our parents love to have us do: rummage through old boxes to see what shit we can throw away. Upon finding her old diaries from age 13 and younger, Burch was brought to tears. Realizing how cruel she was to herself then, and how she still harbors many of those same self-critiques. It was this visit that forced her to take responsibility for where she was currently at in life, anxiety and body issues and all, and to try to let go of old habits.
The thematic territory mined on Daydreamer makes it her most personal album yet, and though yes, she says that about all of her albums, this one in particular is a conversation between Burch's state of being when she was younger and how she feels currently as an adult. Daydreamer boasts a sharper, much cleaner production approach and a bit more pop than Burch's previous records, thanks to producer Jack Tatum (Wild Nothing). The result is music that feels stirring and sweeping, pulling in sounds and influences of the past, while also propelling Burch into a further development of herself as an artist.
On the surface, lead single "Physical" is a dark and sultry '80s mid-tempo jam with an intro that could very well be on the soundtrack to a John Carpenter horror film. It's also about Burch's public struggles with PMS. The album also returns to themes that have become somewhat of a signature for Burch, such as unrequited love on "Unconditional." And then there's "Tattoo," one of the more emotional songs on the album, where Burch writes an ode to her best friend in high school who took her own life in 2009. It's the longest Burch has ever taken to write a song, an ethereal ballad featuring sweeping harp and backup vocals from Luna Li (Hannah Kim).
Though the album spends time with mournful, anxious reflections, the songs on Daydreamer never feel bogged down in bleakness or morbidity. Burch's ability to take the darkest moments of her life and translate them to a universal language lays the ground for her most masterful pop writing to-date. Daydreamer is dedicated not only to her thirteen year-old self, but the thirteen year-old selves of listeners that still lingers within them. As children, we escape the world and our scariest thoughts through daydreaming. When Burch was a kid, she would daydream about how life would look when she was older, when she'd presumably have all her shit together. Now, as an adult, she finds herself daydreaming about what's next in life, what she'll create in the future, and the person she wants to be”.
If you need some suggestions as wo which albums out next month are worth buying, then I hope the above has been helpful. Alongside releases from The Coral and James Blake, queens such as Róisín Murphy, Kylie Minogue and Jorja Smith bring us albums that might rank alongside their career best. September looks like it will be a busy and…
HUGELY exciting month for music.