Album of the Month - August 2025
The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising Transgressive A ceremonious statement showcasing a band with an unstoppable fire to bend music and meaning. The…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 33 - Albums of the Year So Far 2021
"Music-wise? I mean it's been amazing, so many great records. It's been a really great year so far... but plenty more…
Recounting: Get up Sequences Part One by The Go! Team
"People often talk about the positivity of The Go! Team music and I think surrounding myself in this everyday was useful... It’s strange how…
Recounting: Silk For The Starving by The Lounge Society
"In what was a bleak period of time we found ourselves in the studio with the producer we had idolised, recording songs that we adore.…
Albums of the Year So Far 2021 | Rough Trade UK
It's going to be a tough feat, to prize the word uncertain from the firm grip of the pandemic's vocabulary, so long…
Album of the Month - July 2021
Snapped Ankles Forest Of Your Problems The Leaf Label Buy now Rough Trade Exclusive blue/black splatter vinyl + bonus disc Snapped Ankles hack away at the…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 32 with Hiatus Kaiyote
"...let’s just make weird quirky things that we love and less of the internal voices that tell you you’re not good enough… All…
Movin' On Up
Expansion of our UK warehouse and fulfilment space. We wanted to let you know of improvements to our warehouse and fulfilment space which helps ensure we…
In Profile: Britpop '96
"I have almost no photographic evidence I was ever there, pre-mobile, pre-internet, NOBODY took a camera out with them as it would have been the…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 31 with Marina Allen
"I think of my songs as my little friends… they’re just a way to cope with how hard it is to be a person…
Album of the Month - June 2021
Wolf Alice A big slice of melancholy pie, capable of making the most callous out there shed a tear. Record Store Day UK Blue Weekend indie…
Recounting: Terrain by Portico Quartet
"It’s a world of changing landscapes and experiences that we traversed through June-November 2020, both emotionally and physically... It’s also a dialogue between…
Rough Trade Edit Podcast 30 with Sons of Raphael
"It’s all about not compromising on things and our attitude was we have a vision and we are going to realise it no matter…
In Profile: William Onyeabor
"He always made sure he got the outcome he wanted, whether it was by asking something outright, or by playing these invisible chess moves. It…
Album of the Month - May 2021
Squid As much as they wipe the slate clean ahead of every new project they conceive, the five-piece's particular brand of musicality is always…