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Join us on Monday 3rd August 2026 at 13:00pm for a super intimate LIVE instore show & signing session, as we celebrate the new LP release “The Thread” on the esteemed Bella Union label.
All formats will be collected before the instore performance. This acts as your ticket. We’ll send more entry details, nearer to the time of the show.
Please select ‘Click & Collect’ if you are attending the instore show and don’t want this item posted.
Ticket Bundles are:
£26.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Blue Vinyl & Entry To The Instore Show
£14.99 – CD & Entry To The Instore Show
This is an ‘instore show’, designed to encourage purchasing physical copies of the new album.
Each copy you purchase, will be ‘chart’ scanned by us in the shop and will help the artist reach a high chart position.
This has many benefits for the band, and means that as a fan – you helped contribute to that success!
As a record shop, we want to encourage the culture of buying physical music and also means we can host more of these amazing intimate shows!
More on the new record below…
Album Released 31st July 2026
A clear sense of confidence in restraint radiates out of the debut album from Blake Watt, the London-based singer/songwriter who records as Family Stereo.
The pleasure lies in the delicacy of measure on The Thread, an album of folk-tinged and brush-stroked reflections on distance and connection that majors in an evocative kind of narrative economy, suggesting rather than telling its stories. Inviting, dynamic and subtly cinematic, its artfully crafted precision feels like the work of a fastmaturing talent.
The record arrives in the aftermath of a string of prodigious EPs from the 25-year-old Blake, son of Everything but the Girl’s Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. The development from those early works is clear, but it’s the kind of evolution that prefers to refine rather than embellish. As Blake says, “I think my writing has been getting more pared-back as I’ve progressed. I find more and more that simple is better. I love telling a story in the simplest way or conveying a feeling in the simplest way, with not too many frills.”
