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Stone Anthem has a new full length LP titled 'Solus Rex' releasing June 12th via Glass Modern Records. You can pre-order via the record label's bandcamp page now. This will be available on vinyl / CD / download. The first single titled 'Roses on the Esplanade' is out now on all streaming platforms.
‘Solus Rex’ - roughly translating to ‘the lone king’ - the title lifted from an unfinished novel by Vladimir Nabokov, centres around emotional fallout and survival rather than reinvention. The album documents a character navigating the collapse of a relationship with themselves whilst navigating entering adulthood and becoming a new person, capturing the slow, uneven process of living through loss. Instead of irony or bravado, the songs lean into vulnerability, lingering on regret, longing, and moments of fragile clarity. It’s less a statement of recovery than a portrait of endurance, staying present through shifting emotional weather and learning how to exist in its aftermath.
The album combines elements of heavy shoegaze, experimental textures, dream pop folky ballads, and ambient-gaze soundscapes and features rising dream-pop star, and fellow Glass Modern label-mate Radhika on backing vocals of an intimate, sensitive ballad ‘Fear’… think if Leonard cohen attempted shoegaze. Inspiration from wide arrays of genres, such as the spiritual jazz of Pharaoh Sanders & Alice Coltrane, country of Gram Parsons, folk of Lal and Mike Waterson, or Anne Briggs, and the rough, imperfect edges of Billy Childish or Animal Collective, with a sprinkling of Galaxie 500 / Felt gentle pop melodies and primitive songs.
Sleeve notes written by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3:
Stone Anthem. Someone rare in these times. Something interesting & someone interested. Looking for the lost chord. Looking for engagement and real experience in a time where technology is trying to overtake humanity.
I think Stone anthem sent me his first jams in 2020 He was 13. I was impressed. And I’m pleased to see this all coming to fruition on this record with Glass Modern.
I saw David Barker (who was Spacemen 3s first label with his pivotal Glass records ) say recently when asked why it was that he put out Spacemen 3s first records. He replied something along the lines about it was his sense that we clearly believed in what we were doing. We’re passionate about it. And had faith in ourselves and our music.
I imagine that’s EXACTLY why he is putting out this record also. A commitment to the committed.
Please take it home, let it into your lives & enjoy!
Sonic Boom Sintra 2026
