Bernie Taupin - The Sea Has No Mercy - VINYL LP

Tenderness - the solo project of Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir) - announces her debut album True. A walk across the salt flats. A pixelated moon on a touchscreen. A song set on the final day on earth. A song you can't send to someone, because they're no longer there. True, the debut album from Tenderness - the solo project of Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir) - leads you by the hand through scenes like these, on deceptively simple, country-adjacent songs that shimmer with electric guitars and drones and licks of pedal steel. Songs that look sideways at romance and grief and technology. Songs that break hearts with their precise and thoughtful beauty as well as their sadness. Songs that are, by turns, tender like a touch, tender like a bruise.True is a solo album in name, but a communal one in spirit, made alongside producer Euan Hinshelwood (Younghusband, Cate Le Bon), who contributes bass as well as layers of electric guitars, synths and drones. Longtime collaborators appear throughout Peggy Sue's Clay Slade and Olly Joyce, La Luz's Marian Li-Pino, and members of Deep Throat Choir. Pedal steel comes from Harry Bohay (Aldous Harding, Sylvie). Backing vocals come from Berlin musicians Martha Rose, Dandy Deniz and Benjamin Gregory. The album's finishing touches - strings and synths - were added by producer Chloe Kraemer. The result is an album that feels both deeply personal and quietly expansive - a collection of songs born from solitude but shaped by community, rooted in heartache yet reaching toward something hopeful. FFO Mitski, Angel Olsen, Waxahatchee, Laura Marling

Everything is alright now. Alex Brown Church - the man behind the dark folk, indie rock band Sea Wolf - wants you to know that from the start. Really. Sea Wolf's eagerly anticipated fifth LP, Through A Dark Wood, proves it in 11 textured, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-electronic, unabashedly honest tracks. But beforehand, everything was decidedly not okay. Church wrote and recorded an entire album after 2014's streaming-only, stripped down album Song Spells No. 1 Cedarsmoke, but decided to scrap it. He realized those songs lacked a through-line and felt conceptually disjointed, something he attributes to a sense of denial of what had been going behind the scenes - dealing with the disintegration of a long-term relationship, reconciling with the death of an estranged parent, and trying to cope with the magnitude of current events, all while maintaining a passionately beloved, yet slow-burning creative career.

First single from upcoming album from English singer-songwriter & actor (Harry Potter / HBO Max, MobLand, Ripley, Emma) alongside his sister. The single is a new version of a track from his debut album now featuring South African collective who've been championed by Alicia Keys and performed with Doja Cat. He's had features in The Times, The Observer, appeared on Countryfile (BBC 1 TV), Later With Jools Holland & been covered by the likes of Clairo.