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March 2026

Hot Off the Press: This Month’s Albums

harry styles – Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally

release: 6th march 2026
available on Neptune Blue Vinyl / vinyl + poster / vinyl / cd

 

Harry Styles’s fourth solo album, kiss all the time. disco, occasionally, is a glittering, slightly mischievous reinvention, ending a four‑year studio hiatus. Executive produced by his long‑time collaborator kid harpoon, the 12‑track collection blends playful disco leaning energy with introspective pop and dance floor ambition, hinted at by cover art of Styles beneath a suspended disco ball in the night. The rollout has been wrapped in mystery — cryptic posters and an immersive fan campaign, including the “we belong together” chant — signalling an era that feels both communal and euphoric. With its vibrant title and expansive release, this album promises a bold new chapter in Styles’s ever evolving sound.

warchild – help(2)

release: 6th march 2026
available on  vinyl / cd

 

HELP(2) is a brand new collaborative album, inspired by the landmark 1995 release HELP, which brings music lovers together in support of War Child’s vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world. The new album, like the original, speaks to the urgency of the situation for the one in five children globally living through war today. Recorded in a single day, the original HELP album raised over £1.2 million, enabling the charity to provide vital support to thousands of children caught in the Bosnian conflict, and was hailed as “the best charity album ever made” by critics.

robyn – sexistential

release: 27th march 2026
available on vinyl / alternate art cd / cd

 

Generational pop icon Robyn today announces her ninth studio album, Sexistential, which will be released globally via Young. Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing,” she says. “That’s how I felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”

kim gordon – play me

release: 13th march 2026
available on white vinyl / vinyl / cd

 

Kim Gordon’s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just as readily as it has changed — a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still feels like a dare. The adventure continues on the artist’s third solo album, PLAY ME, which will be released by Matador Records. PLAY ME is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says of her continued collaboration with LA producer Justin Raisen. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident. I always kind of work off of rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beat-oriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics and he understands how I work — that came forth even more on this record.”

james blake  – trying times

release: 13th march 2026
available on white double vinyl / double vinyl / cd

 

Trying Times is a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. James Blake explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the record’s visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern connection — how we see ourselves, how we’re seen by others, and what gets lost in between. It’s about the disorienting loop of joy and dread: feeling safe in love, yet knowing the bubble could burst at any moment; struggling to stay present while global anxiety and private doubt pull you in different directions. A meditation on love, identity, and fragility in an age where the world feels balanced on a knife edge.

snail mail – ricochet

release: 27th march 2026
available on red vinyl / vinyl / cd

 

Trying Times is a record about being in love whilst battling the limits of the self against a backdrop of global uncertainty. James Blake explores the tension between intimacy and isolation, the pressure to curate and perform even as everything, inside and out, feels fragile and precarious. Themes of reflection, both literally and metaphorically, run through the record’s visual presentation, as Blake holds a mirror to the contradictions of modern connection — how we see ourselves, how we’re seen by others, and what gets lost in between. It’s about the disorienting loop of joy and dread: feeling safe in love, yet knowing the bubble could burst at any moment; struggling to stay present while global anxiety and private doubt pull you in different directions. A meditation on love, identity, and fragility in an age where the world feels balanced on a knife edge.
release: 6th march 2026
available on double red vinyl / double vinyl / cd

 

For Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member, Flea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. The album comprises six original songs — including one co-written by Flea, Johnson, and Yorke — as well as interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell.
release: 13th march 2026
available on vinyl / cd

 

Tinariwen evolve once again on their brand new album, connecting with a younger generation of Tuareg musicians to produce a vibrant album of undulating grooves rooted in their nomadic community. Also featuring guest appearances from José González & Sulafa Elyas.
release: 6th march 2026
available on vinyl / cd

 

However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. Will Oldham’s new album, We Are Together Again, feels like an answer. In Oldham’s songs — and in the circle of others gathered beneath the name Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy — friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.

release: 20th march 2026
available on red vinyl / vinyl / cd

 

Is This All There Is? is the first instalment in a trilogy of records exploring identity as a metamorphosis, shaped and reshaped through the experience of falling in love. Inspired by Anna Calvi’s own perspective shift after becoming a parent, this opening record dives into existential questions of modern existence: How do we reclaim intimacy? Is there something more elemental we can connect with? What does it mean to feel truly awake? Through bold songwriting and immersive soundscapes, Calvi examines the delicate, transformative threads that weave love, selfhood, and awareness into contemporary life.

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