New Music Releases Thread



New releases this week from Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Baxter Dury, Brian and Roger Eno, Gordon Lightfoot, Kelsea Ballerini, Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty, Moaning, Morrissey, Myrkur, The Weeknd, Rustin Man, Bobby Conn, Arbouretum and Marla Hansen.
 
Baxter Dury for me

Yeah, Baxter, Rustin Man and Arbouretum are the standouts for me. Probably Bobby Conn as well. Maybe Marla Hansen as well - she's a violinist who's worked with Sufjan Stevens, Jens Lekman, The National and a load of others. Just checked up on Myrkur - Danish dark folk/black metal which is the kind of thing that tends to tempt me.
 
On first glance, doesn't look like a vintage release week! Baxter looks the standout for moi.
 
Currently listening to Mogwai from start to finish. Possibly the best virus/isolation band I can think of
My summary of the week's new releases. I get a lot more listened to with no sport on:

Ultraista - interesting. Sounds a bit Thom Yorke (with female vocals).
Peter Bjorn and John - quite dull. Scandi-indie by numbers. You're better than this, lads!
LA Takedown - noirish largely instrumental filmic synth stuff. Very good!
Early James - pretty good Americana. A solid debut!
Sam Doores - more good but not great Americana
Deap Lips - enjoyable weirdness. Best thing the Flaming LIps have been involved in for a while.
Maria McKee - a very good, literate album. Reminds me, in some ways, of Marianne Faithful. Recommended.
Nazar - African electronica. Interesting without grabbing me by the pants.
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Afrocentric jazz. Pretty much marvellous! Album of the week.
Porridge Radio - good. Reminds me a bit of The Long Blondes and, probably, some other female fronted bands from the 2006-2008 period.
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - an EP. Two tracks that weren't on their last album plus two remixes of songs that were.
Four Tet - as @chunkylover53 says, it sounds like Four Tet. Enjoyable but no major move away from what Kieran Hebden usually does.
That LA Takedown record is very good, thanks!
 
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I read that but unaware of Bodega, any good ?
Cracking stuff. Album and live album (Endless Scroll and Witness Scroll), from a couple of years ago, and a mini album last year (Shiny New Model). Intro/chord progression of SNM is the bastard lovechild of You Stole the Sun From My Heart by the Manics and Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones, but sounds nothing like either - it's a belter.

There was new Laura Stevenson single out this week - Time Bandits
 
Going completely against the grain here , but am thoroughly enjoying the new Shires album, together with Lapsley and The Weeknd. Early James is, indeed, good. Yet to listen to Baxter Dury and Shabaka and the Ancestors.
 
A few artists are doing “living room” live-streaks at the moment. Watched Sarah Shook last night as part of Bloodshot Records SXSW line up and it was very good - just her and her guitar in what I assume was her living room with some off-camera backing vocals.

AJJ did similar on St Patrick’s Day
 

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