Here's our pick of new music releases this week: 

→ Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (vinyl re-release)

→ Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (vinyl re-release)

→ Paul Weller - Stanley Road (vinyl re-release)

→ Paul Weller - Heavy Soul (vinyl re-release)

→Foxygen - Hang

→ Tycho - Epoch

→ Michael Chapman - 50

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (re-release)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Final Cut is the 12th studio album from Pink Floyd, originally released in 1983. 

It’s the last hurrah from founding member, bassist and songwriter Roger Waters, and the only album for which he alone is credited with words and music. It’s also the only Pink Floyd album that doesn’t feature keyboardist Richard Wright. 

Waters originally planned The Final Cut as a soundtrack album for the 1982 film Pink Floyd - The Wall. With the onset of the Falklands War, he rewrote it as a concept album, exploring what he considered the betrayal of his father, who died serving in the Second World War. 

Waters sings most of the lyrics, with lead guitarist David Gilmour featuring on one track. 

The packaging, also designed by Waters, reflects the theme of war.

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (re-release)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 

Momentary Lapse Of Reason is Pink Floyd’s 13th studio album, released in September 1987. It represents guitarist David Gilmour's decision to include his own solo material on a new Pink Floyd album, alongside drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright. 

For legal reasons, Wright couldn’t be readmitted to the band, but both he and Mason helped Gilmour craft what became the first Pink Floyd album since the December 1985 departure of bass guitarist, singer, and primary songwriter Roger Waters. 

A Momentary Lapse of Reason was recorded largely on Gilmour's converted houseboat, Astoria (how cool is that?!). It's production was marked by an ongoing legal dispute with Waters as to who owned the rights to Pink Floyd's name, resolved several months after the album was released. 

Unlike many of Pink Floyd's studio albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason has no central theme and is instead a collection of songs written by Gilmour, sometimes with outside songwriters.

Paul Weller - Stanley Road [unforseen delay - coming soon]

Stanley Road is the third solo album by Paul Weller, released in 1995. No big deal, but Q magazine readers voted it the 46th greatest album of all time in 1998. 

Named after a street where Weller grew up, he said that ‘all the stars were aligned’ during the writing and recording of Stanley Road. 

The song "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" was featured in tv series’ The Wire's fourth season finale, Final Grades. 

Paul Weller is an English singer, songwriter and musician, achieving fame with punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam, before establishing himself as a solo artist in 1991.

Paul Weller - Heavy Soul [unforseen delay - coming soon]

More limited vinyl LP pressing goodness. 

Heavy Soul is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter Paul Weller, originally released in June 1997. 

The album was well received by critics and fans alike, coming in at #1 on it's week of release (however it was denied this position on a technicality - five images within the album's booklet were replaced with postcards of the images in the Special Edition release, meaning that sales of the Special Edition did not count towards the album's sales as they were defined as free gifts). 

Paul Weller is an English singer, songwriter and musician, achieving fame with punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam, before establishing himself as a solo artist in 1991.

Foxygen - Hang [unforseen delay - coming soon]

Hang is Foxygen's third album, and first proper studio record, recorded in Los Angeles, CA at Electro Vox Studios. 

Hang has cameos from Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips, as well as Brian and Michael D'Addario of the Lemon Twigs. Hang also features a 40+ piece symphony orchestra on every track. Phwoar! 

Trey Pollard from Spacebomb arranged and conducted the orchestral parts, with additional arranging from Matthew E. White. 

Foxygen is the Big Bang of two combusting minds - the splayed Galaxy of polar geniuses Sam France and Jonathan Rado. It's a handshake with a knife behind your back. A sleepless night in a five star hotel. Listen to Hang properly, and take in each moment. 

Each new melody from the fingertips of Rado is testament to his being one of this generation's finest pianists.

Limited edition translucent green vinyl available while stocks last.

Tycho - Epoch

Epoch is the final album in a trilogy, starting with 2011's Dive, then 2014's Awake. 

The time between Dive and Epoch marks a significant maturation for Scott Hansen's continually expanding project, one that’s seen him go from solo performer and bedroom artist to frontman of a live 4-piece band on stages across the world. 

Epoch hones the sonic aesthetic of Dive while drawing on the kinetic energy of Awake, exploring darker themes and new musical territory. 

The album artwork is as important as the music itself. The powerful red and black colour scheme, along with the central image of Epoch is a stark contrast to the lucid, rainbow palette of Awake.

Michael Chapman - 50

In the market for a new folk icon? Get to know Michael Chapman - not that he’s a newbie. 

Chapman is a super underrated British folk artist who’s been around since the late 60s - with a giant back-catalogue, collaborating here with Steve Gunn on what he’s calling his “American” album. 

It brings together old stuff, new stuff and paints a grim, apocalyptic picture of modern America.

Even though he’s a Brit, he’s been enamoured with American music and iconography since ‘forever’, and here offers a musical road trip through both. 

It’s dry, haunting, American-sounding and bloody good.