Richard Dawson & Circle announce collaborative album Henki, released November 26th

Richard Dawson is the diminutive Geordie troubadour whose moving songs have been described as state-of-the-nation addresses, even — or perhaps especially — when he’s singing about pre-medieval peasants. Circle are the genre-straddling pioneers of The New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal, known for wearing spandex or dead fish onstage and singing in a made-up language.

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Posthumous Sam Mehran album ‘Cold Brew’ released July 28th

Over his 15-year career, Sam Mehran started a lot of projects and played in a lot of bands. He released everything from pugnacious dance-punk to mesmeric disco loops; unhinged hip-hop beats to perfectly poised pop songs. Cold Brew, out on July 28th, is a posthumous collection of instrumental rock music that Sam recorded in Los Angeles between April and May 2018.

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Alex Izenberg’s Caravan Château released 31st July

On Caravan Château—the beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own here, where songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

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