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Mariani Dom: Apple of Life [Vinyl LP]

Volume V follows on five years after their fourth album For Your Love, a record lovingly nurtured but then swallowed up by the Covid pandemic. The title signifies the latest chapter in the ongoing story of Other Lives, their fifth record of magnificent musical and emotional depth. The majority of Volume V was recorded in The Sheerar, a former church that is now the Stillwater History Museum. The Sheerar’s acoustics partly accounts for the album’s more cathedral-esque take on Other Lives’ signature sound, which has the roots in a form of Americana but expanded via classical and post-classical forms, and the influence of iconic composers such as Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini.

Carey Mariah: Here for it all [Vinyl LP]

Etiquette Mona: Och Får Vi Inte Det Så Kan ... [Vinyl LP]

Ash release their ninth studio album Ad Astra via Fierce Panda Records. Containing eleven brand new tracks, including their raucous take on surprise single and ‘Beetlejuice’ staple ‘Jump In The Line’, Ad Astra sees Blur guitarist Graham Coxon appear on two particularly sassy songs and catches the perennial power-pop kings in especially rocket-fuelled form. Ad Astra follows hot on the heels of 2023's Race The Night (the band's highest charting album for 20 years), being released two years and one month later, and this is no coincidence. Ever the band who live for live music, Ash vowed that the fierce pandemic-induced five year chasm between [2018 album] Islands and Race The Night would never happen again. 

Kjellvander Christian: Ex Voto / The Silent Love [Vinyl LP]

Sylvian David: Gone to Earth [2 Vinyl LP]