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Khalik Hena by Warda on We Want Sounds Records
African collection
Le Sato by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo on Acid Jazz Records (the album artwork features a black and white photograph of a guitarist on a green sleeve with an illustration of a drum)
Afrobeat, Highlife & Makossa Collection
Little Girl Blue by Nina Simone on BMG (the album cover features a colour photograph of Nina Simone sat on a bench next to a river in a city; Simone looks at the camera and, leaning her head against her hand, rests an elbow on the back of the bench).
All-Time Essentials
Lost Futures by Marisa Anderson & William Tyler on Thrill Jockey Records (the album sleeve features artwork by Sam Smith of an abstract landscape made up of geometric shapes)
American Primitive Guitar collection
Leftovers by Le Ren on Secretly Canadian (the album artwork features a black and white photograph of Lauren Spear lying in the sun, eyes closed in a white shirt)
Americana
April Magazine - If The Ceiling Were A Kite: Vol. 1
Bay Area Indie-Pop Collection
Frumpie One Piece (+ Frumpies Forever 7") on Kill Rock Stars
Best reissues & compilations of 2020
Memphis '69 DVD on Fat Possum Records (the cover artwork is made up of several colour stills from the film featuring performers and audience members; the film title is printed in bold red text diagonally across the images)
Blues collection
The Folk Singers and the Bureau by Aaron J. Leonard, published in paperback by Repeater Books
books & zines
LP version of The Blossom Filled Streets by Movietone on Domino Records
bristol lo-fi experimental
CHAPTER MUSIC
CHAPTER MUSIC
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
children's fiction
Carolyn Suzuki - F Is For Feminism: An Alphabet Book Of Empowerment
children's picture books
Akutagawa & Others - Three Japanese Short Stories
classic fiction
Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works Of Frantz Casseus on Knockwurst Records (the album artwork features a Haitian folk-art painting of a landscape populated by small figures of people; an image of Casseus appears in bkack and yellow in a overlayed circle beneath the album title in white sentence case serif text)
Classical & Early Music Collection
Confront Recordings logo
Confront Recordings
Constellation Records logo
Constellation Records
Akwaeke Emezi - Freshwater
Contemporary fiction
In The Graveyard by Dead Moon on Mississippi Records
Dead Moon Collection
Dischord Records
Dischord Records
The Definition Glance by The Declining Winter on Acuarela Discos (the single artwork features six cropped snapshot photographs of lampposts)
DIY
La Musique Electronique Du Niger by Mamman Sani on Sahel Sounds
Early-Electronic collection
Balance by Martina Lussi on Präsens Editionen (the album artwork consists of the album title, artist name and tracklist printed in sky blue on a white background; there are nine seemingly randomly-placedc ircles of the same colour dotted about the sleeve)
Electronic collection
Bullungga by Frank Gratkowski & Elisabeth Harnik on Klanggalerie (the album artwork features a colour photograph of bother musicians on stage taking a bow)
Experimental & Avant-Garde Collection
Helen Lewis - Difficult Women: A History Of Feminism In 11 Fights
feminist books
Bullungga by Frank Gratkowski & Elisabeth Harnik on Klanggalerie (the album artwork features a colour photograph of bother musicians on stage taking a bow)
Free Jazz Collection
Geographic Music
Geographic Music
Coming Home: The Early Classics by The Staple Singers on Contrast Records
Gospel Collection
Joff Winterhart - Days Of The Bagnold Summer
graphic novels & comics
Noi Publishing - Greetings Cards
Greetings cards
Leaving Nothing But The Small Birds by The Body & BIG|BRAVE on Thrill Jockey Records (the album artwork by Bo Orr is an illustration of a building made up of patterns, sat on green grass against a blue sky)
Hardcore & Post Hardcore
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz on Age 101 Music
Hip Hop & R'n'B
Mandatory Enjoyment by Dummy on Trouble In Mind Records
indie pop
Resin Pockets by Crescent on Geographic Music
Indie-folk
Giant Steps by John Coltrane on Atlantic Records
Jazz
Giant Steps by John Coltrane on Atlantic Records
John Coltrane collection
K Records
K Records
Frumpie One Piece (+ Frumpies Forever 7") on Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars
Open For Business by Smoke Bellow on Trouble In Mind Records (the album artwork is a colour photograph of a stone building with a green door and arched windows; there is a rose bush with a single pink flower in front of the building; there is no text or other information on the front of the sleeve)
Latest new music
White Trash Boom-Boom 7" on Dark Entries Records (the EP cover features a black and white photograph of the group performing live)
Latest reissues and compilations
A Rainha da Viola Caipira by Helena Meirelles on Vampisoul Records (the album artwork is a black and white portrait of Meirelles sat holding a guitar and looking directly, and sternly, at the camera, wearing a 'cowboy' hat; there is no text or other information on the front of the sleeve)
latest releases
Virgenes del Sol 7" single by Los Sideral's on Munster Records
Latin Jazz Collection
Electronic Works 1965-1966 by Pauline Oliveros on Paradigm Discs
Leftfield/Electronica collection
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell, published by Cipher Press
LGBTQIA+ books
Spiderland by Slint on Touch And Go Records
Louisville, Kentucky Collection
Sonic Youth & The Pastels Play The New York Dolls spilt 7" single on Glass Modern Records (the sleeve artwork is a painting of the New York Dolls by Annabel Wright; the band names and title are also painted in Wright's distinctive childish scrawl)
Love Record Stores 2021
Adrian Tomine - Scenes From An Impending Marriage: A Prenuptial Memoir
memoir & biography
20th anniversary edition of You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This by Mirah on Double Double Whammy Records (the album cover is an illustration of a barn and bare trees in black, white and blue).
Mirah collection
Mississippi Records
Mississippi Records
New Clear Child by A.R. Kane on Hidden Art Recordings
Music
Celeste Bell & Zoe Howe - Dayglo!: The Creative Life Of Poly Styrene
music books
A Rainha da Viola Caipira by Helena Meirelles on Vampisoul Records (the album artwork is a black and white portrait of Meirelles sat holding a guitar and looking directly, and sternly, at the camera, wearing a 'cowboy' hat; there is no text or other information on the front of the sleeve)
new releases
Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants on Domino Records
new wave
The Colpix Singles by Nina Simone on Stateside Records
Nina Simone
Come Away With ESG on Fire Records
No Wave Collection
Albert Camus - Create Dangerously
non-fiction & essays
Odd Box Records
Odd Box Records
Life According To Linus by Charles M. Schulz, published in hardback by Cannongate Books
Peanuts collection
Frank O'Hara - Lunch Poems
poetry
The Definition Glance by The Declining Winter on Acuarela Discos (the single artwork features six cropped snapshot photographs of lampposts)
Pre-releases
Sara Marcus - Girls To The Front
queer/feminist
The Montreux Years by Nina Simone on BMG (the album cover features a black and white photograph of Nina Simone standing with a microphone in her hand; this image of simone is adorned with a hand-drawn blue crown, and surrounded by a colourful pattern)
recent releases
Record Store Day 2020
King of Ska by Desmond Dekker on Trojan Records
Reggae Collection
Reissues
Sara Marcus - Girls To The Front
riot grrrl
Gospel Train: The Marie Knight Story on Jasmine Records
Sixties Collection
Sonic Youth's debut record
Sonic Youth Collection
Pathways to Unknown Worlds by Sun Ra on Modern Harmonic Records (the album artwork features an illustration of what appears to be a snake's body tied in a knot crossing the sleeve from left to right; the background is a dark blood-red, and the artist name and album title are printed near the upper-right corner in yellow).
Sun Ra collection
Various - Pakistan Folk & Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976
Surf-Pop collection
The Breeders Collection
The Breeders Collection
The XFM Sessions by Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways on Damaged Goods Records
The Medway Delta Collection
Spiderland by Slint on Touch And Go Records
Touch And Go Collection
Furaha Wenye Gita by George Mukabi on Mississippi Records
Traditional & Folk Music collection
Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis on Important Records (the album artwork is a grey-tinted monochrome photograph of the interior of a building with a series of evenly-placed rectangular support struts; the image is surrounded by a wide white border in which the artists' names and album title are printed in grey uppercase text)
Unclassical & Modern Composition Collection
UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPSET THE RHYTHM
Water Wing Records
Water Wing Records
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta hardback published by Hodder
Young Adult Fiction
My Ancesters by Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family on Mississippi Records (the album artwork features a black and white photograph of Chrissy Zebby Tembo against a solid scarlet background).
Zamrock Collection