A long way down: This week at South

A long way down: This week at South

A big week of new releases, led by Fontaines D.C. and their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber. Produced by James Ford, it's another shift in direction for the band, moving further away from their early guitar sound towards colder electronics, synths and samples. Available on indies-only blue marble vinyl.

June McDoom releases her debut album Follow the Light , a beautiful blend of folk, dub and dream pop, with echoes of Pentangle, Cocteau Twins and Minnie Riperton. We've also got two long-unavailable Brian Eno albums back on vinyl: Another Day on Earth, his 2005 return to song-based music, and Drawn From Life , his 2001 collaboration with J. Peter Schwalm. There are some excellent reissues and compilations this week too. Movietone's wonderful 1997 album Day and Night  gets its first reissue, while Tokyo Glow  collects lesser-known Japanese city pop, funk and boogie from the late 70s and 80s. Beirut City Pop  explores Lebanon's largely forgotten cassette scene from the same period, and we've got two fantastic compilations of pre-revolutionary Iranian funk , psychedelia, garage rock and pop.

Elsewhere, there's pioneering Chicago house from Z-Factor on yellow vinyl, an expanded 2LP edition of Ash's 1977 with a whole album of B-sides, and The Avalanches return with No Bad Memories, featuring Jamie xx, Karen O, Jessy Lanza and more. All available in-store and online now.

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