New Music Releases Thread



I have no willpower and I'm hopeless at making choices...
As long as you realize how personally responsible you are for taking up any modicum of free time that I, with similar levels of willpower, was expecting having between now and year end, revisiting that monstrosity for any I didn’t try first time around. Sorry, kids, Christmas took to the back burner this year because Uncle Arkle posted his annual top 87 list. You can stump up for their adult therapy sessions.
 
As long as you realize how personally responsible you are for taking up any modicum of free time that I, with similar levels of willpower, was expecting having between now and year end, revisiting that monstrosity for any I didn’t try first time around. Sorry, kids, Christmas took to the back burner this year because Uncle Arkle posted his annual top 87 list. You can stump up for their adult therapy sessions.

Just give the kids a couple of Blue Aeroplanes albums each and leave them to it...
 
Been a good year for new music, lots of contenders but not quite as many as Arkle:lol:

Top 10.

Kevin Morby album of the year, just...

Waxahatchee

Frazey Ford

Jason Isbell

Taylor Swift

Drive by truckers

James dean bradfield

Rose city band

Jess Williamson

Michael Rother

Best of the rest...

Roisin Murphy
Happyness
Tom petty
Springsteen
Haden triplets
Matt Berninger
Hot chip
Bonny light horsemen
Kruangbin
Protomartyr
 
Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace
SAULT - Black is
SAULT - Rise
Moses Sumney - grae
Wilma Archer - A Western Circular
Phoebe Bridges - Punisher
Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter
 
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The Billie-Joe Armstrong covers album is alright actually. Nice mix of covers (some very well known and mainstream, some more obscure), puts his own spin on them without dragging them too far away from the original material.

He covers “That Thing You Do” from the film of the same name, written by Adam Schlesinger. One of my best mates from school who is no longer with us was obsessed with the soundtrack to that film when we were about 12 or 13 so that song has some really good, fun memories for me.
 
Right then my list...

Julian Cope - Self Civil War
Craven Faults - Erratics & Unconformities
The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do
Holy Fuck - Deleter
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Navarasa : Nine Emotions
Squirrel Flower - I Was Born Swimming
Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar
Destroyer - Have We Met
Frazey Ford - U kin B the Sun
Waclaw Zimpel - Massive Oscillations
Bambara - Stray
Douglas Dare - Milkteeth
Humanist - Humanist
Moses Sumney - grae
The Saxophones - Eternity Bay
Nadia Reid - Out of My Province
Cornershop - England is a Garden
Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques
Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
Baxter Dury - The Night Chancers
Dana Gavanski - Yesterday Is Gone
Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
Tamikrest - Tamotaït
Nap Eyes - Snapshot of a Beginner
Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
Pigs * 7 - Visceral
James Elkington - Ever-Roving Eye
The Lovely Eggs - I Am Moron
Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
Yin Yin - The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers
Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
CMON - Confusing Mix of Nations
Lewsberg - In This House
Ghost Poet - I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow
Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
Magnetic Fields - Quickies
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Sei Still - Sei Still
Rose City Band - Summerlong
Sunwatchers - Oh Yeah?
Jade Hairpins - Harmony Avenue
The Cool Greenhouse - The Cool Greenhouse
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Ohmme - Fantasize Your Ghost
Sports Team - Deep Down Happy
Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
Hinds - The Prettiest Curse
Larkin Poe - Self Made Man
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Sven Wunder - Wabi Sabi
Borrowed Books - Shorting Out and Longing
Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
Keleketla! - Keleketla!
bdrmm - Bedroom
Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
Bab L' Bluz - Nayda!
Three Queens in Mourning - Hello Sorrow - Hello Joy
The Bobby Lees - Skin Suit
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Samantha Crain - A Small Death
JARV IS - Beyond the Pale
Kutiman - Wachaga
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers
Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease
The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain
Suzie Stapleton - We Are The Plague
Mike Polizze - Long Lost Solace Find
Vintage Crop - Serve to Serve Again
Fantastic Negrito - Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
HC McEntire - Eno Axis
Jerry Joseph - The Beautiful Madness
Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs
International Teachers Of Pop - Pop Gossip
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
Bill Callahan - Gold Record
Afel Bocoum - Lindé
Declan McKenna - Zeros
The Flaming Lips - American Head
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Sault - Untitled (Rise)
Fenne Lily - On Hold
Fleet Foxes - Shore
A. Swayze & the Ghosts - Paid Salvation
Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Hen Ogledd - Free Humans
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee
Schlammpeitziger - Ein Weltleck in der Echokammer
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
Brent Cobb - Keep 'Em on They Toes
Joachim Cooder - Over That Road I'm Bound
Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst
North Americans - Roped In
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Jennifer Castle - Monarch Season
Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler - In Memory of My Feelings
Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
Kevin Morby - Sundowner
Autechre - Sign
Quintron & Miss Pussycat - Goblin Alert
William Elliott Whitmore - I'm With You
Mav Karlo - Strangers Like Us
Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King
Ela Minus - Acts Of Rebellion
Bonnie Whitmore - Last Will & Testament
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
Adrianne Lenker - Songs
This Is The Kit - Off Off On
Jim White - Misfit's Jubilee
Herman Dune - Notes from Vinegar Hill
Jesu - Terminus
Slift - Ummon
Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
CCR Headcleaner - Street Riffs
Luluc - Dreamboat
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Idiot Prayer

Album of the Year: Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
So basically, everything that's been released in 2020.
 
The Guardian have started their top 50 of the yeat today, with 50-41 listed so far:

The 50 best albums of 2020: 50-41

With regard to new/catch up stuff I've listened to this week:

Jim E-Stack - The Guardian published an article last week in which they listed three albums they felt represent summer but in winter time this year. The others, by Katy J Pearson and Matthew Halsall, I like so I thought I'd give this a listen. Bag of shite! Fortunately, a short bag of shite!
Craven Faults - one of my favourite artists of the year returns. Eerie, ambient electronica is their thing and this delivers on that premise superbly. Weirdly, this got a physical release a week before the digital release.
Slift (*3) - as I loved Slift's album "Ummon", I thought I'd give their earlier releases a listen. They're not "Ummon" but they are listenable. Sci-fi obsessed psych-prog basically. Stylistically, the earlier releases are quite King Gizzard whereas SLift have found their own path with "Ummon".
Pg.lost - majestic, mostly instrumental post-rock that veers toward the rockier end of the genre. Very good!
Ghostlawns - motorik with elements of Welsh psych. I like it. Not sure I get the Working Men's Club comparisons I've seen on here.
The Awkward Silences - old school (think Blue Aeroplanes or A House) style indie guitar stuff from a band fronted by a disability rights campaigner. It's rather good. Proper semi-spoken singing and intriguing lyrics.
Sault (*2) - their two 2019 albums, titled 5 and 7. They don't give much away in their titles. Both very good but not at the level of this year's two releases, although some tracks are as good as anything on them.

Album of the week: I'll say Craven Faults.
 
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I did the Apple Music year review and it’s just a web page. I’m pretty sure it’s only started tracking halfway through the year too. :lol:

Just getting round to Fleet Foxes. It’s very good.
 

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