New Albums From This Is The Kit, Christine & the Queens, James, Extreme, Rammstein, Jenny Lewis, Crass, EMF, Squid, King Krule and more!

We are long time fans of This Is The Kit so it is great news that their new album Careful Of Your Keepers is out this week.

'The songwriting is balanced and gentle; nothing is overdone, and Gruff Rhys proves to be an unobtrusive producer; Kate’s unadorned vocals provide the main event, alongside Rozi Plain’s bass, which is exquisite on the album’s title track. Points of interest include the jolty time signature of This Is When The Sky Gets Big, the sweeping piano accompaniment in Doomed Or More Doomed and pretty much everything about the charming Stuck In A Room.' Buzz Magazine

Choose from limited edition green vinyl, standard vinyl, CD and cassette which features, 'Acoustic Field Recordings of the Entire Album on the b-Side of the Cassette, and Features Alternate Hand-Drawn Artwork'

James are back with an new release Be Opened By The Wonderful which is a 20 track (19 Vinyl) of some of their most loved and rare tracks, re-imagined with a 22 piece orchestra and 8 piece choir. The double-album also includes one brand new track, Love Make A Fool.

Double vinyl and 2CD available.

'Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed On The Line (Warner Records) finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era in a new town—and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note / Capitol Records.'

'The iconic 1997 Rammstein album Sehnsucht is re-released as a limited Anniversary Edition, for the first time in remastered HD sound. In addition to the singles "Du hast" and "Engel", the album exclusively includes a new mix version of the track "Spiel mit mir". The elaborately reworked packaging was designed by the original artwork designer Dirk Rudolph.'

Choose from 2LP, CD or cassette versions

UK post punk band Squid release a new album this week..

'Expansive, evocative and hugely varied, O Monolith retains Squid’s restless, enigmatic spirit, but it still holds surprises for those familiar with Bright Green Field. It’s a reflection of the outsized progression of a band always looking to the future. Like its namesake, O Monolith is vast and strange; alive with endless possible interpretations of its inner mysteries.'

Limited blue vinyl edition. Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner and 20 Page Booklet.

King Krule - Space Heavy, 'Archy Marshall with Space Heavy, the fourth studio album under his King Krule alias. Coming 10 years on from his debut album, Space Heavy presents King Krule at his most articulate; using his years of experience to create a dynamic body of work that reveals something new with every listen.'

The new album from Country/Americana band Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit...'Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive.'

'PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE is written, performed and produced by Christine and the Queens, with co-production by Mike Dean (Lana Del Rey, Beyonce) and guest appearances from 070 Shake and Madonna. Chris explains: “This new record is the second part of an operatic gesture that also encompassed 2022’s Redcar Les Adorables Etoiles.'

Choose from 3LP, standard LP, deluxe and standard CD versions.

Extreme return with their brand new studio album Six 'The multi-million selling hard rockers present 12 tracks ranging from funk-tinged bangers to soaring ballads as only Extreme can deliver. Spearheaded by the songwriting team of vocalist Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt (who blessed the world with chart toppers like “More Than Words” and “Hole Hearted”)...The album opener and first single “Rise” will immediately fire up legions of anxious fans with its signature riff. Elsewhere, “Other Side of the Rainbow” showcases Extreme’s gift for passionate acoustic magic. Extreme are back with Six – everything the fans have been waiting for.”

We have the limited red and black marbled double vinyl,  limited edition transparent red double vinyl and CD available

Tears for Fears' debut album The Hurting was released on 7 March 1983, and peaked at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart in its second week of release. The album reached Platinum status in January 1985. The album contains Tears for Fears’ first three hit singles – Mad World, Change, and Pale Shelter – all of which reached the top five in the UK.

New Half Speed Remaster out Friday 9th June

Various - Bullshit Detector Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3

'Bullshit Detector was the name of a series of compilation LPs put together by the anarcho-punk band Crass and released on their own label. Three editions were released between 1980 and 1984, consisting of demo tapes, rough recordings and artwork that had been sent to the band.'

Each volume is reissued as a limited editions on grey vinyl this week

Irish singer/songwriter Niall Horan releases is third album The Show, inspired by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jackson Browne and other members of the ’60s / ’70s music scene in Laurel Canyon. 

"Urban Outfitters Exclusive Frosted Glass Vinyl includes handwritten letter print" and CD versions available.

Rob Grant is the father of international icon Lana Del Rey, who features on Lost At Sea, his debut album. 

'An accidental recording artist, Grant has never had a lesson on any instrument in his life. No kind of formal musical training at all. He can't read sheet music. But when he sits down at a piano, something magical happens. Notes flow from him and out pours composition after composition...'

Nothing Personal is the third studio album by Maryland band All Time Low originally released in 2009 and is a pop punk classic.

Neon purple vinyl

'Long before becoming an icon of funk, acid jazz, and R&B, Roy Ayers was a promising young jazz vibraphonist.

Originally released in 1967, Virgo Vibes was Ayers' second album, and his debut for Atlantic. With five cool, funky jazz tracks, the LP features talented musicians like Joe Henderson, Charles Tolliver, Bruno Carr, Jack Wilson and the mysterious pianist Ronnie Clark (Herbie Hancock playing under a pseudonym).

A rare treasure infused with the relaxed, sunny vibe that defined Ayers’ stellar career, Virgo Vibes is now available again on vinyl.'

Delta Swamp Rock – Sounds From The South: at The Crossroads of Rock, Country and Soul is a compilation that has been 10 years out of print. This new edition of Soul Jazz Records' classic Delta Swamp Rock, features a killer all-star line-up of seminal artists who all first blended rock, soul and country together to create a stunning new sound of southern American music in the 1970s. Featuring The Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more!

This album comes as a superb limited-edition gold vinyl double vinyl release complete with extensive original sleevenotes, interviews and exclusive photography, all spread over a 12-page full-size magazine and two bespoke inner sleeves.

The two-time Grammy nominee Americana artist Kelsea Ballerini releases her fourth album Subject to Change.

"There is a lot of nostalgia to this record," she said. "It does sound really '90s-inspired, '90s country and '90s pop... I really just wanted to start this next chapter with something that feels good. It's breezy, it's happy, and I hope people hear that."

Limited edition lemonade yellow double vinyl

Seattle Doom metal band Bell Witch release- Future's Shadow 1: The Clandestine Gate

'For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded Mirror Reaper, The Clandestine Gate is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.” While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over Mirror Reaper and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1, The Clandestine Gate drew those instruments closer to the centre of its compositions.'

Double vinyl in stock

Multi instrumentalist Tommy Guerrero's remastered Soul Food Taqueria 'paints a hazy portrait of a 1975 cop show street corner that's grounded in funk, soul, blues, drum and bass, Santana, psychedelia, and pimp music that's unlikely and all at once dormant, dominant and defiantly aural.' Counterculture

Almost 27 years since EMF's last album the Cinderford quintet release a brand new album Go Go Sapiens 'the album is full of great songs, pulling on the strengths of rock, pop and dance, while giving a nod to the band’s past.' My Global Mind

White vinyl

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The mighty John Otway returns to play live in Louth at The Pumphouse.

10th June is almost sold-out, but fear not as we have added a second date on Saturday 17th!

Get your ticket in advance from the shop.

This week marks one year since we gathered to see John Shuttleworth (aka Graham Fellows) cut the ribbon and officially open our new premises at 8 Aswell Street, as well as performing a song specially written for the occasion! 

Thanks to all our customers for coming with us and to all the folk that have discovered us this year, it's been great to meet you.

Louth's one-day summer music festival Outfields is coming soon on Sat 17th June. 

There's a great line up including Elliott Morris, The Manipulators, Dave Simpson Trio and a DJ set by Mothership

Get your ticket in store - £19 each.

Next on Katy B's Sunday Underbelly radio show on LCRFM on June 11th from 4pm her guest is Lincoln based clever-clogs, scholar, author, Modernist, quizmaster, occasional polymath and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Duncan Foster

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