Lorkin O'Reilly "FORETTA (Team Love)"
FORETTA resonates with themes of sadness, despair, as well as that of starting anew.
Maps "Colors. Remixed. Time. Loss. (Mute)"
The fourth remix album.
From Mute:
The series, which will unfolded throughout the summer, reworks and reimagines tracks from Chapman’s latest album, Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss. (2019, Mute). The acclaimed album, his most ambitious to date, saw the Northampton-based Mercury Music-nominated artist working with Echo Collective, the renowned Brussels ensemble, and 2019 saw him embark on a series of performances that included a sold-out show at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters "Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters (American Laundromat)"
From American Laundromat Records:
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters cover some of Tanya’s favorite songs by The Go Go’s, Leonard Cohen, Kirsty MacColl, Split Enz, Linda Ronstadt, The Pretenders, Wings, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Mary Margaret O’Hara on this outstanding new album.
Miles Francis & Jas Walton "Basement Tape (Rough Trade Publishing)"
From Figure & Ground:
Basement Tape is a follow up to the duo’s first album Explorations in Drums & Sax (2016), also on Figure & Ground. “This is almost like a deconstruction of what went into our first record. This is where it starts – naked, in a way,” says Francis. This time, the tracks were mixed at home by Lily Wen, the head of the label.
“Miles and Jas have been a big part of my musical life,” says Lily. “I’m constantly inspired by what they make and how they play. Mixing this record, it was easy to just let everything come through naturally, as it was recorded and as it was being put down. I wanted to keep as much of that original energy as possible. The songs are so nuanced that all the production elements are already there – they do it in real time.”