No Time For Poetry (turquoise marble vinyl)

Still rooted in their characteristic smoky, faded glamour, The Saxophone’s 4th full studio release, No Time for Poetry expands on the natural breeziness of 2023’s To Be A Cloud with a sense of angst and tension, questioning the current state of the world and their place within it.

Evocative imagery and themes define the album, whilst musically, the spectre of mid-period Leonard Cohen hangs over the record, and the band acknowledge this was a key inspiration – “that’s the biggest touchstone – the kind of dystopian songs he was writing with a satirical attitude helped set the darker political tone of this record”.