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New Music Releases Thread

Arkle said:
A high quality and high quantity week for me. My usual weekly review:

Witch: 70s Zamrockers return magnificently. I'm not massively familiar with their earlier work but some of this reminds me a little of Goat. Highly recommended.
Rufus Wainwright: after his own songs, operas etc., he's made a covers album loosely based on folk tunes and heavy on guest spots. There are many highs but the duet with Chaka Khan on "Cotton Eyed Joe" (yes, that one) is up there.
Baxter Dury: short, not so sweet but very, very good. He's continuing down his idiosyncratic path. Nobody else really sounds quite like him.
Cowboy Junkies: excellent, as expected. Doesn't break the mold of their other recent albums but they're very, very good at what they do.
Vulture Feathers: this is a stonker of an album. Indie-rock with strange vocals. Really, really liking this. They're a new name to me.
Protomartyr: see my Cowboy Junkies review (they're nothing like Cowboy Junkies but you get the point).
Foo Fighters: not a band I regularly listen to but I thought I'd give this album a shot based on some very good reviews. Big epic stadium things that do not that much for me until the last couple of tracks, which are both ace.
Tanya Tucker: the veteran (ish, she's 64) country artist continues her fine recent form. There's warmth and humour on here.
RVG: their third album and probably the best (debut was promising and full fo top songs, second had more budget and better production but not the songs, this has both). Aussie indie rock essentially.
Beach Fossils: retro indie-rock with harmonies to the forefront. Pretty good.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: again, giving it a listen based on decent reviews. I'm more likely to listen to it again than Foo Fighters' latest. It's maybe a song or two overlong and obvious rhymes are obvious. First song sounds like Shack.
BCUC: (or Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness in full). They get described as "afro-psychedelic future pop". This, like their previous releases, is exhilerating and fun. Good live as well, if you get the chance.
Lanterns on the Lake: a little more up tempo than their previous releases, if not any more upbeat. Really good, as usual.
Bully: the fourth album of what is, fundamentally, Alicia Bognanno's solo project. As usual, high quality grungey alt-rock.
Band of Holy Joy: I'm not even going to try and count the number of albums they've now released. As ever, Johny Brown and gang give us their post-punk, urban folk, Brechty sound with lovely lyrics and top tunes.
Jack Cooper: the Modern Nature main man goes classical. Pretty good.
Wave Temples: ambient electronica. As befits their name, water is heavily involved. It's really good. The tracks are mostly short and mostly incredibly beautiful. I've seen a couple of reviews making a Boards of Canada comparison. I'm not sure they're quite that but there is a vibe here.

Album of the week: I could probably pick any of 10 or 11 of these but will, by a narrow margin, say Vulture Feather as they're a new name to me.
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Cheers for the review as always.
The Vulture Feather album is great.
 

New Laurent Garnier record is a techno masterclass.
It’s long at over 2 hours and most tracks 19 minutes but all great.
Some great vocals from Alan Vega etc.
 
Gave the squid record a couple of goes today, has some great high points but some filler as well pretty much like their debut. Find them far more enjoyable live mind.
mad cyril said:
New Laurent Garnier record is a techno masterclass.
It’s long at over 2 hours and most tracks 19 minutes but all great.
Some great vocals from Alan Vega etc.
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Didn’t have a clue about the new Laurent Garnier so cheers for that. His work with The Limiñanas is one of my favourites over the last couple years
 
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Grimes said:
Didn’t have a clue about the new Laurent Garnier so cheers for that. His work with The Limiñanas is one of my favourites over the last couple years
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I just saw it on Piccadilly records latest weekly update. It’s very good in a full on techno way.
Fully agree mate, the record with the liminanas was top top draw.
Their own stuff is also great as I’m sure you know
 
mad cyril said:
New Laurent Garnier record is a techno masterclass.
It’s long at over 2 hours and most tracks 19 minutes but all great.
Some great vocals from Alan Vega etc.
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Cheers! My list of new releases is never definitive.
mad cyril said:
I just saw it on Piccadilly records latest weekly update. It’s very good in a full on techno way.
Fully agree mate, the record with the liminanas was top top draw.
Their own stuff is also great as I’m sure you know
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One of the best live bands I've seen in the last few years.
 
Arkle said:
Cheers! My list of new releases is never definitive.


One of the best live bands I've seen in the last few years.
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I just saw it on Piccadilly record mate who always thrown in additions to your much welcomed updates.

Saw the liminanas at Cluny couple of years back and loved them
 
My big bumper review of the week. I've maybe tried to listen to too much over the last 3 or 4 days because there's little football and work today was essentially solo. Anyway:

Janelle Monae: decent enough. Sci-fi is out, nudity is in (she's apparently playing Josephine Baker in a biopic). Pop, reggae and hip-hop in a melange.
Christine and the Queens: a lot better than last year's Redcar thing. Based around grief, very long, has some fantastic moments.
Sluice: the one I missed from the Guardian's list. This is good. Laidback alt-folk/rock. Really good.
The Saxophones: continuing the laidback vibe. They're hard to define but good. Kind of easy listening, I guess.
Eliades Ochoa: back in the day, he was the youngster of the Buena Vista Social Club, now he's the survivor. Lovely Cuban vibes with occasional duets with Americans (Joan as Police Woman).
The Ironsides: slightly psychedelic instrumental R'n"b/funk. Very good.
Brown Spirits: very psychedelic blues based instrumental, er, instrumentalism. Also, very good.
Nico Paulo: she's the one to watch from this month's Uncut. Album came out a month back. A folk/tropicalia crossover. Good.
Squid: sort of post-rock something. This is where my memory goes off on one to be honesy. I think it's probably very good. Don't remember screaming abuse at it.
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood: nice. Middle eatern music with Greenwood's guitar. Each singer states their name and the date, which is an intriguing touch.
Godflesh: shouty, shouty, very dark and shouty. Perfect pre-breakfast Sunday morning listening.
Robert Ellis: gentle Americana, good songs. Very pretty.
King Krule: I generally like him but not overly impressed here. Quite introspective, which doesn't suit his voice.
Laurent Garnier: long, loud, relentless and largely tremendous. The track with Alan Vega doing vocals is a gem.
TEKEAlbum ::TEKE: Canadian/Japanese psych-rock which I desperately want to like more than I do.
Mystic 100s: this is good. They're clearly very stoned (if not on other more psychedelic substances). There's a sort of Neil Young jamming with Dinosaur Jr vibe happening.
Pozi: kind of post-punk with some keys that alternates between brilliance and really annoying.
Dream Wife: they're massively underrated. Insanely clever punk-pop/pop-punk that's really catchy.
Keaton Henson: pretty good. The fragility that made his early albums so good has gone though.
Lonnie Liston Smith,Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad: part of the Jazz Is Dead series which shows why jazz isn't dead. Soulful, sometimes spiritual, er, jazz. Pretty good.
Sam Blasucci: one half of Mapache goes a bit solo. Similar to the excellent Mapache, if I'm honest. Slightly retro, harmony vocals.
The Boo Radleys: decent enough indie-rock/pop. They lack their initial spark.
Jim: worst name ever (regardless of whether they're solo or a band) but this is good. There's a distinct 70s Laurel Canyon vibe and some very catchy songs.
Benefits: this came out 2 or 3 months back. Reviews suggest that they're the Teesside Sleaford Mods but they're actually a lot more abstract. The music is almost post-rock with the vocalist ranting over it. Very political, very good, not getting on Top of the Pops if it returns.
Jenny Lewis: not Rabbit Fur Coat but still very good. She's coming to terms with being a 44 year old single woman who's just got a dog.
Jess Williamson: this is pretty nice. She's a good singer-songwriter.
This Is The Kit: very likeable. Produced by Gruff Rhys but I'm yet to detect how it differs from previous TITK albums. You know who you're listening to.
Anna St Louis: I seem to have grouped the female singer-songwriters together. This is a lovely laidback album (country vibes throughout) that I'd massively recommend.
Laura Cantrell: I guess she's a veteran now. Anyway, this is terrific. Near enough a straight up country album with wit,warmth and verve, Up amongst the best of the year.
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: very, very, good. He's sort of become what Ryan Adams would be if the latter wasn't a massive twat.
Lightning Dust: slightly gothic, quite dramatic, very good.

Album of the week: comfortably, Laura Cantrell, which I wasn't expecting. It's a gem! There's a lot of others that are very good though (Anna St Louis and Dream Wife particularly)
 
Seems like another busy week for new releases. There are albums tomorrow from Ben Howard, Bettye LaVette, Bonny Doon, Chris Janson, Creep Show, Deer Tick, Django Django, Gov't Mule, Hand Habits, Killer Mike, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Kool Keith, M. Byrd, Maisie Peters, Net & Alex Wolff, Queens of the Stone Age, Son Volt, Steve Lukather, Sunyears, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Ralfe Band, Lorelle & the Obsolete, Greg Foat & Gigi Masin and Donny Mccaslin.
 
Arkle said:
Seems like another busy week for new releases. There are albums tomorrow from Ben Howard, Bettye LaVette, Bonny Doon, Chris Janson, Creep Show, Deer Tick, Django Django, Gov't Mule, Hand Habits, Killer Mike, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Kool Keith, M. Byrd, Maisie Peters, Net & Alex Wolff, Queens of the Stone Age, Son Volt, Steve Lukather, Sunyears, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Ralfe Band, Lorelle & the Obsolete, Greg Foat & Gigi Masin and Donny Mccaslin.
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I don’t think I can say “meh” any louder Clive
 
Arkle said:
Album of the week: comfortably, Laura Cantrell, which I wasn't expecting. It's a gem! There's a lot of others that are very good though (Anna St Louis and Dream Wife particularly)
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Laura Cantrell’s on at the Fire Station at the back end of this month.
Still loads of availability, surprisingly.
 
Don'tListenToTheHat said:
Is it worth us doing the half year round up of best so far since we’re pretty much here?

More of a selfish suggestion as I have a couple of train rides today
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Off the top of my head, my top 5 so far:

Blondshell - Blondshell
H Hawkline - Milk for Flowers
Shame - Food for Worms
The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
Ulrika Spacek - Compact Trauma
 
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Top 10

Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around
H. Hawkline - Milk For Flowers
Daniel Blumberg - GUT
The WAEVE - The WAEVE
King Krule - Space Heavy
Lana Del Rey - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard
Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance
Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
Modern Cosmology - Modern Cosmology

I know Little Simz was released digitally in December, but it's just been released physically.
 
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Tracey Denim - bar italia
Nails - Benefits
the record - boygenius
Less - deathcrash
Artisans & Merchants - The Van Pelt
Liminal Fields - Vulture Feather
Rat Saw God - Wednesday

Those are some of this years real standouts for me so far , I've still got a considerable amount of catching up to do though
 
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