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New Music Releases Thread


My usual weekly review. It's a very strong week...

The Gentle Good: (mostly) Welsh language folk. Good songs, well worth a listen.
Jonathan Wilson: a bit of a step away from the Laurel Canyon stuff he usually makes. This is really good (not that his other albums aren't) and weirdly psychedelic
Anjimile: superb voice, great songs. Reminds me a little of Benjamin Clementine
Courtney Barnett: as mentioned earlier in the thread, ambient guitar excursions for the score of a film about her. Decent.
The Chemical Brothers: less guesty than most of their albums but just as strong. There's an energy that pervades throughout.
The Coral: I haven't listened to the physical only release of the pair from this week. The other release is good, very Coral.
Alabaster Deplume: a laidback mix of poetry, jazz and some other stuff, as always. Pretty good.
Matthew Halsall: jazz, good jazz. I suppose it's on the spiritual, more meditative side of things.
Laufey: Iceland's latest potential star. Highly orchestrated and a mix of jazz and pop, this is a superb album.
Roisin Murphy: another strong album of sophisto-pop, released under a cloud of controversy this time. It's very good anyway.
Romy: first solo album from the XX singer. It's post-club pop basically, high quality post-club pop.
A Song For Leon: 10 Leon Russell covers as part of a tribute album. The highlight is probably the US Girls/Bootsy Collins collaboration. Some decent names on here and generally pretty good.
Coach Party: spiky indie guitar stuff that speeds along nicely.
Sparklehorse: this is, as mentioned earlier in the thread, tremendous. Hints at where Mark Linkous may have kept his music going. Exceptional!
Black Market Brass: instrumental Afrobeat from the US. It's good. Sounds like they'd be terrific live.
Public Service Broadcasting: not new if you saw their BBC Proms thing last year. Eight tracks about the BBC done with a full orchestra. Tremendous, basically.
The Handsome Family: out there countryish stuff with superb lyrics. They're terrific. The albums can be a little interchangeable.
Bebel Gilberto: tropicalia flecked Brazilian pop. A good album. I'm presuming the album is about her dad, Joao, as it's called Joao.
Jim Wallis: ambient Americana, essentially. Very well done.
Kristin Hersh: a good album, which doesn't break the mold. She tends to keep her quieter songs for her solo output and noisier for Throwing Muses.
Swansea Sound: old school Welsh indiepop from some former members of the Pooh Sticks, clever fun songs. Excellent.
Allison Russell: a stately mix of Americana and soul. This is absolutely tremendous stuff. She gets better with every album.

Album of the week: There are contenders aplenty and I can't really split Laufey, Sparklehorse and Allison Russell. Public Service Broadcasting, Anjimile, Jonathan Wilson and The Chemical Brothers all a bit unlucky not to be up there.
 
Chemical Brothers album is great. Think it benefits by having less guests which sobering could be a bit gimmicky. Penultimate track ‘feels like I’m dreaming’ is as good as anything they’ve done.

Also really enjoyed Romy. A bit more trance, pop for my usual tastes but I thought it was a really good debut.
 
mad cyril said:
Chemical Brothers album is great. Think it benefits by having less guests which sobering could be a bit gimmicky. Penultimate track ‘feels like I’m dreaming’ is as good as anything they’ve done.

Also really enjoyed Romy. A bit more trance, pop for my usual tastes but I thought it was a really good debut.
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Personally love Goodbye the most, but there loads of quality on there.

Can't wait for Leeds at the end of October now.
 
Arkle said:
My usual weekly review. It's a very strong week...

The Gentle Good: (mostly) Welsh language folk. Good songs, well worth a listen.
Jonathan Wilson: a bit of a step away from the Laurel Canyon stuff he usually makes. This is really good (not that his other albums aren't) and weirdly psychedelic
Anjimile: superb voice, great songs. Reminds me a little of Benjamin Clementine
Courtney Barnett: as mentioned earlier in the thread, ambient guitar excursions for the score of a film about her. Decent.
The Chemical Brothers: less guesty than most of their albums but just as strong. There's an energy that pervades throughout.
The Coral: I haven't listened to the physical only release of the pair from this week. The other release is good, very Coral.
Alabaster Deplume: a laidback mix of poetry, jazz and some other stuff, as always. Pretty good.
Matthew Halsall: jazz, good jazz. I suppose it's on the spiritual, more meditative side of things.
Laufey: Iceland's latest potential star. Highly orchestrated and a mix of jazz and pop, this is a superb album.
Roisin Murphy: another strong album of sophisto-pop, released under a cloud of controversy this time. It's very good anyway.
Romy: first solo album from the XX singer. It's post-club pop basically, high quality post-club pop.
A Song For Leon: 10 Leon Russell covers as part of a tribute album. The highlight is probably the US Girls/Bootsy Collins collaboration. Some decent names on here and generally pretty good.
Coach Party: spiky indie guitar stuff that speeds along nicely.
Sparklehorse: this is, as mentioned earlier in the thread, tremendous. Hints at where Mark Linkous may have kept his music going. Exceptional!
Black Market Brass: instrumental Afrobeat from the US. It's good. Sounds like they'd be terrific live.
Public Service Broadcasting: not new if you saw their BBC Proms thing last year. Eight tracks about the BBC done with a full orchestra. Tremendous, basically.
The Handsome Family: out there countryish stuff with superb lyrics. They're terrific. The albums can be a little interchangeable.
Bebel Gilberto: tropicalia flecked Brazilian pop. A good album. I'm presuming the album is about her dad, Joao, as it's called Joao.
Jim Wallis: ambient Americana, essentially. Very well done.
Kristin Hersh: a good album, which doesn't break the mold. She tends to keep her quieter songs for her solo output and noisier for Throwing Muses.
Swansea Sound: old school Welsh indiepop from some former members of the Pooh Sticks, clever fun songs. Excellent.
Allison Russell: a stately mix of Americana and soul. This is absolutely tremendous stuff. She gets better with every album.

Album of the week: There are contenders aplenty and I can't really split Laufey, Sparklehorse and Allison Russell. Public Service Broadcasting, Anjimile, Jonathan Wilson and The Chemical Brothers all a bit unlucky not to be up there.
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Thanks again for your feedback. I am listening to Jim Wallis on your suggestion and really enjoying it. It fits in nicely with Hermanos Guitierrez and North Americans. They all sound like a soundtrack to a Willy Vlautin book. Keep up the good work!
 
Metacritic's music pages all seem to be down currently so not sure how complete this list of releases will be, as I' ve switched to Pitchfork for now, but tomrrow we have albums from Alan Palomo, Baroness, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eli Escobar, Explosions in the Sky, Killer Mike, Kip Stone, Mitski, Nation of Language, Octa Octa, Pharoah Sanders (2 albums), Piotr Kurek, Purelink, Raphie Choo, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Sextile. Tomb Mold, Vagabon, Will Johnson, Willie Nelson, Woods, Parchman Prison Prayer, Ash, Luluc, C.O.F.F.I.N and Margo Cilker.
 
Arkle said:
Metacritic's music pages all seem to be down currently so not sure how complete this list of releases will be, as I' ve switched to Pitchfork for now, but tomrrow we have albums from Alan Palomo, Baroness, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eli Escobar, Explosions in the Sky, Killer Mike, Kip Stone, Mitski, Nation of Language, Octa Octa, Pharoah Sanders (2 albums), Piotr Kurek, Purelink, Raphie Choo, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Sextile. Tomb Mold, Vagabon, Will Johnson, Willie Nelson, Woods, Parchman Prison Prayer, Ash, Luluc, C.O.F.F.I.N and Margo Cilker.
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Sheffield banjo-punks Shanghai Treason release their second album tomorrow as well.
 
Arkle said:
Metacritic's music pages all seem to be down currently so not sure how complete this list of releases will be, as I' ve switched to Pitchfork for now, but tomrrow we have albums from Alan Palomo, Baroness, Corinne Bailey Rae, Eli Escobar, Explosions in the Sky, Killer Mike, Kip Stone, Mitski, Nation of Language, Octa Octa, Pharoah Sanders (2 albums), Piotr Kurek, Purelink, Raphie Choo, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Sextile. Tomb Mold, Vagabon, Will Johnson, Willie Nelson, Woods, Parchman Prison Prayer, Ash, Luluc, C.O.F.F.I.N and Margo Cilker.
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Pretty good that. Explosions in the Sky, Nation of Language, Vagabond and Mitski stand out
 
The Album of the Year website has a new releases list which is way too extensive for me to post all of. Highlights I missed, however, include Demi Lovato, Vic Mensa, John Zorn, Corey Taylor, Shakey Graves, The Hoosiers, Bombino, Busted, Danko Jones, Lewsberg, Dengue Fever and Brian Setzer.
 
James Blake's new album is decent and for me an improvement on his recent stuff. It reminded me of Jockstrap who I know are big fans of his debut album. Unfortunately everytime I see his name I think of James Blunt. I don't think it's out physically yet, but heard it on Spotify.
 
Looking forward to the Nations Of Language record.

Also really enjoyed the new Slowdive album. The opening and closing tracks being particular standouts.
 
LYR released album An Unnatural History today exclusively through bandcamp. Download is pay what you like. There's also very limited vinyl to pre-order. Not heard it yet, but been enjoying them since they supported Siouxsie a few months back. Playing Pop Recs soon too.
 
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