The Needle Drop Selections

"Dostrotime is Squarepusher-style fun. Heavy, intense, tear out experimental electronic music for the sheer exhilaration of it. Unapologetically, o...

"Where’s My Utopia? is the follow-up to the Leeds band’s critically acclaimed debut record, The Overload, which arrived in January 2022. The new al...

"A very 'MGMT MGMT album.' Descriptors from the band include: bold, flavorful, playful, sincere, optimistic, perceptive. Loss Of Life was produced ...

"TANGK is, at its core, a love album. Open to anyone who requires something to shout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the voi...

"Chelsea Wolfe's latest album, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She, is a rebirth in process. It is a powerfully cathartic statement about cut...

"With the world we're living in now, it feels like we're all just trying to hang onto our souls. Everything seems to be getting more extreme and ev...

"Prelude To Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion - from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain - and i...

"Grammy Award winner Kali Uchis releases her fourth studio album, Orquídeas. Marking Uchis’ striking return to Spanish-language music, the project ...

The quintessential jazz-funk / fusion album and, at the time of its release, the best-selling "jazz" album of all time. People had already been pre...

Soundtracks For The Blind is the 10th studio album from Swans. Released in 1996, it is the last project from Michael Gira & co. before the grou...

"Did you know that the music on Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version—repressed now for its 30th anniversary, back in its original artwork, and ac...

Acclaimed 4th studio album from Canadian singer-songwriter. Regarded by music critics as one of the best albums of all time, Joni Mitchell was alre...

This ish is DAMN FONKY and CLEEAN! The re-press sounds miraculously better than the "clean" original that I own, maxing out Funkadelic's pure heavy...

"Following on from her critically acclaimed mixtape To Hell With It, the debut album reveals PinkPantheress’ inner self-reflection as she explores ...

"Based in Los Angeles, Slauson Malone 1 is the musical project and performance piece of artist Jasper Marsalis. Following two, critically acclaimed...

"Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existen...

"Alan Palomo (fka Neon Indian) is making his return this year with the brand new album World of Hassle. As Neon Indian, Alan most recently released...

"Multi-dimensional artist and producer yeule announces their new album softscars on Ninja Tune. softscars represents a new direction for yeule, ins...

"Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s ...

"The fifth album from shoegaze giants Slowdive contains the duality of a familiar internal language mixed with the exaltation of new beginnings. ev...

"Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James Blake return to the electronic roots ...

"A pop record for tired times. Sugared with bits of shatterproof glass to put more crack in your strap. At long last, verse / chorus. A weathered t...

"The Ballad of Darren is the ninth studio album by Blur. The album was written by Damon Albarn, mainly while he was touring with Gorillaz. It was p...

"Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths...

"Following its surprise digital release, Sigur Rós’ first new studio album in ten years, ÁTTA, is their most intimate and emotionally direct record...

"Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-ma...

"Janelle Monáe, music’s foremost freeassmuthafucka, has shared her scintillating new single, 'Lipstick Lover,' available now. Arriving on the heels...

"Maps is the new album from NYC rapper billy woods and LA producer Kenny Segal, their first full collaboration since 2019’s Hiding Places. Four yea...

"Radical Romantics, Fever Ray’s first new album in 5+ years, is out now. Fever Ray first started on Radical Romantics in fall 2019; working in the ...

"A brand new album of unreleased material from Black Country, New Road, recorded at the historic music venue Bush Hall, in London at a series of un...

"Melanie Martinez reemerges with a spellbinding new trailer heralding the arrival of her hugely anticipated new album, PORTALS. PORTALS marks the 2...

"Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Daniel Caesar effortlessly floats across the gamut of contem...

"Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release, the fifth album from Jessie Ware. That Feels Good is the follow-up to 2020's What's Your Pleasure? which proved h...