CHECK out Chvrches' (pronounced churches) new album Every Open Eye the next time you have a spare 40 minutes. It's a stunning record and totally cements this band's reputation as purveyors of the finest epic synth pop rock.
The songs on the new album are varied, exciting, highly melodic and sound so fresh when contrasted to everything else that is currently sitting smugly in the charts.
The Scottish band recorded the entire record in one of their houses and pretty much shut out the rest of the world during the process – they had been approached by a variety of writers and producers following the impact of their first album The Bones of What You Believe.
That siege mentality seems to have paid off as Every Open Eye is simply one of the best albums of 2015 so far. Chvrches might just have become your new favourite band.
GO WEST
Kanye West says his new album could take at least another year to make. He did debut a new track at New York fashion week recently but seems to be having second thoughts about the record's direction.
The album has already been two years in the making and West described it as a "two-year painting" that needed to be perfect. Well, the perfectionist in him also says the latest opus may not be called Swish after all – a title that was supposedly official for ages.
Kanye had better hurry because when he's the president of The United States he will of course possess a very full diary indeed.
BURIED TREASURE
The Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck documentary has now yielded an album of unreleased recordings by the Nirvana frontman. Titled Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, the soundtrack is an absolute treasure chest of sonic sketches, artistic doodles and in some cases pure Cobain gems that fans of Nirvana and the man himself will want to devour.
It will be released as a 13-track regular edition while a monstrous 31-song version will also be released on November 13.
The formats initially will be digital, CD and, wait for it, cassette (nice touch). A vinyl edition will be available in December along with a collector's item seven-inch single of And I Love Her .
LEVEL BEST
Phillip George enjoyed a huge hit earlier this year with his Stevie Wonder-sampled Wish You Were Mine. He's back for another round of chart domination with his latest creation which again is another makeover of a previous hit which is very surprisingly one by 90s boy band Another Level!
Be Alone No More is the name of the original and Phillip's reworking drops the first word for its new seemingly cooler identity. It is actually really addictive and is one of the better pop house tracks around at the moment. Sounds like Phillip George has another huge record on his hands.
