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New Music Releases Thread

A Friday without a post in here, must not have been too much released :lol:

@Mickdundee Dunno if you're a fan of them or not but there was a good old school Hip Hop release today that went a little under the radar, a new Goodie Mob album. There's Chuck D, Andre 3000 and Big Boi features on the album as well. Some good stuff on there, very Southern unsurprisingly.
 

MarcoG said:
A Friday without a post in here, must not have been too much released :lol:

@Mickdundee Dunno if you're a fan of them or not but there was a good old school Hip Hop release today that went a little under the radar, a new Goodie Mob album. There's Chuck D, Andre 3000 and Big Boi features on the album as well. Some good stuff on there, very Southern unsurprisingly.
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Cheers. I must say they are a group I’ve never really properly listened to so you might have just opened the door to a whole new back catalogue for me.

A couple of releases not on @Arkle’s list. Margo Price has a live album out, and there’s an indie pop release by some kind of session musician supergroup called The Flat Five made up of musicians who have recorded/toured with The Decemberists, Nero Case and Brian Wilson amongst others.
 
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chunkylover53 said:
That Jesu album is really good

Also enjoyed Nels Cline, Lambchop, Brian Batz, BENEE and Told Slant
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Agreed about Jesu. Some names there for me to check out.

Will do my usual round up of the week at some point(s) once I've done more listening. Currently got "Ummon" by Slift on, epic French sci-fi psych prog, which came out back in February and was in Rough Trade's top 100 albums of the year. It's up there so far!
 
Right, let's see whether me being next to post lifts this to the top of the thread or not. My summing up of new and not so new albums I've listened to this week:

Molchat Doma - starting off obscure with some Belarussian synthpop. It's a bit earlyish Depeche Mode, quite good!
Marika Hackman - covers. They're pretty good, if quite low key. Interesting choices - Air's "Playground Love", Grimes' "Realiti", The Shins' "Phantom Limb" etc.
Jesu - really good, clearly Jesu. A bit post-rock, a bit metal, a bit singer-songwriter.
Slift - as mentioned above, this is both epic and magnificent. Makes me glad I scanned down Rough Trade's top 100.
Katy J Pearson - this is pretty good. Sort of countryish indie-pop. Worth a listen or two!
Camila Fuchs - electronic art pop. Reminds me a little of The Knife/Fever Ray. Very good!
Gwenifer Raymond - we know the story - acoustic guitar virtuoso who writes video games by day and has a PhD in Astrophysics. As with her first album, this is very good, compelling at times.
Lambchop - covers, 6 of them. A bit less electronic than some recent Lambchop efforts, harking back a bit to their country got soul period.
William Basinski - tape loops and drones, avante garde but very listenable.
The Bats - veteran Kiwis on Flying Nun make very good, literate indiepop album shocker!
Faten Kanaan - I like this a lot. It kind of stands astride modern classical music and electronica.
LiRaz - she's from an Iranian/Israeli background and is famous in Israel primarily as an actress. It's a very good hybrid of Middle Eastern and more western music.
Trees - a re-release/compilation of their two albums plus extras (mostly alternate versions of things from their albums). They were the young big hopes of the UK hippy-folk scene back in 1970, who never quite got big and split early. It's very good!
Chris Stapleton - country/rock singer-songwriter. A strong album of enjoyable songs.
AC/DC - essentially, the same album for the nth time. Still excellent!
Cherry Pickles - the second thing I've listened to based on Rough Trade's top 100 for 2020. Lo-fi, indie-pop, toward the buzzsaw end of the genre. An enjoyable 28 minutes or so.
Ana Roxanne - esoteric electronica/post-rock hybrid. At its most accessible, quite Juliana Holterish. Probably worth a listen. The Guardian loved this.
Port Sulphur - as far as I can tell, this is a compilation of singles and rareities. Only seems to be available physically or on Bandcamp. Very Scottish indie (they're on Creeping Bent, who are one of the quintissential Scottish indie labels).
The Flat Five - I like this. Not sure I'd describe it as indiepop though, @Mickdundee, depends on your definition, however. Girl-boy vocals and an almost pre rock'n'roll feel at times.

Album of the week: although not new, clearly Slift, although I'm not sure there's anything listed above that I found disappointing.
 
Arkle said:
The Flat Five - I like this. Not sure I'd describe it as indiepop though, @Mickdundee, depends on your definition, however. Girl-boy vocals and an almost pre rock'n'roll feel at times.
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To be honest, I hadn’t actually listened to it yet when I posted it. I saw Bloodshot Records pushing it (they described it as indie-pop, as do Apple Music) so posted it on here.

I’ve also seen a few people talking about that Chris Stapleton album. I’ve generally avoided him assuming he was one of these “mainstream” country artists (like Brad Paisley, Little Bigtown et al) which I generally dislike. I’m assuming I’m wrong and have avoided an artist purely based on the fact he appeared on a Justin Timberlake track?
 
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Mickdundee said:
To be honest, I hadn’t actually listened to it yet when I posted it. I saw Bloodshot Records pushing it (they described it as indie-pop, as do Apple Music) so posted it on here.

I’ve also seen a few people talking about that Chris Stapleton album. I’ve generally avoided him assuming he was one of these “mainstream” country artists (like Brad Paisley, Little Bigtown et al) which I generally dislike. I’m assuming I’m wrong and have avoided an artist purely based on the fact he appeared on a Justin Timberlake track?
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Yeah, I wouldn't say Chris Stapleton was mainstream country. He's closer to the early 70s outlaw country thing than anything really.
 
Arkle said:
Right, let's see whether me being next to post lifts this to the top of the thread or not. My summing up of new and not so new albums I've listened to this week:

Molchat Doma - starting off obscure with some Belarussian synthpop. It's a bit earlyish Depeche Mode, quite good!
Marika Hackman - covers. They're pretty good, if quite low key. Interesting choices - Air's "Playground Love", Grimes' "Realiti", The Shins' "Phantom Limb" etc.
Jesu - really good, clearly Jesu. A bit post-rock, a bit metal, a bit singer-songwriter.
Slift - as mentioned above, this is both epic and magnificent. Makes me glad I scanned down Rough Trade's top 100.
Katy J Pearson - this is pretty good. Sort of countryish indie-pop. Worth a listen or two!
Camila Fuchs - electronic art pop. Reminds me a little of The Knife/Fever Ray. Very good!
Gwenifer Raymond - we know the story - acoustic guitar virtuoso who writes video games by day and has a PhD in Astrophysics. As with her first album, this is very good, compelling at times.
Lambchop - covers, 6 of them. A bit less electronic than some recent Lambchop efforts, harking back a bit to their country got soul period.
William Basinski - tape loops and drones, avante garde but very listenable.
The Bats - veteran Kiwis on Flying Nun make very good, literate indiepop album shocker!
Faten Kanaan - I like this a lot. It kind of stands astride modern classical music and electronica.
LiRaz - she's from an Iranian/Israeli background and is famous in Israel primarily as an actress. It's a very good hybrid of Middle Eastern and more western music.
Trees - a re-release/compilation of their two albums plus extras (mostly alternate versions of things from their albums). They were the young big hopes of the UK hippy-folk scene back in 1970, who never quite got big and split early. It's very good!
Chris Stapleton - country/rock singer-songwriter. A strong album of enjoyable songs.
AC/DC - essentially, the same album for the nth time. Still excellent!
Cherry Pickles - the second thing I've listened to based on Rough Trade's top 100 for 2020. Lo-fi, indie-pop, toward the buzzsaw end of the genre. An enjoyable 28 minutes or so.
Ana Roxanne - esoteric electronica/post-rock hybrid. At its most accessible, quite Juliana Holterish. Probably worth a listen. The Guardian loved this.
Port Sulphur - as far as I can tell, this is a compilation of singles and rareities. Only seems to be available physically or on Bandcamp. Very Scottish indie (they're on Creeping Bent, who are one of the quintissential Scottish indie labels).
The Flat Five - I like this. Not sure I'd describe it as indiepop though, @Mickdundee, depends on your definition, however. Girl-boy vocals and an almost pre rock'n'roll feel at times.

Album of the week: although not new, clearly Slift, although I'm not sure there's anything listed above that I found disappointing.
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Cheers mate, always look forward to posts in this thread. Jesu and Slift for me I think.
 
A fair few new releases this week. As @chunkylover53 said above, Grandaddy release "The Sophtware Slump on a Wooden Piano". There's also a Phoebe Bridgers EP (guessing it's tracks that didn't quite make the album). Beyond that, there are new releases from BTS (a deluxe version of BE, no less), Cabaret Voltaire, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (1 studio album, 1 live album), Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Liturgy, Megan Thee Stallion, Partner, Silverstein, The Cribs, The War On Drugs (a live album), The Tibbs, Mariza, Craven Faults, Josephine Foster, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (the album version of the 'Idiot Prayer' film), Luke Abbott, Babeheaven and Larkin Poe (a covers album).
 
Arkle said:
A fair few new releases this week. As @chunkylover53 said above, Grandaddy release "The Sophtware Slump on a Wooden Piano". There's also a Phoebe Bridgers EP (guessing it's tracks that didn't quite make the album). Beyond that, there are new releases from BTS (a deluxe version of BE, no less), Cabaret Voltaire, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (1 studio album, 1 live album), Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Liturgy, Megan Thee Stallion, Partner, Silverstein, The Cribs, The War On Drugs (a live album), The Tibbs, Mariza, Craven Faults, Josephine Foster, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (the album version of the 'Idiot Prayer' film), Luke Abbott, Babeheaven and Larkin Poe (a covers album).
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Can I be first to compare the War on Drugs record to Chris Rea?

otherwise a good week. Cave, Grandaddy, Bridgers and some Gizzards and Lizards
 
Arkle said:
A fair few new releases this week. As @chunkylover53 said above, Grandaddy release "The Sophtware Slump on a Wooden Piano". There's also a Phoebe Bridgers EP (guessing it's tracks that didn't quite make the album). Beyond that, there are new releases from BTS (a deluxe version of BE, no less), Cabaret Voltaire, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (1 studio album, 1 live album), Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Liturgy, Megan Thee Stallion, Partner, Silverstein, The Cribs, The War On Drugs (a live album), The Tibbs, Mariza, Craven Faults, Josephine Foster, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (the album version of the 'Idiot Prayer' film), Luke Abbott, Babeheaven and Larkin Poe (a covers album).
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I think everyone knows which releases I’m excited about.

If I can drag myself away from the Gizz, I’ll check out Larkin Poe, Phoebe Bridgers and The Cribs.
 
mad cyril said:
Loving this new debut single from Late Night Final. It’s a side project from the main bloke from Public Service Broadcasting and it’s a 10 minute Slow burner into big crescendo type of tune.

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J. Willgoose, Esq. has a second release...

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