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New Music Releases Thread

New Miles Hunt album, Custodian v2, out today - acoustic reworks of Wonder Stuff and solo songs. Thoroughly enjoyed vol 1.

I think Skinny Lister had a new single out yesterday or the day before - not 100% clear because of my time difference.
 

Crayola-Kid said:
New Miles Hunt album, Custodian v2, out today - acoustic reworks of Wonder Stuff and solo songs. Thoroughly enjoyed vol 1.

I think Skinny Lister had a new single out yesterday or the day before - not 100% clear because of my time difference.
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The Skinny Lister release was 4pm yesterday UK time. Oh to be back in the throng at a Skinny Lister gig as shown in the below video.

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Observations from Friday

OhSees - it’s one of their experimental albums, wouldn’t bother
Taylor Swift - meh. Folklore was great, this isn’t
Belle and Sebastian - they’ve lost the magic in recent years, but this is very fun
Rosie Carney - cover of the Bends. Only halfway through but it’s very good

old discoveries
Hella: Hold Your Horse is - post punk kind of thing. Marvellous
Silent Whale Becomes a Dream: Canopy - orchestral, French post rock. Tremendous

Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke have released an EP. It’s alright. Less than the sum of their parts maybe
 
Even for me, I might be trying to listen to too much this week. Thus far:

Strings & Timpani, Stephan Meidell & Øyvind Hegg-Lunde - quite a convoluted name but they seem to go by one or other of the two separated by the comma. A kind of jazz/post-rock crossover. Good. Whispered female vocals and stuff. Quite engaging.
Star Feminine Band - I posted one of their videos on a music thread last night. They're great! Girls aged between about 10 and 17 from Benin who play a kind of Afro pop thing that has a tremendous energy and innocence about it. They remind me a bit of some of the female bands that grew out of punk.
Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams - this is quite brief but a lovely set of folkyish duets. Marlon has a cracking voice!
Late Night Final - really, really good from Mr Wilgoose. Four tracks, all 11 minutes plus, which allows them to grow and evolve.
Decolonize Yor Mind Society - reminds me of Melt Yourself Down if they were slightly more rock and slightly less jazz. In short, a fusion of prog and North African music. Not for everyone but I love it.
Kama Vardi - indie-folkish Israeli female singer. A lovely, gentle album.
Winston C.W. - piano based magic from a geekish American singer-songwriter. Deserving of a much, much wider audience than it will get.
Danalogue & Alabaster Deplume - starts out in jazz and goes much wider. Danalogue is a producer and the magnificently named Alabaster Deplume (real name Gus Fairbairn) is a multi-instrumentalist. It's pretty marvellous throughout.
Hjalte Ross - Danish singer-songwriter. A high quality album. Reminders of Belle & Sebastian and Nck Drake variously. Should be beloved of anyone who likes either.
Soho Rezanejad - New York born, Denmark raised, of Iranian parents, she's a modern classical/electronica composer. This album is based on live performances. At times it's beautiful and at times jarring. Worth a listen.

I suspect that's the most obscure list of 10 albums I've posted this year. Lots of Danes and things that have branched out from jazz...
 
Arkle said:
Even for me, I might be trying to listen to too much this week. Thus far:

Strings & Timpani, Stephan Meidell & Øyvind Hegg-Lunde - quite a convoluted name but they seem to go by one or other of the two separated by the comma. A kind of jazz/post-rock crossover. Good. Whispered female vocals and stuff. Quite engaging.
Star Feminine Band - I posted one of their videos on a music thread last night. They're great! Girls aged between about 10 and 17 from Benin who play a kind of Afro pop thing that has a tremendous energy and innocence about it. They remind me a bit of some of the female bands that grew out of punk.
Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams - this is quite brief but a lovely set of folkyish duets. Marlon has a cracking voice!
Late Night Final - really, really good from Mr Wilgoose. Four tracks, all 11 minutes plus, which allows them to grow and evolve.
Decolonize Yor Mind Society - reminds me of Melt Yourself Down if they were slightly more rock and slightly less jazz. In short, a fusion of prog and North African music. Not for everyone but I love it.
Kama Vardi - indie-folkish Israeli female singer. A lovely, gentle album.
Winston C.W. - piano based magic from a geekish American singer-songwriter. Deserving of a much, much wider audience than it will get.
Danalogue & Alabaster Deplume - starts out in jazz and goes much wider. Danalogue is a producer and the magnificently named Alabaster Deplume (real name Gus Fairbairn) is a multi-instrumentalist. It's pretty marvellous throughout.
Hjalte Ross - Danish singer-songwriter. A high quality album. Reminders of Belle & Sebastian and Nck Drake variously. Should be beloved of anyone who likes either.
Soho Rezanejad - New York born, Denmark raised, of Iranian parents, she's a modern classical/electronica composer. This album is based on live performances. At times it's beautiful and at times jarring. Worth a listen.

I suspect that's the most obscure list of 10 albums I've posted this year. Lots of Danes and things that have branched out from jazz...
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Hjalte Ross is indeed good
 
Arkle said:
Even for me, I might be trying to listen to too much this week. Thus far:

Danalogue & Alabaster Deplume - starts out in jazz and goes much wider. Danalogue is a producer and the magnificently named Alabaster Deplume (real name Gus Fairbairn) is a multi-instrumentalist. It's pretty marvellous throughout.
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Will give this a go. Loved Alabaster Deplume’s Visit Croatia but never delved beyond that one song if I’m honest.

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For an alternative Christmas album:

Kelly Finnigan - Joyful Sound. Very soulful Christmas album.

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Can also recommend:

Garbriel Olaf’s - Absent Minded Reworks

Instrumental chill out music.
Also:

cyril cyril - yallah Mickey Mouse

French electronic music.
 
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New Kiwi Jr January 22nd. Whilst they’ll change no ones life, their 2020 album was one of the more fun albums of the year, think poppy Pavement
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Fun was exactly the word I used to describe Kiwi Jr the other day. Looking forward to their new album, because on the basis of the latest single from it, it's going to be more of the same.

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Shambo said:
I have only briefly listened to some bits and just can't get on board with the love for it. Need to give it a proper listen. It seemed to be the moment all the hipsters decided she was cool enough to join their gang, which puts me off a lot. (I just want another 1989!)
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Same here. I think the album I had in my head of what I thought it would be from what I'd read about it turned out to be more interesting than it actually was. Although it might be a change of direction for her, it just sounded a little...ordinary and unexceptional, and I do wonder how much praise it would have got if it had come from an unknown, and not Taylor Swift. But a lot of people love it with a passion.
 
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Arkle said:
Even for me, I might be trying to listen to too much this week. Thus far:

Strings & Timpani, Stephan Meidell & Øyvind Hegg-Lunde - quite a convoluted name but they seem to go by one or other of the two separated by the comma. A kind of jazz/post-rock crossover. Good. Whispered female vocals and stuff. Quite engaging.
Star Feminine Band - I posted one of their videos on a music thread last night. They're great! Girls aged between about 10 and 17 from Benin who play a kind of Afro pop thing that has a tremendous energy and innocence about it. They remind me a bit of some of the female bands that grew out of punk.
Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams - this is quite brief but a lovely set of folkyish duets. Marlon has a cracking voice!
Late Night Final - really, really good from Mr Wilgoose. Four tracks, all 11 minutes plus, which allows them to grow and evolve.
Decolonize Yor Mind Society - reminds me of Melt Yourself Down if they were slightly more rock and slightly less jazz. In short, a fusion of prog and North African music. Not for everyone but I love it.
Kama Vardi - indie-folkish Israeli female singer. A lovely, gentle album.
Winston C.W. - piano based magic from a geekish American singer-songwriter. Deserving of a much, much wider audience than it will get.
Danalogue & Alabaster Deplume - starts out in jazz and goes much wider. Danalogue is a producer and the magnificently named Alabaster Deplume (real name Gus Fairbairn) is a multi-instrumentalist. It's pretty marvellous throughout.
Hjalte Ross - Danish singer-songwriter. A high quality album. Reminders of Belle & Sebastian and Nck Drake variously. Should be beloved of anyone who likes either.
Soho Rezanejad - New York born, Denmark raised, of Iranian parents, she's a modern classical/electronica composer. This album is based on live performances. At times it's beautiful and at times jarring. Worth a listen.

I suspect that's the most obscure list of 10 albums I've posted this year. Lots of Danes and things that have branched out from jazz...
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Part 2. eleven albums in this lot, some more obscure than others:

Kacey Johansing - singer-songwriter stuff, maybe a little too polished for me but very pretty at times.
Bobby Lee - primarily available on BandCamp, I think. Atmospheric guitar fronted instrumentals which all sound really good. There's a kind of Richard Hawley minus vocals vibe. I think Bobby Lee is also from Sheffield.
Stef Kett - also primarily on BandCamp. He's a bit of a one man band playing drums and guitar. This tends toward the more experimental and, one might say, tuneless end of the market. Got a great review from Uncut!
Flying Moon in Space - Leipzig's primary purveyors of 21st century psychedelic rock. This is pretty good, very melodic with some surprising pop hooks.
M. Ward - the usual low key country indie-pop hybrid thing. Slightly less upbeat than usual but worth a few listens.
Rosie Carney - Radiohead's first master work, The Bends, reinvented as female fronted indie folk. I wasn't sure it would work but it does, a lot. Very lovely indeed!
Lavender Diamond - their fourth album in 17 years so we're not talking Gizzardesque prolificness here. They're, I guess, indie-folk but they occasionally get a bit synthy with it. The singer has a swooping, soaring voice, which may not be to some tastes but is to mine. Well worth investigating.
Taylor Swift - it's been covered already on this thread but it's clearly the songs deemed not quite good enough for 'Folklore'. The title track is very good though. Fans are speculating that there'll be a third surprise album based on the sleeve of 'Folklore'.
Landshapes - the fourth album of psych rock from a band who've been growing in popularity. This is pretty good. They were formerly known as Lulu and the Lampshades. Landshapes is a better name.
Osees - reworkings and experiments based around Protean Threat, from earlier this year. It's okay but probably not a good starting point for your journey into John Dwyer.
Belle and Sebastian - a live album culled from a mix of their world tour in 2019 and their Boaty Weekender thing. It acts as something of a career so far retrospective with songs taken from across their career. Very good, a reminder, on the back of their great sondtrack to 'Days of the Bagnold Summer', of what a fine band they are.

More to come at some point...
 
James said:
What albums are you listening to then? It's been quite a good start to the year.

Really enjoying the new Frightened Rabbit album, definitely the best thing they've released IMO. Veronica Falls new one is decent. Dutch Uncles very good. Everything Everything pretty shit. Haven't got round to m b v yet, but it's next on my list.

And are you looking forward to anything that's coming out soon? New Foals out next week, on first few listens it's pretty disappointing though.
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DEFTONES -OHMS. listen to first track full pelt for that power.
 
mad cyril said:
The late night final is indeed a great piece of work.
@errant what’s your thoughts mate ?
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i love it, although j. willgoose esq playing the spoons would be my song of the year so im not entirely impartial. had a shit weekend so only listened to it in its entirety for the first time yesterday. i love the blend of ambient electronic sound with a shifting progression into a more upbeat sound. i thought at first that it might have been material that was left over from around the first two psb albums, and he's given them space to develop... however, i listened back this morning to his
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for the album and its all new material, although because of covid it seems the equipment used is all from that era which might be why it gives the album a similar vibe. its somewhere between a brian eno & psb album, and that's leaning against an open door for me - i think the balance is just the right side of upbeat to make it a wonderful album & a great concept.

For PSB fans, he did a listening party for their debut album straight after the late night final one... its a proper music nerd geek out event... both are almost musical ted talks.

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