Jane Records / UK / 2026
Released in 2025 on digital, Rita P’s debut album eventually makes it to vinyl this month, via Jane Records. Known to some for her work in Bar Italia, the Denmark-born and London-based musician gives to hear a much more genre-blurring take on recent days’ interpretations of 1990’s alternative sounds and tropes than most of her contemporaries, stretching the referential scope from foggy trip hop-adjacent electronic experiments by Leila, Portishead or early Boards of Canada to Rid Of Me era PJ Harvey and The Cure’s greyest moments (Seventeen Seconds). She nonetheless carved a coherent block of contemporary sludge rock. Oscillating between cold nonchalance (“Rita’s Pest”) - in some ways recalling Lolina’s recent work - and feverish vocal commitment (“Rita’s Pop”), Rita’s Purse is a work of autobiographical fiction broke down into 13 sulfuric shorts…