New Music Releases Thread



Bit of a long shot but did anyone glance upon Olivia Rodgrio’s record?

She rose to prominence with her song, Driver’s License. It’s obviously very poppy but a throwback to early Paramore. It’s not terrible. A lot of the Tik Tok crowd are getting as emotional as when I found out about American Football so it’s obviously popular.
 
My weekly review of stuff I've listened to at the weekend:

black midi - utterly bonkers, utterly brilliant. Top stuff!
Nuha Ruby Ra - debut EP/mini-album (not sure which it fits into best). Angry, doomy art punk. Promising.
Balkan Taksim - Romanian psychedelia. A fusion of traditional music, electronica and, apparently, a touch of groove. This is really entertaining, can imagine them being good live.
Caterina Barbieri - essentially reinterpretations of a track from her 2019 album by an array of musicians so you get it synthy, guitary, bleepy (plus the other four dwarves).
Cheval Sombre - second album of the year form them. It follows much the same pattern as the last one. Gentle pych-folk songs given a trippy production by Sonic Boom. Both albums have been very good!
Lou Barlow - odd timings mean he's got a solo album a matter of weeks after the new Dinosaur Jr album. This is, as usual, a collection of lo-fi punk meets folk meets psych type songs. He seems a bit happier than usual.
Fatima Al Qadiri - this came out a couple of weeks back. She's a musician and conceptual artist so, as with a lot of this week's releases, we're talking fairly esoteric. This is a musical suite inspired by the classical poems of Arab women. It's very good as well.
Loscil - gentle, rolling ambient electronica from Canada. You kind of get lost as to which track is which but it fairly flies by, which is good.
Penelope Trappes - a bit shoegazey, a bit electronic, a tad of gothery and a lot of angst and arthouse. Intriguing rather than out and out excellent.
Can - their live in Stuttgart 75 album. By this point, their early late years, they didn't have a vocalist. It's basically 5 long tracks of improvised psychedelia. The musicianship is excellent, may take some listens to get to the bottom of it though.
Easy Life - I like this. It's kind of like a summer pop album made by Jamie T.

Album of the week: undoubtedly comes from black midi. Big pluses to Balkan Taksim, Cheval Sombre, Loscil and Easy Life also.
 
Arkle said:
My weekly review of stuff I've listened to at the weekend:

black midi - utterly bonkers, utterly brilliant. Top stuff!
Nuha Ruby Ra - debut EP/mini-album (not sure which it fits into best). Angry, doomy art punk. Promising.
Balkan Taksim - Romanian psychedelia. A fusion of traditional music, electronica and, apparently, a touch of groove. This is really entertaining, can imagine them being good live.
Caterina Barbieri - essentially reinterpretations of a track from her 2019 album by an array of musicians so you get it synthy, guitary, bleepy (plus the other four dwarves).
Cheval Sombre - second album of the year form them. It follows much the same pattern as the last one. Gentle pych-folk songs given a trippy production by Sonic Boom. Both albums have been very good!
Lou Barlow - odd timings mean he's got a solo album a matter of weeks after the new Dinosaur Jr album. This is, as usual, a collection of lo-fi punk meets folk meets psych type songs. He seems a bit happier than usual.
Fatima Al Qadiri - this came out a couple of weeks back. She's a musician and conceptual artist so, as with a lot of this week's releases, we're talking fairly esoteric. This is a musical suite inspired by the classical poems of Arab women. It's very good as well.
Loscil - gentle, rolling ambient electronica from Canada. You kind of get lost as to which track is which but it fairly flies by, which is good.
Penelope Trappes - a bit shoegazey, a bit electronic, a tad of gothery and a lot of angst and arthouse. Intriguing rather than out and out excellent.
Can - their live in Stuttgart 75 album. By this point, their early late years, they didn't have a vocalist. It's basically 5 long tracks of improvised psychedelia. The musicianship is excellent, may take some listens to get to the bottom of it though.
Easy Life - I like this. It's kind of like a summer pop album made by Jamie T.

Album of the week: undoubtedly comes from black midi. Big pluses to Balkan Taksim, Cheval Sombre, Loscil and Easy Life also.
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Nuha Ruby Ra is so a few months ago man, did I not recommend it?
 
Arkle said:
My weekly review of stuff I've listened to at the weekend:

black midi - utterly bonkers, utterly brilliant. Top stuff!
Nuha Ruby Ra - debut EP/mini-album (not sure which it fits into best). Angry, doomy art punk. Promising.
Balkan Taksim - Romanian psychedelia. A fusion of traditional music, electronica and, apparently, a touch of groove. This is really entertaining, can imagine them being good live.
Caterina Barbieri - essentially reinterpretations of a track from her 2019 album by an array of musicians so you get it synthy, guitary, bleepy (plus the other four dwarves).
Cheval Sombre - second album of the year form them. It follows much the same pattern as the last one. Gentle pych-folk songs given a trippy production by Sonic Boom. Both albums have been very good!
Lou Barlow - odd timings mean he's got a solo album a matter of weeks after the new Dinosaur Jr album. This is, as usual, a collection of lo-fi punk meets folk meets psych type songs. He seems a bit happier than usual.
Fatima Al Qadiri - this came out a couple of weeks back. She's a musician and conceptual artist so, as with a lot of this week's releases, we're talking fairly esoteric. This is a musical suite inspired by the classical poems of Arab women. It's very good as well.
Loscil - gentle, rolling ambient electronica from Canada. You kind of get lost as to which track is which but it fairly flies by, which is good.
Penelope Trappes - a bit shoegazey, a bit electronic, a tad of gothery and a lot of angst and arthouse. Intriguing rather than out and out excellent.
Can - their live in Stuttgart 75 album. By this point, their early late years, they didn't have a vocalist. It's basically 5 long tracks of improvised psychedelia. The musicianship is excellent, may take some listens to get to the bottom of it though.
Easy Life - I like this. It's kind of like a summer pop album made by Jamie T.

Album of the week: undoubtedly comes from black midi. Big pluses to Balkan Taksim, Cheval Sombre, Loscil and Easy Life also.
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'Arkle' listens to all the new releases so you don't have to!

You do a fantastic job sir! :)
 
Don'tListenToTheHat said:
Bit of a long shot but did anyone glance upon Olivia Rodgrio’s record?

She rose to prominence with her song, Driver’s License. It’s obviously very poppy but a throwback to early Paramore. It’s not terrible. A lot of the Tik Tok crowd are getting as emotional as when I found out about American Football so it’s obviously popular.
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My 11-year-old daughter, who likes her, was horrified when I showed her an article this weekend that said 4 bands to listen to if you like Olivia Rodrigo and I said I had stuff by and liked 3 of them (Ratboys, Charly Bliss, Pom Pom Squad). Dads aren't allowed to do that. :lol: Me and the missus were just as horrified when my daughter then played some of OR's songs and they were ok!
 
Crayola-Kid said:
My 11-year-old daughter, who likes her, was horrified when I showed her an article this weekend that said 4 bands to listen to if you like Olivia Rodrigo and I said I had stuff by and liked 3 of them (Ratboys, Charly Bliss, Pom Pom Squad). Dads aren't allowed to do that. :lol: Me and the missus were just as horrified when my daughter then played some of OR's songs and they were ok!
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My partner is either forcing me to listen to K-pop (mainly BTS) or the most up to date pop records. Means I’m down with the mainstream music. I liked OR though. Wouldn’t go out of my way to listen though.
 

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