Rough Trade

No need to worry, it’s only the end of the world… welcome to The Demise of Planet X.

Having put the Do into DIY in a 15 year (and counting) career that has seen their idiosyncratic but irresistible blueprint of minimal electronics and maximal insight a

One time only vinyl re-press of Sun Kil Moon's 2003 cult classic Ghosts of the Great Highway. An album as good as Ghosts of the Great Highway should never go out of print. Ghosts... continues - even fine-tunes - the work Mark Kozelek did with his former b

The year and change since the release of Parquet Courts monumental Light Up Gold is reflected in ways expected and not with Sunbathing Animal, its sharper, harder follow up. Light Up Gold caught the ears of everyone paying even a little bit of attention,

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

Tally All the Things That You Broke is far more than a stopgap in between full-lengths; it’s the sound of Parquet Courts stretching out. Opener “You’ve Got Me Wonderin’ Now,” with its melodic drive and persistent Flutophone running alongside the melody, b

Parquet Courts release their new album 'Human Performance' on Rough Trade. Recorded over the course of a year against a backdrop of personal instability, 'Human Performance' massively expands the idea of what a Parquet Courts record can be. The sonic dive

Light Up Gold – Parquet Courts first proper LP – is a dynamic and diverse foray into the back alleys of the American DIY underground. Bright guitars swirl serpentine over looping, groovy post-punk bass lines and drums that border on robotic precision. Whi

Ever evolving London-based eight-piece ensemble caroline return with their first new music in three years. “The first record was a compilation, but this one is a declaration,” says Jasper Llewellyn. Fleshed out over several songwriting trips across Scotla

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

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

Geordie Greep (guitarist and vocalist in black midi) presents his debut solo album, "The New Sound", arriving via Rough Trade. Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023's "Hellfire", and almost non-stop worldwide tours for nea

This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for 24 years.

How did that happen?

Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks & eventually p

Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods' second "proper" album, the self-released "Divide And Exit", was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson's most effective artistic expression to that point, it also truly captured the taste o

Progressing from their angst-fuelled self-titled debut (2018), to the escapist world of sophomore LP On All Fours (2021), the South London trio, consisting of Rosy Bones, Lottie Pendlebury and Holly Mullineaux, enter their most self-assured era in 2024, w

London-based duo Jockstrap release I<3UQTINVU, a fully remixed version of their Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B by the band’s Taylor Skye via Rough Trade Records.

The remix record is the brainchild of Skye, who was making mul

"I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning", says A. Savage of his second solo record, "Several Songs About Fire". After more than a decade in New York, the co-frontman of Parquet Courts has left the city, marking his exi

Sleaford Mods return in 2023 with the new album UK Grim. Throughout their music the duo's poetic protest and electronic resistance has seen them consistency chart and call out their times with an eloquence and attitude that has made them one of the most u

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

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

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