The Loft - BadgesLimited edition numbered (500 only) indies only version containg a flexidisc with the unreleased track Foxtrot Oscar, recorded at the same time as the album sessions Record Collector May 2026 4**** 'Astor's songwriting Jarvis Cocker's wit and attention to detail, Robert Forster's book ish charm, is both piercing and poignant' Mojo June 2026 4**** After releasing their first studio album last year, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return

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but they also opened a gateway into the world of the Grateful Dead for generations of Dead Heads

much as Springsteen did in the States

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But on their latest album Islands in the Sky

The shimmering “Lighthouse” has a similar sunbaked nonchalance

most notable on the psychedelic lushness of All Disco

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an entity opening up uncanny new psychic pathways

and Joe Trainor

From the pure pop ache of Gen X’s ‘Dancing with Myself’ to the stoic heartbreak of Cat Power’s ‘Manhattan’

and a lot of shiny new Japanese technology all coming together in some of the best studios in the world at the time