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New Music Releases Thread

Quite an extensive batch of new releases this week. We have albums from Altin Gun, Ane Brun, Dutch Uncles, Fever Ray, Frankie Rose, H Hawkline, Lonnie Holley, Manchester Orchestra, Meet Me @ the Altar, Miley Cyrus, Periphery, Shana Cleveland, Sleaford Mods, The Blaze, The Nude Party, Twice, Ulrika Spacek, Van Morrison, Princess Nokia (on March 14th), the Stoned Cold Country comp (country artists covering the Stones), Trees Speak, Lichen Slow, Hack Poets Guild, Aksak Maboul and The Long Ryders.
 

New Miley Cyrus album out today, didn't think much of her till I ended up watching her at Glastonbury and thought she definitely has something

Will give it a listen later
 
My usual weekly review:

Sleaford Mods - it's good. Unmistakably Sleaford Mods. Witty, politically charged, a bit sweary. The broadsheets love them.
Frankie Rose - pleasantly diverting US indiepop. She's been doing this for years.
Lichen Slow - the excellent Malcolm Middleton's current non Arab Strap band (together with Joel Harries). This is very, very good. Reminds me a little of The Postal Service at times, also Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad.
H. Hawkline - more Welsh wonkiness. There's a distinct Gorkys vibe here. Enjoyable.
Fever Ray - very good, maybe a little more mainstream aimed than previous Fever Ray albums.
Aksak Maboul - here be Belgian art rock weirdness.I think this is some sort of musical audioplay. It's interesting anyway.
Shana Cleveland - the La Luz frontwoman's third solo album. This is really good. A bit more folkie than what she does with La Luz.
Lonnie Holly - exceptional. Outsider art pop that's quite guest heavy (Moor Mother, Bon Iver, Michael Stipe all feature). Well worth a listen.
Manchester Orchestra - quite a low key return. More of a mini-album than full album.
The Long Ryders - very good. They've been doing this for years. Fun Americana basically.
Hack-Poets Guild - a bit of a folk super group. This is a mix of new songs and tradtional British songs. It's really good.
The Nude Party - retro garage rock is their thing. This is pretty good.
Dutch Uncles - I'm liking this. They've developed a niche as leftfield indie rock types.
Ulrika Spacek - very good. They're reminding me a bit of Deerhunter with this.
Trees Speak - sort of prog electronica. It's good and seems to fly by.

Album of the week - there's strong competition but, for me, it has to be Lichen Slow.
 
Really enjoying Ulrika Spacek and Dutch Uncles. Very much more of the same from both of them, but there's nothing wrong with that.

H Hawkline is really good, reminds me a lot of Meilyr Jones (what happened to him?!) which is right up my street. That MF Tomlinson record is pretty good as well.

Sleaford Mods is doing nothing for me but I can't say I've had any interest in them since Eton Alive to be honest.
 
Arkle said:
Quite an extensive batch of new releases this week. We have albums from Altin Gun, Ane Brun, Dutch Uncles, Fever Ray, Frankie Rose, H Hawkline, Lonnie Holley, Manchester Orchestra, Meet Me @ the Altar, Miley Cyrus, Periphery, Shana Cleveland, Sleaford Mods, The Blaze, The Nude Party, Twice, Ulrika Spacek, Van Morrison, Princess Nokia (on March 14th), the Stoned Cold Country comp (country artists covering the Stones), Trees Speak, Lichen Slow, Hack Poets Guild, Aksak Maboul and The Long Ryders.
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Fook me I'm old, I only know Miley Cyrus and Van Morrison
 
James said:
Really enjoying Ulrika Spacek and Dutch Uncles. Very much more of the same from both of them, but there's nothing wrong with that.

H Hawkline is really good, reminds me a lot of Meilyr Jones (what happened to him?!) which is right up my street. That MF Tomlinson record is pretty good as well.

Sleaford Mods is doing nothing for me but I can't say I've had any interest in them since Eton Alive to be honest.
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Dutch uncles playing Pop Recs in Sunderland Sat 19th April.
 
Lester Ballard said:
The first album, Big Harcar was excellent. Had one spin of the new one and I’m not as sure.
Lyrics are always top notch though, and mostly about Northumberland.
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So, a little something I wasn't expecting - I went and bought Big Harcar from his Bandcamp and added the Into The Deep EP, while I was there, as an afterthought. They arrived yesterday and I saw that the cover of ITD was illustrated by someone who was in my class all the way through school, from infants to seniors :eek: She illustrated the video for the single as well!
 
Crayola-Kid said:
So, a little something I wasn't expecting - I went and bought Big Harcar from his Bandcamp and added the Into The Deep EP, while I was there, as an afterthought. They arrived yesterday and I saw that the cover of ITD was illustrated by someone who was in my class all the way through school, from infants to seniors :eek: She illustrated the video for the single as well!
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Great, that!
ned_werby said:
A tad downbeat imo. Not sure on first listen
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It is, but they can quite often be like that. Can’t help but feel they would have had another 4 songs to make it work as a piece a little more. I do like it though.
 
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We have new releases this week from 100 Gecs, Black Honey, Genevieve Artadi. M83 (the full album), Runnner, T-Pain, U2 (re-recordings of songs from across their career), Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Yves Tumor, Blank Gloss, Emiliana Torrini & the Colorist Orchestra, Ailbhe Reddy and Death & Vanilla.
 
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