Albums of the Year So Far 2025 | Rough Trade UK
The music that hit and the music you missed. Welcome to our list celebrating some of the best music to hit the racks in the first…
On The Rise: Clarissa Connelly
A soul-cleansing exploration of beauty through music. Scottish-born, Copenhagen-based producer, composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Clarissa Connelly draws from her love and personal experience of Nordic culture…
Shoplifting with Future Islands
"This record still has a piece of my heart. M is one of my favourite songs of all time. And has one of my favourite…
Album of the Month - February 2024
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Island Fresh off the back of their Rough Trade On The Rise induction, ready yourself for a real…
Rough Trade Essential: Greatest Guitar Albums
"Replace the generic cliches with genuinely raw lyrics, the pristine, over-the-top production, with grit and power, and the trite, self-indulgent guitar solos, with a style…
On The Rise: Blue Bendy
Six cool cats defy genre. Ranking between the "7th and 2nd best guitar bands in London" and with fans including Franz Ferdinand's…
On The Rise: Fabiana Palladino
An anticipated arrival weaves sensuously soulful pop threads into the sleekest of sonic fabrics. After being approached by friend and confidant Jai Paul in 2014, London…
Sad Indie-spensibles
Not reserved for January alone, embrace the blues and beauty of some of our favourite wistful vinyl albums featuring Gothic tones, 'sad indie', melancholy folk and sadcore rock - the downbeat melodies we all lean into, to feel more understood.…
Rough Trade Essential: Shoegaze
One of indie-rock's finest subgenres. With warm waves of distortion, limitless guitar texture and the most ethereal vocals - shoegaze is music for dreamers.…
Rough Trade x Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)
Help save a life. Someone in the UK dies by suicide every 90 minutes. Artists, musicians and entertainers have an increased risk of suicide. Rough Trade…
Album of the Month - January 2024
SPRINTS - Letter To Self City Slang Energetic and abrasive with driving guitars and spiky punk poetry, SPRINTS mix up a brilliant concoction of gothic-tinged melodies…
In Conversation with Thurston Moore
"I always thought Sonic Youth started that way - what is the band that we would like to see on stage? And it wasn'…
2023 Roundup: Bestsellers and Hot Tips for 2024
All-female goth glam, future shoegaze stars, anticipated solo projects, and electrifying live energy. We round up the biggest releases of the past year and cast an…
Album of the Month - December 2023
Jangle Bells - A Rough Trade Shops Christmas Selection Rough Trade Shops "Chris and Jack, who I work in an office with at West, always…
Staff Picks: Best of 2023
"Ethereal soundscapes that linger like the warm afterglow of fire. Best consumed with a pint of Guinness and a small selection of loved ones."…