Album of the Week – 31/10/25

Yes, it’s spooky Friday, and we will deliver the scariest new sounds! Well, at least Florence + The Machine got in on the act with her new release, ‘Everybody Scream’. Otherwise, people have tended to ignore the fact that it’s Hallowe’en.

We have new releases from Guided By Voices (Thick Rich And Delicious), Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider (A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams) and Maps (Welcome To The Tudor Gate). There’s also an expanded edition of Buffalo Tom‘s classic Sleepy Eyed to enjoy.

If you get the chance to see Bricknasty live, we recommend you take it! They play at the Olympia on December 6th. Their new EP/ Album is called Blacks Law. It’s 32 minutes long, so I’m not sure if it qualifies as an album or not.

For our album of the week, we went to a band that released their first album (Some Friendly) all the way back in 1990. This is their 14th album, and they’ve lost none of their sparkle.

Album of the Week – The Charlatans – We Are Love

“One of the best loved UK bands of the last four decades, their career spans 13 albums, 22 Top 40 singles, three Number One albums and era-defining anthems. We Are Love launches a bold new era, one that finds them at peace with their past whilst looking forward to a bright future. Recorded at two places that are totemic in their history – Rockfield in Wales and their own Big Mushroom space in Middlewich, Cheshire – Burgess cites hauntology and psychogeography as two concepts that swirled in his head as the band dug into the album making. For one thing, their return to storied farm studio Rockfield for the first time in almost 30 years – since they made fifth album Tellin’ Stories – was an important step. As a band they hadn’t been there since keyboard player Rob Collins was killed, in the middle of that album’s sessions, in a car crash at the bottom of the track leading to the farm. Throughout the record you can hear The Charlatans’ awareness of the stuff that’s made them – the highs and the lows; the desire to honour their own mighty legacy, whilst not being defined by it. A career-long drive to be progressive and innovative”.

Albums of Note: 

— Buffalo Tom – Sleepy Eyed (Expanded Edition)

—  Anna von Hausswolff – Iconoclasts

— Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream

— Guided By Voices – Thick Rich And Delicious

— Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider – A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams

— Bricknasty – Blacks Law

— Maps – Welcome To The Tudor Gate

October 31st:

— Adam & The Ants – The Singles

— Anna von Hausswolff – ICONOCLASTS

— Avatar – Don’t Got in the Forest

— The Belair Lip Bombs – Again

— better joy – at dusk EP

— Big L – Harlem’s Finest: Return Of The King

— Blondie – No Exit (Deluxe Edition)

— Bob Dylan – Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963

— Buffalo Tom – Sleepy Eyed (Expanded Edition)

— Caged Animals – Make Strange Friends

— The Caveman. – Cavy in the City

— The Charlatans UK – We Are Love

— Chat Pile + Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again

— Chuckyy – Bloodbathh Vol. 2: Violate We Demonstrate EP

— claire rousay – a little death

— Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death

— Danheim – Heimferd

— Daniel Avery – Tremor

— Despised Icon – Shadow Work

— dj gummy bear – The Spirit Still Remains (Purgatory)

— DJ Premier and Ransom – The Reinvention

— Duff McKagan – Lighthouse: Live From London

— Eleni Drake – CHUCK

— Eli – Stage Girl

— Everclear – Sparkle and Fade 30th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition

— Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream

— Greensky Bluegrass – XXV

— Guided By Voices – Thick Rich And Delicious

— Gumm – Beneath The Wheel

— HighSchool – HighSchool

— Holy Sons – Puritan Themes

— Howling Giant – Crucible & Ruin

— Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider – A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams

— Jerksin Fendrix – Bugonia (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

— Joyeria – Graceful Degradation EP

— Kate Bush – Best of the Other Sides (Physical Release)

— keiyaA – hooke’s law

— Kodak Black – Just Getting Started

— KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope – Stargazer Edition

— Luvcat – Vicious Delicious

— Lydia Luce – Mammoth

— Makaya McCraven – Hidden Out! EP

— Makaya McCraven – The People’s Mixtape EP

— Makaya McCraven – PopUp Shop EP

— Makaya McCraven – Techno Logic EP

— Maps – Welcome To The Tudor Gate

— Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Vinyl Reissue)

— NOWHERE2RUN (feat. Code Orange’s Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade” Balderose) – What Did You Do? EP

— Oklou – choke enough Deluxe

— The Orchestra (For Now) – Plan 76 EP

— OutKast – Stankonia (25th Anniversary)

— Penelope Road – Chance Encounter EP

— Penelope Trappes – A Requiem: Æternum EP

— Pictureplane – Sex Distortion

— Primitive Man – Observance

— Radiohead – Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 (Vinyl Release)

— Roger Eno – Without Wind / Without Air

— Saintseneca – Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs

— Shad – Start Anew

— Shlohmo – Repulsor

— SKORTS – Incompletement

— Soft Cell – The Art of Falling Apart (Deluxe Reissue)

— SosMula – KAMP KRYSTL LAKE

— The Steel Wheels – The Steel Wheels

— Taylor Momsen – Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas EP

— Trivium – Struck Dead EP

— Various Artists – Hamilton: 10 Shots (Highlights from the Original Broadway Cast Recording)

— Various Artists – Killed By Deaf – A Punk Tribute To Motörhead

— Westside Gunn – HEELS HAVE EYES 3

— The Who – Who Are You (Super Deluxe Edition)

— Zach Hill and Lucas Abela – Bag of Max Bag of Cass