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New Music Releases Thread

One of my favourite bands (Yumi Zouma) is releasing a cover version album of (What's the Story) Morning Glory for record store day.

1. Is there any way of finding out which stores will have a copy in advance?
2. Do bands tend to release stuff in non-vinyl versions are well?

Sorry, I haven't really ever kept up with RSD since deciding years ago vinyl isn't a hobby I can afford :lol:
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Camp Cope packing it in which is a shame, liked their last album.
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Absolutely gutted about this personally. Loved all their stuff really. I'm sure they'll be back in the future (I hope).
 
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HarrogateMackem said:
One of my favourite bands (Yumi Zouma) is releasing a cover version album of (What's the Story) Morning Glory for record store day.

1. Is there any way of finding out which stores will have a copy in advance?
2. Do bands tend to release stuff in non-vinyl versions are well?

Sorry, I haven't really ever kept up with RSD since deciding years ago vinyl isn't a hobby I can afford :lol:
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I've no idea about question 1. For the second one, is it possible they might put it out via their bandcamp page?

Looking up the album, from Discogs, it seems they originally released it on a very limited pressing (125) in 2017. Presumably that was limited to New Zealand and this release is a bit wider.
 
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There are new albums this week from Anna B Savage, Avey Tare, Inhaler, Pink, Pile, Posh Swat (a John Dwyer project), Ron Sexsmith, Screaming Females, Secret Machines, Skrillex, MF Tomlinson, Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters, King Ayisoba, Deus, Unthank/Smith, Pigs*7, Orbital and Index For Working Musik.
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I'll be all over Screaming Females today - going to their annual Garden Party tomorrow (with Laura Stevenson supporting). I'll probably give Secret Machines a go, too. Possibly Unthank/Smith
HarrogateMackem said:
One of my favourite bands (Yumi Zouma) is releasing a cover version album of (What's the Story) Morning Glory for record store day.

1. Is there any way of finding out which stores will have a copy in advance?
2. Do bands tend to release stuff in non-vinyl versions are well?
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Varies from my experience. Usually more a case of you having to do the legwork than there being a ready-made list to go to. On social media, some of our local stores will post video of what they've got in stock the day or two before. Some also encourage you to reach out in comments about what you'd like them to get in stock and they will interact and say if they're getting it, how many copies, etc. The official RSD list website does have a search function, where it'll generate a list of participating stores in a radius of your location, but I don't know how accurate that is in terms of what they're going to stock on the day.
 
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My weekly review is a bit late this week. Anyway, new stuff I've been listening to:

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Afro jazz weirdness. Interesting rather than great.
King Ayisoba: his first in a while, upbeat and a bit shouty call and response Afrobeat. Fun.
Unthank:Smith: Rachel Unthank and Paul Smith together. Closer to The Unthanks than Maximo Park. A good album!
Anna B Savage: her second album, fairly stark songs. A touch of PJ Harvey to them. This is good.
Orbital: their usual guest filled techno fest. Pretty good.
Avey Tare: one of Animal Collective's main men solo. It's good, obviously sounds a bit like his parent band.
MF Tomlinson: good stuff. Only 4 tracks. The 20 minute title track goes through a range of styles.
Index for Working Musik: guitars, reel to reel loops, sounds a bit like The Auteurs to me, which is a good thing.
Pigs*7: probably their most out and out rock album yet.
dEUS: back from a hiatus. This is good but not as good as some of their earlier albums.
Posh Swat: John Dwyer and friends do percussion. Possibly better than that sounds.

Album of the week: not a vintage week at all. Probably Anna B Savage.
Arkle said:
My weekly review is a bit late this week. Anyway, new stuff I've been listening to:

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Afro jazz weirdness. Interesting rather than great.
King Ayisoba: his first in a while, upbeat and a bit shouty call and response Afrobeat. Fun.
Unthank:Smith: Rachel Unthank and Paul Smith together. Closer to The Unthanks than Maximo Park. A good album!
Anna B Savage: her second album, fairly stark songs. A touch of PJ Harvey to them. This is good.
Orbital: their usual guest filled techno fest. Pretty good.
Avey Tare: one of Animal Collective's main men solo. It's good, obviously sounds a bit like his parent band.
MF Tomlinson: good stuff. Only 4 tracks. The 20 minute title track goes through a range of styles.
Index for Working Musik: guitars, reel to reel loops, sounds a bit like The Auteurs to me, which is a good thing.
Pigs*7: probably their most out and out rock album yet.
dEUS: back from a hiatus. This is good but not as good as some of their earlier albums.
Posh Swat: John Dwyer and friends do percussion. Possibly better than that sounds.

Album of the week: not a vintage week at all. Probably Anna B Savage.
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There are new releases this week from Adam Lambert, Algiers, Begonia, Big Brave, David Brewis, Gina Birch, Gorillaz, Gracie Abrams, Logic, Phil Selway, Shame, U.S. Girls, Pacific Breeze 3 (comp of Japanese 70s/80s music), Ben Walker, Simon Rowe, Gruff Rhys (a soundtrack album), Dougie Poole, Okonski, Lucero, Sam Gendel, Iris DeMent, Death Valley Girls, Death Pill, Faten Kanaan, Hamish Hawk, En Attendant Anna, The Necks and Fran.
 
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Just discovered Aldous RH album (til death do us part) from December of last year - really enjoying it.

Apologies if it’s already been review and I’m just late to the party.
 
Arkle said:
My weekly review is a bit late this week. Anyway, new stuff I've been listening to:

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters: Afro jazz weirdness. Interesting rather than great.
King Ayisoba: his first in a while, upbeat and a bit shouty call and response Afrobeat. Fun.
Unthank:Smith: Rachel Unthank and Paul Smith together. Closer to The Unthanks than Maximo Park. A good album!
Anna B Savage: her second album, fairly stark songs. A touch of PJ Harvey to them. This is good.
Orbital: their usual guest filled techno fest. Pretty good.
Avey Tare: one of Animal Collective's main men solo. It's good, obviously sounds a bit like his parent band.
MF Tomlinson: good stuff. Only 4 tracks. The 20 minute title track goes through a range of styles.
Index for Working Musik: guitars, reel to reel loops, sounds a bit like The Auteurs to me, which is a good thing.
Pigs*7: probably their most out and out rock album yet.
dEUS: back from a hiatus. This is good but not as good as some of their earlier albums.
Posh Swat: John Dwyer and friends do percussion. Possibly better than that sounds.

Album of the week: not a vintage week at all. Probably Anna B Savage.


There are new releases this week from Adam Lambert, Algiers, Begonia, Big Brave, David Brewis, Gina Birch, Gorillaz, Gracie Abrams, Logic, Phil Selway, Shame, U.S. Girls, Pacific Breeze 3 (comp of Japanese 70s/80s music), Ben Walker, Simon Rowe, Gruff Rhys (a soundtrack album), Dougie Poole, Okonski, Lucero, Sam Gendel, Iris DeMent, Death Valley Girls, Death Pill, Faten Kanaan, Hamish Hawk, En Attendant Anna, The Necks and Fran.
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Not a bad week that

Algiers, US Girls, En Attendant Anna, Gruff, Shame and the Radiohead Gateshead fan I reckon
 
Cracker island vinyl just landed, looking forward to playing it later, should be another classic, said it before but is no other band like Gorillaz, they have so many different styles and every album they have released is class in its own unique way. Probably the most underrated band of the last 25 years.
 
Checked out the Anna B Savage album and although I didn't hear any PJ Harvey similarity I enjoyed it along with a few other folk albums recently. There's some great stuff on the Unthank:Smith album and the latest album by Lisa O'Neill is stunning.
 
A lot of new releases this week. I've trawled through them and this is my opinion:

U.S. Girls: a good album, a lot of it is about pregnancy, childbirth and babies as Meg Remy has had twins. Quite poppy.
Simon Rowe: bloke from Chapterhouse goes solo and releases album that meshes together dreampop with folk. The world swoons! I like this a lot.
Dougie Poole: a little bit country, a little bit indie rock. This is pretty good. He wears a cowboy hat in most of his photos.
Lucero: an album of songs that didn't quite make other albums. On this occasion, this means one of their strongest releases. It's quite rocky, like Drive By Truckers permanently cranking it to the max. One for @Mickdundee probably.
Big Brave: kind of experimental metal, I guess. I like this.
Algiers: epic, but they've never been anything else and, at 187 tracks, quite long. Generally really good though.
Hamish Hawk: not entirely sure how I'd define him. He's a Scottish singersongwriter, maybe a little folk but not really. Some excellent songs. Impressive.
shame: they're continuing along their post-punk lines but maybe a little more widescreen here. Seems a good album.
Philip Selway: the bald one from that band returns with his third solo album. Elegant largely piano based songs are to the fore.
Fran: a stark, low key mix of indie rock and folk. I like this.
The Necks: I've somehow never listened to The Necks before in spite of them getting rave reviews for everything they release. I now need to go back through their extensive catalogue. This is magnificent. Four long instrumental tracks which have their origin, kind of, in jazz but go way beyond that. Spellbinding!
David Brewis: the first album he's made in his own name (although there have been plenty as both Field Music and School of Language). Quite low key but very entertaining.
En Attendant Ana: French indie, quite Stereolab at times. Very good.
Faten Kanaan: sort of ambient neo-classical. She's very talented and this is a very engaging album.
Death Pill: decidedly not "sort of ambient neo-classical". They're a female punk trio from Ukraine. This is very rock and, also, at 23 minutes, very short.
Death Valley Girls: indie rock from LA fronted by the excellently named Bonnie Bloomgarden (I hope that's her real name, pretty sure that the drummer Rikki Styxx is using a stage name). It's a good solid album with some very good songs.
Iris DeMent: like The Necks, an artist I had somehow not listened to in spite of critical acclaim. This is really good. Folkish country/Americana, politically motivated, pretty cool. She has a very distinctive voice.
Gorillaz: quite short in its original from but it looks like the kinky cartoon gits have stuck out an extra five tracks today as part of the deluxe version. The original version is quite low key but high quality. Features guests including Stevie Nicks, Beck and Bad Bunny.
Gruff Rhys: a sprawling soundtrack album (70 mins plus), some of this is instrumental/incidental but there are some excellent songs as you expect from Sir Gruff.
Ben Walker: folk guitar, roughly 50:50 whether there are vocals or tracks are instrumental. Warm and engaging throughout.
GIna Birch: the solo debut from The Raincoats bassist/co-vocalist. It's a pity she waited so long as this is excellent throughout. It skirts around post-punk, dub and, well, just slightly wonky pop. One to be treasured.

Album of the Week: The Necks get it. In other weeks, Iris DeMent, Gina Birch and Lucero would be up there challenging.
 
Arkle said:
A lot of new releases this week. I've trawled through them and this is my opinion:

U.S. Girls: a good album, a lot of it is about pregnancy, childbirth and babies as Meg Remy has had twins. Quite poppy.
Simon Rowe: bloke from Chapterhouse goes solo and releases album that meshes together dreampop with folk. The world swoons! I like this a lot.
Dougie Poole: a little bit country, a little bit indie rock. This is pretty good. He wears a cowboy hat in most of his photos.
Lucero: an album of songs that didn't quite make other albums. On this occasion, this means one of their strongest releases. It's quite rocky, like Drive By Truckers permanently cranking it to the max. One for @Mickdundee probably.
Big Brave: kind of experimental metal, I guess. I like this.
Algiers: epic, but they've never been anything else and, at 187 tracks, quite long. Generally really good though.
Hamish Hawk: not entirely sure how I'd define him. He's a Scottish singersongwriter, maybe a little folk but not really. Some excellent songs. Impressive.
shame: they're continuing along their post-punk lines but maybe a little more widescreen here. Seems a good album.
Philip Selway: the bald one from that band returns with his third solo album. Elegant largely piano based songs are to the fore.
Fran: a stark, low key mix of indie rock and folk. I like this.
The Necks: I've somehow never listened to The Necks before in spite of them getting rave reviews for everything they release. I now need to go back through their extensive catalogue. This is magnificent. Four long instrumental tracks which have their origin, kind of, in jazz but go way beyond that. Spellbinding!
David Brewis: the first album he's made in his own name (although there have been plenty as both Field Music and School of Language). Quite low key but very entertaining.
En Attendant Ana: French indie, quite Stereolab at times. Very good.
Faten Kanaan: sort of ambient neo-classical. She's very talented and this is a very engaging album.
Death Pill: decidedly not "sort of ambient neo-classical". They're a female punk trio from Ukraine. This is very rock and, also, at 23 minutes, very short.
Death Valley Girls: indie rock from LA fronted by the excellently named Bonnie Bloomgarden (I hope that's her real name, pretty sure that the drummer Rikki Styxx is using a stage name). It's a good solid album with some very good songs.
Iris DeMent: like The Necks, an artist I had somehow not listened to in spite of critical acclaim. This is really good. Folkish country/Americana, politically motivated, pretty cool. She has a very distinctive voice.
Gorillaz: quite short in its original from but it looks like the kinky cartoon gits have stuck out an extra five tracks today as part of the deluxe version. The original version is quite low key but high quality. Features guests including Stevie Nicks, Beck and Bad Bunny.
Gruff Rhys: a sprawling soundtrack album (70 mins plus), some of this is instrumental/incidental but there are some excellent songs as you expect from Sir Gruff.
Ben Walker: folk guitar, roughly 50:50 whether there are vocals or tracks are instrumental. Warm and engaging throughout.
GIna Birch: the solo debut from The Raincoats bassist/co-vocalist. It's a pity she waited so long as this is excellent throughout. It skirts around post-punk, dub and, well, just slightly wonky pop. One to be treasured.

Album of the Week: The Necks get it. In other weeks, Iris DeMent, Gina Birch and Lucero would be up there challenging.
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That is a monumental effort @Arkle. Fran sounds as though it may be my sort of thing.
 
Arkle said:
Lucero: an album of songs that didn't quite make other albums. On this occasion, this means one of their strongest releases. It's quite rocky, like Drive By Truckers permanently cranking it to the max. One for @Mickdundee probably.
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Yep, Lucero was one of the first things I listened to on Friday. I’m a fan!
 
Arkle said:
There are new releases this week from Daisy Jones & the Six, Jawny, Kali Uchis, Kate NV, Ron Gallo, slowthai, Steve Mason, The National Parks, Xiu Xiu, The Veils, Herman Dune, Elskavon, Brix Smith and Kimi Djabate.
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Are Daisy Jones and the Six a fictional band from the Amazon Prime series?

Edit: a quick Google says yes
 
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