Rough Trade

Black Midi present their third album and second in two years, Hellfire. The LP sees the London three piece at their most direct. Written in isolation in London in 2021 almost immediately after it's predecessor Cavalcade - no band can quite build their own

For their first album as Gilla Band, (formerly Girl Band) the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal is like little you've heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed Avant-punk rollercoaste

Brought together by New Orleans' DIY scene, Special Interest is, on every level, uncompromising: in their adventurous sound, their high-energy live performances, and their convictions. Dance music and punk culture have flirted in the warehouse before, but

Black Midi - Georgie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) - have a dynamic energy, playing as a musical unit that's constantly in a state of flux and development. Schlagen

Pinegrove's new album 11:11 is an unqualified triumph, an album that seizes listeners with hook-filled songs imbuing feelings of warmth, urgency, and poetic beauty, even as it asks some of life's big and difficult questions. On previous Pinegrove recordin

Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019's widely-praised Schlagenheim, "a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations" (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new hei

Jarvis Cocker's 2006 solo debut finds the ex-Pulp frontman returning to the well-honed Britpop sound of his lauded former band after a brief stint heading up the Relaxed Muscle techno project. While Jarvis lacks the cinematic expanse of Pulp's swansong, W

Green vinyl, or deluxe with book! On Sympathy For Life, Parquet Courts' thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. The album finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling i

Limited edition white vinyl release includes bonus 12" featuring "You're In My Eyes (Discosong)" and a D side etching.

“Further Complications”/”Angela”/”Pilchard”/”Leftovers”/”I Never Said I Was Deep”/”Homewrecker!/”Hold Still”/”Fuckingsong”/”Caucasia

On the 15th anniversary of its original release, Rough Trade Records reissues British Sea Power's majestic second album, Open Season. The expanded reissue (gatefold colored vinyl + zoetrope picture disc) includes additional live sessions, B-sides and rari

Wide Awake! is New York’s Parquet Courts’ fifth record since their formation eight years ago. The album is filled with Parquet Courts’ traditional punk rock passion, dynamic rhythmic propulsion and exceptional songwriting yet explores new ground and infl

UK eight-piece Caroline's eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly fragile moments of quiet – a simple bassline or a rattle of

Mercurial UK artist Dean Blunt delivers his long awaited follow-up album, Black Metal 2, on Rough Trade Records. The original Black Metal was released in 2014 to widespread acclaim. "...Black Metal 2 is the most approachable album of his career without lo

Goat Girl's new album On All Fours was produced by Dan Carey (Kae Tempest, Black Midi, Franz Ferdinand) in South London in early 2020. This new record sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism of their debut and indicates Goat Girl's matur