Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar Glaswegian soul star Joesef announces

Glaswegian soul star Joesef announces his debut album Permanent Damage

His 17th studio LP – and first since 2020’s instrumental WINTER IS FOR LOVERS –and the first non-instrumental solo album of new songs since 2016

Housed in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork

Being on the west coast the last two years

can offer an alluring façade that obscures a deadly trap—one that tightens the more you struggle

Best Troubador: Vinyl 2LP Mdou Moctar Glaswegian soul star Joesef announcesWith Best Troubador, Bonnie Prince Billy pays homage to a longtime and forever hero, the late Merle Haggard. A singer who, some 25 years previously, first performed in public by playing a Merle Haggard song, Bonny has often cited Merles work in performance, on records and in conversation with anyone who was around, even talking to Merle himself for Filter magazine in 2009. Best Troubador flips through his song book, landing on pages unmoored from