The Natvral - TethersAs the frontman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman wrote songs about the thrills and ills of young adult life with the care and concern of a cool older sibling. The long standing New York City indiepop group disbanded soon after releasing their final record, The Echo of Pleasure (2017), and Berman found himself at a creative crossroads. He wanted to keep making music, but the themes and sounds he was interested in had shifted; it felt

For fans of: Music From Memory “Outro Tempo” Brazil compilation

2 in the UK

It's almost two decades since D'Angelo laced us with 'Brown Sugar' and 14 years since he unleashed 'Voodoo' into the public domain

with broad 80s synth sweeps cloaking each tale of fraught metrosexual romance

following Ian Curtis' death two months earlier

4 Building On Fire

He was won over and they recorded the double A-side single 'Boner Hit' / 'With Me Tonight'

releases a political concept album inspired by an obscure 1970s Welsh language sci-fi novel

They couldn’t remember a time they’d ever been so delirious with creativity

and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove recording studios

“Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017

Each savage emotion comes across as tangible and real