Pop

For fans of harmonies and power pop, the debut album from Portable Radio is the natural heir to the Beach Boys when they had beards, The Zombies, Carole King, Bee Gees, Weyes Blood, Drugdealer, Hall & Oates and all that solid gold pop we love!

It's worth pointing out that our very own Mof is in the band, but we're not being biased, honest! Limited run, so don't hang about for this!

Just a year after picking up instruments and forming Sheffield band Potpourri release their debut album, First Dance. Potpourri formed in Summer 2019 to play a gig at the inaugural Bingo Fest, and have been cultivating their off-kilter brand of pop since - incorporating the Broadcast-esque electronic sounds, motorik rhythms and chanteuse-style vocal harmonies.

Cream vinyl includes zine.

The latest from Do Your Best comes from Manchester's Another; Country $$$$ with their album 'GRIEF STRICKEN LISTED BUILDINGS'.

The album ceaselessly melds the warped, the gritty and the shiny to form a blissful space where beauty is simultaneous with uncertainty.

With beautiful and exclusive new artwork from NGA D'Grayt (@nga_dgrayt) both inside and out, the album is presented on a luscious transparent red cassette.

Prince's fourth album, Controversy, contains falsetto whoops, upbeat synthesizers, and funky bass lines, expanding on his previous album, Dirty Mind. The 1981 release peaked at number 21 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

"Jungle Hideout" is the third album from California native Daniel Judd, aka Sorcerer. Dan has wide ranging Influences; from 80s electro-pop, disco, psychedelia, kraut-rock (Kraftwerk, Can etc.) through to 70s style "smooth music" like Steely Dan, ELO and Fleetwood Mac. Dan started his life as a founding member of San Francisco pop group "Call And Response", whose releases on Emperor Norton have garnered comparisons to Stereolab amongst others.

The Freakbeat Scene brings together 25 remarkable tracks, virtually all of them much sought after on original Decca/Deram 45s. Save yourself money and buy this loving compiled 2 x LP set in heavyweight 180 gm vinyl. The Freakbeat sound, was mainly a sub-genre of late 1960s UK rock and roll, which many of the artists, and their styles, went on to become a larger part of British music history. Includes early recordings from the Attack, the Birds, Marc Bolan and the Small Faces.

The baroque pop band The Left Banke formed back in 1965 in New York City. With their debut album Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina they hit the charts and both title songs became hit singles in the US.

Stealing Sheep are an electro pop band from Liverpool, England, who formed in 2010.

The debut studio album ‘Into the Diamond Sun’ was released in 2012 by Heavenly Recordings

Manchester darling Songs for Walter returns with his second LP, An Endless Summer Daze.

Songs for Walter, otherwise known as Manchester-based songwriter Laurie Hulme, is rapidly becoming one of the city’s unsung heroes thanks to his seemingly whimsical, but often deeply touching brand of folk-pop.

Ed’s No.6 Collaborations Project follows the release of Cross Me featuring Chance The Rapper and PnB Rock and I Don't Care with Justin Bieber, which shot straight to No.1 in the UK; and has remained there for four consecutive weeks. The album is a collection of the most exciting collaborations on the planet.

Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records. Though the record was basically a Gary Usher solo project, he enlisted many top LA session musicians, and heavily utilized Curt Boettcher as a songwriter, musician, vocalist, and producer (even going so far as to include two tracks that Boettcher had produced on his own as the leader of the group The Ballroom).

What praises haven't been lauded the immortal singing talent of the late, great Patsy Cline? She died at the height of her career, at age 30, with two other stars of the Grand Ole Opry, and her manager, in a private plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, on the group's return to Nashville from Kansas City. Before that ill-fated flight, though, she left a musical legacy as one of the most influential and successful female vocalists of the 20th Century.

The eagerly awaited fifth album from the ever-brilliant Paramore. Following up from 2013's self-titled record, the album sees the return of drummer Zac Farro after leaving in 2010. Lead single Hard Times offers us a more tropical and electro-pop tinged sound in comparison to previous albums, but it is still the same instantly recognisable and irresistibly infectious Paramore.

UK four-piece Metronomy ready their fourth LP Love Letters on their familiar outpost Because Music. The release is a classic electronic-pop album, carrying a warm sound and laced with nostalgia. The piece’s title track ‘Love Letters’ is a playful, sing-a-long track with a catchy, piano riff and a steady tambourine to keep the beat in check. More futuristic is ‘I’m Aquarius’, unfolding over a simplistic drum machine beat and celestial synth patterns.

Apparently, if you listen to Placebo you don’t actually feel the effects of their music, be they visceral or cerebral, you just think you do. Or perhaps if you turn it up loud enough, you will. Their eponymous debut album originally landed in 1996 and featured some androgynous alt. rock bangers such as Nancy Boy, Come Home and Teenage Angst. It is now reissued on vinyl for you delectation and reappraisal.

Who Knows Jenny Jones is the new album from surreal indie act Mr Ben and The Bens, the brainchild of polymath Ben Hall. The record is an experimental pop exploration of a kitchen sink narrative with a celestial twist. Originating from Lancaster’s thriving co-operative scene, Ben is now based in Sheffield and his adopted city has had a profound influence on the concept of the new album. With Who Knows Jenny Jones, he tells the tale of a shrinking violet called Jenny from an area of Sheffield called Pitsmoor in the 1970s, who gets abducted by aliens and becomes the best disco dancer in town.

The album comes accompanied by a riso-printed 8-page zine. This includes a story, by Lloyd, which is to be read in conjunction with listening to the songs to get the full story of Jenny Jones.

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