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june 2026

this month’s album picks:

olivia rodrigo – You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

release: 12th june 2026

available on alternate album art ‘Pretty Sad’ Vinyl + Poster / alternate album art + Poster / vinyl / cd

olivia rodrigo’s third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, finds her navigating her first “big girl relationship” with a sharper, more self-aware lens. across 13 tracks, she blends experimental pop textures with emotionally direct songwriting, where devotion and unease sit side by side. jealousy, longing and attachment surface throughout, often undercut by a quiet melancholy she admits has always shadowed her love songs. produced with dan nigro, the record’s centrepiece the cure frames its core idea: love doesn’t fix you, it only reveals what’s already there.

beth orton – the ground above

release: 26th june 2026

available on fopp exclusive signed cd / vinyl / cd

for more than 30 years, beth orton has acted as a kind of cosmic receiver, translating vast, unseen emotional weather into intimate, human scale song. with the ground above, she delivers her most immediate and unguarded work to date: urgent, embodied and emotionally exposed, shifting between instinctive, subconscious flow and finely shaped songwriting. her voice moves from hushed invocation to raw, full-bodied release, carrying melodies that still nod to classic songbook tradition. across the record she traces survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political tension, and the persistent decision to remain—within love, within art, within the world.

modest mouse – an eraser and a amze

release: 5th june 2026

available on sky blue double vinyl / ocean floor coloured double vinyl / cosmic black double vinyl / cd

modest mouse construct a sonic world where fractured intensity and unexpected beauty sit side by side, cementing their status as one of the most distinctive forces in indie rock over the past three decades. an eraser and a maze is their first studio album since the golden casket, and it revisits the raw, unsettled energy of their earliest work, threading wiry, interlocking guitar lines through driving, militaristic percussion that feels both urgent and unstable, like a system constantly on the verge of collapse.

vince staples – cry baby

release: 26th june 2026

available on red coloured vinyl / opaque hot pink vinyl / cd

Vince Staples is one of the most revered voices of his generation. Though he’s a celebrated multi-hyphenate, making an impact in TV, film, & contemporary culture, music is where he most naturally pushes boundaries as an artist, storyteller, & creative force. Following a string of acclaimed introspective projects, Ramona Park (a melancholic tribute to his hometown) & Dark Times (deeper, more personal themes), Cry Baby is a more outwardly facing artistic statement and piece of social commentary.

graham coxon – castle park

release: 19th june 2026

available on vinyl / cd

produced by ben hillier (blur – think tank), castle park was recorded in 2011 during the a+e sessions, originally intended as a follow-up before being delayed by subsequent blur activity and other projects. the album collects ten tracks that lean into graham coxon’s classic mod-leaning sensibility, balancing sharp songwriting with a more direct, band-driven energy. its lead single billy says, long a fixture in coxon’s live sets, finally appears in studio form, arriving as a familiar piece of his catalogue now fully realised on record.

the strokes – reality awaits

release: 26th june 2026

available on metallic gold vinyl / vinyl / cd

the strokes return with their seventh studio album reality awaits, recorded in costa rica with rick rubin. the record pushes their signature interlocking guitar sound into more experimental territory, pairing it with futuristic production touches and heavily processed, auto-tuned vocals. lyrically, it leans into sharp, satirical observations of contemporary life, threading themes of consumer fatigue and digital-era disconnection throughout. the lead single going shopping offers an early glimpse of this shift, driven by vocoder-laced vocals and a wry take on late-stage capitalism and modern escapism.

release: 26th june 2026

available on metallic gold vinyl / vinyl / cd

muse’s tenth studio album the wow! signal is a concept record inspired by the 1977 extraterrestrial radio transmission, using it as a lens for ideas of contact, meaning, and what might exist beyond earth. matt bellamy describes it as orbiting the strange pull of deep space and the emotional weight of looking outward into the unknown, where certainty dissolves into possibility. musically it shifts between cinematic, guitar-driven rock and experimental electronic textures that push the band into new sonic territory. the record also features a collaboration with ellie goulding on the track hush, adding an unexpected human counterpoint to its interstellar scope.

release: 5th june 2026

available on clear vinyl / cd

With his highly accomplished third album If This Is It, DJ Seinfeld (Armand Jakobsson) evolves further into the artist he always set out to be, refining his emotional, club-leaning sound across nostalgic house, UKG, and 2000s-tinged trance. The 12-track LP – featuring SG Lewis, Confidence Man, TS Graye, Dan Whitlam, ARY, Norwegian pop witch Moyka, and Barry Can’t Swim affiliate just lil – explores letting go in a world that can often feel overwhelming. ‘A million ideas turned into a few, a few turned into no ideas at all, and no ideas eventually turned into one’ says Jakobsson of the album, which he began the week his acclaimed 2021 record Mirrors was released. ‘Through writing it, I’ve tried to turn long-held anxieties into acceptance, and I hope listeners can take their own meaning from it’.

release: 5th june 2026

available on vinyl / cd

i built you a tower is the sound of loss, compartmentalisation, and grief pressing against its own containment until it breaks through the seams. it traces the uneasy growth that follows collapse, where pain is acknowledged rather than avoided, but no longer allowed to define everything around it. “i see the tower existing on your emotional horizon,” ben gibbard states. “you don’t always have to look at what’s inside it, but it’s a reminder that it happened. you know it’s there. you have to face it.”

release: 12th june 2026

available on coke bottle green vinyl / cd

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