Chrissie Hynde - Valve Bone WoeThe amazing Chrissie Hynde displays yet another volte face in her incredible career with the release of her new album Valve Bone Woe on September 6. The album features 14 tracks written by a stunning array of classic songwriters and innovators, including Brian Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Hoagy Carmichael, Charlie Mingus, John Coltrane, Nick Drake, Ray Davies and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Valve Bone Woe was produced by Marius De Vries and Eldad Guetta and

and the lengths we go to escape our own meaninglessness

only far better

but when all is said and done

Rather than smooth out the rough edges

Prior to the recording session drummer Jed Bindeman came across 700 Phish cassette bootlegs

Gigwise and BBC 6 Music as 6 Music Recommends Track of the Week and a feature on the Roundtable scoring the band a wining 9/10

through to the sophisticated song-craft of Sweetheart Mercury and the Nilsson-esque Sweet Old Sorry Me

You lucky lucky mofo's

Yasuaki Shimizu did what he wanted with MARIAH

Loz Williams & Alex Silva (Holy Bible) with mixing from Craig Silvey

and with it the last continuing threads of familiarity between being a kid and adulthood

Okmalumkoolkat ('Umuntu') and Seven Davis JR