Also out this week:
Breaking their nearly quarter century studio silence, Pulp slide back onto their Britpop throne with tales of love, woe, and, of course, lust, lust, lust - after all, it wouldn't be a Pulp album without some prime horny Cocker. Frankie & The Witch Fingers' new Dinked edition is a torrent of clipped, driving rhythms, fuzzy guitar riffs & mind-wobbling synths that's doubled our pulse rates & tripled our grins. Six albums in and Little Simz is still surprising us, adding a hefty emotional clout to her, now sprawling musical palette, and a lineup shuffle heralds the arrival of the first record from Lower Slaughter in 6 years, and, boy, was it worth the wait! Gargantuan riffs and slamming rhythms combine with those new vox to slam home belter after ruddy belter. Buckle up, cos your new fave band just invited you along for a ride - grab a signed copy whilst you're at it!
In addition to those treats, Pete Shelley's first couple of records have been expanded, practice makes perfect for New Order, Joy Division have been still for 40 years, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe have doubled up, Mcklinley Dixon is alive and magicking (Dinked almost sold out!), Mary Chapin Carpenter has signed her personal history away, Lifeguard have ripped up the rulebook, there's a vertiginous new EP from Elbow, Yazoo have gone upstairs, we're unpeeling biG*fLAME, and it's all prostitution and desire from that minx Toyah!
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