Indie

Artist Race Horses
Title Goodbye Falkenburg
Label Frantic Plastic
From Wales, ’Fantastic Plastic Records’ have hit the spot once more with this tuneful quartet. Race Horses make their home town of Llewelyn sound like it has a surf-filled beach, no doubt with Brian Wilson ensconced as honorary life guard; but either way their sun-filled sparkling pop is sufficiently lo-fi to compliment the twangy shuffling of the guitar. While it’s easy to see why this Welsh four-piece have been compared to Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, this fast-paced set is delivered with such forced that their wonky pop songs take on the gritty backbone of 60’s garage. Complex four-part harmonies give them the air of a creepy barbershop quartet, while a self guitar ode to Glenn Miller’s ’Pennsylvania 6-5000’ leads into an operatic solo with the confidence of a backwater ’Bohemian Rhapsody’. Race Horses are fearless experimenters and the fast-slow-fast-again approach keep the audience shouting and dancing till the feedback fades. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist Raconteurs
Title Broken Boy Soldiers
Label XL

After the madness of the single, ’Steady as She Goes’ comes the album by the supergroup formed by Brendan Benson and Jack White.

Artist The Raconteurs
Title Consolers Of The Lonely
Label XL

Artist Radar Bros
Title Auditorium
Label Chemikal Underground

Artist RADIOHEAD
Title The King Of Limbs
Label XL
Radiohead’s eighth studio album, ’The King Of Limbs’, is an experimental progression on the sound of its predecessor, 2007’s ’In Rainbows’. Lyrically the record harks back to 2001’s ’Amnesia’, and indeed the heavy use of electronic instrumentation and distortion also recalls both ’Amnesia’ and ’Kid A’. The title comes from the name given to an ancient tree near Radiohead’s recording studio.

Artist Rakes, The
Title Capture/Release
Label V2

Artist The Rapture
Title Pieces of the People We Love
Label Vertigo
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Artist Ratatat
Title Classics
Label XL
Second album on XL from Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, following up their debut self-titled CD. Soundtrack scores meets M83 fuzz meets piercing guitars, not forgetting to add in plenty of killer tunes. For Fans of Errors, DJ Shadow and the processed sounds of the Gooom label. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist Red Krayola
Title Fingerpointing
Label Drag City

Artist Red Sparowes
Title Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Label Neurot
Epic Ambient Post Metal... features members of ISIS & Neurosis, VVS and Pleasure Forever. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist Fionn Regan
Title The End of History
Label Bella Union

The first thing you notice about Fionn Regan is that he’s a man, despite having a woman’s name. The second thing is the beautiful acoustic music, coupled with witty literary lyrics which manage brilliantly to stay on the right side of whimsical. A treat of an album which grows with each listen.

Artist Fionn Regan
Title The Shadow Of An Empire
Label Heavenly
’Shadow Of An Empire’ is the second album from Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan, and features a mixture of acoustic songs, similar to his debut album, and electric songs, like those on his earlier releases. Citing artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young as influences, Regan blends different sounds into his work, with almost Jack White-esque guitar under more acoustic, folky songs. Preceded by the single ’Protection Racket.

Artist Regina Spektor
Title Begin to Hope
Label Sire
New album from New York’s Regina Spektor.

Artist The Replacements
Title Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? Best Of
Label Rhino

Artist Retribution Gospel Choir
Title 2
Label SUB POP
’2’ is the second release from Retribution Gospel Choir who, following their 2008 self-titled debut, signed to Sub Pop Records. Including Steve Garrington and Alan Sparhawk - both members of Low - RGC blend a classic rock sound that often incorporates elements of dub. It’s a mix that results in songs such as the anthemic ’Hide It Away’, which uses shimmering guitar lines and machine gun drum fills to create an atmospheric and powerful listen.

Artist The Retro Spankees
Title I Know You Are But What Am I? (Cargo Collective 3)
Label Kooky
Kitted out in tabards and goggles, The Retro Spankees play their guitars with power drills, sing like they’ve just escaped an institution, and sound every bit like the Moldy Peaches glugging on PCP.

Artist Reverend and The Makers
Title The State Of Things
Label Wall Of Sound

Artist Lou Rhodes
Title One Good Thing
Label Motion Audio
Lou Rhodes’ first solo album ’Bloom’ was Mercury nominated, and she has a fantastic sales history through her involvement in Lamb.
The ’One Good Thing’ album was recorded in just two weeks, in live takes, with minimal editing and overdubs, and will be released through The Cinematic Orchestra’s new imprint Motion Audio through Ninja Tune.

Artist Rich Hopkins and Luminarios
Title El Otro Lado/The Other Side
Label Blue Rose
’Blue Rose’ stalwart Rich Hopkins is back with a new record and for the first time in over four years the name Luminarios is back on it. Rich Hopkins and his Luminarios play unconditional guitar rock, true Tuscon rock’n’roll & Byrds-style psychedelic pop.

Artist Rilo Kiley
Title Under The Blacklight
Label

Artist RINGO DEATHSTARR
Title Colour Trip
Label Club AC30
"Their pulsing layers of feedback and those droll, deadpan vocals are ripped straight from Psychocandy, but the galloping, amphetamine rhythms are harder charging than even the most amped up track on that album." Pitchfork

Artist Josh Ritter
Title So Runs The World Away
Label Pytheas

Artist Alasdair Roberts
Title Amber Gatherers
Label Drag City
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Artist Robocop Kraus
Title Blunders and Mistakes
Label Anti
Out 21 July

Artist Roddy Woomble
Title The Impossible Song Other Songs
Label Greenvoe
Roddy began writing & demoing the songs that appear on ‘The Impossible Song & Other Songs’ at An Tobar with local guitarist and singer Sorren MacLean in January 2010. Then in the summer of 2010, Dublin bassist Gavin Fox (a member of Idlewild from 2003-2005) and Glaswegian drummer and singer Gregor Donaldson (from the band Sparrow & The Workshop) arrived in Mull and with Sorren & Roddy; the four piece recorded the bulk of the album.  Lyrically the album touches on themes that have often cropped up in Roddy’s work - the troubled alliance between Nature and Man, the onset of modernization and the end of old ways, what it means and what is worth giving up in order to achieve it.