Blue, aka Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan, and Simon Webbe, are back and are quickly regaining their place as one of the UK’s biggest and best pop bands. 

Blue are one of the most successful British bands of the past 2 decades. Formed in London in 2000, the four-piece have sold a phenomenal 16 million records, scored multiple #1 hits, collaborated with some of the world’s biggest stars including Elton John and Stevie Wonder, represented the UK at Eurovision, won numerous awards including two prestigious BRITs for Best British Breakthrough Act and Best British Pop Act. They have amassed over 677 million views across their YouTube channel. 

Their new album Heart & Soul is out 28th October, available to preorder here - https://blue.lnk.to/heartandsoul

Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

'Veneer - 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition' available now (2LP / DIGITAL) https://josegonzalez.lnk.to/Veneer20YD

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