Album of the Week – 30/01/26

It’s official, January is almost over! We’re a good, solid month away from the shortest day of the year and starting to enjoy the ‘grand stretch’! Ok, it’s also been raining for most of the last week, so maybe you should stay indoors and listen to some new sounds?

There is a new album from one of the Animal Collective, in Geologist (Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?). There is also something fairly fascinating from Tyler Ballgame called For the First Time, Again.

This week, we’re heavy on new Irish releases, with Ye Vagabonds (All Tied Together) and Pilgrims (Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby of Irish indie bands Juniper and Bell X1) called Wintering. For our album of the week, we’ve gone for the 3rd studio album from Ailbhe Reddy called ‘KISS BIG’.

Album of the Week — Ailbhe Reddy – KISS BIG

“KISS BIG is an album about the end of a long-term relationship (classic, really) and the disorienting aftermath of losing the person you built a life around. It explores feeling untethered from them, yourself, who you thought you were and the world. As well as how, with time, everything rearranges and restarts. The cyclical nature of love and endings. The way we keep beginning again, regardless of how we say we won’t.”

Albums of Note: 

— Cast – Yeah Yeah Yeah

— Geologist (of Animal Collective) – Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?

— Kanye West – Bully

— Sébastien Tellier – Kiss The Beast

— Ty Segall & The Muggers – “LIVE” “AT” “THE” “BBC”

— Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again

— Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together

— Pilgrims – Wintering

January 30th:

— A.G. Cook – The Moment (The Score)

— Ailbhe Reddy – KISS BIG

— Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl (20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set)

— Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone

— Butch Walker Jr. – Paleo Sol

— By Storm – My Ghosts Go Ghost

— Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment

— Cast – Yeah Yeah Yeah

— Cordovas – Back to Life

— Demob Happy – The Grown Ups Are Talking

— Don Toliver – OCTANE

— ER Jurken – To Be Continued

— Francis Rossi (of Status Quo) – The Accidental

— Geologist (of Animal Collective) – Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights?

— GUV – Warmer Than Gold

— Indira Paganotto – Arte Como Amante

— Infected Mushroom – IM30

— Jake Shimabukuro – Calm Seas

— James Walsh (of Starsailor) – It’s All Happening

— Joel Ross – Gospel Music

— Jordan Ward – BACKWARD

— Joyce Manor – I Used to Go to That Bar

— Kanye West – Bully

— Kula Shaker – Wormslayer

— Labrinth – Cosmic Opera: Act I

— LIGHTS – A6EXTENDED

— Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon – As of Now

— Marta Del Grandi – Dream Life

— Meels – Across The Raccoon Strait EP

— Miles Davis – The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

— MØL – DREAMCRUSH

— Prince – HITnRUN phase one (Reissue)

— Prince – HITnRUN phase two (Reissue)

— Sébastien Tellier – Kiss The Beast

— The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?

— Softcult – When A Flower Doesn’octot Grow

— Sophia Stel – How to Win At Solitaire (Deluxe Edition)

— Steve Poltz – Joyride

— Tashi Dorji – low clouds hang, this land is on fire

— Ty Segall & The Muggers – “LIVE” “AT” “THE” “BBC”

— Tyler Ballgame – For the First Time, Again

— Warren Haynes – Tales of Ordinary Madnes (2026 Remix)

— Xaviersobased – Xavier

— Ys Tseen – Stand On My Shoulders

— Yumi Zousma – No Love Lost To Kindness