We know, we know - this might have entered the world in 2024 but it's the first time that it's arrived on a physical format and we're over the moon that it's finally here!

It's an epic of sixties heartbroken pop colliding with fuzzed-out vintage psych on a spine of spindly funk. It’s rock and roll’s alternate timeline where hazy vulnerability and a knack for open-heart poetry kicked machismo right off the roost. And did we mention that this 2-hour opus is absolutely heaving with sultry hooks that’ll keep you locked in for the duration? That and you only need to go 5 songs deep to hear our Jon's track of 2024. 

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The Murder Capital have never shied away from a rib-rattling crescendo and, on their 3rd studio outing, they've bulked out the angular post-punk with which they first made their name, adding depth and intensity to their endlessly emotive maelstrom. And they'll be bringing said maelstrom to tear up Chalk tomorrow night too: secure an album bundle here! Flooding in like a much-welcome slosh of golden sunlight, Mandrake Handshake are the cure for your Seasonal Affective Disorder - they pair dreamy samba, flower-trilled psychedelia, and avant-pop with motorik kosmische of an infectiously sunny disposition that will have you stripped to the waist and sprinting beach-wards despite the Baltic temperatures. Catch 'em live in the shop next Tuesday! Smouldering with all the possibilities offered by an open road, Sam Fender's 'People Watching' enlists the production chops of War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel to devastatingly kinetic and heart-plumping effect - these tracks feel like they zoom out to the scale of grand epics, rattling our souls in the humongously chorused process. And All Seeing Dolls, the duo of Dot Allison and Anton Newcombe, bring slow and determined psychedelia that puts us in mind of mystery-loaded scores and Lynchian strip-teases - both Allison & Newcombe are in full complimentary form here, elevating their combined efforts well above all expectations.

Fancy something else? How about Oasis' nonchalant single? Father John Misty's Honeybear has just hit double figures, Doechii is wrestling alligators, The Liminanas are faded, Joan Shelley is in a mood, we've got the maps for Sonic Boom & Sinner DC, P.P. Arnold has survived soul, Jack Frost is on the telly, it's the first time on vinyl for Gruff Rhys' Dalek Pylon, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are having a sleepover and the Lambrini Girls are back once again on a lovely brown disc.