Album of the Month - April 2020
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs - Viscerals "Sounds like an advancing storm." The Guardian Who The noise loving Newcastle-Upon-Tyne quintet featuring Matt…
Incoming! Rough Trade Transmissions
#RoughTradeTX Dear friends and music lovers, As the music industry and the entire globe battles with the effects and constraints of the coronavirus, we want to…
Label Focus: XL Recordings
XL has been the avant-garde of British and American music for the past 30 years. Every artist that has spent time under the label has been…
Opinion: The Heliocentrics' time-honored dexterity and panache
Ed Zed, Rough Trade NYC office "Superb from start to finish." Sun Ra-esque jazz excursions and musique concrète, lashed together with threads of hip…
Album of the Month - March 2020
Who Dan Snaith, the legendary music maestro behind the Caribou moniker, is back with his first new album in five years. What Unpredictable, the tracks'…
Opinion: [Habibi] gives you that "sh*t I should start a band too!" feeling.
Review by Cam, Rough Trade NYC "To put it simply, this record is a great, no frills rock n' roll album." debut. Their…
Opinion: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges create divine harmony
Rough Trade office "It is comforting and courageous to find two things that have no inherent connection, but once married together, it is hard to…
Opinion: It's interesting to listen to a band (Nada Surf) almost 20 years apart in records.
Nada Surf - Never Not Together Review by Dima, Rough Trade NYC "This album is produced to satisfy a lonesome rainy day repeat listen. It…
Album of the Month - February 2020
Belle & Sebastian cellist and singer is back with a new solo album of songs to lift the winter woes softly away. A restorative cordial of…
Opinion: Sarah Mary Chadwick, the record you won’t necessarily realise you need until one day you do.
Sarah Mary Chadwick – Please Daddy Review by Al Mills, Rough Trade West "Worn like your favourite heavy-hung overcoat soaked in the second-hand smoke of a…