Next up in our 'Reel Feelings' series we hear from Fontaines D.C.'s Tom Coll. Drummer for the Mercury Prize nominated post-punk band, Tom spoke to us on how he's been adjusting to life since touring has stopped, his inspirational hotspots in Dublin and the importance of surrounding yourself with caring and compassionate people. ...

Paul McCartney’s 10th solo album, 1997’s Flaming Pie, will become the 13th instalment in his Grammy-winning Archive Collection on 31 July. The acclaimed set, which featured such favourites as Young Boy, Calico Skies and Beautiful Night, has been remastered by Abbey Road’s Alex Wharton and will be released in multiple formats with a collection of home recordings, demos and other ...

Hailing from Barbados, singer-songwriter RoRo has today released her deeply meaningful new track 'Black - Palace Of Me' in support of Black Lives Matter. Out now on Mahogany Recordings, the song has been written, produced and mastered with Abbey Road's Christian Wright, with all proceeds from the single going to Black Lives Matter and The Bail Project. ...

Released today, Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin has returned with her third album ‘Confessional’. A "powerful album that knits Irish folk instruments and religious references into hypnotic rock and piano ballads" (Sunday Times), the record is an introspective reflection on her true life story. Janet completed the project at Abbey Road, where it was mastered by our very own Christian ...

After more than 10 weeks, the Abbey Road team is thrilled to return to the famous house in St John’s Wood, to welcome back the creative community for recording and mastering. Re-opening the doors and making history as the first studio session is Decca Records artist Melody Gardot. The world-renowned jazz singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was poised to record with the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Orchestra when the COVID-19 restrictions came into place. With the safety and wellbeing of the Studios team and guests as the top priority, Abbey Road has introduced new operating guidelines that will allow for social distancing and create the safest possible working environment. ...

The 50th anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s landmark 1970 album ‘Cosmo’s Factory’ will be marked with the release of a half-speed master, 180-gram vinyl edition. ‘Cosmo’s Factory’ remarkably stood as Creedence Clearwater Revival’s fifth full-length album in two years, topping the Billboard album chart in the US, while they scored their first No. 1 in the UK, Canada and ...

In the previous instalment of my riveting blog, I introduced the enlightened reader to the curious little back story of how Abbey Road forged an allegiance with Anvil Film and found itself at the centre of the movie scoring universe. I also hinted that some of the film projects to grace the studios would have been enough to make Sir Edward Elgar’s moustache hairs stand on end - well I wasn’t joking. In this chapter we will look a little closer into some of the wonderful, extraordinary, eccentric and sometimes just plain wacky titles recorded at the studios during the primary decade of its new ...

“My goal was to make these new cuts at least as good as the originals and hopefully better [...] I feel supremely honoured to be given access to these classic recordings and the sessions will live long in my memory.” With the announcement of the newly half-speed remastered The Rolling Stones albums ‘Exile on Main St’, ‘Some Girls’ and ‘Sticky Fingers’, mastering engineer Miles Showell takes us through his work on the three LPs and the initial box set release in ...

We received over 200 questions for our mixing and mastering engineers and we posed as many as possible to Senior Recording Engineer Andrew Dudman, Assistant Engineer Andy Maxwell and Mastering Engineers Alex Gordon and Oli Morgan. In our first instalment we hear from the mastering team with Oli and Alex answering your questions on how they landed their role to tips for keeping dynamic range in a master. ...