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New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
Following on with the first half of my listening...

SPICE - excellent! Remind me of Japandroids with added violin.
Gang of Four - a fitting epitaph, kind of. Not sure it's their finest work but it's pretty good.
Crack Cloud - far more nuanced than their earlier releases. They remind me of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Wolf Parade, because I like a lazy Canadian comparison. TBH, I'm not a fan of the forced vocals but musically and lyrically I like this album a lot.
David Ramirez - a proper grower, in that the album gets better as it goes on. Great songs, slightly MOR style, ultimately lovely.
The Bobby Lees - well, this is a proper humdinger of an album. Garage rock, vocals that seem to be male but could be female, very brisk. Some sort of bunny!
Protmartyr - they've got that weird thing going on by which their changes toward sophistication mean that the immediacy is lost, like when Liverpool decided to teach Robbie Fowler how to pass. Still a cracking album!
Samantha Crain - really, really, really good. Album of the year contender good TBH. She's taken things beyond the next level.
JARV IS... - as @chunkylover53 ruddy brilliant. Immediately casts doubt on my opinion that Samantha Crain's album might be album of the year.
Kutiman - total pedigree bunny. So bunny that it's in line to win rabbit Crufts. African vocal samples/chants with interesting things accompanying. It may cast doubt upon my opinion that the JARV IS... album might be album of the year. (Must I evolve? is still song of the year)
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The other half of this (ish), some not brand new:

Bing and Ruth - lovely keyboard based ambient stuff. Very Relaxing!
Harp and a Monkey - one of my favourite folk bands. This actually came out a good while back. Previous albums have told stories of world war one, this is about the Victorians. Harp, banjo, glockehspiel, accordion and vocals mostly. Very nice!
Eight Blackbird - modern classical sextet who made an album with Bonnie Prince Billy last year. This is good. It kind of reminds me of post-rock with strings.
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - one I missed last week. A covers set. Lovely but probably not essential listening.
Jens Lekman & Annika Norlin - this actually came out last year but seems to have just had a physical release and seems prescient to lockdown. It takes the form of correspondences between one and the other so there's a Jens song then an Annika song and so forth. Rather good!
Zombi - as @Crayola-Kid says, it's instrumental synth metal. Reminds me a little of Justice
Polly Scattergood - primarily piano based singer songwriter album. She's a lot better than she was back in 2009. Very good.

A cracking week all in all! I'm going to say a draw between JARV IS... and Kutiman for album of the week, Jens & Annika would run them close if it wasn't over a year old.
 

Protomartyr my favourite from this weeks stuff.

One I missed from the week before, Oracle sisters - Paris EP is really good, mellow psychedelic indie.
 
Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be more and more stuff missing from Spotify? My Bloody Valentine have gone, Weekender by Flowered Up has gone and I've just gone to revisit Razorblade Suitcase by Bush and that's been greyed out too. I'm sure there will be more
 
The Great MES said:
Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be more and more stuff missing from Spotify? My Bloody Valentine have gone, Weekender by Flowered Up has gone and I've just gone to revisit Razorblade Suitcase by Bush and that's been greyed out too. I'm sure there will be more
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Same on Apple Music - I have the remastered rerelease in my library and everything except 2 of the bonus tracks is greyed out. I’ve not checked the others though.
 
The Great MES said:
Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be more and more stuff missing from Spotify? My Bloody Valentine have gone, Weekender by Flowered Up has gone and I've just gone to revisit Razorblade Suitcase by Bush and that's been greyed out too. I'm sure there will be more
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Its odd with flowered up as their album is on but Weekender isn’t ?
 
The Great MES said:
Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be more and more stuff missing from Spotify? My Bloody Valentine have gone, Weekender by Flowered Up has gone and I've just gone to revisit Razorblade Suitcase by Bush and that's been greyed out too. I'm sure there will be more
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It's weird. Chunky and I were noticing a difference with something between the US/UK a couple of weeks ago, don't recall what. I just looked at mine and I have MBV - Loveless and Isn't Anything on album are both there plus a couple of EPs (but not the "MBV" album) and I have the regular Razorblade Suitcase and the expanded edition. Nothing grayed out on any of those. No Weeekender though - just the one album with It's On. Must be down to international licensing or something?
 
Crayola-Kid said:
It's weird. Chunky and I were noticing a difference with something between the US/UK a couple of weeks ago, don't recall what. I just looked at mine and I have MBV - Loveless and Isn't Anything on album are both there plus a couple of EPs (but not the "MBV" album) and I have the regular Razorblade Suitcase and the expanded edition. Nothing grayed out on any of those. No Weeekender though - just the one album with It's On. Must be down to international licensing or something?
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Tbf the MBV album was never on, but it's a bit shit that the other two have been greyed out for well over a year now
 
The Great MES said:
Tbf the MBV album was never on, but it's a bit shit that the other two have been greyed out for well over a year now
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Wonder why things are being pulled at the UK end - all those are UK or British Isles bands, and certainly the original recordings/rights would have been UK companies (Creation etc), so it's a bit counter-intuitive that those are the ones being pulled, unless it's as a result of new license/rights holders when those companies folded. I get Bush were probably on one of the majors by then so you;d not think that would be a problem
 
Crayola-Kid said:
Wonder why things are being pulled at the UK end - all those are UK or British Isles bands, and certainly the original recordings/rights would have been UK companies (Creation etc), so it's a bit counter-intuitive that those are the ones being pulled, unless it's as a result of new license/rights holders when those companies folded. I get Bush were probably on one of the majors by then so you;d not think that would be a problem
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I could understand if they weren't on in the first place but to have them removed seems a bit strange. I just hope this isn't the start of some big cull where there's loads more disappearing
 
The Great MES said:
I could understand if they weren't on in the first place but to have them removed seems a bit strange. I just hope this isn't the start of some big cull where there's loads more disappearing
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If that happened, would it be possible to sign into US Spotify using VPN? Maybe it's all going to splinter up between record labels, like the TV streaming services with every Tom, Dick, and Harry network pulling content from the big streaming services to set up their own.
 
The Great MES said:
Tbf the MBV album was never on, but it's a bit shit that the other two have been greyed out for well over a year now
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MBV was self released so the band will have more control over where its available than they have over the albums/EPs they recorded for Creation and, I'd guess, they're not overly arsed about streaming services.
 
Crayola-Kid said:
If that happened, would it be possible to sign into US Spotify using VPN? Maybe it's all going to splinter up between record labels, like the TV streaming services with every Tom, Dick, and Harry network pulling content from the big streaming services to set up their own.
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That might be the road we have to go down, a bit like with Netflix
Arkle said:
MBV was self released so the band will have more control over where its available than they have over the albums/EPs they recorded for Creation and, I'd guess, they're not overly arsed about streaming services.
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I don't think they're arsed about releasing records at all tbf :)
Arkle said:
MBV was self released so the band will have more control over where its available than they have over the albums/EPs they recorded for Creation and, I'd guess, they're not overly arsed about streaming services.
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I don't think they're arsed about releasing records at all tbf :)
 
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Arkle said:
Following on with the first half of my listening...

SPICE - excellent! Remind me of Japandroids with added violin.
Gang of Four - a fitting epitaph, kind of. Not sure it's their finest work but it's pretty good.
Crack Cloud - far more nuanced than their earlier releases. They remind me of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Wolf Parade, because I like a lazy Canadian comparison. TBH, I'm not a fan of the forced vocals but musically and lyrically I like this album a lot.
David Ramirez - a proper grower, in that the album gets better as it goes on. Great songs, slightly MOR style, ultimately lovely.
The Bobby Lees - well, this is a proper humdinger of an album. Garage rock, vocals that seem to be male but could be female, very brisk. Some sort of bunny!
Protmartyr - they've got that weird thing going on by which their changes toward sophistication mean that the immediacy is lost, like when Liverpool decided to teach Robbie Fowler how to pass. Still a cracking album!
Samantha Crain - really, really, really good. Album of the year contender good TBH. She's taken things beyond the next level.
JARV IS... - as @chunkylover53 ruddy brilliant. Immediately casts doubt on my opinion that Samantha Crain's album might be album of the year.
Kutiman - total pedigree bunny. So bunny that it's in line to win rabbit Crufts. African vocal samples/chants with interesting things accompanying. It may cast doubt upon my opinion that the JARV IS... album might be album of the year. (Must I evolve? is still song of the year)
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Interesting article about Samantha Crain here
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